The title-race of the MPL National chess championship took a thrilling turn when D. Gukesh scored an important victory over Abhijeet Gupta to rejoin Arjun Ergaisi in the lead after the 10th and penultimate round here on Wednesday.
Gukesh, the country’s youngest Grandmaster, posted a hard-fought 64-move win in a rook-and-pawn endgame to match Arjun’s tally of eight points.
Earlier, on the top board, Arjun drew with P. Iniyan in 41 moves, and on the second, two-time defending champion Aravindh Chithambaram split the point in 63 moves with Aryan Chopra.
