India’s R Vaishali shot into sole lead after she crashed by way of the defences of former world champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria within the ninth spherical of FIDE Grand Swiss chess event.
Playing the event of her life, Vaishali additionally accomplished an inconsequential fourth Grandmaster norm within the course of and now simply wants round seven score factors to change into the third lady from India to attain the feat.
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Vaishali, who’s the elder sister of India’s newest chess sensation R Praggnanandhaa, is on seven factors. With simply two rounds left, she’s going to face Zhongyi Tan of China in what’s seen as the ultimate hurdle between her and the title.
In the open part, Vidit Gujrathi performed out a draw with Russia’s Andrey Esipenko to stay in a six-manner lead on 6.5 factors.
The American duo of Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, Deac Bogdan-Daniel of Romania, Parham Maghsoodloo of Iran and Esipenko have an an identical rating and it’s a very shut race.
Vaishali’s sport was keenly contested within the center sport arising out of a Queen pawn opening. The Indian received an unbalanced place on board within the early center sport however Stefanova’s quest for unwarranted issues value her dearly as she ended up shedding a pawn.
As the Bulgarian tried to resurrect, Vaishali gained one other pawn and effectively transformed to a rook and pawns endgame the place the victory was by no means unsure.
For the second day operating Gujrathi couldn’t make a lot use of his white items. Esipenko was fairly up to the duty to find out the highway to equality and the draw was a simply end result.
Arjun Erigaisi performed out one other draw with Vladimir Fedoseev of Slovenia. Playing black Erigaisi didn’t face any severe complexities and can now have to do effectively within the final two rounds on this 460000 USD occasion.
Amongst different Indians within the fray, Nihal Sarin’s hopes of a podium end ended as he blundered and misplaced to Vincent Keymer of Germany.
Praggnanandhaa scored his second victory within the occasion on the expense of Rinat Jumabayev of Kazakhstan whereas P Harikrishna defeated Hrant Melkumyan of Armenia to breach the fifty p.c mark.
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Results- Round 9:
Men:
Fabiano Caruana (Usa, 6.5) Deac Bogdan-Daniel (Rou, 6.5); Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (6.5) drew with Andrey Esipenko (Fid, 6.5); Hikaru Nakamura (Usa, 6.5) beat Ivan Cheparinov (Bul, 5.5); Vladimir Fedoseev (Slo, 6) drew with Arjun Erigaisi (56); Parham Maghsoodloo (Iri, 6.5) beat Alexey Sarana (Srb, 5.5); Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr, 6) drew with Samuel Sevian (Usa, 6); Etienne Bacrot (Fra, 5.5) drew with Alexandr Predke (Srb, 6); Vincent Keymer (Ger, 6) beat Nihal Sarin (5); Allures Firouzja (Fra, 5) drew with Aravindh Chithambaram (5); R Praggnanandhaa (5.5) beat Rinat Jumabayev (Kaz, 4.5); P Harikrishna (5) beat Hrant Melkumyan (Arm, 4); Jorden Van Foreest (Ned, 4.5) drew with Aryan Chopra (4.5); S L Narayanan (5) beat Axel Bachmann (Par, 4); Temur Kuybokarov (Aus, 5) beat D Gukesh (3.5); Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr, 4.5) beat Abhijeet Gupta (3.5); Maurizzi Marc`andria (Fra, 3.5) misplaced to Raunak Sadhwani (4.5); Murali Karthikeyan (3.5) drew with Jaime Santos Latasa (Esp, 3.5); Dmitrij Kollars (Ger, 4) beat B Adhiban (3); Leon Luke Mendonca (4) beat Wu Li (Iom, 3).
Women:
Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul, 6) misplaced to R Vaishali (7); Leya Garifullina (Fid, 6) drew with Anna Muzychuk (Ukr, 6.5); Sophie Milliet (Fra, 5.5) misplaced to Tan Zhongyi (Chn, 6.5); Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kaz, 5.5) drew with Batkhuyag Munguntuul (Mgl, 6); Aleksandra Goryachkina (Fid, 5) misplaced to Mai Narva (Est, 6); Deysi Cori (Per, 6) beat Marsel Efroimski (Isr, 5); Stavroula Tsolakidou (Gre, 5.5) drew with Anna Ushenina (Ukr, 5.5); Monika Socko (Pol, 5) drew with D Harika (4.5); Elisabeth Paehtz (Ger, 4.5) drew with Tania Sachdev (4.5); B Savitha Shri (3) misplaced to Oliwia Kiolbasa (Pol, 4.5); Divya Deshmukh (4) beat Elina Danielian (Arm, 3); Trisha Kanyamarala (Irl, 2) misplaced to Vantika Agrawal (4).
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