2024-06-12 04:42:19
Stavanger (Norway): Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa defeated world quantity two Fabiano Caruana of the US within the fifth spherical of the Norway Chess Championship to enter the highest 10 of the world rankings. Hikaru Nakamura of the US defeated out-of-form world champion Ding Liren of China to increase his lead over Norway’s Magnus Carlsen by one level. Nakamura has 10 factors. Carlsen defeated Firouzja Alireza of France. With 5 rounds of the match nonetheless to be performed, Praggnanandhaa is third behind world primary Carlsen with 8.5 factors. Alireza has 6.5 factors and is in fourth place.
Caruana is in fifth place with 5 factors whereas Ding Liren’s poor type continues. She has solely 2.5 factors. Within the girls’s class, India’s R Vaishali continued her dream run and defeated China’s Tingqi Lei within the Armageddon recreation to take her factors tally to 10. Vaishali is adopted by Anna Muzychuk who has 9 factors. She defeated Sweden’s Pia Cramling within the fifth spherical. Ladies’s world champion Wenjun Ju defeated India’s Koneru Humpy within the Armageddon. She is in third place with 7.5 factors.
Lei is in fourth place with six factors. He’s two factors forward of Humpy. Cramling has solely three factors and is on the backside of the desk. Initially, there was an alternate of items between Praggnanandhaa and Caruana. Praggnanandhaa stored the American participant engaged. Caruana made a mistake within the 66th transfer, which Praggnanandhaa took full benefit of and gained 11 strikes later.