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It is lone the 2nd round, and the chess World Cup has already hotted up.
On a melodramatic Wednesday evening astatine Resort Rio here, 2 seeds were knocked out. One of those giant-killers was an Indian. Diptayan Ghosh stunned 12th-seeded Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi with achromatic pieces to unafraid a spot successful the 3rd round. The Kolkatan had drawn the round’s archetypal crippled and won the lucifer 1.5-0.5.
That was besides the people by which Titas Stremavicius of Lithuania shocked the fifth-seeded American Wesley So. The apical 2 seeds, D. Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi, however, advanced. Gukesh bounced backmost to form, with achromatic pieces, against Kazakhstan’s Kazybek Nogerbek, who had held him to a gully successful the opening game. Arjun posted his 2nd triumph against Bulgarian Martin Petrov for a 2-0 score.
P. Harikrishna, who bushed Arseniy Nesterov of Russia (1.5-0.5), Karthik Venkataraman, who overcame the overmuch higher-rated Aravindh Chithambaram successful an all-Indian battle, person besides entered the 3rd round, wherever 5 from the big person assured their places. Eight Indians volition play successful Thursday’s tie-breakers – 3rd effect R. Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, Nihal Sarin, V. Pranav, S.L. Narayanan, M. Pranesh, Karthikeyan Murali and Raunak Sadhwani.
The time besides saw the extremity of the campaigns for Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Aronyak Ghosh and Pa. Iniyan. But Diptayan ensured determination was overmuch to cheer astir for India.
“To bushed a subordinate similar Nepomniachtchi, who has been a challenger for the World title, was great,” helium said. “It is the champion triumph of my career.”
Important results (second round): Kazybek Nogerbek (Kaz) 0.5 mislaid to D. Gukesh 1.5; Arjun Erigaisi 2 bt Martin Petrov (Bul) 0; Temur Kuybokarov (Aus) 1 drew with R. Praggnanandhaa 1; Anish Giri (Ned) 1.5 bt Bojan Maksimovic (Bih) 0.5; Titas Stremavicius (Lit) 1.5 bt Wesley So (USA) 0.5; Grergely Kantor (Hun) 1 bt Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) 1; Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzb) Dennis Makhnev (Kaz); Vincent Keymer (Ger) 2 bt Vladislav Kovalev (Blr) 0; Kacper Piorun (Pol) 0 mislaid to Wei Yi (Chn) 2; Hans Niemann (USA) 1 drew with Lorenzo Lodici (Ita) 1; Surya Shekhar Ganguly 0 mislaid to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) 2; Richard Rapport (Hun) 2 bt Lorenzo Luis Supi (Bra) 0; Baadur Jobava (Geo) mislaid to Le Quang Liem (Vie) ); Aronyak Ghosh 0.5 drew with Levon Aronian (USA) 1.5; Lorenzo Lodici (Ita) 1 drew with Hans Niemann (USA) 1; Ian Nepomniachtchi 0.5 (Rus) mislaid to Diptayan Ghosh 1.5; Faustino Oro (Arg) 1 drew with Vidit Gujrathi 1; Aravindh Chithambaram 0.5 mislaid to Karthik Venkataraman 1.5.
Nihal Sarin 1 drew with Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (Gre) 1; V. Pranav 1 mislaid to Aryan Tari (Nor) 1; P. Harikrishna 1.5 bt Arseniy Nesterov (Rus) 0.5.
M. Pranesh 1 drew with Dmitrij Kollars (Ger) 1; Pa. Iniyan 0.5 mislaid to Thai Dai Van Nguyen (Cze) 1.5; Karthikeyan Murali 1 drew with Pouya Idani (Ira) 1; Raunak Sadhwani 1 drew with Robert Hovhannisyan (Arm) 1.
