Date:09/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/09/stories/2008040960112100.htm

Sport - Chess

First win for Koneru Humpy

NEW DELHI: Koneru Humpy defeated Peru’s Zuniga Julio Granda in 22 moves of the Nimzo Indian to score her first victory in the eight-player Ruy Lopez Masters chess tournament at Merida, Spain, on Monday.

After three rounds, England’s Michael Adams leads with 2.5 points after beating China’s Hou Yifan in 37 moves. Overnight leader China’s Zhang Pengxiang lost to Armenia’s Gabriel Sargissian.

The results:

Ruy Lopez Masters (third round): K. Humpy (1.5) bt Zuniga Julio Granda (Per, 1); Hou Yifan (Chn, 0.5) lost to Michael Adams (Eng, 2.5); Zhang Pengxiang (Chn, 2) lost to Gabriel Sargissian (Arm, 2); Manuel Perez Candelario (Esp, 0.5) lost to Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 2).

Dubai Open (second round, involving Indians): Tamaz Gelashvili (Geo, 2) bt Tania Sachdev (1); Dinesh Sharma (1) lost to Ahmed Adly (Egy, 2); Tigran Kotanjian (Arm, 2) bt Lanka Ravi (1); Debashis Das (1) lost to Abhijeet Gupta (2); Parimarjan Negi (1) lost to Moussa Othman (UAE, 2); Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz, 2) bt Sahaj Grover (1); Abdo Somoff (Lib, 1) lost to R.R. Laxman (2); Sarhan Guliev (Aze, 1.5) drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy (1.5); R.B. Ramesh (2) bt C.J. Arvind (1); Aswin Jayaram (1.5) drew with Praveen Kumar (1.5); Logman Guliev (Aze, 1.5) drew with Sohan Phadke (1.5); P.I. Johny (0.5) lost to Frhat Ali (Egy, 1.5); Johannie Tabada (Phi, 1) bt Nisha Mohota (0); C. Natarajan (1) bt Ernesto Yap (Phi, 0); Tejas Ravichandran (1) bt Sai Meera (0); N. Srinath (1) bt Noaman Omar (UAE, 0); Bhuvanesh Ramnath (1) bt Ali Abdulkarim (UAE, 0); T. J.Suresh Kumar (1) bt Khalaf Bhukalaf (Brn, 0); Swati Mohota (1) bt Fayez Ahmed (UAE, 0); Shiven Khosla (1) bt Kulood Eisa Al-Zarooni (UAE, 0); Paul Dargan (Eng, 1) bt Anuprita Patil (0).