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Fans queued up to person a look astatine the young superstars of Indian chess astatine Resort Rio present connected Tuesday. That queue, to spot the likes of D. Gukesh, R. Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi, is getting longer, and longer, reflecting not conscionable the newer heights they proceed to scale, but the accelerated summation successful popularity of the caput game.
Among India’s terrific trio, the apical 3 seeds astatine the World Cup, lone second-seeded Arjun was capable to station a win. Top effect Gukesh and the No. 3 effect R. Praggnanandhaa had to settee for draws. That means, they person to triumph connected Wednesday to beforehand to the 3rd circular without having to play the tie-breaker games.
On the apical board, Gukesh, who had achromatic pieces, was made to play 84 moves by Kazakhstan’s Kazybek Nogerbek. The game, featuring a rook-and-minor-piece ending, went each the way, successful fact, with conscionable 2 kings remaining connected the board.
On the 3rd board, Praggnanandhaa, who was the runner-up successful the past variation of the tournament, was held by Temur Kuybokarov of Australia, for whom it was an fantabulous effect with achromatic pieces. On the 2nd board, however, achromatic prevailed, with Arjun cruising to a 37-move triumph implicit Bulgaria’s Martin Petrov.
Arjun was the lone 1 to get a triumph among the apical seeds. Dutchman Anish Giri and American Wesley So, seeded 4th and fifth, were held by Bojan Maksimovic (Bosnia) and Titas Stremavicius (Lithuania).
Besides Arjun, V. Pranav was the lone Indian to station a triumph connected the day. He defeated Norway’s Aryan Tari.
Important results (second round): D. Gukesh drew with Kazybek Nogerbek (Kaz); Martin Petrov (Bul) mislaid to Arjun Erigaisi; R. Praggnanandhaa drew with Temur Kuybokarov (Aus); Bojan Maksimovic (Bih) drew with Anish Giri (Ned); Wesley So (USA) drew with Titas Stremavicius (Lit); Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) bt Grergely Kantor (Hun); Dennis Makhnev (Kaz) drew with Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzb); Vladislav Kovalev (Blr) mislaid to Vincent Keymer (Ger); Wei Yi (Chn) bt Kacper Piorun (Pol); Lorenzo Lodici (Ita) drew with Hans Niemann (USA); Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) bt Surya Shekhar Ganguly; Lorenzo Luis Supi (Bra) mislaid to Richard Rapport (Hun); Le Quang Liem (Vie) drew with Baadur Jobava (Geo); Levon Aronian (USA) bt Aronyak Ghosh; Lorenzo Lodici (Ita) drew with Hans Niemann (USA); Diptayan Ghosh drew with Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus).
Vidit Gujrathi drew with Faustino Oro (Arg); Karthik Venkataraman drew with Aravindh Chithambaram; Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (Gre) drew with Nihal Sarin; Aryan Tari (Nor) mislaid to V. Pranav; Rasmus Svane (Ger) drew with P. Harikrishna; Dmitrij Kollars (Ger) drew with M. Pranesh; Thai Dai Van Nguyen (Cze) drew with Pa. Iniyan; Pouya Idani (Ira) drew with Karthikeyan Murali. Hovhannisyan (Arm) drew with Raunak Sadhwani.
