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Sasikiran finishes third

Moscow: Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran stole the final day honours by clinching a sparkling win against overnight joint leader Kiril Georgiev of Bulgaria in the 9th and final round but finished third in the `A1' group of the Aeroflot International Open chess tournament here.

The victory helped Sasikiran tie for the top spot along with GM Jobava Baadur of Georgia, 2003 winner Viktor Bologan of Moldova and twice World junior champion Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan.

As the ties were resolved, the first place went to Baadur, Bologan finished second while Sasikiran ended up third.

Important results (round 9, Indians unless specified): Group `A1': Mamedyarov Shakriyar (Aze, 6.5) beat Pavel Eljanov (Ukr, 6); Kiril Georgiev (Bul, 6) lost to Krishnan Sasikiran (6.5); Vladimir Malakhov (Rus, 5.5) lost to Baadur Jobava (Geo, 6.5); Arkadij Naiditsch (Ger, 6) drew with Dmitry Jakovenko (Rus, 6); Alexander Motylev (Rus, 5.5) lost to Viktor Bologan (Mda, 6.5); Konstantin Landa (Rus, 4.5) drew with Sandipan Chanda (4.5); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (4.5) drew with Michael Roiz (Isr, 4.5)

Group `A2' (Indian results): R.B. Ramesh (5) lost to Vladimir Kosyrev (Rus, 6); Neelotpal Das (5.5) drew with Dmitry Andreikin (Rus, 5.5); Vladimir Burmakin (Rus, 5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (5); Parimarjan Negi (5) drew with Alexander Evdokimov (Rus, 5); Zhu Chen (Chn, 5) beat Argyhyadip Das (4); Sergei Klimov (Rus, 5) beat Vishal Sareen (4); Deep Sengupta (5) beat Duris Aurelien (Fra, 3.5); Martin Sneff (Ger, 4) drew with S. Poobesh Anand (3); Alexander Potapov (Rus, 4) beat R.R. Laxman (3); Dmitry Batsanin (Rus, 3.5) drew with P. Konguvel (3.5); Tigran Kotanjian (Arm, 3.5) beat Himanshu Sharma (2.5). — PTI

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