Candidates Chess 2024: Gukesh rose to to the highest of the Candidates 2024 standings within the open part as soon as extra after defeating compatriot Vidit Gujrathi in a Spherical 8 encounter. The 17-year-old prodigy from Chennai is joined on the high of the desk by Ian Nepomniachtchi, who was held to a draw by Nijat Abasov.
There are six extra rounds left on the Candidates. The winner of the open occasion will get to tackle Ding Liren within the World Chess Championship subsequent yr. The winner of the ladies’s occasion will get to face off towards China’s Ju Wenjun within the Ladies’s World Chess Championship.
On an unimaginable day in Toronto, Gukesh’s victory was sealed nearly on the similar time that World No 2 Fabiano Caruana resigned towards American compatriot World No 3 Hikaru Nakamura. Gukesh and Caruana have been joint second within the standings together with Praggnanandhaa after seven rounds within the Candidates 2024 match, which marked the midway level of the double spherical robin match.
Praggnanandhaa additionally agreed to a draw towards French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja, who had inflicted that heartbreaking defeat on Gukesh in Spherical 7.
In the meantime, there was drama within the girls’s occasion in addition to chief Tan Zhongyi was handed a defeat by compatriot Lei Tingjie. Within the battle of the 2 Indians, Humpy squandered her early benefit towards Vaishali. However simply when it regarded like Vaishali would escape, she made a blunder which ultimately led to her dropping.
Outcomes and present state of affairs from Spherical 8 video games at Candidates
Open part
Ian Nepomniachtchi drew Nijat Abasov
Hikaru Nakamura defeated Fabiano Caruana
Praggnanandhaa R drew with Alireza Firouzja
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi misplaced to Gukesh
Ladies’s class
Tan Zhongyi misplaced to Lei Tingjie
Kateryna Lagno drew with Aleksandra Goryachkina
Nurgyul Salimova drew with Anna Muzychuk
Humpy Koneru defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu
Standings after Spherical 8 at Candidates
Open standings after Spherical 8
(Standings up to date in spite of everything Spherical 8 video games ended on Sunday IST)
Ladies’s standings after Spherical 8
(Standings up to date in spite of everything Spherical 8 video games ended on Sunday IST)
Schedule for Indians from Spherical 9 to Spherical 14 at Candidates
ROUND 9 Open
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi – Hikaru Nakamura
Gukesh D – Praggnanandhaa R
ROUND 9 Ladies’s
Humpy Koneru – Kateryna Lagno
Vaishali Rameshbabu – Tan Zhongyi
ROUND 10 Open
Ian Nepomniachtchi – Gukesh D
Praggnanandhaa R – Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
ROUND 10 Ladies’s
Nurgyul Salimova – Vaishali Rameshbabu
Tan Zhongyi – Humpy Koneru
ROUND 11 Open
Praggnanandhaa R – Hikaru Nakamura
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi – Ian Nepomniachtchi
Gukesh D – Fabiano Caruana
ROUND 11 Ladies’s
Humpy Koneru – Nurgyul Salimova
Vaishali Rameshbabu – Aleksandra Goryachkina
ROUND 12 Open
Nijat Abasov – Gukesh D
Fabiano Caruana – Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
Ian Nepomniachtchi – Praggnanandhaa R
ROUND 12 Ladies’s
Anna Muzychuk – Vaishali Rameshbabu
Aleksandra Goryachkina – Humpy Koneru
ROUND 13 Open
Praggnanandhaa R – Fabiano Caruana
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi – Nijat Abasov
Gukesh D – Alireza Firouzja
ROUND 13 Ladies’s
Humpy Koneru – Anna Muzychuk
Vaishali Rameshbabu – Lei Tingjie
ROUND 14 Open
Hikaru Nakamura – Gukesh D
Alireza Firouzja – Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
Nijat Abasov – Praggnanandhaa R
ROUND 14 Ladies’s
Kateryna Lagno – Vaishali Rameshbabu
Lei Tingjie – Humpy Koneru