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Kunte draws with Simacek

OLOMOUC (CZECH REPUBLIC), AUG. 6. Abhijit Kunte (2) settled for a second successive draw after facing Czech Pavel Simacek in the third round of the Skanska Cup round-robin tournament here on Thursday.

In the Proclient International Masters round-robin event, Tania Sachdev proved superior to fellow-Delhi player Parimarjan Negi in the second round to reach 1.5 points.

Meanwhile, all eight Indians — Tejas Bakre, R. B. Ramesh, S. Kidambi, Neelotpal Das, D. Harika, S. Meenakshi, Nisha Mohota and Eesha Karavade — won their opening round matches in the Olomouc Open event.

The results (Indians unless stated):

Grandmasters Skanska Cup: (third round): Timur Balabaev (Kaz) (0.5) lost to Patryk Lagowski (Pol) (1.5); Pavel Simacek (Cze) (1) drew with Abhijit Kunte (2); Richard Biolek (Cze) (1) drew with Jiri Jirka (Cze) (1.5); Evgeny Postny (Isr) (1.5) bt Vlastimil Babula (Cze) (2); Jerzy Slaby (Pol) (1.5) drew with Viktor Laznicka (Cze) (2.5); Jan Bernasek (0.5) (Cze) lost to Gediminas Sarakauskas (Ltu) (2.5); (second round): Lagowski drew with Bernasek; Sarakauskas bt Slaby; Laznicka bt Postny; Babula bt Biolek; Jirka drew with Simacek; Kunte drew with Balabaev.

International Masters Proclient Cup: (second round): Tania Sachdev (1.5) bt Parimarjan Negi (0); Rauan Mankeyev (Kaz) (2) bt Charles Kennaugh (Eng) (1); Alexei Gavrilov (Rus) (0) (1) bt Martin Tupy (Cze) (0), Richard Biolek Jr. (Cze) (0) lost to David Kanovsky (Cze) (2); Martin Kraemer (Ger) (1) bt Ladislav (1); D. Ben Savage (Eng) (0.5) lost to Roman Chytilek (Cze) (2).

Olomouc Open: (first round, results involving Indians): Tejas Bakre bt Grzegorz Urbanski (Pol); Andrers Lang (Swe) lost to R. B. Ramesh; Alexander Simkin (Rus) lost to S. Kidambi; Corrado Corti (Ita) lost to Neelotpal Das; Tomas Doubek (Cze) lost to D. Harika; S. Meenakshi bt Mateusz Kolosowski (Pol); Zdenek Smekal (Cze) lost to Nisha Mohota; Martin Van Gils (Ned) lost to Eesha Karavade.

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