Prague Masters: Aravindh Crushes Giri To Surge Ahead
Prague: Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram crashed through the defenses of extraordinarily solid Anish Giri to jump into the sole lead after the give-up of the seventh round of the Prague Masters chess event now underway here.
It turned into Aravindh all the way at the same time as R Praggnanandhaa performed a draw with pre-event score preferred Wei Yi of China. Aravindh took his tally to five points out of a possible seven and now enjoys a half-point lead over Praggnanandhaa, who desires to seize up.
With just rounds to come, sam Shankland of the united states defeated Quang Leim Le of Vietnam. Interestingly, both Quang Leim and Giri had drawn the primary six games, and the axe fell on them at the same time.
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Inside the different decisive sport, sixteen-year-old antique Gurel Ediz of turkey scored over nearby Nguyen Thai Dai Van to reach a fifty percent score, while David Navara of the czech republic played out a draw with Vincent Keymer of Germany.
Aravindh on 5 and Pragg on 4. 5 at the moment are accompanied by using Wei Yi, Ediz, Keymer, and Shankland on three.five points each, and these 4 are a 1/2 factor adrift of the trio of Giri, Navara, and Le. Dai Van is by myself at the bottom now with 2.5 points in his kitty. The warfare traces are drawn among the 2 indians best.
Aravindh is a groovy customer in everyday positions with a deep eye for tactical complexities, and a rare chance towards Giri provided him to dismantle the king aspect and input report books.
There are as many as five indians in the Pinnacle 15 live world rankings, and Viswanathan anand stands at quantity 15. Aravindh, at 14, entered the top fifteen for the first time ever. It changed into a Queen's gambit declined wherein Giri hyped up his probabilities and pushed his kingside pawns in trying to secure a space advantage. Aravindh got here up with a shocker on his twenty-fourth flip while he positioned his knight in front of a pawn, and it turned into a one-way tide thereon. Black's assault turned into something quickly not possible to handle, and Aravindh gained in 39 movements.
Praggnanandhaa commenced with the english in opposition to Wei Yi, and the game took form in a Tarrasch protection in which the Chinese became under some strain, however in no way actually out of the sport.
The indian won a pawn to reach a rook and pawns endgame, and no matter having a surpassed pawn deep outdoors, the placement was technically drawn. The sport lasted 61 actions.
Inside the challengers' phase, Jonas Buhl Bjerre delivered to the woes of lone indian divya Deshmukh, who remained on the remaining spot on 1.5 points from seven games.
The lead in this segment is shared through Bjerre and Nodirbek Yakubboev of uzbekistan on five points each.
outcomes spherical 6: Quang Leim Le (Vie, 3) lost to sam Shankland (United States of America, 2.5); R Praggnanandhaa (Ind, 4.5) drew with Wei Yi (Chn, 3.5); Anish Giri (Ned, 3) lost to Aravindh Chithambaram (Ind, 5); Gurel Ediz (Tur, 3.5) beat Nguyen Thai Dai Van (Cze, 2.5); David Navara (Cze, 3) drew with Vincent Keymer (Ger, 3.5). Challengers: richard Stalmach (Cze, three) drew with Finel Vaclav (Cze, 3); divya Deshmukh (Ind, 1.5) lost to Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Den, 5.5); Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzb, 5.5) beat Ivan Salgado Lopez (Esp, 3.5); Marc'andria Maurizzi (Fra, 4) beat Nemec Jychym (Cze, 2); Ma Qun (Chn, 4) drew with Stamatis Kourkoulous-Arditis (Gre, 3).
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