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Harikrishna is joint second

ABU DHABI, AUG. 24 . Grandmaster P. Harikrishna crashed through the defences of GM Evegeny Gleizerov of Russia in the final round to finish joint second in the Master's section of the Abu Dhabi chess festival here.

Former Asian junior girls' champion Tania Sachdev secured her second WGM norm after holding IM Alexander Raetesky to a draw in the last round game.

Tania finished with an overall score of 4.5 points out of a possible 9 and reached 2407 Elo points to secure the norm. The Delhi-based lass needs just one more norm to become a WGM.

Seeded 10th, GM Dmitry Bocharov of Russia emerged as the surprise winner of this year's Master's section with a hard fought victory over erstwhile sole leader Ghaem Maghami Ehsan of Iran.

The victory took Bocharov to 7 points and netted him the winner's purse of $4000 out of a total prize pool of $16000. It is interesting to note here that the Russian was almost written off mid-way through the tournament after being on 3/5.

However, a final dash with four victories in last four games enabled the Russian score his career best victory in a tournament.

GMs Mikhail Kobalia of Russia, Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan and Harikrishna were tied for the second place with 6.5 points apiece.Also finishing among the prize winners were Indian GMs R.B. Ramesh and Tejas Bakre with 5.5 points apiece, to finish tied for 9-16 place.

Important results (Indians only): P. Harikrishna (6.5) bt Evgeny Gleizerov (5.5, Rus); Artyom Timofeev (5.5, Rus) drew with Tejas Bakre (5.5); R.B. Ramesh (5.5) bt Yannick Gozzoli (4.5, Fra); Alexander Raetsky (4.5, Rus) drew with Tania Sachdev (4.5); Saidali Iuldachev (5, Uzb) bt Nisha Mohota (4); S. Kidambi (3.5) lost to Elshan Moradiabadi (4.5, Iri); Neelotpal Das (4) drew with Eesha Karavade (4); Shadi Paridar (3.5, Iri) drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy (3.5). — PTI

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