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Finalists to be decided via tiebreak after draws
The New Indian Express Dharmapuri
|November 23, 2025
IT turned out to be another dull day for the chess buffs as Wei Yang of China and Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan decided not to take risks against their respective opponents to settle for effortless draws in the second game of the semifinals at the FIDE World Cup here.
Wei Yi, with white pieces, tried his bit against a dignified Andrey Esipenko of Russia but no matter what he did, the impregnable Petroff had its final say in the game played under classical time control.
This story is from the November 23, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Dharmapuri.
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