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Chess: top-seeded world champion Gukesh Dommaraju struggles at Bucharest

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Gukesh Dommaraju is tied seventh in the 10 -man field in Romania with one win, five draws, and two defeats.

The world champion has dropped from third to fifth in the Fide world rankings.

Praggnanandhaa Raameshbabu leads the Bucharest field by half a point with 5/8 .

Vlastimil Hort , one of the leading grandmasters of the 1970s and 1980s , died on 12 May aged 81 .

Hort had a memorable 1977 Candidates match against Boris Spassky when, with the scores tied at 6-6 , he donated one of his own timeouts.

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