On the verge of her Grandmaster title, R Vaishali outwitted former Women’s world champion Zhongyi Tan of China to stay in sole lead after the tip of the tenth and penultimate spherical of FIDE Women Grand Prix.
Vaishali, alongside together with her youthful brother Praggnanandhaa turned the primary brother-sister duo to qualify for the respective Candidates and they are going to be in motion in Canada subsequent yr, preventing for a spot within the World Championship finals.
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At 2498 reside ranking, Vaishali is simply two factors wanting turning into a Grandmaster and when she does that, she and Pragg can even turn into the primary siblings on the planet to realize this feat.
Vaishali on eight factors, is adopted solely by Anna Muzychuk of Ukraine a half level behind. Another half level away is Vaishali’s final-spherical opponent Batkhuyag Mungutuul of Mongolia.
Vaishali’s second place is secured no matter her final spherical outcome.
It was a Sicilian protection by Zhongyi and it got here as a shock to Vaishali because the Chinese went for the Classical system. Vaishali determined to sidestep from lengthy theoretical battles and her intuition proved proper despite the fact that Zhongyi bought a preventing place within the center sport.
Known to create possibilities, Vaishali geared as much as launch a king-facet assault in opposition to a centralised black king and it paid nice dividends. Vaishali picked up pawns at will and black’s desired counterplay by no means noticed the sunshine of the day.
In the open part, Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi additionally continued together with his dazzling run and put it throughout Deac Bogdan-Daniel of Romania in a one-sided affair.
Vidit’s fourth victory with black items ensured that he remained within the joint lead alongside Hikaru Nakamura of the United States and Andrey Esipenko of Russia who all have 7.5 factors apiece.
With only one spherical remaining within the 460000 USD prize cash occasion, Arjun Erigaisi additionally remained in rivalry for a spot within the candidates with a finely crafted victory over Samuel Savian of the United States.
Arjun is now joint fourth within the occasion and wishes a victory over Nakamura to stay within the hunt for the candidates for which two locations are reserved from this event.
Gujrathi employed the Sicilian defence to indicate his intentions for a fancy battle. Bogdan-Daniel fell prey to a tactical shot and misplaced a pawn and thereon the Indian was an ideal image of composure as he improved slowly and wrapped up the complete level.
Praggnanandhaa (6 factors) in the meantime performed out a draw with Anton Korobov of Ukraine and remained within the hunt for a spot within the prize listing together with P Harikrishna, Aravindh Chithambaram and S L Narayanan who all inched as much as 5.5 factors following attracts within the tenth spherical.
Amongst the women, Tania Sachdev and D Harika posted victories to achieve 5.5 factors whereas Vantika Agrawal and Divya Deshmukh additionally had successful outings to achieve 5 factors respectively.
Results- Round 10
Men:
Hikaru Nakamura (Usa, 7.5) beat Fabiano Caruana (Usa, 6.5); Deac Bogdan-Daniel (Rom, 6.5) lot to Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (7.5); Andrey Esipenko (Fid, 7.5) beat Parham Maghsoodloo (Iri, 6.5); Vincent Keymer (Ger, 7) beat Vladimir Fedoseev (Slo, 6); Samuel Sevian (Usa, 6) misplaced to Arjun Erigaisi (7); Alexandr Predke (Srb, 7) beat Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr, 6); Anton Korobov (Ukr, 6) drew with R Praggnanandhaa (6); Aravindh Chithambaram (5.5) drew with P Harikrishna (6); Nihal Sarin (5.5) drew with Evgeniy Najer (Fid, 5.5); Amin Tabatabaei (Iri, 5.5) drew with S L Narayanan (5.5); Aryan Chopra (5) drew with Sam Shankland (Usa, 5); Raunak Sadhwani (5) drew with Aydin Suleymanli (Aze, 5); Nijat Abasov (Aze, 4.5) drew with Leon Luke Mendonca (4.5); D Gukesh (4) drew with Daniel Dardha (Bel, 4); Murali Karthikeyan (4) drew with Denis Lazavik (Fid, 4); Abhijeet Gupta (3.5) misplaced to Michal Krasenkow (Pol, 4.5); B Adhiban (4) beat Ihor Samunenkov (Ukr, 3).
Women:
R Vaishali (8) beat Zhongyi Tan (Chn, 6.5); Anna Muzychuk (Ukr, 7.5) beat Deysi Cori (Per, 6); Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul, 6.5) drew with Leya Garifullina (Fid, 6.5); Mai Narva (Est, 6) beat Batkhuyag Munguntuul (Mgl, 7); Tania Sachdev (5.5) beat Polina Shuvalova (Fid, 4.5); D Harika (5.5) beat Govhar Beydullayeva (Aze, 4.5); Vantika Agrawal (5); beat Julianna Terbe (Hun, 4.5); Ulviyya Fataliyeva (Aze, 4) misplaced to Divya Deshmukh (5); Alice Lee (USA, 3.5) drew with B Savitha Shri (3.5).
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