Indian Grandmasters Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi and R Praggnanandhaa have been held to attracts of their 2nd spherical suits within the Tata Metal Masters chess event right here.
International No.1 Magnus Carlsen, alternatively, scored his first win on Sunday.
Gujrathi drew in 27 strikes towards Fabiano Caruana (USA) with white, whilst Praggnanandhaa shared the purpose with Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) in the second one spherical video games.
Praggnanandhaa and Duda performed an excessively cast recreation wherein White had a slight merit that was once just about unimaginable to grow to be one thing tangible. A draw got here as a logical end result.
Carlsen defeated Dutchman Anish Giri and joined Duda and Vidit Gujrathi on the best of the standings with 1.5 issues.
The one different winner of the day was once Richard Rapport, who took complete benefit of Jorden Van Foreest’s mistake in a knight endgame. All different video games have been drawn.
Gujrathi performs Daniil Dubov (Russia) within the 3rd spherical in a while Monday evening and Praggnanandhaa takes on Van Foreest.
Within the Challengers phase being performed concurrently, India’s Arjun Erigaisi put it throughout Max Warmerdem in the second one spherical. He lies in 2nd spot in conjunction with compatriot Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Thai Dai Van Nguyen on 1.5 issues.
Standings after Spherical 2: Masters: 1-3. Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Magnus Calsen and Vidit Gujrathi – 1½ ; 4-11. Fabiano Caruana, Richard Rapport, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Sergey Karjakin, Andrey Esipenko and Jorden Van Foreest – 1; 12-14, Sam Shankland, Nils Grandelius, Anish Giri – ½.