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Panjim, Nov 9 (PTI) Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi bowed out of the World Chess Cup after a 2.5-3.5 loss to Sam Shankland of United States in the second set of tie-break games of third round here on Sunday.

On what turned out to be a dramatic day, S L Narayanan also had to concede defeat against Yangyi Yu of China in the first set of tie-break games but V Karthik continued with his dream run and defeated Deac Bogdan-Daniel of Romania 1.5-0.5.

Karthik reached the fourth round which means there are five Indians left in the fray after the first three rounds.

The two favourites Arjun Erigaisi and R Praggnanandhaa, and P Harikrishna who shown sublime form here and world junior champion V Pranav, who has proved that he is the next big Indian star in the making, hav

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