Gupta, Kannan maintain joint lead after third round in Pune International Grandmaster chess
PUNE, July 2: India's Abhijeet Gupta and USA's Vaidyanathan Kannan remained joint leaders despite playing out draws in their respective matches in the third round, tied at 2.5 points each at the Pune International Grand Master Round Robin Event here...
PUNE, July 2:
India's Abhijeet Gupta and USA's Vaidyanathan Kannan remained joint leaders despite playing out draws in their respective matches in the third round, tied at 2.5 points each at the Pune International Grand Master Round Robin Event here on Thursday.
The third day of the event saw a tight contest between the two rising stars as India's 11-year-old Advik Agarwal held the 13-year-old Kannan to a hard-fought draw.
In another game, IM Nitish Belurkar sprang a surprise when he held the top seed Gupta for a draw.
IMs S Ashwath and Kushagra Mohan shared a point after a close battle, but Sri Lanka's LMST de Silva recorded an upset by defeating GM Alexei Fedorov.
GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus, meanwhile, scored a comfortable victory over India's Akshay Borgaonkar. (PTI)
