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Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa played out his 4th draw, signing peace with American Wesley So in the 5th round of the Super Chess Classic, a part of the Grand Chess Tour.
On a day with no definitive video games, Germany’s Vincent Keymer kept his half-point lead, going up to 3.5 points. Praggnanandhaa shares the 2nd area with Dutch duo of Anish Giri and Jorden Van Foreest.
France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Wesley So share 5th put on 2.5 points each, while Fabiano Caruana of the United States and World Championship opposition Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan path carefully on 2 points, with the latter having one video game in hand.
Romanian Bogdan-Daniel Deac is ninth area on 1.5 points, a half point ahead of Alireza Firouzja of France.
In the other video games of the day, Keymer drew with the black pieces versus Giri, Vachier-Lagrave shared the point with van Foreest, Sindarov drew with Firouzja, and Deac held Caruana to a draw.
Praggnanandhaa selected the Berlin defense versus So, who did disappoint much strength in the preliminary stage of the closed variation. As lots of as 3 small pieces altered hands early in the center video game however afterwards Wesley got the advantage with some advancement on the king side.
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