The brother-sister Indian duo of R Praggnanandhaaa and R Vaishali suffered defeats of their respective part whereas Magnus Carlsen justified his high billing with a win over an off-colour Ding Liren to surge to the only real lead on 12 factors within the Norway Chess match right here. Fabiano Caruana additionally scored over compatriot Hikaru Nakamura to assist Carlsen emerge because the entrance runner for the crown within the six-player double round-robin contest being fought for a complete prize pool of USD 161000.
Pragganandhaa misplaced to Firouzja Alireza of France within the Armageddon tiebreaker after struggling a bit via the Classical recreation too whereas Vaishali went all the way down to world girls’s champion Wenjun Ju of China who outplayed the Indian within the endgame.
With 4 rounds nonetheless to come back in each sections, Carlsen is now adopted by Nakamura on 11 factors whereas Praggnanandhaa remains to be third on 9.5 factors in all.
Alireza is on fourth spot with eight factors in all and Caruana follows him with 6.5 factors. Surprisingly, China’s Ding Liren appears fully out of types with simply 2.5 factors so far, needing a miracle to come back again within the match.
Within the girls’s part, Wenjun snatched the lead from Vaishali together with Anna Muzychuk of Ukraine who gained a hard-fought Armageddon in opposition to Tingjie Lei of China. Each Wenjun and Muzychuk have an similar 10.5 factors, a half level forward of Vaishali.
Lei is fourth on seven factors, having fun with a two-point lead over Koneru Humpy who suffered one other loss by the hands of Pia Cramling of Sweden within the Armageddon.
Cramling has 4.5 factors now and remains to be on the backside of the tables.
Gaining a small benefit out of the opening, the world primary Carlsen capitalised on his double Bishops to launch an offensive on the king facet and used one other blunder by Ding Liren to complete the sport with a child-like queen sacrifice.
Liren appears a far cry from the person who gained the final world championship title in opposition to Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia and desires to actually collect himself to make a match of it within the subsequent version of the match in opposition to India’s D Gukesh.
Presently, as per FIDE, the apex governing physique, there are bids from Delhi, Chennai and Singapore to carry the World Championship match.
Praggnanandhaa suffered a jolt in his quest as Alireza performed a pleasant recreation underneath Classical to place strain and ultimately drew the competition. Within the return recreation nonetheless, the Indian faltered and will not likely stage a comeback.
Within the girls’s part, Vaishali had her probabilities however Wenjun Ju was at her technical greatest and seized alternatives as they got here her approach. The minor items endgame had some probabilities however Vaishali couldn’t maintain the strain.
Outcomes males: Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 12) beat Ding Liren (Chn, 2.5) 3-0; Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 11) misplaced to Fabiano Caruana (Usa, 6.5) 1-1.5; Firouzja Alireza (Fra, 8) beat R Praggnanandhaa (10) 1.5-1.
Ladies: R Vaishali (Ind, 10) misplaced to Wenjun Ju (Chn, 10.5) 0-3; Ok Humpy (Ind, 5) misplaced to Pia Cramling (Swe, 4.5) 1-1.5; Anna Muzychuk (10.5 beat Tingkie Lei (Chn, 7) 1.5-1).
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