Prodigies R. Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi won three games on the trot to share the second spot behind Magnus Carlsen in the Julius Baer Generation Cup online chess tournament on Sunday. After four rounds, played on a format that allows three points for a win and one for draw, an unbeaten Carlsen collected 10 points, one more than Praggnanandhaa, Arjun, …
Highlights from Wednesday's action: WHAT HAPPENED ON TUESDAY? A day after stopping Boris Gelfand 2.5-0.5 for his first win in the chess24 Legends of Chess, Viswanathan Anand crashed to a stunning defeat, by a similar margin, to an otherwise struggling Ding Liren in the eighth round on Tuesday. In the most watched game of the day, leader Magnus Carlsen let …
