Chess Candidates 2024, Round 10 Highlights: Vaishali beats Salimova; Gukesh-Nepomniachtchi, Vidit-Praggnanandhaa, Humpy-Zhongyi settle for draw; Caruana, Hikaru win

Open

Hikaru Nakamura 1-0 Nijat Abasov 

Fabiano Caruana 1-0 Alireza Firouzja 

Ian Nepomniachtchi ½-½ Gukesh D 

Praggnanandhaa R ½-½ Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 

Women’s

Kateryna Lagno ½-½ Anna Muzychuk 

Aleksandra Goryachkina 0-1 Lei Tingjie 

Nurgyul Salimova 0-1 Vaishali Rameshbabu 

Tan Zhongyi ½-½ Humpy Koneru

Meanwhile, Lei Tingjie continued her tremendous form as she beat Aleksandra Goryachkina. 

Vaishali beats Salimova in the rook endgame. She takes one more pawn before the Bulgarian succumbed. 

Wow! What a turnaround. It’s Vaishali who is in a completely winning position against Salimova. She has an extra pawn but both players are playing under time crunch. 

A threefold repetition draw in the Humpy vs Zhongyi game. 

Vaishali somehow has managed to equalise her position against Salimova with both players playing with low accuracy under a severe time crunch. 

Humpy is a pawn up in a rook endgame but white can easily hold this position. 

Nijat Abasov resigns as well and Hikaru equals Caruana with 5.5 points from 10 rounds. What a round for both of these Americans. 

Firouzja resigns and Caruana picks his second win of the tournament. What a time to knock down the Frenchman. He started his king’s march and was about to win another pawn before Firouzja decided to end the misery. 

The rooks are off the board and Caruana is simply a pawn up in the bishop endgame. It should be a comfortable win for the American from here. 

Vaishali now has a completely lost position against Salimova. It’s now about time for Salimova to pick another win. 

Hikaru’s press from the white pieces is on and how. Both the Americans are on their way to notch up wins here. 

Firouzja played seven moves in under one minute to reach the 40th move and now he has a worse position against Caruana. The world no. 2 can smell a win here. 

Anna Muzychuk and Kateryna Lagno agree to end the game in a draw. 

Abasov sacks his rook against Hikaru in order to stay in the game. The last few moves have turned the table again in the favour of the American. 

An array of erratic moves from Vaishali is keeping Salimova in the hunt. 40 moves have happened so that Indian youngster can now take her time before playing out moves. 

Humpy and Zhongyi go in rook endgame so rest assured it’s going to be a draw. 

Hikaru’s advantage seemed to have fizzled out and it’s Abasov who has initiative on the board at this position. Time changes quickly. 

We have another result as a threefold repetition draw happened in the Pragg vs Vidit game. 

33 moves have happened in the Vaishali vs Salimova game. The position is still a dead draw, can the Indian youngster press from this position?

Pragg offers a queen sacrifice again. This time Vidit accepts the trade. Parity on board. It needs to be seen if either of these two can work out an opening from here. 

Gukesh and Nepomniachtchi get to move 40 and shake hands immediately. It is a draw and both players move to 6 points each. Only Praggnanandhaa has a chance of reaching them in this round. 

Pragg offers a queen sacrifice and Vidit refuses it. There is not much to separate the two both in terms of pieces and position.

A queen sacrifice is imminent in Vaishali vs Salimova. And it looks like the game is headed to the end game. 

Firouzja misses an opportunity to seal his control on the game against Caruana. He goes Bishop to e6, which cuts down his advantage in the game.

Nepo finally castles, to the short side. Gukesh has a chance to trade his knight for a bishop which is pointing at his kingside defence. 

Sharp moves from Humpy. 99.9 accuracy for her so far, according to Stockfish. Can she topple leader Tan Zhongyi and get into the title contention?

Nepo’s turn to put the thinking cap on. That almost bridges the time gap between the two. A win here would put Gukesh in the driving seat in this tournament. 

Gukesh castles to the short side in his ninth move. Nepo has a 20 minutes advantage on the clock though. 

Humpy and Zhongyi start off their battle with a sharp opening play with neither holding the advantage early on. 

Gukesh slows down the game as he considers his eighth move. The Indian GM has cut down Nepo’s white piece advantage early on. 

Vaishali already on the backfoot as Salimova breaks through the right flank, negating Vaishali’s early castle. 

Berlin Defence opening between Vidit Gujrathi and R Praggnanandhaa. Both players staying true to the computer lines. 100.00 accuracy for both so far. 

Quickfire start. Seven moves completed. Both players are short of a pawn and a knight. 

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Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit, Vaishali, Humpy at Chess Candidates 2024: Round 10 - Schedule, pairing, colour

Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh, Vidit, Vaishali, Humpy at FIDE Candidates 2024: Round 10 schedule for all five Indians in action at the Candidates tournament in Toronto, Canada.

1. Tan Zhongyi (CHN) - 6.0

2. Lei Tingjie (CHN) - 5.5

3. Aleksandra Goryachkina (RUS) - 5.5

4. Kateryna Lagno (RUS) - 5.0

5. Nurgyul Salimova (BUL) - 4.0

6. Koneru Humpy (IND) - 4.0

7. Anna Muzychuk (UKR) - 3.5

8. R. Vaishali (IND) - 2.5 

2. Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS) - 5.5

3. R Praggnanandhaa (IND) - 5.0

4. Hikaru Nakamura (USA) - 4.5

5. Vidit Gujrathi (IND) - 4.5

5. Fabiano Caruana (USA) - 4.5

7. Alireza Firouzja (FRA) - 3.5

8. Nijat Abasov (AZE) - 3.0

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Chess Candidates 2024, Round 9 Highlights: Vidit beats Nakamura; Praggnanandhaa-Gukesh, Humpy-Lagno end in draw; Vaishali loses to Zhongyi

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Open

Hikaru Nakamura - Nijat Abasov

Fabiano Caruana - Alireza Firouzja

Ian Nepomniachtchi - Gukesh D

Praggnanandhaa R - Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

Women’s

Kateryna Lagno - Anna Muzychuk

Aleksandra Goryachkina - Lei Tingjie

Nurgyul Salimova - Vaishali Rameshbabu

Tan Zhongyi - Humpy Koneru

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