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Eesha springs a surprise

DUBAI, APRIL 8. Pune-based Woman International Master Eesha Karavade surprised Ukraine's Grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko and ONGC's Abhijeet Gupta held Chinese GM Wang Yue as India's talented brigade made its presence felt during the fourth round of the Dubai International chess tournament here on Thursday.

Among the Indian GMs, K. Humpy won and Sandipan Chanda drew to reach three points. Though Abhijit Kunte and R. B. Ramesh lost, seasoned campaigner Lanka Ravi drew with ninth seeded Iranian GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami. Twelve-year-old Parimarjan Negi proved equal to Ukraine's IM Yuriy Kuzubov. In an all-India affair, G. Balaji upstaged his Tamil Nadu mate, IM S. Kidambi.

On the top table, Georgia's Giorgi Kacheishvili defeated compatriot Merab Gagunashvili to lead with a four points.

The results (fourth round: Indians unless stated): Merab Gagunshvili (Geo) (3) lost to Giorgi Kacheishvili (Geo) (4); Aleksej Aleksandrov (Blr) (3.5) bt Zhou Jianchao (Chn) (3); Alexander Motylev (Rus) (3.5) bt Gadir Guseinov (Aze) (2.5); Valeriy Neverov (Ukr) (3) drew with Evgenij Miroshnichenko (Ukr) (3); Wu Wenjin (Chn) (3) drew with Zahar Efimenko (Ukr) (3); Viorel Iordachescu (Mda) (3) drew with Sandipan Chanda (3); Dmitry Svetushkin (Mda) (3) drew with Alexander Riazantsev (Rus) (3); Zhang Zhong (Chn) (3.5) bt Abhijit Kunte (2.5).

Other results involving Indians: Ghaem Maghami (Iri) (2.5) drew with Lanka Ravi (2.5); Eesha Karavade (3) bt Alexander Areshchenko (Ukr) (2); G. Rohit (2) lost to Dragen Solak (Scg) (3); Wang Yue (Chn) (2.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (2.5); Yurly Kuzubov (2.5) drew with Parimarjan Negi (2.5); K. Humpy (3) bt Kristian Simonsen (Fai) (2); S. Kidambi (2) lost to G. Balaji (3); N. Srinath (2) lost to Ahmed Adly (Egy) (3); Mikhael Kobalia (Rus) (2.5) bt Rahul Shetty (1.5); Jayson Gonzales (Phi) (2.5) bt S. Mari Arul (1.5); Basheer Al-Qudaimi (Yem) (2.5) bt R. B. Ramesh (1.5); Antoine Kassis (Lib) (1) lost to D. Sai Srinivas (2); Maria Velcheva (Bul) (1) lost to Aswin Jayaram (2); Nagueb Saleh (UAE) (1) lost to Shashikant Kutwal (2); S. P. Sethuraman (2) bt Obay Ali (Sub) (1); Milad Germada Nuri (Lba) (1) lost to Kruttika Nadig (2); Hussain Abdulgalil (Brn) (1) lost to Omkar Patwardhan (2); Chaitanya Vaidya (2) bt Fatma Al-Hammadi (UAE) (1).

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