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Shamkir (Azerbaijan): Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna produced a spirited fight before going down to Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik in the fourth round of the 2017 Shamkir Chess tournament here.<\/p>\nShamkir (Azerbaijan): Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna produced a spirited fight before going down to Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik in the fourth round of the 2017 Shamkir Chess tournament here.<\/p>\n
The World No. 4 from Russia took 42 moves to finish the game against Harikrishna. The Indian, ranked World No. 14, tried all the tricks up his sleeve but failed to save the game.<\/p>\n
With two draws and two losses so far in the tournament, Harikrishna is currently placed in the 10th position with one point.<\/p>\n
The Hyderabadi will take on World No. 10 and local favourite Grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the fifth round.<\/p>\n
The World No 10 is currently at the pole position with three points.<\/p>\n
Earlier, during the third round on Sunday evening, the Indian Grandmaster played an interesting game against Grandmaster Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n
The Hyderabadi used the Ragozin defence but his opponent surprised him with counter moves. Harikrishna was quick enough to display his meticulous skills and forced a draw in 28 moves to earn half a point.<\/p>\n
“It was Ragozin defence I played but my opponent was sly enough to surprise me with interesting plan to counter it and I had to find accurate moves to draw the game,” Harikrishna said after the third round game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shamkir (Azerbaijan): Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna produced a spirited fight before going down to Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik in the fourth round of the 2017 Shamkir Chess tournament here.<\/p>\n
The World No. 4 from Russia took 42 moves to finish the game against Harikrishna. The Indian, ranked World No. 14, tried all the tricks up his sleeve but failed to save the game.<\/p>\n
With two draws and two losses so far in the tournament, Harikrishna is currently placed in the 10th position with one point.<\/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":[12904,466,3013,22038,1336],"class_list":["post-34465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-chess-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-pentala-harikrishna","tag-shamkir-chess-tournament","tag-vladimir-kramnik"],"yoast_head":"\n