Chess World Cup: After D Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi too knocked out in third round

Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi has been knocked out of the ongoing FIDE World Cup as he faced defeat at the hands of Sam Shankland of the United States in the second set of tie-break games of third round in Panjim, Goa on Sunday.

Gujrathi lost 2.5-3.5 to Shankland in the tiebreaker. He is the third high-profile Indian to be knocked out of the World Cup after D Gukesh and Aravindh Chithambaram too faced early exits. Gukesh lost to Frederic Svane of Germany in the third round while Chithambaram crashed out in the second round.

SL Narayanan was also beaten by Yangyi Yu of China in the first set of tie-break games while V Karthik continued with his dream run and defeated Deac Bogdan-Daniel of Romania 1.5-0.5. The win helped Karthik seal a fourth-round spot.

Karthik is the fifth Indian to advance to the fourth round. Arjun Erigaisi, R Praggnanandhaa, P Harikrishna and world junior champion V Pranav have already qualified for Round 4.

206 Indians had participated in the World Cup but only five now remain in contention for the title.

The top three from the World Cup will qualify for the Candidates tournament.

Chess World Cup complete results round 3

D Gukesh lost to Svane Frederic (Ger) 0.5-1.5

Shamsiddin Vokhidov (Uzb) drew with Arjun Erigaisi 0.5-1.5

R Praggnanandhaa beat Robert Hovhannisyan (Arm) 1.5-0.5

Alexander Donchenko (Ger) beat Anish Giri (Ned) 1.5-0.5

M Pranesh lost to Vincent Keymer (Ger) 0.5-1.5

Wei Yi (Chn) beat Benjamin Gledura (Hun) 1-1, 1.5-0.5

Jose Martínez (Mex) beat Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzb) 2-0

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) lost to Nils Grandelius (Swe) 0.5-1.5

Michael Adams (Eng) lost to L Lodici (Ita) 0.5-1.5

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) drew with Vladislav Artemiev (Fid) 1-1, 1-1, 1-1, 1-1, 0-1

Gabriel Sargissian (Arm) beat Diptayan Ghosh 1.5-0.5

Le Quang Liem (Vie) drew with Jeffery Xiong (Usa) 1.5-0.5

Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (Tur) lost to Richard Rapport (Hun) 1-1, 0.5-1.5

Levon Aronian (Usa) drew with A R Salem Saleh (Uae) 1.5-0.5

N Theodorou (Gre) lost to Javokhir Sindarov (Uzb) 0.5-1.5

Yangyi Yu (Chn) beat S L Narayanan 1-1, 1.5-0.5

Radoslav Wojtaszek (Pol) beat Vladimir Fedoseev (Slo) 2-0

Sam Shankland (Usa) beat Vidit Gujrathi 1-1, 1-1, 1.5-0.5

Deac Bogdan-Daniel (Rou) lost to V Karthik 1-1, 0.5-1.5

Awonder Liang (Usa) beat Rasmus Svane (Ger) 1.5-0.5

Alexander Grebnev drew with Stamatis Kourkoulos Arditis (Gre) 1.5-0.5

Samuel Sevian (Usa) beat Evgeniy Najer (Fid) 1-1, 2-0

Daniel Dardha (Bel) drew with P Harikrishna 0.5-1.5

Jorden van Foreest (Ned) lost to Alexey Sarana (Srb) 1-1, 0-2

Ivan Saric (Srb) lost to Parham Maghsoodloo (Iri) 0.5-1.5

Andrey Esipenko (Fid) beat Pouya Idani (Iri) 1-1, 1-1, 1.5-0.5

Titas Stremavicius (Ltu) drew with V Pranav 0.5-1.5

Thao Dai Van Nguyen (Cze) lost to Nodribek Yakubboev (Uzb) 1-1, 0-2

Matthias Bluebaum (Ger) drew with Ivan Zemlyanskii (Fid) 1.5-0.5

Georg Meier (Uru) lost to Daniil Dubov (Fid) 1-1, 1-1, 0.5-1.5

Kiriil Alekseenko (Aut) lost to Peter Leko (Hun) 0-2

Yilmaz Mustafa (Tur) drew with Shant Sargsyan (Arm) 0.5-1.5