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Moscow: Indian Grand Master P. Harikrishna went down fighting to Russian GM Peter Svidler in third round to suffer his first loss in the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament here.<\/p>\nMoscow: Indian Grand Master P. Harikrishna went down fighting to Russian GM Peter Svidler in third round to suffer his first loss in the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament here.<\/p>\n
The World No.16 Indian, playing in white pieces, started off aggressively and maintained pressure on his higher rated opponent during the initial stage of the game late on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
However, one miscalculated move mid-way into the tie saw Svidler seize the momentum and turned the tides on Harikrisha.<\/p>\n
With two draws and one loss, Harikrishna now has one point from three rounds in the 9-round Swiss tournament which offers prize money of 130,000 euros ($1,42,761.45) as well as chance to qualify for the prestigious candidates tournament.<\/p>\n
He will now take on Ernesto Inarkiev of Russia in the fourth round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moscow: Indian Grand Master P. Harikrishna went down fighting to Russian GM Peter Svidler in third round to suffer his first loss in the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament here.<\/p>\n
The World No.16 Indian, playing in white pieces, started off aggressively and maintained pressure on his higher rated opponent during the initial stage of the game late on Sunday night.<\/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":[466,22151,545,5063],"class_list":["post-34738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-moscow-fide-grand-prix-chess-tournament","tag-p-harikrishna","tag-peter-svidler"],"yoast_head":"\n