Four victories for White in Round of 16 at #FIDEWorldCup:

🇨🇳 Ding ½-½ Alekseenko 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 Grischuk 1-0 Dominguez 🇺🇸
🇷🇺 Vitiugov 1-0 So 🇺🇸
🇷🇺 Nepomniachtchi ½-½ Yu 🇨🇳
🇵🇱 Duda 1-0 Xiong 🇺🇸
🇦🇿 Mamedyarov ½-½ Radjabov 🇦🇿
🇫🇷 Vachier-Lagrave 1-0 Svidler 🇷🇺
🇻🇳 Le ½-½ Aronian 🇦🇲

Jan-Krzysztof Duda's elegant decisive blow against Jeffrey Xiong: 35.e5!! dxe5 36.Qa7.

Duda's fantastic 35.e5!! calls to mind World Champion Emanuel Lasker's famous 35.e5!! against Capablanca way back in 1914!

🔸Tata Steel India Rapid 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Ganguly,S (2615)
⚫️Karjakin,Sergey (2753)
🔸0-1

26...Qg6! [A dual-purpose move: threatening mate at g2 and pinning the knight on e4.]

27.g3 [27.f3? Nxc3! 28.Rb3 Nxe4 29.fxe4 Rxd4–+]

27...Rde8?! [This move gives White more chances to defend. Black could have finished the game by choosing the following knight maneuver:]

[¹27...Nh3+!? △Ng5 28.Kg2™ Ndf4+ 29.Kf1 Rde8! 30.f3 Ng5 31.gxf4 Nxf3 32.Nf6+ Qxf6 33.Rxe7 Qxe7 34.Qd3 Nxh2+ 35.Kg2 Ng4–+]

28.f3 f5! 29.Qd2?? [Finally under the pressure, White commits a decisive blunder.]

[29.Kf1™ fxe4 30.gxf4 Kh8 31.Bxd5! cxd5 32.Re3³]

29...Nh3+! 30.Kg2 fxe4 31.fxe4 Rxe4 32.Rxe4 Rxe4 [32...Qxe4+!? 33.Kxh3 Qe6+! △Qe2 34.g4 Qe3+ 35.Qxe3 Rxe3+ 36.Kg2 Re2+–+]

33.Rb8+ Kf7 34.Rb7+ Kf6 35.Bxd5 Nf4+ [¹35...Re2+!–+ △Nf4]

36.Qxf4+ Rxf4 37.Rf7+ Kg5 38.Rxf4 cxd5–+

Jan-Krzysztof Duda on his victory against Jeffery Xiong | FIDE World Cup 2019 | R4, G1 |

21-year-old Jan-Krzysztof Duda is on fire and at 2752.9 is now the highest rated Polish player ever!

A good day for White but a bad day for the US as Grischuk, Vitiugov, Duda & MVL begin the Last 16 of the #FIDEWorldCup with wins!

Panic move for Leinier, who could have waited with 76...Bg5 77.Kg4 Kd7! while after 78.f6 it would have been the right moment to play 78...c2! (or 78...Bxf6 79.Bxf6 c2!).

Interview with Alexander Grischuk | FIDE World Cup 2019 | R4, G1 |

Evgenij Miroshnichenko on Nikita Vitiugov's win over Wesley So: "A positional masterpiece.

MVL takes the lead against Peter Svidler!

Interview with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FIDE World Cup 2019 | R4, G1 |