Indian Grandmaster Vidit Santosh Gujrathi defeated Daniil Dubov of Russia within the third spherical to develop into the one chief with 2.5 factors within the prestigious Tata Steel Masters chess match.
Gujarati compatriot, 16-year-old Rameshbabu Pragyanand, nonetheless, suffered a loss by the hands of Dutchman Jordan Van Forrest late on Monday evening.
In addition to van Forrest, Andrey Esipenko and Richard Rapport additionally gained and at the moment are sitting on two factors with world #1 Magnus Carlsen and Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who drew their video games.
In the Gujrati-Dubov match, the Russian, true to his inventive type, launched a novelty within the Italian opening by introducing transfer 8.
The Indian GM took a dangerous method, first buying and selling his dark-square bishop after which accepting a central pawn sacrifice.
As a consequence, he lags behind in growth, whereas Black’s king is caught within the middle.
Gujrati took benefit of an error on transfer 32 by Dubov and scored some extent.
My proudest defensive effort. Series of strikes solely! , pic.twitter.com/Y710Tv3lPT
– Vidit Gujarati (idviditchess) 17 January 2022
One Forest shocked Pragyananand with a uncommon line and put severe strain on the black facet. Pragyananand held on to a degree earlier than the Dutchman gained the higher hand to seal the victory.
Carlsen confirmed resilience to share the purpose with Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda, whereas Dutch star Anish Giri drew with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.
Later within the fourth spherical to be performed on Tuesday evening, Gujrati confronted Espinenko and Pragyananand confronted Nils Grandelius of Sweden in a 13-round championship.
Meanwhile, within the Simultaneous Challenger occasion, Indian GM Arjun Arigasi defeated Belgium’s Daniel Dardha within the third spherical to share the joint prime spot with two others – Thai Dai Van Nguyen (Czech Republic) and Voloder Murzin (Russia). – Scored 2.5. numbers.
Another Indian basic supervisor Surya Shekhar Ganguly was drawn by Max Warmerdam of the Netherlands and has two factors from three rounds.
Standings after Round 3: Masters: 1. Vidit Gujrathi 2.5 factors; 2-6. Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Magnus Kelsen, Richard Rapport, Andrey Esipenko and Jordan van Forrest 2; 7-8. Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 1.5; 9-13. Sam Shankland, Sergey Karjakin, Daniel Dubov, Anish Giri, Pragnananda 1; 14. Nils Grandelius 0.5.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
