FIDE Grand Swiss: Nihal Sarin shares lead after Round 8; D Gukesh, Divya Deshmukh play out 103-move draw | Chess News

D Gukesh and Divya Deshmukh (Photo by M Walusza)

World Champion D Gukesh and Divya Deshmukh performed to a draw in a rook-and-knight versus rook endgame that lasted 103 strikes.Grandmaster Nihal Sarin secured a fast draw in opposition to Germany’s Matthias Bluebaum within the eighth spherical of the FIDE Grand Swiss. Both gamers now share the lead with six factors every.R Vaishali misplaced her sole lead within the girls’s part after a defeat to Kazakhstan’s Bibisara Assaubayeva. In the identical spherical, defending champion Vidit Gujrathi was defeated by Germany’s Vincent Keymer.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Russia’s Kateryna Lagno defeated Ukraine’s Mariya Muzychuk with white items. Lagno now leads with 6.5 factors out of eight doable factors.Lagno holds a half-point benefit over Assaubayeva, Vaishali, and China’s Yuxin Song, who all have six factors.Playing with black items, Nihal selected the Queen’s Gambit Accepted in opposition to Bluebaum. The sport concluded in a draw after 21 strikes as each gamers repeated their strikes.Vaishali confronted difficulties within the endgame in opposition to Assaubayeva. The Kazakh participant capitalised on Vaishali’s mistake when she left a pawn unprotected.Assaubayeva secured the additional pawn and demonstrated robust technical expertise to win the sport.Vaishali’s subsequent problem will likely be in opposition to Yuxin Song, a vital match that would decide her event standing.FORMATS:Open

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