{"id":260119,"date":"2022-11-17T04:29:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/17\/meltwater-champions-tour-finals-praggnanandhaa-secures-first-win-another-loss-for-erigaisi-chess-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T04:29:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:29:28","slug":"meltwater-champions-tour-finals-praggnanandhaa-secures-first-win-another-loss-for-erigaisi-chess-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/17\/meltwater-champions-tour-finals-praggnanandhaa-secures-first-win-another-loss-for-erigaisi-chess-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Meltwater Champions Tour Finals: Praggnanandhaa secures first win; another loss for Erigaisi | Chess News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>SAN FRANCISCO: Indian Grandmaster R <!-- -->Praggnanandhaa<!-- --> posted his first win while compatriot <!-- -->Arjun Erigaisi<!-- --> suffered a third straight defeat in the <!-- -->Meltwater Champions Tour Finals<!-- --> here on Thursday. <br \/>Praggnanandha brushed aside <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vietnam\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_vietnam\" frmappuse=\"1\">Vietnam<\/a>&#8216;s Liem Quang Le 3-0 in the third round even as Erigaisi went down 0.5-2.5 to American Wesley So. <br \/>World No.1 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/magnus-carlsen\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_magnus-carlsen\" frmappuse=\"1\">Magnus Carlsen<\/a> of Norway continued his winning run, crushing Azerbaijan&#8217;s <!-- -->Shakhriyar Mamedyarov<!-- --> 3-0 while Poland&#8217;s Jan-Krzysztof <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/duda\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_duda\" frmappuse=\"1\">Duda<\/a> also recorded his third straight victory, beating Dutch GM Anish <!-- -->Giri<!-- --> 2.5-0.5. <br \/>Praggnanandhaa (4 points) rose to the fourth spot behind Carlsen, Duda (both on 9 points) and Giri (4) in the eight-player field. <br \/>The 17-year old Indian won his first game against So in 41 moves and then took the second in 46 moves with black. The third saw Praggnanandhaa secure a 53-move win to seal a dominant victory. <br \/>He will play So in the fourth round on Friday. <br \/>Erigaisi started with a draw against So but lost the next two games and remained winless and without points after the third round. He faces <!-- -->Mamedyarov<!-- --> in the fourth round. <br \/>The eight players play a round-robin tournament. The winner will be the player who accumulates the most points and cash overall. <br \/>Eight players qualified for the Finals after a series of events in the Meltwater Champions Tour. The total prize fund for the Tour finals is USD 210,000. 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Praggnanandha brushed aside Vietnam&#8216;s Liem Quang Le 3-0 in the third round even as Erigaisi went down 0.5-2.5 to American Wesley So. World No.1 Magnus Carlsen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[138407,57678,311422,311421,41414,226110,311420,177064,76171,8763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}