Tech Mahindra GCL 2025 Day 2: upGrad Mumba Masters and Triveni Continental Kings win two in-a-row
upGrad Mumba Masters and Triveni Continental Kings are the only two teams to have won both of their matches at Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2025. Fyers American Gambits suffered a close 7-9 loss against upGrad Mumba Masters. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (uMM) and Bardiya Daneshvar (uMM) scored the crucial wins for their team. Hikaru Nakamura's sole win could not save his team. Star studded, SG Alpine Pipers suffer their second consecutive loss of the event. This time against Ganges Grandmasters by 7-13. PBG Alaskan Knights suffered a massive defeat 3-15 against the reigning and defending two-time champions, Triveni Continental Kings. Round 3 starts today at 5 p.m. IST with Fyers American Gambits vs Alpine SG Pipers. Photos: Aditya Sur Roy
Alpine SG Pipers loses their second consecutive match
In team event, all-star team does not necessarily translate well into the results. Alpine SG Pipers suffered their consecutive loss of the event. There are still eight more matches left to be played. So a lot can happen. Use code CBIGCL to get 20% Off when you buy tickets on District. Link is at the end of the article.
Match #4: Fyers American Gambits - upGrad Mumba Masters: 0-3 (7-9)
Hikaru Nakamura (FAG) scored the sole win for his team against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (uMM). Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Bardiya Daneshvar were the victors for upGrad Mumba Masters against Richard Rapport and Volodar Murzin of Fyers American Gambits respectively. The remaining three games ended in draws.
Vachier-Lagrave - Nakamura
44.Rd4/Kg1/Bf4/Bc1 almost anything would have kept the game going. 44.Rd2?? Rb3 45.Bf4 Kf5 46.Bc7 Bc4+ 47.Kg2 Bd5+ 48.Rxd5 cxd5 49.Ba5 Kg4 and Black won.
Mamedyarov - Rapport
White made a nice exchange sacrifice 21.Raf1! gxf4 22.Rxf4 Qd7 23.Bxf6 Bxa4 24.Qb1 Rhe8 25.Bxd8+ Qxd8 26.e5 and White won the game in the next few moves.
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Match #5: Alpine SG Pipers - Ganges Grandmasters: 0-3 (7-13)
Fabiano Caruana (ASGP) and GM Nino Batsiashvili (ASGP) scored the two wins for their team against Vishy Anand (GG) and IM Stavroula Tsolakidou (GG) respectively. Javokhir Sindarov, IM Polina Shuvalova and Raunak Sadhwani scored the victories for Ganges Grandmasters over R Praggnanandhaa, GM Yifan Hou and Leon Luke Mendonca respectively.
Caruana - Anand
32...Qc7?? 33.Bh7+ Kh8 34.Qf5 g6 35.Nxf7+ Kxh7 36.Qxe6 Rd3 37.N3g5+ and it's over.
Giri - Keymer
Anish Giri (ASGP) got himself a decisive advantage against Vincent Keymer (GG) in less than 20 moves. However, he could not maintain his advantage 18...Rd8 19.Bxf5 alternative was Qh5 19...exf5 20.Qh4 Qf8 21.d5 Ba6 22.Rfd1 Rac8 23.Qh3 Be2 24.Rd4 Rc4 25.Qxf5? and White's advantage went up in the air.
Praggnanandhaa - Sindarov
44.Kf1 would have kept White in the game. 44.Kg1?? gave Black the winning advantage 44...Nh4-+ 45.h3 Kg6 46.Rc7 Nxf3+ 47.Kf1 Kf5 48.Rf7+ Ke4 49.Re7+ Kf4 50.Rc7 Kg3 51.Rc2 Rxb7 and Black won.
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Match #6: PBG Alaskan Knights - Triveni Continental Kings: 0-3 (3-15)
PBG Alaskan Knights suffered a massive loss 3-15 against Triveni Continental Kings. Alireza Firouzja (TCK), GM Jiner Zhu (TCK) and Marc` Andria Maurizzi (TCK) scored a win each against D Gukesh (PBG AK), GM Kateryna Lagno (PBG AK) and Daniel Dardha (PBG AK) respectively.
Gukesh - Firouzja
24.f3? blindsided the g2-bishop and weakened the king at the same time hxg4 25.hxg4 Bh6 26.Qxb4? Bf4 27.Qe1?? Qh2+ and Black converted his advantage into a win comfortably.
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Standings after Day 2
Day 3 matches
Match #7: Fyers American Gambits vs SG Alpine Pipers - 5 p.m. IST.
Match #8: PBG Alaskan Knights vs upGrad Mumba Masters - 6:30 p.m. IST.
Match #9: Triveni Continental Kings vs Ganges Grandmasters - 8 p.m. IST.
Scoring System for Game Points (GP)
4 GP (3+1) | A player wins the Game with Black Pieces |
3 GP | A player wins the Game with White Pieces |
1 GP | Draw |
0 GP | Defeat |
Scoring System for Match Points (MP)
3 MP | The team that scores more Game Points |
1 MP | If both teams are level on Game Points |
0 MP | The team that scores lesser Game Points than the opponent |
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