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Sasikiran in joint third position

Moscow : Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran managed a draw with former Russian champion Alexander Motylev to be joint third after the eighth and penultimate round of Aeroflot International Open chess tournament here.

Sasikiran moved to 5.5 points after a hard-earned draw to be among the toppers in one of the strongest open event of the World.

Grandmaster Kiril Georgiev of Bulgaria joined overnight leader Pavel Eljanov of Ukraine on top of the tables on six points after scoring a thumping victory over Vladimir Akopian of Armenia.

International Master Prathamesh Mokal drew with Pogos Nakhapetiane of Russia to finish ninth after the final round of the Group B.

Mokal ended up with 6.5 points for the ninth place after the tiebreak was resolved. The Indian won a cash award of $620.

IM Dinesh Kumar Sharma won his final round game but finished 36th after the tie break was resolved.

Young guns Parimarjan Negi and Abhijeet Gupta were quite impressive in the penultimate round of A2 section. While Parimarjan defeated GM Ara Minasian of Armenia Abhijeet Gupta played a fine game to beat GM Sergei Zagrebelny of Uzbekistan.

Important results: Eighth round (Indians unless specified): Group A1: Pavel Eljanov (Ukr, 6) drew with Vladimir Malakhov (Rus, 5.5); Mamedyarov Shakriyar (Aze, 5.5) drew with Arkadij Naiditsch (Ger, 5.5); Vladimir Akopian (Arm, 5) lost to Kiril Georgiev (Bul, 6); Krishnan Sasikiran (5.5) drew with Alexander Motylev (Rus, 5.5); Dmitry Jakovenko (Rus, 5.5) beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra, 5); Sandipan Chanda (4) lost to Alexandar Areshchenko (Ukr, 4.5); Pengxiang Zhang (Chn, 3) lost to Surya Shekhar Ganguly (3).

Group A2: David Arutinian (Geo, 6) beat Neelotpal Das (5); Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus, 5) beat Deep Sengupta (4); Abhijeet Gupta (4.5) beat Sergei Zagrbelny (Uzb, 3.5); Ara Minasian (Arm, 3.5) lost to Parimarjan Negi (4.5); Vishal Sareen (4) drew with Michail Panarin (Rus, 4); R.R. Laxman (3) lost to Zhu Chen (Chn, 3); S. Poobesh Anand (3.5) drew with Kirill Bryzgalin (Rus, 3.5); Argyhyadip Das (4) beat Mohamad Al Sayed (Qat, 3); P. Konguvel (3) lost to Nikolai Pokazanjev (Rus, 4); Himanshu Sharma (2.5) lost to Nikolai Kurenkov (Rus, 3.5).

Group B (final round): Prathmesh Mokal (6.5) drew with Pogos Nakhapetiane (Rus, 6.5); Dinesh K Sharma (5.5) beat Dmitry Petukhov (Rus, 4.5); Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary (4.5) drew with Vera Nebolsina (Rus, 4.5) Mikhail Bykov (Rus, 3.5) beat N Srinath (2.5). — PTI

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