{"id":34033,"date":"2017-03-25T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34033"},"modified":"2017-03-25T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:47:11","slug":"india-s-harikrishna-loses-to-top-seed-giri-in-shenzhen-masters-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34033","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Harikrishna loses to top seed Giri in Shenzhen Masters chess"},"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\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"341\" 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\" \/>Shenzhen (China): Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna put up a spirited fight against top-seeded Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri but couldnt avert his first defeat in the Shenzhen Longgang chess tournament here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 14 Harikrishna, who started the day atop the leader board, succumbed to the precise play of the World No. 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made a basic error at the opening, with my na5. I should have repeated with nf6 and nf5 instead. But Anish played well and deserved the win,&#8221; Harikrishna conceded after the loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian star has now slipped to the fourth position, with one victory, one defeat and one draw and 1.5 points in his kitty.<\/p>\n<p>Anish, on the other hand, has risen to the top place.<\/p>\n<p>Harikrishna will look to bounce back from this setback on Sunday, when he takes on Yangyi Yu of China. Yu also has 1.5 points, having drawn all his games so far.<\/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\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"341\" 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\" \/>Shenzhen (China): Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna put up a spirited fight against top-seeded Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri but couldnt avert his first defeat in the Shenzhen Longgang chess tournament here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 14 Harikrishna, who started the day atop the leader board, succumbed to the precise play of the World No. 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made a basic error at the opening, with my na5. I should have repeated with nf6 and nf5 instead. But Anish played well and deserved the win,&#8221; Harikrishna conceded after the loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7616,466,3013,21814],"class_list":["post-34033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-anish-giri","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-pentala-harikrishna","tag-shenzhen-longgang-chess-tournament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>India&#039;s Harikrishna loses to top seed Giri in Shenzhen Masters chess - 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=34033\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"India&#039;s Harikrishna loses to top seed Giri in Shenzhen Masters chess - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shenzhen (China): Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna put up a spirited fight against top-seeded Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri but couldnt avert his first defeat in the Shenzhen Longgang chess tournament here on Saturday. 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