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Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa played retired his 4th draw, signing bid with American Wesley So successful the 5th circular of the Super Chess Classic, a portion of the Grand Chess Tour.
On a time without immoderate decisive games, Germany's Vincent Keymer maintained his half-point lead, moving up to 3.5 points. Praggnanandhaa shares the 2nd spot with Dutch duo of Anish Giri and Jorden Van Foreest.
France's Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Wesley So stock 5th spot connected 2.5 points each, portion Fabiano Caruana of the United States and World Championship challenger Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan way intimately connected 2 points, with the second having 1 crippled successful hand.
Romanian Bogdan-Daniel Deac is ninth spot connected 1.5 points, a fractional constituent up of Alireza Firouzja of France.
In the different games of the day, Keymer drew with the achromatic pieces against Giri, Vachier-Lagrave shared the constituent with van Foreest, Sindarov drew with Firouzja, and Deac held Caruana to a draw.
Praggnanandhaa chose the Berlin defence against So, who did not amusement overmuch strength successful the archetypal signifier of the closed variation. As galore arsenic 3 insignificant pieces changed hands aboriginal successful the mediate crippled but thereafter Wesley gained the precocious manus with immoderate breakthrough connected the king side.
Praggnanandhaa, to his credit, stayed enactment with immoderate antagonistic play and So conscionable decided to repetition the position. The crippled lasted 45 moves.
Firouzja returned to the tourney aft missing the erstwhile round. The Frenchman had injured his ankle aft the 3rd circular and requested support to play his crippled against Sindarov from his room. The crippled yet ended successful a draw.
Keymer besides chose the Berlin defence and faced small problems against Giri. The players rapidly reached a rook-and-minor-piece endgame wherever the gully was a conscionable effect successful a specified 32 moves.
Tuesday (May 19, 2026) is the lone remainder time successful the tourney and the conflict volition resume connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) with conscionable 4 rounds remaining successful this $3,50,000 prize wealth tournament.
Results circular 5
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra, 2.5) drew with Jorden Van Foreest (Ned, 3); Wesley So (USA, 2.5) drew with R Praggnanandhaa (Ind, 3); Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Rou, 1.5) drew with Fabiano Caruana (USA, 2); Aiireza Firouzja (Fra, 1) drew with Javokhir Sindarov (Uzb, 2); Anish Giri (Ned, 3) drew with Vincent Keymer (Ger, 3.5).
