S. L. Narayanan made his move towards the title at the expense of Debashis Das and jumped to joint lead with Georgian Levan Pantsulaia at 7.5 points after the ninth and penultimate round of the Delhi International Open chess tournament here on Tuesday.
With 12 players chasing the leaders at seven points, the title-race is headed for an exciting finish.
The day, during which Debashis and overnight leader Masaoud Mosadeghpour suffer their first losses, also saw the making of D. Gukesh as the youngest Grandmaster in the country.
Gukesh made his third and final GM-norm by beating Dinesh Sharma and broke record set by R. Praggnanandhaa last year.
Also making his GM-norm was Gukesh’s Tamil Nadu statemate N. R. Visakh. Four other players - Neelash Saha, Aditya Mittal, Saurabh Anand and Bharat Kumar Reddy - made their International Master norm.
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