FIDE Chess Candidates 2024 Spherical 5 Dwell Updates: India’s D Gukesh managed to safe victory over Nijat Abasov in a queen endgame to surge to the highest of the standings of the Open part on the Candidates. The 17-year-old from India managed to win a marathon recreation towards Abasov in Spherical 5 which performed on for nearly six hours and noticed 87 strikes being made.
Gukesh, the second youngest participant ever to compete on the prestigious Candidates match, is now the joint chief within the Open class with Ian Nepomniachtchi at 3.5 factors.
In the meantime, Gukesh’s compatriots Praggnanandhaa and Vidit Gujrathi had been each held to attracts by closely favoured opponents of the Candidates match. Each gamers had been within the driver’s seat at varied factors of their video games, however couldn’t press on to grab the victory. Whereas Pragg was held to a draw by two-time Candidates winner Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vidit was held by World No 2 Fabiano Caruana. Within the Praggnanandhaa R vs Nepomniachtchi recreation, the Indian teenager had compelled the Russian below large time strain together with his wonderful opening prep.
Over within the girls’s part, India’s Vaishali Rameshbabu and Humpy Koneru had been additionally held to attracts by Anna Muzychuk and Aleksandra Goryachkina respectively.
For Vidit, the draw signifies that he has managed to arrest a streak of defeats: he misplaced his final two video games after defeating Hikaru Nakamura within the second spherical.
Whereas all the ladies’s video games resulted in attracts, Hikaru Nakamura lastly acquired his first victory on the match, beating Alireza Firouzja.
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