Praggnanandhaa vs Alireza Firouzja FIDE Chess Candidates 2024: Round 8 match highlights

India’s R. Praggnanandhaa settled for a draw with France’s Alireza Firouzja in a round eight encounter in the FIDE Candidates tournament in Toronto, Canada on Sunday.

India’s R Praggnanandhaa drew with France’s Alireza Firouzja. | Photo Credit: Sportstar

India’s R. Praggnanandhaa settled for a draw with France’s Alireza Firouzja in a round eight encounter in the FIDE Candidates tournament in Toronto, Canada on Sunday.

Check out the board below to follow all moves from the match ↓

Round 8 Pairings

Hikaru Nakamura - Fabiano Caruana

Ian Nepomniachtchi - Nijat Abasov

Praggnanandhaa R - Alireza Firouzja

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi - Gukesh D

Women’s

Kateryna Lagno - Aleksandra Goryachkina

Nurgyul Salimova - Anna Muzychuk

Tan Zhongyi - Lei Tingjie

Humpy Koneru - Vaishali Rameshbabu

Format

Both the Candidates and the Women’s Candidates are a double round-robin tournament with each player playing the rest of the field twice in a total of 14 rounds.

Players get 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.

Time Control

The time control for the open category is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move 41.

For the women’s category, it is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move one.