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Sunday, Dec 04, 2005

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Hari Krishna draws with Alexey Dreev

NEW DELHI: P. Hari Krishna drew with Russia's Alexey Dreev in 24 moves in the first game of the third round of the World Cup chess tournament in Khanty Mansiysk in Russia on Saturday. Hari will play black in the second game on Sunday.

In the day's longest game, lasting 85 moves, Norway's prodigious talent Magnus Carlsen played with black pieces and defeated Ivan Cheparinov, the Bulgarian who stunned top seed Vassily Ivanchuk in the previous round.

The results:

Round 3, Game 1:

Ivan Cheparinov (Bul) lost to Magnus Carlsen (Nor); Emil Sutovsky (Isr) drew with Etienne Bacrot (Fra); Levon Aronian (Arm) bt Alexander Areshchenko (Ukr); Yuri Shulman (US) drew with Alexander Grischuk (Rus); Boris Gelfand (Isr) drew with Levan Pantsulaia (Geo).

Mikhail Gurevich (Tur) drew with Alexei Shirov (Esp); Baadur Jobava (Geo) drew with Sergei Rublevsky (Rus); Loek van Wely (Ned) bt Teimur Radjabov (Aze).

Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) bt Xu Jun (Chn); Konstantin Sakaev (Rus) bt Sergei Tiviakov (Ned); Ivan Sokolov (Ned) lost to Vladimir Malakhov (Rus); P. Hari Krishna drew with Alexey Dreev (Rus).

Gata Kamsky (US) drew with Ilia Smirin (Isr); Francisco Pons Vallejo (Esp) drew with Zahar Efimenko (Ukr); Joel Lautier (Fra) drew with Evgeniy Najer (Rus); Evgeny Bareev (Rus) lost to Lazaro Bruzon (Cub).

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