U.S. grandmasters Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura gathered essential successes in cycle 10 of the Up-and-comers Competition, as they presently stand a half point behind co-pioneers Ian Nepomniachtchi and Gukesh D. Nakamura got the better of a striving Nijat Abasov, while Caruana crushed Alireza Firouzja out of a twofold edged Sicilian Najdorf. The members will get lay days on Tuesday and Friday, as there are just four rounds to go in Toronto.
With four rounds to go at the Up-and-comers Competition, four players stand inside a 1-point distance from co-pioneers Ian Nepomniachtchi and Gukesh D — for example six players have extremely reasonable possibilities arising triumphant before the week’s over.
In Monday’s cycle 10, Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, the main two seeds in Toronto, got wins with white to join Praggnanandhaa R in shared third spot, each with 5½ places (a half point behind the pioneers). Nakamura crushed dark horse Nijat Abasov, while Caruana beat Alireza Firouzja out of a twofold edged Sicilian Najdorf.
Remaining in sole 6th spot is Vidit Gujrathi, who held a draw with dark against Pragg in the wake of getting a surprising triumph over Nakamura on Sunday. Vidit has shown probably the most trying chess in the occasion, so he is definitely fit for overcoming a 1-point shortfall in the competition’s last four rounds.
In the interim, Firouzja and Abasov are presently out of the race for generally speaking triumph, with 3½ and 3 focuses separately. Following the cycle 9 debate in regards to boss mediator Aris Marghetis requesting that Firouzja quiet down with his shoes, Firouzja’s dad, Hamidreza Firouzja, conversed with chess.com’s Mike Klein, this time grumbling about coordinators accompanying him out of the playing lobby. The coordinators later made sense of that all relatives are simply permitted to watch the games live during the initial 15 minutes of the round.
