WR Chess Masters 2023: India’s D Gukesh bests Russia’s Andrey Esipenko in Round 7

Indian Ace Chess participant D Gukesh outsmarted his opponent Andrey Esipenko within the seventh spherical of WR Chess Masters 2023 on Thursday. Gukesh had performed solely two Classical rated video games towards Esipenko till Thursday. Both shared a win every with the black items.

Gukesh, who’s the forty fourth Chess Olympiad particular person Gold medalist, is to hitch Aronian within the lead. Gukesh scored the primary win of the occasion with the black items and Nepomniachtchi scored the second. It is astounding that no wins have been scored with the black items for six rounds.

R Praggnanandhaa drew towards Wesley So after almost a seven-hour-long battle. Round 8 begins on Friday from 6:30 pm (IST).

Gukesh, who’s now the third-youngest Grandmaster in historical past, broke a number of information in 2022. In March, the Chennai lad grew to become solely the sixth Indian to interrupt the 2700 Elo score mark and the youngest Indian GM to be rated above 2700.

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The 16-year-old Grandmaster, taking part in with black items, had held five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen to a draw within the ninth spherical of the Tata Steel Masters being held in Wijk aan Zee final month. Having crushed Carlsen in a web based fast chess recreation final yr, it was the primary time the teenager was going through Carlsen in over-the-board classical chess.