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Ganguly loses to Akopian

Gibraltar: Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly missed out on his chance to be among the prize winners by a whisker by going down to second seeded GM Vladimir Akopian of Armenia in the 10th and final round of Gibtele.com Masters chess tournament at Caleta hotel here.

Chanda shines

Sandipan Chanda emerged as the best Indian performer in the event after beating Nicolas Speck of Australia who earlier made his International Master norm in the event.

Winning a fine middle game with white pieces out of a King's Indian defence game, Chanda ended up with 6.5 points and stands to gain 11 ELO rating points from the event.

Important results (final round, Indians unless specified): Kiril Georgiev (Bul, 8.5) drew with Emil Sutovsky (Isr, 7.5); Mohamad Al-Modaihki (Qat, 6.5) lost to Nigel Short (Eng, 7.5); Alexander Areshchenko (Ukr, 7) drew with Sergey Volkov (Rus, 7); Viktor Bologan (Mda, 6.5) drew with Mikhail Gurevich (Tur, 7); Jonathan Speelman (Eng, 6) lost to Alexie Shirov (Esp, 7); Vladimir Akopian (Arm, 7) bt Surya Shekhar Ganguly (6); Zahar Efimenko (Ukr, 7) bt Mohamad Al Sayed (Qat, 6); Juan Belon Lopez (6.5) drew with Mikhail Kobalia (Eus, 6.5); Zoltan Gyimesi (Hun, 7) bt Pia Cramling (Swe, 6); Zhu Chen (Chn, 6.5) bt Arizmendi Martinez (Esp, 6); Viktor Korchnoi (Sui, 6.5) bt Pontus Carlsson (Swe, 5.5); Yannick Pelletier (Sui, 6.5) bt Tejas Bakre (5.5); Victorija Cmilyte (Ltu, 6) drew with Abhijit Kunte (6); Sandipan Chanda (6.5) bt Nicholas Speck (Aus, 5.5); S Kidambi (6.5) bt Van Den Bresselaar (Ned, 5.5); Peter Wells (Eng, 5.5) drew with Swati Ghate (5.5); Kruttika Nadig (5.5) drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (5.5); Nisha Mohota (5.5) bt Jessie Gilbert (Eng, 4.5); Martyn Goodger (4.5) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (5.5); Anupama Gokhale (5.5) bt Nimmy George (4); Bhagyashree Thipsay (4.5) lost to Emil Agdestein (Nor, 5.5). — PTI

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