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Magesh shares second spot

BIEL, JULY 29. International Master P. Magesh Chandran defeated ninth seed Michael Roiz to reach 6.5 points after nine rounds of the Biel Masters chess tournament here on Wednesday.

The victory earned Magesh a clash with the top seed Mikhail Kobalia. The former National junior champion, now studying in the U.S., is in the joint-second place. Boris Avrukh, Alexander Rustemov, Christian Bauer and Andrey Shariyazdanov share the lead with seven points each.

Parimarjan Negi (5) declined a draw offer from Bragi Thorfinnsson and sacrificed a pawn before losing his way. Negi now faces compatriot P. Konguvel, who defeated Kolly Jacques. R. R. Vasudevan (4) drew with Nicolas Curien.

It's Morozevich again

Alexander Morozevich ensured the successful title-defence of the Biel International Grandmasters tournament with a round to spare by beating Swiss hope Yannick Pelletier in the ninth round on Wednesday.

The 40-move victory with black pieces in French Rubinstein took Morozevich's tally to seven points. The defeat of Pelletier along with K. Sasikiran's 16-move draw in Slav Defence with French Etienne Bacrot made sure of the second place to the Indian Grandmaster. Sasikiran has 5.5 points and is 1.5 points clear of third placed Ruslan Ponomariov.

In the other match of the day, Ponomariov recovered from two successive defeats to draw in 53 moves of Grunfeld Defence with Englishman Luke McShane.

Neelotpal wins

In the Czech Open at Pardubice, Neelotpal Das defeated Valdos Bucinskas in the sixth round to tally four points.

However, Tejas Bakre's disappointing run continued when he lost with the white pieces to WIM Beata Kadziolka.

The results (sixth round): Valdos Bucinskas (3) lost to Neelotpal Das (4); Viktor Laznicka (4) bt S. Meenakshi (3); S. Kidambi (3.5) drew with Stephen Buchal (3.5); Abhijit Kunte (3.5) drew with Marcin Krysztofiak (3.5); Petr Pokorny (2.5) lost to R. B. Ramesh (3.5); D. Harika (3) drew with Viktor Volodin (3); Murat Zhunussov (2) lost to Nisha Mohota (3); Beil Martin (2) lost to Eesha Karavade (3); Tomas Studnicka (1.5) lost to Tania Sachdev (2.5); Tejas Bakre (2.5) lost to Beata Kadziolka (3.5).

At Biel (Biel International Grandmasters tournament, ninth round): K. Sasikiran (Ind) (5.5) drew with Etienne Bacrot (Fra) (4); Yannick Pelletier (Sui) (4) lost to Alexander Morozevich (Rus) (7); Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) (4) drew with Luke McShane (Eng) (2.5).

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