The World junior champion beat GM Wang Hao to stretch his lead by 1.5 points at the end of the 5th round in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters tournament.
P Harikrishna started off with a facile victory over Grandmaster Zhang Pengxiang of China in the first round
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran was held to a draw by Zoltan Almasi of Hungary in the third round.
The Indian ace drew with Russian champion Peter Svidler and continues to share the lead with four others in the Corus championship.
The two meet in the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament that gets underway later on Wednesday.
In the women's event, Padmini Rout, R Vaishali and Bhakti Kulkarni posted wins in the first round. D Harika will be joining them in the second round, courtesy a bye in the first round.
'Most of my birthdays I end up losing the game, so glad it did not repeat in the classical. When I was playing, I felt fine, but when I was losing, I was like, 'ok, not again'.
With just 16 players out of 206 participants that started the event remaining in the fray, most of the players decided against taking undue risk and decided to wait for the next game.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman commended the outstanding performance of chess prodigy Praggnanandhaa
Young Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh finished fifth while his illustrious compatriot Viswanathan Anand could only manage a tied seventh place in the third leg of the 2023 SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz chess tournament.
P Harikrishna went down fighting against top seed Alexander Motylev at the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters chess tournament
Gukesh to clash with Alireza on what promises to be a photo finish
D Gukesh held reigning world champion Ding Liren of China to a draw in a highly anticipated contest
D Gukesh played out a creditable draw against top seed Fabiano Caruana but slipped a rung to the joint second position.
The Indian ace failed to convert an advantageous position and settled for a draw against the World champion at Linares.
The victory gave the Indian ace the joint lead with Vladimir Kramnik in the Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Anand drew with Spaniard Francisco Pons while Kasparov lost to Teimous Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the Linares chess tournament.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won the Superbet Chess Classic after defeating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave with white pieces in the final Blitz play-off game on Friday.
Joining the elite 2,800 rated chess players club will get Arjun invites for top chess tournaments as well as better appearance fees.
Abundantly talented but more significantly, incredibly cool in crunch situations, that's how India's 88th Grandmaster and World Cup winner Divya Deshmukh was described by her formative coach Srinath Narayanan, who feels the 19-year-old chess wizard's composure is comparable only to cricket great Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
He finished 11th in the standings with 19 points with the top eight going through to the knockout phase at the ongoing Airthings Masters.
Anand has not lost his last 59 games played in the Category 19 event.
Indian Grandmaster R Vaishali says doing well in the star-studded event is not the only target on her mind when she lands in the British Capital next month.
The Indian closed the first half of the Morelia Linares chess on a winning note with a thumping win over Peter Leko in the seventh round.
When Praggnanandhaa plays, he does not allow his confidence to fluctuate, irrespective of who his opponent is, says his father.
Cheating poses an existential challenge to chess. It's hard to know how it will be mitigated, but it must be, if chess is to continue being a legitimate sport, asserts Devangshu Datta.
Anand remained on 4 points from his eight games and his chances of a victory have been almost blown away.
Anand and Radjabov drew their Classical match in 42 moves in a Guicco Pianissimo game.
Divith, who has a FIDE rating of 1784 points currently, won four matches on the trot, including the last two against higher-rated opponents
All India Chess Federation (AICF) president Sanjay Kapoor said the federation is also working on organising an Indian Chess League.
Arjun Erigaisi briefly reached a career-high live rating of 2771.2 earlier this week and is the only Indian since Vishwanathan Anand to do so.
India's Dronavalli Harika defeated former world champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria in the third round of the FIDE Grand Swiss chess tournament in Riga to grab a share of the lead.
Having watched the 2013 World Championship match between the legendary Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen, Erigaisi is delighted to get a chance to be on the same as the two veterans.
Praggnanandhaa did not have to sweat hard to hold Caruana under Classical but in the Armageddon the American was a transformed player as he took advantage of his white pieces.
Playing chess all year round can take a huge toll on the physical and mental aspects of a player and Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa acknowledged that sometimes he has to completely take his mind off the sport to prepare for the upcoming challenges.
'I see an unjust personal attack by some players, probably due to sheer jealousy.'
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh, 18, has claimed a historic victory over defending World Champion Ding Liren in the 14th game of the World Chess Championship in Singapore on Thursday.
India's Vidit Gujrathi drew with Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Poland to take his tally to four points after the sixth round of Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2022.
Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi prevailed over Russia's Daniil Dubov in the third round to become the sole leader with 2.5 points in the prestigious Tata Steel Masters chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands.
