Playing his trademark uncompromising chess, Grandmaster Arjun Erigaise scored a thumping victory over Anton Guijarro of Spain whereas S L Narayanan did effectively to carry GM Abdusattorov Nodirbek to a draw within the second spherical of FIDE Grand Swiss. Arjun, who has been dropping tempo in direction of the tip, determined to cross the minefield in high gear as he went for unwarranted problems proper from the start out of a Reti opening sport by Guijarrov who performed white.

The sport appeared evenly poised however relating to problems Arjun has steely nerves. Sacrificing a pawn within the center sport the Warangal-based caught his Spanish counterpart utterly off guard and a easy trade sacrifice netted him one other white piece in a few strikes.

Guijarrov fought on for a very long time however the writing was on the wall and Arjun wrapped it up with out giving a second likelihood. After 40 strikes it was an inevitable checkmate that compelled Guijarro’s resignation.

Narayanan is somebody individuals speak about however his low profile has not helped him declare a lot. Kerala’s strongest participant completed as the very best Indian bagging the third place within the Qatar masters simply earlier than this occasion and it does not appear to be he’ll cease right here.

Playing the black aspect of a Queen’s Gambit declined towards Nodirbek, Narayanan was comfy proper from the phrase go, received a pawn and when he was about to lose it again, too many items had modified arms and the place was only a draw. It took simply 33 strikes.

Raunak Sadhwani continued together with his strong efficiency after holding fourth seed Anish Giri of Holland in spherical one. Raunak performed out one other draw with pre-event favorite Hikaru Nakamura of United States. It turned out to be a fast sport lasting simply 25 strikes when the gamers determined to repeat strikes with Raunak having some strain on Nakamura.

After a stunning loss within the first spherical from a place of power towards Erwin L’ami of Holland, Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi got here again in to reckoning with a hard-earned victory over compatriot Abhijeet Gupta.

From what appeared like a degree endgame, Gujrathi capitalised on his higher positioned items to romp residence with some glorious method.

In the ladies’s part former world champion Tan Zhongyi confirmed her endgame expertise to down Divya Deshmukh whereas B Savitha Shree discovered former World champion Antoaneta Stefanova too robust to deal with.

Grandmaster D Harika was held to a second draw by Hoang Thang Trang of Hungary whereas Tani Sachdev adopted swimsuit towards Dinara Wagner of Germany.

Important and Indian outcomes spherical two (Indians except said): Fabiano Caruana (Usa, 2) beat Hans Moke Niemann USA, 1); Alexandr Predke (Srb, 2) beat Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Pol, 1); Abdusattorov Nodirbek (Uzb, 1.5) drew with S L Narayanan (1.5); Anton Guijarro David (Esp, 1) misplaced to Arjun Erigaisi (2); Sameul Sevian (USA, 1.5) drew with Aravindh Chithambaram (1.5); Vladimir Fedoseev (Slo, 1) misplaced to Erwin L’ami (Ned, 2); Raunak Sadhwani (1) drew with Hikaru Nakamura (USA , 1); D Gukesh (1) drew with Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr, 1): Volodar Murzin (FID, 1) drew with R Praggnanandhaa (1); Aryan Chopra (1) drew with Vincent Keymer (Ger, 1); Aryan Tari (Nor, 1.5) beat P Harikrishna (0.5); Murali Karthikeyan (0.5) misplaced to Sam Shankland (USA, 1.5); Vladislav Artemiev (FID, 1) drew with Leon Luke Mendonca (1); Nihal Sarin (1) drew with Aydin Suleymanli (Aze, 1); Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (1) beat Abhijeet Gupta (0); Pouya Idani (Iri, 1) beat B Adhiban (0).

Women: Divya Deshmukh (1) misplaced to Tan Zhongyi (Chn, 2); Anna Muzychuk (Ukr, 2) beat Tsolakidou, Stavroula 91); Eline Roebers (Ned, 1.5) drew with R Vaishali (1.5); Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul, 2) beat B Savitha Shri (1); D Harika (1) drew with Hoang Thanh Trang (Hun, 1); Dinara Wagner (Ger, 1) drew with Tania Sachdev (1); Aulia Medina Warda (ina, 1) beat Vantika Agrawal (0).

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