{"id":101128,"date":"2026-04-02T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/candidates-chess-how-risk-averse-indians-self-sabotaged-in-round-4\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:36:00","slug":"candidates-chess-how-risk-averse-indians-self-sabotaged-in-round-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/candidates-chess-how-risk-averse-indians-self-sabotaged-in-round-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates Chess: How risk-averse Indians self-sabotaged in Round 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s chess contingent faced a disappointing Round 4 at the Candidates tournament, with R Praggnanandhaa and R Vaishali securing draws while Divya Deshmukh suffered a significant loss. Praggnanandhaa&#8217;s game was described as uncharacteristically subdued, and Vaishali narrowly escaped a difficult position. Deshmukh&#8217;s experimental play led to fundamental errors and a decisive defeat.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s chess contingent faced a disappointing Round 4 at the Candidates tournament, with R Praggnanandhaa and R Vaishali securing draws while Divya Deshmukh suffered a significant loss. Praggnanandhaa&#8217;s game was described as uncharacteristically subdued, and Vaishali narrowly escaped a difficult position. Deshmukh&#8217;s experimental play led to fundamental errors and a decisive defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":101129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}