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Best woman player award for Humpy

VIJAYAWADA, MARCH 29 . Women World No.4 Koneru Humpy with scintillating performances has won the best woman player's prize in the ninth Neckar Open international tournament at Deizisau, Germany.

Humpy scored seven points from nine rounds to finish fifth after outwitting two Grandmasters, splitting points with two others and losing only to top seeded Navara David, according to reports received here today.

International Master norm aspirant G. Rohit, who needed just a draw in the ninth round, missed it by half a point as he lost to Grandmaster Alexander Graf of Germany.

International Master Lanka Ravi scored 5.5 points in the tournament, in which Mikahel Gurevic emerged the winner.

The players from India would proceed to Dubai to play in the Sheikh Rashed Bin Hamdan cup from April 3 to 13.

Final placings:

1 Gurevich Mikhail, 2 Kempinski Robert, 3 Renner Christoph, 4 Navara David, 5 Koneru Humpy, 6 Eljanov Pavel, 7 Iordachescu Vior, 8 Baramidze David, 9 Baklan Vladimir, 10 Solodovnichenko. — UNI

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