Is it time for Anand to hang his boots.
There are 20 Indian players in the field of 150 in the Gibraltar tournament. Harikrishna, who was 4th highest rated player in the tournament after Nakamura, MVL (Maxime Vachier-Lagrave), and Anand, is doing very well as he is tied in points at the top spot after 8 rounds.
The current position of the Indian contingent after 8 rounds is:
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Rk. Rtg Name Pts.
3 GM 2755 Harikrishna P. 6.5
8 GM 2639 Sethuraman S.P. 6.0
10 GM 2613 Gupta Abhijeet 6.0
16 GM 2553 Lalith Babu M R 6.0
26 GM 2642 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 5.5
34 GM 2583 Sandipan Chanda 5.5
45 GM 2525 Gopal G.N. 5.0
53 IM 2427 Padmini Rout 5.0
59 GM 2660 Ganguly Surya Shekhar 5.0
72 GM 2511 Harika Dronavalli 4.5
78 GM 2500 Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 4.5
83 GM 2784 Anand Viswanathan 4.5
85 IM 2387 Anurag Mhamal 4.5
86 GM 2518 Vishnu Prasanna. V 4.5
88 2370 Siva Mahadevan 4.5
93 IM 2460 Prasanna Raghuram Rao 4.5
99 IM 2410 Satyapragyan Swayangsu 4.5
101 IM 2245 Mohota Nisha 4.5
113 GM 2508 Sundararajan Kidambi 4.0
132 WIM 2278 Pratyusha Bodda 4.0