Candidates Chess 2024: India’s 17-year-old prodigy, D Gukesh, floor out a hard-fought victory over Alireza Firouzja in Spherical 13 of the Candidates 2024 chess match to surge into the only real lead with only one extra spherical left.
Three veterans — two-time Candidates winner Ian Nepomniachtchi, World No 2 Fabiano Caruana and World No 3 Hikaru Nakamura — are sizzling on the Indian teenager’s heels, simply half a degree behind.
What’s going to boost the ultimate day of motion much more is the truth that Gukesh will tackle Nakamura within the last spherical with black items whereas Nepomniachtchi faces Caruana.
Chess Candidates 2024 Reside Updates: 17-year-old Gukesh takes sole lead after defeating Alireza; Vaishali wins 4th in a row
In the meantime, within the girls’s part probably the most notable end result from an Indian perspective was 22-year-old Vaishali racking up her fourth victory in a row in Spherical 13 to bounce again from shedding 4 in a row at one stage.
Outcomes from Spherical 13 video games at Candidates
Open part
Ian Nepomniachtchi drew with Hikaru Nakamura
Praggnanandhaa R misplaced to Fabiano Caruana
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi drew with Nijat Abasov
Gukesh D defeated Alireza Firouzja
Girls’s part
Nurgyul Salimova drew with Kateryna Lagno
Tan Zhongyi drew with Aleksandra Goryachkina
Humpy Koneru drew with Anna Muzychuk
Vaishali Rameshbabu defeated Lei Tingjie
Standings after Spherical 13 at Candidates
Open standings after Spherical 13
(Standings up to date after Spherical 13 video games ended on Sunday IST)
Girls’s standings after Spherical 13
(Standings up to date after Spherical 13 video games ended on Sunday IST)
Schedule for Indians for Spherical 14 at Candidates
ROUND 14 Open
Hikaru Nakamura – Gukesh D
Alireza Firouzja – Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
Nijat Abasov – Praggnanandhaa R
ROUND 14 Girls’s
Kateryna Lagno – Vaishali Rameshbabu
Lei Tingjie – Humpy Koneru