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After posting 3 wins successful a row, Arjun Erigiaisi seems to beryllium taking it a spot easy. He inactive looks astir apt the astir coagulated subordinate astatine the Chess World Cup, though.
He drew his archetypal crippled successful the 4th circular with the Hungarian seasoned Peter Leko astatine Resort Rio connected Tuesday. That was, successful fact, his 2nd consecutive gully successful the tournament.
The half-a-point with achromatic pieces, disconnected conscionable 20 moves, against Leko wasn’t a atrocious result, though. Another portion of good homework saw Arjun blitzing done the opening moves — Sicilian Four Knights —– and drafting by repetition of moves.
It was a peaceful time for the different Indians arsenic well: 3rd effect R. Praggnanandhaa, P. Harikrishna, V. Pranav and Karthik Venkataraman each drew their games.
Marathon
It took the World inferior champion Pranav, playing white, get the gully successful 82 moves from his higher-rated Uzbek hostile Nodirbek Yakubboev.
Praggnanandhaa, besides playing white, had to enactment hard for his half-point from his formidable Russian rival Daniil Dubov. He had to travel backmost from an inferior presumption successful their Spanish Game that lasted 41 moves.
Karthik, lone 1 of the 2 remaining players with little than 2600 Elo rating, so looked pleased aft holding his overmuch stronger Vietnamese rival Le Quang Liem to a gully with achromatic pieces. He has had a large tally here, registering a mates of upsets already.
Holding his own
“So acold the tourney has gone good for me,” Karthik said. “Somehow I americium holding my own. In this game, I had immoderate flimsy disadvantages successful the opening but I managed to marque a gully rather easy and I americium rather optimistic astir my chances successful the 2nd game.”
Only 2 players volition spell into that 2nd crippled with 1 afloat constituent against their names. Levon Aronian, the 15th effect from the United States, and Mexico’s Jose Martínez Alcantara, who had stunned the eighth effect Nodirbek Abudsattorov successful the erstwhile round, were the lone winners connected this day. Aronian, a two-time World Cup winner, defeated Radoslaw Wojtaszek of Poland with achromatic pieces, portion Alcantara bushed Alexey Sarana with black.
The results (fourth round, archetypal game): Frederik Svane (Ger) drew with Shant Sargsyan (Arm); Peter Leko (Hun) drew with Arjun Erigaisi; R. Praggnanandhaa drew with Danill Dubo (Rus); Matthias Bluebaum (Ger) drew with Alexander Donchenko (Ger); V. Pranav drew with Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzb); Andrey Esipenko (Rus) drew with Vincent Keymer (Ger); Wei Yi (Chn) drew with Parham Maghsoodloo (Ira); Alexey Sarana (Srb) mislaid to Jose Martínez Alcantara (Mex); Nils Grandelius (Swe) drew with P. Harikrishna; Samuel Sevian (USA) drew with Lorenzo Lodici (Ita); Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) drew with Aleksey Grebnev (Rus); Awonder Liang (USA) drew with Gabriel Sargissian (Arm); Le Quang Liem (Vie) drew with Karthik Venkataraman; Sam Shankland (USA) drew with Richard Rapport (Hun); Levon Aronian (USA) bt Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol); Yu Yangyi (Chn) drew with Javokhir Sindarov (Uzb).
