The Indian Grandmaster slipped to 3rd place within the FIDE Grand Swiss match after dropping to France’s Alireza Firoza within the eighth spherical of the Shashikiran Open occasion. Firoza received with white items in 43 strikes in opposition to Sashikaran on the board earlier on Thursday night time. He moved as much as 6.5 factors to take the one lead from a full level.
A bunch of 10 gamers together with high seed and world quantity two Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave are in joint second place. Sasikaran, together with a number of gamers together with compatriots Nihal Sarin and P Harikrishna, is third with 5 factors. Sarin shared a degree with Iran’s Maghsudlu Param, whereas Harikrishna tied with Russia’s Evgeny Nazer within the eighth spherical. SP Sethuraman was the one Indian to win this spherical within the open part as he defeated Lukas Van Forrest of the Netherlands to take his rating to a few factors.
Teenage grandmasters R Pragnananda and D Gukesh confronted blended luck with Nodirbek Abdusatorov drawing their sport, whereas the latter misplaced to Nodirbek Yakhubov. In the ladies’s occasion, top-ranked Indian D Harika drew in opposition to Russia’s Olga Bedelka and fell in need of qualifying for the following 12 months’s Candidates match. He has 5 factors after eight rounds and is in joint fourth within the group of gamers.
Among different Indian girls, R Vaishali and Padmini Raut registered victories over Alina Bivol of Russia and Maria Izagueri Floris of Spain within the eighth spherical. Divya Deshmukh misplaced to Valentina Gunina and Vantika Agarwal misplaced to veteran Piya Kramling. China’s Lei Tingjie is one level forward of the sphere with seven factors, whereas German IM Elisabeth Paetz is second with six factors, adopted by Russia’s Alexandra Kosteniuk and Natalija Pogonina on 5.5.
Ten Indian males and 5 girls are concerned within the match. The Grand Swiss Tournament and the Women’s Grand Swiss 2021 are a part of qualification for the 2021–23 World Championship cycle. The high two finishers will qualify for the Candidates match in 2022.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
