GM RR Praggnanandhaa won the seventh inning to fight against the Reining World champion and compatriot D. Gukesh to win the Tata Steel Masters of Tata Steel 2025 on Sunday.
Praggnanandhaa only needs to get a draw in the finals of Germany’s Vincent Keymer in the final (13th), and you can get a draw in the last round of co -leader Gukesh before another co -leader Gukesh He defeated the Championship victory, and he lost him against Arjun Erigaisi.
However, German prodigies will become better to ensure that Guksh won the second championship.
Among the seven innings, two young players wanted to win the typical drama they played in each game in the game.
Praggnanandhaa faced Benny’s color reversal in the first game of the seven innings, as if he was easy to balance in the middle game. However, when Gukesh continued to work hard and win, he had other ideas, thanks to Praggnanandhaa’s mistakes, which made him make all novices.
In the second game that must be won, Praggnanandhaa uses TromPowsky’s opening. This time Gukesh can use his black works to capture slight advantages.
However, by maintaining his own position, Praggnanandhaa waited patiently and used the unbridled errors of the opponent. First, he knocked down the pawn, and then his technical ability was enough to see the normal lighting game with a 1-1 score.
This caused the game into a sudden death. Praggnanandhaa draws White there, and Gukesh becomes better again. There are some imaginative games in the queen, which makes him a pawn.
The sudden death time was controlled for two minutes and thirty seconds, and the three points for the blacks did not prevent Praggnanandhaa from trying to defend the inferiority.
Just in this position, in another game, Guxsh lost complete control in the war of nerves, first lost his pawn, and then lost his last knight.
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Praggnanandhaa showed perfect skills, could win the championship, and won his first victory in the Masters.
For Guksh, this is his second year for his second consecutive year and lost his victory. Last year, Gukesh lost to China Wei Yi in the previous edition.
In the “Challenger” section, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, Thailand’s Republic of the Czech Republic, in Aydin Suleymanli in Azerbaijan, the score of seven innings is better than the latter Essence With this victory, he also won his position in the 2026 Masters.
R. Vaishali won the ninth place with an impressive score of 6.0/13, and Divya Deshmukh could only get the second place in the field of 3.5/13 among 14 players.
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