Prague Chess Festival masters event: as it happened


Prague Chess Festival masters event: as it happened

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Vidit Gujrathi

Another super strong chess event of 2020 , Prague chess festival taking place from 12-21 February 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic. GM Pentala Harikrishna and GM Vidit Gujrathi will lead Indian challenge in this event. More fact to remember, average rating of this event is 2707.

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GM Vidit Gujrathi starts his campaign on this event with resounding win. The 2nd highest ranked Indian in Fide ranking list, GM Vidit Gujrathi scored superb win over Shankland, Sam in 1st round match. Then Vidit shared point Anton Guijarro, David in 2nd round match. But in 3rd round of this event, Vidit back to winning stage. Vidit Gujrathi defeated Ragger, Markus in 3rd round match. Thanks to this victory, Vidit scored 2.5 points after 3rd round and maintains top position in leader board.

Pentala Harikrishna

The 3rd highest ranked Indian in Fide ranking list, GM Pentala Harikrishna performed average after 3rd round of this event. He stared point in First 2 round match. But in 3rd round match, he suffered defeat against Iraninan young chess prodigy Firouzja ,Alireaza. As a result, Harikrishna has 1 points after 3 rounds.

Out of 9 rounds,only 3 rounds have finished. Still 6 more round left to play. No doubt, Pentala Harikrishna and Vidit Gujrathi would like to make consistent results on coming rounds. So, Exciting battle is coming up !!!

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