Nepomniachtchi 🗡Defeats Vidit to Lead FIDE Candidates 2024!

GM Ian Nepomniachtchi Leads 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament After Win Against Vidit Gujrathi
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi has taken a half-point lead at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. On the white side of the Berlin Defense, he dispatched GM Vidit Gujrathi. Cognizant of Vidit's ability to produce vicious opening preparation with Black, Nepomniachtchi steered his opponent straight toward the Berlin Defense endgame where White gains a classic kingside pawn majority. Unwilling to be ground down, Vidit attempted to derail Nepomniachtchi's advantage with the creative 23...h5! before following up with a clever rook lift on the queenside. Though Leko felt that the position had become "murky," IM Tania Sachdev highlighted that Vidit had begun to "make progress." With the commentator's curse in full swing, Vidit went astray soon after with 26...Rb3?, ensnaring his rook and allowing Nepomniachtchi to blast open the center. A passed pawn that was the consequence of the fireworks ended up being the straw that broke the camel's back. Further adding to the intrigue around Nepomniachtchi's performance was his confirmation that GM Jan Gustafsson, who worked for GM Magnus Carlsen during the world championship match against him in 2021, is working with him for this event. The unlikely duo came together earlier for the Sinquefield Cup, partly because Nepomniachtchi had fewer visa issues in bringing Gustafsson to St. Louis.
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[@SalimShabib]

nice !