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Seeds are falling heavy and accelerated astatine Resort Rio. The biggest of them fell connected Saturday night.
The apical effect D. Gukesh was stunned by Germany’s Frederik Svane successful the 2nd crippled of the 3rd circular astatine the chess World Cup. After drafting the archetypal crippled the Chennai lad, who had go the youngest World champion successful past past year, had needed astatine slightest gully with achromatic pieces to enactment live successful the tournament, but helium resigned aft 55 moves successful hopeless knight-and-pawn ending.
The time besides saw the 4th effect Anish Giri crashing out. Like Gukesh, the Dutchman besides needed astatine slightest a gully from Alexander Donchenko of Germany, but lost.
On the apical boards, Arjun Erigaisi and R. Praggnanandhaa ensured the Indian emblem flew high. Arjun drew with Uzbekistan’s Shamsiddin Vokhidov – it was his archetypal gully present aft 3 consecutive wins – and Praggnanandhaa bushed Robert Hovhannisyan of Armenia to triumph their matches 1.5-0.5.
Among the apical 5 seeds, lone those 2 stay successful the competition. Seeds 8 and nine, Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan, were besides eliminated, by Mexico’s Jose Martínez Alcantara and Sweden’s Nils Grandelius, respectively.
Besides Praggnanandhaa and Arjun, 2 different Indians person made it to the 4th circular – V. Pranav and P. Harikrishna. But it was the extremity of the roadworthy for M. Pranesh and Diptayan Ghosh, aft losing to Vincent Keymer, the sixth effect from Germany, and Gabriel Sarissian of Armenia, respectively.
Three much Indians are inactive successful contention, though: Vidit Gujrathi, S.L. Narayanan and Karthik Venkataraman volition play Sunday’s tie-breakers.
Important results (third round): D. Gukesh 0.5 mislaid to Frederik Svane (Ger) 1.5; Shamsiddin Vokhidov (Uzb) 0.5 mislaid to Arjun Erigaisi; R. Praggnanandhaa 1.5 bt Robert Hovhannisyan (Arm) 0.5; Anish Giri (Ned) 0.5 mislaid to Alexander Donchenko (Ger) 1.5; Titas Stremavicius (Ltu) 0.5 drew with V. Pranav 1.5; M. Pranesh 0.5 mislaid to Vincent Keymer (Ger) 1.5; Wei Yi (Chn) 1 drew with Benjamin Gledura (Hun) 5; Jose Martínez Alcantara (Mex) 2 bt Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzb) 0; Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) 0.5 mislaid to Nils Grandelius (Swe) 1.5; Michael Adams (Eng) 0.5 mislaid to Lorenzo Lodici (Ita) 1.5; Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) 1 drew with Vladilsav Artemiev (Rus) 1; Gabriel Sarissian (Arm) 1.5 bt Diptayan Ghosh 0.5; Le Quang Liem (Vie) 1.5 drew with Jeffrey Xiong (USA) 0.5; Yagiz Erdogmus (Tur) 1 drew with Richard Rapport (Hun) 1; Levon Aronian (USA) 1.5 bt Salem Saleh (UAE) 0.5; Nikolas Theodorou (Gre) 0.5 mislaid to Javokhir Sindarov (Uzb) 1.5; Vidit Gujrathi 1 drew with Sam Shankland (USA) 1; Yu Yangyi (Chn) 1 drew with S.L. Narayanan 1; Radoslaw Wjtaszek (Pol) 2 bt Vladimir Fedoseev (Slo) 0; Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Gre) 1 drew with Karthik Venkataraman 1; Daniel Dardha (Bel) 0.5 drew with P. Harikrishna 1.5; Kirill Alekseenko (Rus) 0.5 mislaid to Peter Leko (Hun) 1.5.
