{"id":32076,"date":"2017-01-14T21:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T21:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=32076"},"modified":"2017-01-14T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T21:30:55","slug":"harikrishna-begins-tata-steel-masters-campaign-with-hard-fought-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=32076","title":{"rendered":"Harikrishna begins Tata Steel Masters campaign with hard-fought draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-32075\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pentala-Harikrishna-chess.jpg\" alt=\"Pentala Harikrishna chess\" width=\"520\" height=\"341\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pentala-Harikrishna-chess.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pentala-Harikrishna-chess-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pentala-Harikrishna-chess-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Wijk aan Zee (The Netherlands): India&#8217;s Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna began his campaign in the elite Tata Steel Masters chess tournament on a positive note, earning a hard-fought draw against World No. 7 Levon Aronian here on Saturday. The World No. 11 was engaged in a keen Marshal Gambit with the Armenian that lasted three hours and 49 moves.<\/p>\n<p>Playing white, he went a pawn up as the game veered towards a pulsating finish. But he was far behind on the clock and black&#8217;s position was very solid, it ended in an opposite colour bishop endgame in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:&nbsp;<a href=\"chess-news\/43465-parsvnath-international-open-chess-tournament-gm-amanotov-beat-sivuk-to-move-ahead\"><strong>Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament: GM Amanotov beat Sivuk to move ahead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Levon&#8217;s bf5 was new for me, and a slight inaccuracy. But his position was still solid and he drew easily,&#8221; said Harikrishna, one of two Indians (along with Adhiban Baskaran, ELO 2666), participating in this annual tournament, popularly known as the Wimbledon of chess.<\/p>\n<p>It has some of the top players in the world competing for the top prize, with the current field being led by World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Chess Tour winner So Weseley (US), Sergey Karjakin (Russia) and Dutch No. 1 Anish Giri, all ranked in the top 10, are the other prominent stars taking part in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 14 Grand Masters, all with ELOs over 2650, will take on each other in a round robin format that will go on till January 29.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-32075\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pentala-Harikrishna-chess.jpg\" alt=\"Pentala Harikrishna chess\" width=\"520\" height=\"341\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pentala-Harikrishna-chess.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pentala-Harikrishna-chess-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pentala-Harikrishna-chess-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Wijk aan Zee (The Netherlands): India&#8217;s Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna began his campaign in the elite Tata Steel Masters chess tournament on a positive note, earning a hard-fought draw against World No. 7 Levon Aronian here on Saturday. The World No. 11 was engaged in a keen Marshal Gambit with the Armenian that lasted three hours and 49 moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12904,466,3013,20525],"class_list":["post-32076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-chess-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-pentala-harikrishna","tag-tata-steel-masters-chess-tournament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harikrishna begins Tata Steel Masters campaign with hard-fought draw - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=32076\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harikrishna begins Tata Steel Masters campaign with hard-fought draw - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wijk aan Zee (The Netherlands): India&#039;s Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna began his campaign in the elite Tata Steel Masters chess tournament on a positive note, earning a hard-fought draw against World No. 7 Levon Aronian here on Saturday. 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