The Masters tournament in Hastings remains exciting: after 8 of 9 rounds, 3 players are leading with 6.5/8 each: Abijheet Gupta, Brandon Jacobson and Zhang Pengxiang. Half a point behind are Deep Sengupta, Eldar Gasanov and Shreyas Royal with 6.0/8. The top pairings for round nine will be Jacobson against Gupta and Zhang against Sengupta. The round starts at 15.15 CET with live commentary from Richard Pert and Matthew Sadler.

