IMAGE: Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi did attempt to discover some flaws in black’s place however determined in opposition to any undue threat and repeated the place 3 times. {Photograph}: Michal Walusza/FIDE
Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi was held to a draw by 12-year-old Argentine sensation Oro Faustino within the first recreation of the second spherical of the FIDE World Cup in Panjim on Tuesday.
Known as the ‘Messi of Chess’ again house as a consequence of his extraordinary expertise and speedy rise within the sport, Faustino, who famously defeated greater ranked Ante Brkic of Croatia within the opener, got here up with one other spectacular efficiency together with his black items.
The Argentine prodigy began off with the Berlin protection and Gujrathi went for the center recreation which gave a simple equality to Faustino. The Indian did attempt to discover some flaws in black’s place however determined in opposition to any undue threat and repeated the place 3 times.
The sport lasted 28 strikes.
Within the return recreation below Classical time format, Gujrathi will play with the black items on Wednesday and if the impasse continues, the gamers will play video games below shorter period to find out the winner.
That is Gujrathi’s final try and discover a place within the Candidates match of 2026 for which the highest three from right here would qualify.
Levon Aronian continued with the nice contact he has been displaying lately and defeated younger Grandmaster Aronyak Ghosh with white items.
Indian outcomes spherical 2 recreation 1: D Gukesh Nogerbek Kazybek (Kaz); Martin Petrov (Bul) Arjun Erigaisi; R Praggnanandhaa Temur Kuybokarov (Aus); Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) beat Surya Shekhar Ganguly; Diptayan Ghosh Ian Nepomniachtchi (Fid); Levon Aronian (Usa) beat Aronyak Ghosh; Vidit Santosh Gujrathi drew with Oro Faustino (Arg); Karthik Venkataraman Aravindh Chithambaram; Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis (Gre) Nihal Sarin; Nesterov Arseniy(Fid) P Harikrishna; Nguyen Thai Dai Van (Cze) Pa Iniyan; Idani Pouya (Iri) Murali Karthikeyan; S L Narayanan drew with Nikita Vitiugov (Eng); Dmitrij Kollars (Ger) M Pranesh; Aryan Tari (Nor) V Pranav; Robert Hovhannisyan (Arm) Raunak Sadhwani.
