Indians faltered within the huge matches in each sections after Magnus Carlsen lived as much as his popularity and Russia’s Valentina Gunina proved a worthy champion within the World blitz chess championship in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Saturday. In a second profitable title-defence in lower than 48 hours, Carlsen retained the World blitz crown to go together with the World fast trophy. For Carlsen, the reigning World Cup winner, this was a seventh World blitz title and seventeenth World title throughout codecs.
For first-time winner Gunina, too, the lone loss on the ultimate day didn’t damage her plans. The in a single day chief, seeded a distant twenty fourth, received the final two rounds for a tally of 14 factors from 17 rounds.
The Indians had poor remaining day. Arjun Erigaisi and Nihal Sarin, the duo among the many in a single day leaders, didn’t get occurring the house stretch.
Arjun misplaced to Carlsen and Levon Aronian, moreover behind held 4 instances. His victories over R. Praggnanandhaa, Ian Nepomniachtchi and last-round rival Baadur Jobava have been ok solely for the seventh spot.
A luckless and winless Nihal tumbled to the forty third place after shedding three video games, together with the final two, and drawing seven instances.
Among the ladies, twelfth seed D. Harika completed seventh after shedding the ultimate spherical. On this day, she drew the first 4 rounds and misplaced the 14th, received the subsequent two earlier than the loss to Zhu Jiner shattered her desires of a attainable medal.
Final standings (top-five): Open (factors from 21 rounds): 1. Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 15.5), 2. Daniil Dubov (FIDE, 15), 3. Vladislav Artemiev (FIDE, 14.5), 4. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra, 14), 5. Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE, 13.5).
Women (factors from 17 rounds): Valentina Gunina (FIDE, 14), Alexandra Kosteniuk (Sui, 13.5), 3. Zhu Jiner (Chn, 12.5), 4. Turmunkh Munkhzul (Mgl, 11.5), 5. Kateryna Lagno (FIDE, 11.5).
Indians’ standings: Open: 7. Arjun Erigaisi (13), 13. Aravindh Chithambaram (13), 19. R. Praggnanandhaa (12.5), 25. Nihal Sarin (12), 33. S. L. Narayanan (12), 48. D. Gukesh (11.5), 59. Bharath Subramaniyam (11), 62. Vidit Gujrathi (11), 64. Raunak Sadhwani (11), 72. B. Adhiban (11), 75. Karthik Venkataraman (11), 80. Mitrabha Guha (10.5), 89. Aditya Mittal (10.5), 97. V. Pranav (10.5), 116. M. Pranesh (9.5), 134. Sandipan Chanda (9.5), 160. Surya Shekhar Ganguly (8.5).
Women: 7. D. Harika (11), 13. Divya Deshmukh (11), 17. Okay. Humpy (10.5), 27. M. Varshini Sahithi (10), 36. R. Vaishali (9.5), 46. N. Priyanka (9), 59. Rakshitta Ravi (8.5), 65. Padmini Rout (8.5), 83. V. Sarayu (7.5), 93. B. Savitha Shri (7). 96. Soumya Swaminathan (7).
