Praggnanandhaa the only winner in Round 3 of the Candidates - 3

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Praggnanandhaa beat Santosh Vidit in Round 3 of the Candidates to record the only decisive game of the round. There was only one decisive game in the women's Candidates, a win scored by his sister Vaishali. Praggnanandhaa seems to have come to the Candidates intent on making the biggest mess on the board possible, yesterday this didn't work, today it did. Vidit's 29. Qd4? and 32.b4? combined cost him the game. Gukesh had a brief chance to beat Ian Nepomniachtchi, he needed to find 29.a4 or 30.a4 which more or less forced bxa4 followed by putting a piece on c4 with a big advantage. As it was he exchanged rooks and most of his advantage was gone. Fabiano Caruana scored a relatively comfortable draw with the black pieces against Alireza Firouzja and Nijat Abasov and Hikaru Nakamura both seemed happy with a draw today. Round 3 Standings: 1st-3rd Gukesh, Nepomniachtchi, Caruana 2pts, 4th-5th Praggnanandhaa, Vidit 1.5pts, 6th-8th Firouzja, Nakamura, Abasov 1pt. Round 4 7th April at 19:30BST: Nakamura-Praggnanandhaa, Nepomniachtchi-Vidit, Caruana-Gukesh, Abasov-Firouzja.

Source: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/ev ... candidates