India, July 22 -- For the second day in a row, world champion Gukesh suffered defeat from a winning position. For the second day in a row, he let slip a winning position. In Round 6 of the Chennai Grand Masters on Tuesday, the 20-year-old lost to M Pranesh after misplaying a winning position. Down on the clock, he couldn't recover to hold the game as 19-year-old Pranesh, the lowest-rated player in the tournament, had a win in the bag in 39 moves.

Pranesh - who qualified for the elite eight-player Masters section by virtue of winning the tournament's Challengers event last year, was famously Vaishali's travelling teammate for the Women's Candidates this year, which she won. "I feel happy.I just wanted to play well and prove I'm one of the...