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Negi’s run continues

NEW DELHI: Continuing his dream run, Parimarjan Negi defeated fellow Grandmaster G. N. Gopal and International Master R. R. Laxman to maintain his winning sequence after five rounds of the Philadelphia International Open chess tournament at Philadelphia on Saturday.

The twin victories took Negi’s tally to five points and put him one point clear of teammate S. Arun Prasad.

With four rounds to go, National champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Gopal, Laxman and K. Ratnakaran are on 3.5 points each. Other Indians in the fray are Abhijit Kunte, M. R. Venkatesh, Esha Karavade (3 each), Nisha Mohota (2.5), Swati Ghate, Aarthie Ramaswamy (2 each), Kiran Manisha Mohanty and Sai Meera (1.5 each).

Meanwhile, in the opening round of Paris International Open in Paris, triple International Master norm-holder 12-year-old Sahaj Grover made an encouraging start when he drew with the ninth-seeded Cuban Grandmaster Omar Alemida Quinta, rated 2527.

In the Sort Open at Sort, Spain, Abhijeet Gupta (five points) moved to joint second spot after beating teammate T. Abhay. Bulgaria’s Aleksander Delchev leads with 5.5 points.

The results: Sixth round (involving Indians): Abhijeet Gupta (5) bt T. Abhay (4); Nidjat Mamedov (Aze, 4.5) bt S. Nitin (3.5); Shyam Sundar (3) lost to Artus Kogan (Isr, 3); Karen Movsziszian (Arm, 4) bt Swapnil Dhopade (3); Emilia Djingarova (Bul, 3) lost to Deep Sengupta (4); Nadya Karolina Ortiz (Col, 3) lost to S. P. Sethuraman (4); Pablo Arguelles Garcia (Esp, 3) lost to B. Adhiban (4); Pierluigi Piscopo (Ira, 3) lost to G. V. Sai Krishna (3); Prasanna Rao (3.5) bt Lazaro Lorenzo De La Riva (2.5); Vishnu Prasanna (2.5) lost to Kruttika Nadig (3.5).

Mary Ann Gomes (2.5) lost to Miguel Angel Accensi Estrada (3.5); Sopiko Guramishvili (Geo, 3) drew with Shalmali Gagare (3); Antonio Viani D’cunha (3.5) bt K. Priyadarshan (2.5); Ismael Pla Ferreres (Esp, 2.5) lost to M. R. Lalith Babu (3.5); Soumya Swaminathan (3.5) bt Enric Edo Teys (Esp, 2.5); A. Niji (2) lost to Roquelina Fanding Reyes (Cub, 3); Aaron Rodrigues Adell (Esp, 2) lost to R. Preethi (3); Pon N. Krithika (3) bt Ivan Salvado Obrero (2); S. V. Sathyapriya (2) lost to P. Uthra (3); Devangi Patankar (2.5) drew with Sergi Panella Navarro (Esp, 2.5); Sergi Tomas Franch (Esp, 1.5) lost to Bhakti Kulkarni (2.5); C. P. Aatirah (2) bt Ricardo Menchon Lopez (Esp, 0.5).

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