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Six are already in. Another 5 are successful with a chance. India’s lesser known players aren’t doing severely astatine the chess World Cup.
Leading the host’s complaint into the 2nd circular was V. Pranav, the highest-ranked Indian isolated from those apical players seeded straight into the 2nd round. And helium did it successful the astir convincing fashion.
All that the reigning World inferior champion needed was a gully successful the 2nd crippled of the archetypal circular astatine Resort Rio, but helium defeated Algeria’s Ala Eddine Boulrens for the 2nd clip successful arsenic galore days to triumph their mini lucifer 2-0.
Joining him successful the 2nd circular are M. Pranesh, Raunak Sadhwani, P. Iniyan, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Karthik Venkataraman. Like Pranesh, the play campaigner Ganguly besides registered a cleanable score, against Ahmad Ahmadzada of Azerbaijan.
The time besides saw his fellow-Kolkatan Aronyak Ghosh signifier a good comeback. After losing connected the opening day, helium was successful a must-win concern against Mateusz Bartel, his higher-rated rival from Poland. He won to unit a tie-breaker.
Also playing successful Monday’s shootout are S.L. Narayanan, R. Raja Rithvik, Diptayan Ghosh and M.R. Lalith Babu. There was disappointment for Leon Mendonca though; the section lad crashed retired of the tourney aft losing to China’s Wang Shixu, rated much than 200 points below.
The run of Divya Deshmukh besides ended. The lone pistillate subordinate successful the World Cup went down to Greece’s Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis 0-2.
Turkey’s Yagiz Erdogmus, American Jeffrey Xiong and Maxim Rodshtein of Israel, Vladislav Artemiev of Russia and Englishman Michael Adams, the highest rated players successful the archetypal round, precocious to the 2nd round.
Important results (First round): Yagiz Erdogmus (Tur) 2 bt Nagi Abugenda (Lba) 0; Li Yiheng (Hkg) 0.5 Jeffrey Xiong (USA) 1.5; Maxim Rodshtein (Isr) 2 bt Qin Oscar Shu Xuan (NZ) 0; Heskeil Ndahangwapo (Nam) 0 mislaid to Vladislav Artemiev (Rus) 2; Michael Adams (Eng) 2 bt Alrehaili Ahmed Abdullah (KSA) 0; Ala Eddine Boulrens (Alg) 0 mislaid to V. Pranav 2; Daniel Barrish (SA) 0.5 mislaid to Raunak Sadhwani 1.5; Shamsiddin Vokhidov (Uzb) 2 bt Jaloliddin Ilkhomi (Tjk) 0; Satbek Akhmedinov (Kaz) 0.5 drew with M. Pranesh 1.5; Wang Shixu (Chn) 1.5 bt Leon Mendonca 0.5; S.L. Narayanan 1 drew with Steven Rojas (Per) 1; Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (Gre) 2 bt Divya Deshmukh 0; Dylan Isidro Berdayes Ason (Cub) 0.5 drew with Pa. Iniyan 1.5; Neelash Saha 0.5 mislaid to Georg Meier (Uru) 1.5; Mustafa Yilmaz (Tur) 1.5 bt G.B. Harshavardhan 0.5; Aronyak Ghosh 1 bt Mateusz Bartel (Pol) 1; Vasil Ivanchuk (Ukr) 1.5 drew with Mohammad Fahad Rahman (Ban) 0.5; R. Raja Rithvik 1 drew with Kazybek Nogerbek (Kaz)1; Diptayan Ghosh 1 drew with Peng Xiongjian (Chn) 1; Ahmad Ahmadzada (Aze) 0 mislaid to Surya Shekhar Ganguly 2; M.R. Lalith Babu 1 drew with Max Warmerdam (Ned) 1; Karthik Venkataraman 1.5 bt Roberto García Pantoja (Cub) 0.5; Himal Gusain 0 mislaid to Andy Woodward (USA) 2.
