Raunak Sadhwani held Haik Martirosyan and helped D. Gukesh catch up with the Armenian in the lead with seven points after the eighth and penultimate round of the 48th La Roda International Open chess tournament at Castella de Mancha, Spain, on Sunday. In the final round, Gukesh plays with white pieces Israel’s Victor Mikhalevski and Martirosyan will sit behind the …
K. Sasikiran bounced back from the loss in the previous round to outplay Ukraine’s Pavel Eljanov in 33 moves and jumped to the tied-fourth spot with nine others after nine rounds of the $425,000 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss chess tournament in Riga, Latvia, on Friday. RELATED| On the top table, top seed Fabiano Caruana ended the unbeaten run of overnight …
Continuing the run of resolute performances, K. Sasikiran overpowered Russia’s Alexandr Predke to join four others in the lead at 4.5 points after six rounds of the $425,000 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss chess tournament in Riga, Latvia, on Monday. Vantika Agarwal and Padmini Rout lost to former women World champions Alexandra Kosteniuk and Antoaneta Stefanova, respectively. READ: The results : …
Veteran K. Sasikiran upstaged fancied Russian Vladimir Fedoseev and caught up with an unbeaten Nihal Sarin in the second score-group at 3.5 points after five rounds of $425 FIDE Grand Swiss chess tournament in Riga, Latvia, on Sunday. READ| In the women’s section, D. Harika drew with the 2015 World championship finalist Natalija Pogonina to reach 3.5 points. Harika is …