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In his quest for the final Grandmaster norm, double GM norm holder Surya Shekhar Ganguly made merry against Gerzhoy Leonid of Israel to move on to two points alongwith compatriot GM Abhijit Kunte who outclassed Anthony Wirig of France. Apart from the three Indians, as many as 36 others from across the globe share the top position with two points each in their kitty. GM P. Harikrishna, GM Dibyendu Barua, International Master V. Saravanan and the country's latest IWM and Asian junior girls champion Tania Sachdev (all 1.5 points) are closely behind the leaders alongwith 58 others. Seven more rounds remain to be played in this 310 players' tournament. Krapivin proved no match for Sasikiran from the black side of a queen pawn game. The Russian's troubles began in the middle game and Sasikiran made most of the positional advantage to romp home easily. Black being his favourite colour on the chequered board, Abhijit played a fine game to beat Wirig who allowed his opponent to equalise in the middlegame without much difficulty. With slow and precise play Abhijit put an end to Wirig's counter-attack to win the game. Ganguly who made his second GM norm at the last National meet after a hard-earned one at the Asian championship, capitalised on an erroneous plan by Leonid and controlled both the wings with accurate manoeuvres to score an emphatic victory. Tania was in fine form in the match against International Master Lingau Carsten of Germany. After a fine victory over the higher rated Eric Hedman of Sweden in the first round, the WGM-norm holder continued with her good show to hold Carsten from the black pieces. Dibyendu Barua and Saravanan struck back and scored over Fiala Roberts (Czech Republic) and Maxim Rodshtein (Israel) respectively after drawing their games on Friday. International Women Masters Saheli Barua and Bhagyashree Thipsay, both of whom are yet to open their accounts, continued to hunt for form and went down to Alexander Granovski (Kazakhstan) and Jacob-Bang Pedersen (Denmark). Important results: K. Sasikiran (2) beat Alexander Krapivin (1, Rus); Pribyl Josef (1.5, Cze) drew Macieja Bartlomiej (1.5, Pol); Hracek Zbynek (1.5, Cze) drew Kim Alexey (1.5, Rus); Espig Lutz (1.5, Ger) drew Valery Neverov (1.5, Ukr); Gyimesi Zoltan (1.5, Hun) drew Lechtynsky Jiri (1.5, Cze); Vladimir Onoprienko (1.5, Rus) drew Fridmans Daniels (1.5, Lat); Borovikov Vladislav (2, Ukr) beat Carlsson Pontus (1, Swe) Jirka Jiri (1.5, Cze) drew P. Harikrishna (1.5); Peter Acs (2, Hun) beat Seger Ruediger (1, Ger); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2) beat Gerzhoy Leonid (1, Isr); Anthony Wirig (1, Fra) lost to Abhijit Kunte (2); Cvek Robert (2, Cze) beat Swati Ghate (1); Lingnau Carsten (1.5, Ger) drew Tania Sachdev (1.5); Dibyendu Barua (1.5) beat Fiala Robert (0.5, Cze); V Saravanan (1.5,) beat Maxim Rodshtein (0.5, Isr); Aleksander Granovski (1, Kaz) beat Saheli Barua (0); Bhagyashree Thipsay (0) lost to Jacob-Bang Pedersen (1, Den); Smistik Milan (1, Cze) beat Himanshu Kumar (0). — PTI
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