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Negi gets off to a flier

Moscow : Double Grandmaster norm holder Parimarjan Negi scored a fluent win over former women's World Champion Zhu Chen of China in the first round of Group `A2' in the Aeroflot International Open Chess tournament at Hotel Delta-Gamma.

Sasikiran and Ganguly lost to Namig Guliyev of Azerbaijan and Arkaditsch Naiditsch of Germany respectively.

Important results: First round (Indians unless specified): Group A1: Alexander Riazantsev (Rus) drew with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze); Vladimir Akopian (Arm) drew with Wang Hao (Chn), Valerji Popov (Rus) bt Alexey Dreev (Rus); Vladimir Malakhov (Rus) bt David Alberto (Lux); K. Sasikiran lost to Namig Guliyev (Aze); Arkaditsch Naiditsch (Ger) bt Surya Shekhar Ganguly; Sandipan Chanda drew with Ashot Anastasian (Arm). Group A2: Wang Rui (Chn) lost to Abhijeet Gupta; Neelotpal Das bt Sebastian Siebrecht; R.R. Laxman lost to Dmitry Frolyanov (Rus); Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul) bt S. Poobesh Anand; Sergey Zagrebelny (Uzb) lost to Himanshu Sharma; R.B. Ramesh drew with Andrey Ostrovskiy (Ukr); Arghyadip Das drew with Fikret Sideif-Sade (Aze); P. Konguvel drew with Danilo Milanovic (Scg); Zhu Chen (Chn) lost to Parimarjan Negi; Irina Vasilevich (Rus) drew with Vishal Sareen. Group B: Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary bt Faik Aleskerov (Aze); Dinesh Kumar Sharma lost to Arkadiuz Leniart (Pol), Prathamesh Mokal drew with Selim Gurcan (Tur); Zhang Ziyang (Chn) drew with N. Srinath. — PTI

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