Baku: In chess, Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi entered the quarterfinals of the FIDE Chess World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan. He defeated Russian chess master Ian Nepomniachtchi by ‘2-0’.
Earlier Indian Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa defeated American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura in the tiebreakers to enter quarterfinals. Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi and Gukesh Dommaraju also moved to the quarterfinals.
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Meanwhile, India’s Harika Dronavalli lost in the quarterfinals. Aleksandra Goryachkina defeated Harika.
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