D GUKESH secures another impressive victory at Tata Steel Chess 2025 to stay up and closer to 2800 – Firstpost

D GUKESH maintained its advance on the Tata Steel Chess Masters 2025 ranking by remaining undefeated and by beating the local star Max Warmerdam during Tour 10 Thursday. This is the fifth victory of Gukesh at Tata Steel Chess 2025, his first tournament since he became the world chess champion, while he increases nearly 2,800 points in Cote Elo.

GUKESH is currently leading the Tata Steel Chess Masters 2025 ranking with 7.5 points out of 10 while the Grand Master Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattorov is second with 7 points after having beat the Alexey Sarana of Russia. The R Praggnanandhaa of India, which beat the Russian GM Vladimir Fedoseev at Tour 10, is third, one point from the top.

Five seven games in the round 10 produced results with only two prints. The two prints involved in Indian players as ARJUN Erigaisi, who fought for the form, attracted Vincent Keymr of Germany and Pentala Harikrishna managed to avoid a defeat in a touch of delicate rook against the number 2 worldwide Fabiano Caruana, dealing with a massive blog to the massive blog at the Rook Tive the winning chances of the United States.

Gukesh wins with black pieces against Warmerdam

It was an aggressive beginning of gukesh despite having played with black pieces because he did not try to defend. An opening 1.E4 of Warmerdam met 1… D6, because the 18 -year -old Indian chess champion clearly indicated his intentions. The return of Warmerdam from 2.G3 caught Gukesh to the goalkeeper but not enough to disturb him.

“I just wanted to surprise him and get an interesting game, and he surprised me immediately afterwards, with 2.G3, what I thought was bizarre at the start, but that probably made sense,” Gukesh told Wim Fiona Steil- Antoni after corresponding.

Nevertheless, the game became a closed Sicilian but Warmerdam always had the advantage. The 24 -year -old Dutch GM made a mistake on 28.RC1? To which Gukesh answered with the Zwischenzug 28… NE4! And took control of the match. After Gukesh played 30… NXG3, Warmerdam had no escape road and he resigned.

Praggnanandhaa suffocates fedoseev to bounce back

“I surely love playing chess and I think that at this level, you do not arrive here unless you like what you do, and it is also pleasant for me to play this tournament after a month At home, when it was also quite hectic. It’s nice to come here and be able to focus on what I do for my best, “Gukesh said, thinking about his victory over Warmerdam and his return to chess after winning the World Chess Championship 2024.

GUKESH now has 2793.6 live failure points, a few centimeters from the Elo-Gold-Standard coast of 2800. Only Viswanathan Anand and Erigaisi of India crossed this barrier.

Praggnanandhaa emerged as a winner against Fedoseev after the Russian made a mistake with 8… GXF6. This gave Praggnanandhaa a long-term advantage, but Fedoseev found a counter-game, which makes the game very complex. Praggnanandhaa thought he had regained control with 32.BF3, and once the queens exchanged, he executed a forcing variation to ensure victory.

Leon Luke Mendonca of India played a draw against Dutch director general Anish Giri, while the title champion of China, Wei Yi was held at a draw by another Grand Local Master Jorden Van Forest.

In the Challengers section, R Vaishali suffered a defeat against Thai Dai Van Nguyen from the Czech Republic, while Divya Deshmukh went down to Frederik Svane in Germany.

Tata Steel Chess 2025 Masters Escols: GUKESH (7.5), Nodirbek Abdusattorov (7.0), Praggnanandhaa (6.5), Vladimir Fedoseev (6.0), Fabiano Caruana (5.5), Wei Yi (5.5), Anish Giri (5.0), Alexey Sarana (5.0), Pentala Harikrishna (4.5), Alexey Sarana (5.0), Pentala Harikrishna (4.5), Alexey Sarana (5.0), Pentala Harikrishna (4.5), Alexey Sarana (5.0), Pentala Harikrishna (4.5)), Jorden Van Foreest (4.0) Vincent Keymer (4.0), Max Warmerdam (3.5), Arjun Erigaisi (3.0), Leon Luke Mendonca (3.0).

Tata Steel Chess 2025 detectors: Thai Dai Van Nguyen (7.5), Erwin l’Ami (7,0), Aydin Suleymanli (6.5), Benjamin Bok (6.5), Frederik Svane (6.0), Miaoyi (5.5), Ediz Gurel (5.5) , Kazybek Nogerbek (5.5), Nodirbek Yakubev (5.0), Vauli (5.0), Arthur Pijpers (4.5), Faustino Oro (2.5), Divya Deshmukh (2.0), Irina Bulmaga (1.0).