Prague Masters: R Pragnanandhaa Outwits Vincent Keymer to Join Aravindh Chithambaram in Lead

Grandmaster RPragnandhaa Scored His Second Victory On The Trot, Outwitting Vincent Keymer of Germany To Join Compatriot Aravindh Chithambaram at the top on the top on the first points round of the Prague masters. Aravindh survived some initial hiccups before signing peace with sam Shankland of the united states, whose top seed wei yi yi yi yi of china final found his form at the expense of locked. Anish Giri of Netherlands Played Out His Fourth Draw in as Many Games with Gurel Ediz of Turkey, Who Czech Gm Nguyen Thai Dai Van ALSO DREW WITH QUANTH QUANG LEIM LEIM LEIM LEIM LEIM LEIME LEIME LEIME LEIME LEIMENAM Round-robin tournament.

With Pragnanadhaa and Aravindh in Front, Shankland, Keymer, Giri and Le Share The Third Spot a Full Point Behind and It Looks Like the Race for the Title will be betteren the two indans only white Rounds still to come.

Almost a month back keymer had been paragnanandhaa in the tata steel masters and the Indian Avenged His Defeat Fighting from Whats Looked Like A Shaky French Defense with Black.

Keymer was cavegt off guard in the middlegame.

Pragnanandhaa Went for the Trade of Queens and Got His Counter Attack Rolling.

Keymer, meanwhile, ran low on time and wasted some moving Moving His Rook Back and Forth To Just Draw. The Indian obvious undersrstood it better and used his pieces well to win a couple of pawns. The rest was easy and it was all over in 44 moves.

Aravindh faces the Sicilian defense and Shankland Equalized Quite Easily.

An exchange spree Led to a very slight advantage for Shankland but the endgame was always closer to a draw. The players Eventually Arrived at a theoretically Drawn Rook and Pawns Endgame Where an Extra Pawn for Shankland did not matter much.

The next round will see the two leaders pitted against each other and Pragnanadhaa will play with white.

In the challengers’ Section, Divya Deshmukh Played Out A Draw With Ma Qun of China and Took Her Tally to 1.5 points from Four Games.

This section is jointly LED by nodirbek yakubboev of uzbekistan and jonas buhl bjerre of denmark, who bot have three points apiece.

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