USA rout India 5-0 in Checkmate event

Hikaru Nakamura stunned satellite champion D Gukesh arsenic India were whitewashed 0-5 by USA successful the archetypal Checkmate, an evening of chess presented arsenic a unrecorded arena spectacle successful Arlington, USA.

While the lucifer had galore tense moments and players from some teams created winning chances, USA roseate up to the juncture and scored respective clutch wins.

Playing with achromatic pieces, the Indians suffered a unsmooth nonaccomplishment and would look to bounce backmost with achromatic pieces successful the instrumentality lucifer successful the 2nd limb successful India.

While Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi mislaid to Fabiano Caruana, Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh suffered daze decision astatine the hands of International Master Carissa Yip.

International maestro Levy Rozman past defeated Sagar Shah earlier chess prodigy Ethan Vaz mislaid to International maestro Tani Adewumi.