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Moscow: Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna went down to Israeli GM Boris Gelfand in the sixth round of the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament here.<\/p>\nMoscow: Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna went down to Israeli GM Boris Gelfand in the sixth round of the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament here.<\/p>\n
Coming into the day on the back of a splendid win and a day’s rest, the World No.16 Indian, playing with black pieces, on Thursday night could not maintain his momentum and despite giving a tough fight in a game that lasted for 52 moves, failed to avert his second loss of the campaign.<\/p>\n
With three more rounds to go, Harikrishna is currently placed 16th on the leaderboard with a total of 2.5 points in his kitty.<\/p>\n
The Hyderabadi will now take on the ninth placed Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moscow: Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna went down to Israeli GM Boris Gelfand in the sixth round of the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament here.<\/p>\n
Coming into the day on the back of a splendid win and a day’s rest, the World No.16 Indian, playing with black pieces, on Thursday night could not maintain his momentum and despite giving a tough fight in a game that lasted for 52 moves, failed to avert his second loss of the campaign.<\/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":[3406,12904,466,22151,3013],"class_list":["post-34795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-boris-gelfand","tag-chess-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-moscow-fide-grand-prix-chess-tournament","tag-pentala-harikrishna"],"yoast_head":"\n