Indian grandmaster Pranav Venkatanesh came one step closer to the championship title with another victory in the ninth round of the World Youth Chess Championship.
He defeated his first opponent in this round, his compatriot, international master Aswat, and enters the last two rounds with a point advantage over Galviz Medina from Mexico, Slovenian Matic Lavrenčić and Russian Aleksej Grebnev.
Among the Montenegrin chess players, Peko Đurović and Đorđe Žižić won.
Đurović outplayed Vihan Dumir from India with the white pieces in the French Defense.
He imposed his recognizable style from the start, and then translated the dynamic position into a winning finish, in which he recorded his fourth victory in the tournament with precise play.
Đorđe Žižić also celebrated, defeating Dimitrij Vujović and scoring his fourth point.
Along with Đurović, he retained the title of the most successful Montenegrin player in the tournament.
Andrej Račić also recorded a victory against Jaroslav Popov, as well as Damjan Pešić, who defeated Nikola Vukašinović in the Montenegrin derby.
Ilija Milović drew with Jamie Comley from the Republic of Ireland, while the duels between Đorđe Anđelić and Mihailo Pušara, Stefan Mihajlović and Luka Novaković, as well as the youngest Montenegrin representatives, the Koča and Relja Radović brothers, ended in a draw.
In the ladies' competition, Mateja Popović played black pieces and defeated Norway's Ana Blauhut, scoring an important victory. In the first duel between our female chess players, Katarina Đukić defeated Sofija Milović, in an extremely dynamic and interesting game.
Ines Đenđinović lost in a duel with Kira Popova, after missing better continuations in a more promising position.
The situation is much more complicated for women chess players, given that three chess players enter the last two rounds from the leading positions - Russians Maria Yakimova and Anna Shukhman and Ukrainian Yelisaveta Khrebeschnikova, while they are followed by four chess players half a point behind.
The penultimate tenth round is scheduled for tomorrow at 15 p.m.
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