Gukesh drew with Nakamura in the final round of the #FIDECandidates and now only Caruana can stop the 17-year-old from winning the tournament outright with a victory over Nepo! Gukesh and Caruana would face each other in a tiebreak tomorrow.
Lei lost to Vaishali, who has now won 4 games in a row, meaning that sole leader Tan only needs a draw in tomorrow's final round to win the 2024 Women's Candidates!
Hikaru Nakamura defeats Alireza Firouzja and, after a brief spell at the top yesterday, is now really in shared 1st place of the 2024 Candidates - at least until the next to last round after tomorrow's rest day!
Bxh6 - Lei Tingjie offered to sacrifice her dark-squared bishop against Anna Muzychuk in Round 11 of the Women's Candidates! Would you have taken it? 🤔
Results for Round 10 of the 2024 Candidates: Nakamura and Caruana won, tied with Praggnanandhaa, 0.5 points behind the leaders Gukesh and Nepomniachtchi. Lei continued her run and Vaishali ended her losing streak!
Shocker. Let's see if I can do any better. Round 9 predictions
1/2 Vidit Gujrathi vs Hikaru Nakamura 1/2
1 Gukesh D vs R Praggnanandhaa
1/2 Alireza Firouzja vs Ian Nepomniachtchi 1/2
1/2 Nijat Abasov vs Fabiano Caruana 1/2
1 Koneru Humpy vs Kateryna Lagno
1/2 R Vaishali vs Tan Zhongyi 1/2
1 Lei Tingjie vs Nurgyul Salimova
1 Anna Muzychuk vs Aleksandra Goryachkina
In light of Fabis poor form and Nijat getting the half from Nepo, just tweaked it a bit.
Sister and brother, Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, both won their third round matches in the #FIDECandidates. They had the mental strength to pull this off despite both losing their second round matches!