Date:18/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/18/stories/2008071855892000.htm

Sport - Chess

Lalith holds Burmakin

NEW DELHI: Youngster M.R. Lalith Babu made light of rating difference of over 300 points and proved equal to second-seeded Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Burmakin in the third round of the Balaguer International Open chess tournament at Balaguer, Spain, on Wednesday.

The results (third round, involving Indians): Slobodan Kovacevic (Srb, 3) bt Abhijeet Gupta (2); Swapnil Dhopade (2.5) drew with Jimeniz Fidel Corrales (Cub, 2.5); Soumya Swaminathan (2) lost to Ruslan Pogorelov (Ukr, 3); G.V. Saikrishna (2) lost to Matthias Roeder (Ger, 3); Sergey Kasparov (2.5) bt Devangi Patankar (2); M.R. Lalith Babu (2) drew with Vladimir Burmakin (Rus, 2); Deep Sengupta (2.5) bt T. Abhay (1.5); Felix Levin (1.5) drew with Kruttika Nadig (2); Vishnu Prasanna (2) bt Jordi Ribo Bedoya (Esp, 1); Ramon Verdes Nadal (Esp, 1) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (2); Vincente Nieves Garcia (Esp, 2) bt S.V. Sathyapriya (1); C.P. Aatirah (1) drew with Rubies Laia Barbosa (Esp, 1).