Raunak makes a positive move in World rapid chess championship – Times of India

Category: Chess

LUDHIANA: Raunak Sadhwani got off to a positive start in the King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships organized by the World Chess Federation (Fide) in Moscow, Russia.

The 13-year-old Grandmaster from city made his presence felt on the opening day of the 15-round rapid meet by winning three games and suffering couple of defeats to take a joint fourth position.

With three points in his kitty, the 180th ranked Raunak is going steady at the 74th position at the end of five rounds on day one.

A total of 207 participants from 45 countries including 158 GMs and 27 International Masters are in action.

In the opening round of the five-day event Raunak made a silly error with his black pieces to go down fighting against 77th seed and 2603 Elo Russian GM Alekseev Evgeny. Despite the defeat, the fighter in Raunak regained the momentum and powered his way back in the tournament by stunning higher seed GM from Hungary Ruck Robert utilizing the opening advantage with his white pieces.

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