Gukesh Joint Third after First Day of St. Louis Rapid and Blitz
St. Louis: The ruled world champion D Gukesh won Grigoriy Oparin and Liem Le Quang and returned to the American Levon Aronian’s opening round and St. He finished the first day in the Louis Rapid and Blitz Tournament.
Gukesh was behind Aronian on a complex opening round, but he returned strongly and produced a victory against Oparin before crushing LEEM to end Luem with six possible four points on Monday.
Aronian, with every fast win worth two points, won three matches on the opening day and went ahead early. The new American GM, who came from victory in the recently resulted free-style chess tournament in Las Vegas, defeated Nedirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave from Uzbekistan to maintain a perfect score.
Aronian sits over six points, then two -fifth citizen Fabiano Caruana after two wins and a draw. Gukesh ranks third with another American Wesley, while Vachier-Lagrave and Leinier Dominguez Perez ranks fifth with three points.
Liem and Oparin are at two points, Nodirbek has one and Sam Shankland is the end after losing all his games.
The first round for Gukesh was a heart attack while descending into an extreme complexity caused by a Caro Kann defense game.
However, he recovered rapidly by defeating Oparin in style. The final was a Pitoresques from a Sicilian Rossolimo, because he sacrificed his queen to control the Indian Russian American American.
In the last match of the day, Gukesh, who played black against Luem, entered great complications again. However, unlike Aronian, Lem stood under pressure and faced a missing position after the dust settled.
Consequences
Tour: Levon Aronian (USA) defeated D Gukesh (Ind); Grigoriy Oparin (USA) defeated Liem Le Quang (View); Wesley So (USA) was drawn with Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB); Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) was drawn with Fabiano Caruana (USA); Leinier Dominguez Perez (USA) defeated Sam Shankland (USA).
Tour 2: Gukesh beat Oparin; Leim defeated Shankland; Vachier-Lagrave lost to Aronian; Abdusattorov lost to Caruana; He drew with Dominguez Wesley.
Tour: Oparin lost to Vachier-Lagrave; Liem lost to Gukesh; Wesley defeated Shankland; He defeated Aronian Abdusattorov; Caruana beat Dominguez.
Arrangement
1. Aronian (6); 2. Caruana (5); 3-4 GUKESH, Wesley (each 4); 5-6: Vachier-lagrave, Dominguez (each 3); 7 = 8. Oparin, LEM (each 2); 9. Abdusattorov (1); 10. Shankland (10).
