Dec 31, 2024 11:10 AM IST
Aravindh Chithambaram beat Hikaru Nakamura on the World Blitz Championship, an enormous upset over the world quantity three.
Indian grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram sparked an enormous upset over quantity three chess participant on the planet, Hikaru Nakamura, with a win over the American grandmaster within the third spherical of the World Blitz Championship being held in New York.
GM Aravindh Chithambaram beat Hikaru Nakamura on the World Blitz Championship in New York.(HT_PRINT)
Chithambaram, who entered this event seeded exterior the highest 40, was in a position to convert a bonus with the white items towards Nakamura. Though the 3-minute blitz model of chess is a extra unstable occasion than classical, Nakamura is taken into account amongst the best proponents within the shorter time management, if not outright the perfect participant on the planet in velocity chess.
Aravindh’s win over Nakamura proved to be the standout consequence on the day for Indian grandmasters, as none finally succeeded in qualifying by the Swiss pre-knockout format of the event. Aravindh misplaced within the very subsequent spherical to his compatriot, Arjun Erigaisi, however had the huge scalp of Nakamura as his comfort prize on the occasion.
Nakamura’s disappointment is obvious in a video shared on the finish of the sport, the place he can be noticed discussing some strikes within the endgame with Aravindh. His win took him to three.0/3 to start out the event, however dropping the following two video games meant he was all however eradicated from rivalry.
Erigaisi was India’s main hope within the event, however a loss to Fabiano Caruana derailed his bid. Within the open part, no Indian certified by, with Pragganandha’s 7.5/11 being the very best rating.
“The future is very bright for India and the fact that they take care of their players speaks volumes about why they’re doing so well in chess as a whole,” Nakamura had mentioned, discovering himself on the fallacious finish of the unimaginable depth prevalent in Indian chess as one in all its less-heralded grandmasters registered such a seismic consequence.
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