Indian prodigy R Pragyananand beat world quantity six Levon Aronian 3-1 within the fourth spherical to safe his fourth consecutive win on the FTX Crypto Cup, the American finale of the Champions Chess Tour, on Friday.
The 17-year-old Indian is in a joint lead on 12 match factors with world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, who defeated China’s Kwang Lim Le 3-1.
Pragyanand received the third recreation with the white items after the stalemate ended within the first two of the 4 video games.
In the primary, she received over the white items to take a 2–1 lead after recreation three and received 44 strikes within the fourth to safe an emphatic victory over the acclaimed American star.
Starting his marketing campaign with a win over Alireza Turquoise, the Indian GM later defeated Anish Giri and Hans Niemann.
Meanwhile, Carlsen achieved the same consequence, profitable video games three and 4 after the primary two had been drawn.
The pair of Pragyanandada and Carslain have taken a four-point lead over world quantity 4 and top-ranked junior Alireza Firoza.
Turquoise defeated Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2.5–1.5 in one other fourth-round conflict, whereas Dutchman Anish Giri secured his first win of the match, beating Hans Niemann by the same margin.
There are three extra rounds left to be performed within the eight-player match.
The eight-player all-player-all match is the American finale of the Champions Chess Tour. USD 7,500 is at stake for every match win within the occasion.
Each match will likely be performed in 4 speedy video games, with a blitz tiebreak within the occasion of a 2–2 draw.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
