Indian chess grandmaster D Gukesh suffered a stunning defeat to Jorden van Foreest on the Prague Worldwide Chess Pageant.
IMAGE: Nonetheless searching for his first victory within the event, D Gukesh by no means actually discovered his footing in opposition to Jorden van Foreest within the third spherical of the Prague Worldwide Chess Pageant in Prague. {Photograph}: Frans Peeters/FIDE
Key Factors
- World Champion D Gukesh misplaced to Jorden van Foreest within the third spherical of the Prague Worldwide Chess Pageant.
- Aravindh Chithambaram drew his sport in opposition to Parham Maghsoodloo.
- Within the Challengers part, Divya Deshmukh and Surya Shekhar Ganguly each suffered losses.
World Champion D Gukesh suffered a shock defeat to Jorden van Foreest of Holland, whereas Aravindh Chithambaram performed out a draw with Parham Maghsoodloo of Iran within the third spherical of the Masters part of Prague Worldwide Chess Pageant in Prague.
Nonetheless searching for his first victory within the event, Gukesh by no means actually discovered his footing in opposition to van Foreest, who, enjoying white, employed the Ruy Lopez and seized the initiative early with the bishop pair within the Tartakower variation.
The Indian quickly got here below heavy stress and needed to half with a pawn. The technicalities remained however Foreest may probably do no-wrong on this spherical.
The commerce of Queens led to a pawn-less rook and minor piece endgame for Gukesh whereby the Dutchman cleaned up the king facet and his pawns did the remaining. The sport lasted 48 strikes.
Foreest regained the joint lead and is the one participant within the occasion with all three decisive video games.
With two factors in his kitty, Foreest shares the lead with Uzbek duo of Nodirbek Yakubboev and Nodirbek Abdusattorov together with native favorite David Navara.
With six rounds nonetheless remaining within the 10-players 9-rounds event, Gukesh shares the seventh spot with prime seed Vincent Keymer of Germany, Hans Moke Niemann of United States and Maghsoodloo with all having one level from their three video games.
The opposite Indian within the fray, Aravindh performed out a draw with Maghsoodloo to take his tally to 1.5 factors together with David Anton Guijarro of Spain.
Aravindh may probably not get going together with his white items in opposition to Maghsoodloo after going for a wierd variation in opposition to the Caro Kann protection.
The queens had been off the board as early because the fifth transfer, after which Maghsoodloo solely needed to commerce items at common intervals. The sport led to a attract simply 30 strikes by repetition.
Divya Deshmukh Loses In Challengers
Within the challengers’ part, it was a double blow for Indians as each Divya Deshmukh and Surya Shekhar Ganguly went down preventing.
The Girls’s World cup winner Divya misplaced together with her black items in opposition to Jiner Zhu of China, whereas Ganguly discovered a troublesome buyer in Czech republic’s Jachym Nemec.
Ganguly has a half level after the primary three rounds, whereas Divya has one. Finek Vaclav of Czech Republic leads this part with 2.5 factors.
Prague Chess Pageant: Spherical 3 Outcomes
Jorden van Foreest (Ned, 2) beat D Gukesh (Ind, 1); Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzb, 2) drew with Vincent Keymer (Ger, 1); Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzb, 2) drew with Hans Moke Niemann (Usa, 1); Aravindh Chithambaram (Ind, 1.5) drew with Parham Maghsoodloo (Iri, 1); David Navara (Cze, 2) drew with David Anton Guijarro (Esp, 1.5).
Challengers: Daniil Yuffa (Esp, 1.5) beat Benjamin Gledura (Hun, 0.5); Thomas Beerdsen (Ned, 2) misplaced to Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Den, 2); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (Ind, 0.5) misplaced to Jachym Nemec (Cze, 2); Finek Vanclav (Cze, 2.5) beat Stpen Hrbek (Cze, 2); Jiner Zhu (Chn, 1) beat Divya Deshmukh (Ind, 1).
