World champion D Gukesh stayed in the hunt with a clinical endgame win in Round 10 of the Tata Steel Masters, while Arjun Erigaisi slipped to another defeat and slid down the standings at Wijk Aan Zee.
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Seeking to qualify for the Candidates' event, India's top-rated Arjun Erigaisi walked off with an easy draw with his Chinese counterpart Wei Yi in the first game of the quarterfinals, in Panaji on Monday.
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The Chinese see no need to fight directly. They have an able and willing proxy in Pakistan, points out Shekhar Gupta.
D Gukesh defeated Dutch Grandmaster Max Warmerdam to stay in sole lead on 7.5 points at the end of the 10th round of Tata Steel Chess tournament
Grandmaster R Praggnanadhaa played out a solid draw with World champion D Gukesh in the eighth round of the Tata Steel Masters.
R Praggnanandhaa, who drew with Wei Yi of China in the sixth round, is the joint leader in the Tata Steel chess tournament.
Interestingly, all of R Praggnanandhaa's victories have come at the expense of the Indians so far in the tournament.
D Gukesh and R Praggnanadhaa played out their eighth draw in as many games at the Sinquefield Cup.
D Gukesh started off on a positive note, beating Deac Bogdan-Daniel of Romania
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa defeated overnight sole leader Nodirbek Abdusattarov of Uzbekistan to stake his claim for the top honours at the Prague Masters chess tournament.
World Championship challenger Gukesh Dommaraju played out a hard-fought draw with Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia.
Teenaged Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh shot into sole lead after defeating Firouzja Alireza of France in the 13th and penultimate round of Candidates' Chess tournament in Toronto on Saturday, his quest for the extraordinary placing him on the cusp of becoming the youngest ever World Championship contender.
Kangana Ranaut spent Gandhi Jayanti visiting a museum in New Delhi and seeing an exhibition with a difference.
Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi pipped Rinat Zumabayev of Kazakhstan in the fifth round to share the top spot.
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh held on to the joint top spot with Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi after they played out an easy draw in the 10th round of the Candidates chess tournament in Toronto.
Another game to end through repetition of moves was between Gukesh and Gujrathi.
Pragg, Gujrathi out of contention
Gukesh tried his hands at the Ruy Lopez as white but did not get much against Praggnanandhaa. Both the teenagers have been showing great skills here against the world's best and there was nothing to choose between them when pieces flew off the board in tandem. The game was drawn in 41 moves.
The Indian challenge in the women's section might already have ended as Zhongyi stood firmly ahead on five points while Goryachkina had 4.5 points in her kitty.
Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi crashed through the defences of world number three Hikaru Nakamura of United States, while R Praggnanandhaa went down to compatriot D Gukesh in the second round of Candidates chess tournament in Toronto.
India's D Gukesh bounced back with a finely crafted game to outwit compatriot Vidit Gujrathi and regain his joint lead with Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia after the eighth round in the Candidates chess tournament in Toronto on Friday.
Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa produced a spectacular game to get the better of fellow-Indian Vidit Gujrathi in the third round of the Candidates Chess tournament in Toronto on Saturday.
Apart from a place in the Candidates to be played in April next year in Canada, Vaishali got richer by US$25000 (Over Rs 20 Lakhs) while Vidit took home a whopping prize purse of US$80000 (Over Rs 66 Lakhs).
Vidit Gujrathi crashed through the defences of Hans Moke Niemann of the United States to join the leaders' pack on 4.5 points.
Indian Grandmasters Vidit Gujrathi, Pentala Harikrishna and teen prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa took a big step towards a spot in the fourth round of FIDE Chess World Cup in Sochi
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand scored an impressive fifth-round win over Anton Korobov of Ukraine to rise to second position in the rapid competition of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour tournament, in Zagreb, on Thursday.
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.
Top-seed Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) led the field at the end of the Rapid with 11 points. He is followed by Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Duda and Saric on 10 points.
World junior girls' champion D Harika beat English Grandmaster David Howell while Abhijeet Gupta and K Sasikiran suffered setbacks in the tenth round of the Corus chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. Sasikiran went down to Zahar Efimenko of Ukraine in Group 'B' while Abhijeet lost to Anish Giri in a Group 'C' match. Harika kept herself in contention for a GM-norm, displaying fine attacking chess against Howell.
The Indian played an easy draw with home challenge GM Csaba Balogh in the final round of the 5th Marx Gyrogy memorial chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster celebrated his Arjuna award in great style and moved to joint third after the fifth round in the Marx Gyorgy memorial International chess tournament in Paks, Hungary.
The Indian ace avenged the Chess 960 final defeat by beating the Armenian on the first day in the second game of the World Rapid Championship.
The Indian ace outplayed Germany's Arkadij Naiditch for his first win at the Sparkassen Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand took sole lead after ten rounds of the Morelia Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Parimarjan Negi beat Dennis Rujigrok of Holland to jump to joint second place in the 'C' group at the Corus International chess tournaments.
World No 1 Viswanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship after a quick draw against Hungarian Peter Leko in the 14th and final round.
Viswanathan Anand played out a tense draw against Etienne Bacrot in the sixth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
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