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FIDE Candidates 2024 Standings after Round 6

Here are the Round 6 results of Candidates Tournament 2024. Round 6 of the FIDE Candidates saw all but two games end decisively, without a single draw in the FIDE Women’s Candidates. Vaishali Rameshbabu, Humpy Koneru lost their Round 6 matches. Vidit Santosh Gujrathi & R Praggnanandhaa won their matches in Round 6.

Round 6 Results : Open

Player 1 Result Player 2
Gukesh D ½-½ Hikaru Nakamura
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 1-0 Alireza Firouzja
Praggnanandhaa R 1-0 Nijat Abasov
Ian Nepomniachtchi ½-½ Fabiano Caruana

Round 6 Results : Women’s

Player 1 Result Player 2
Vaishali Rameshbabu 0-1  Kateryna Lagno
Nurgyul Salimova 0-1 Aleksandra Goryachkina
Humpy Koneru 0-1 Lei Tingjie
Tan Zhongyi 1-0 Anna Muzychuk

Open Players Standings:

Rank Player Points
1 Gukesh D 4
2 Ian Nepomniachtchi 4
3 Fabiano Caruana
4 Praggnanandhaa R
5 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 3
6 Hikaru Nakamura 3
7 Nijat Abasov
8 Alireza Firouzja

Women’s Standings:

Rank Player Points
1 Tan Zhongyi
2 Aleksandra Goryachkina 4
3 Kateryna Lagno
4 Lei Tingjie 3
5 Vaishali Rameshbabu
6 Nurgyul Salimova
7 Koneru Humpy 2
8 Anna Muzychuk 2

Round 7 Pairings:

Open

Hikaru Nakamura- Ian Nepomniachtchi
Fabiano Caruana – Praggnanandhaa R
Nijat Abasov – Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
Alireza Firouzja – Gukesh D

Women’s

Kateryna Lagno – Nurgyul Salimova
Aleksandra Goryachkina – Tan Zhongyi
Anna Muzychuk – Humpy Koneru
Lei Tingjie – Vaishali Rameshbabu

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