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Ramesh beats Srinivas

Dubai: Grandmaster R.B. Ramesh showed his mettle and outclassed IM norm aspirant D. Sai Srinivas in the fifth round of Dubai International Open chess championship here on Friday.

The victory helped Ramesh to climb to joint fifth position in the standing list and the Indian is now only half a point adrift of four joint leaders — Evgenij Miroshnichenko of Ukraine, Giorgi Kacheishvili of Georgia, Darmen Sadvakasov of Kazakhstan and Gabriel Sargissen of Armenia, who all have 4.5 points each. Women International Master Kruttika Nadig remained in contention for her maiden Women Grandmaster norm letting Taleb Moussa off the hook in a keenly contested fifth round game.

Indian results (fifth round): Tigran Petrosian (Arm, 4) bt Abhijeet Gupta (3); Merab Gagunashvili (Geo, 4) beat O.T. Anilkumar (3); R.B. Ramesh (4) bt D. Sai Srinivas (3); M.R. Lalith Babu (3) lost to Adly Ahmed (Egy, 4); Kruttika Nadig ( 3.5) drew with Taleb Moussa (UAE, 3.5); G.B. Joshi (2.5) lost to Odeev Handszar (Tkm, 3.5); Abdul Majeed Mohamad (UAE, 3) drew with Parimarjan Negi (3); S. Satyapragyan (3) drew with S.P. Sethuraman (3); C.N. Vaidya (3) drew with S.A. Sarsam (Irq, 3); Vishal Sareen ( 3.5) bt Ghader Pour Shayesteh (Iri, 2.5); Ramnath Bhuvanesh (2.5) lost to Ilgar Bajarani (Aze, 3.5); Shiven Khosla (2.5) lost to Toufighi Homayoon (Iri, 3.5); Gurpreet Pal Singh (2.5) lost to Lavasani Javad (Iri, 3.5); Rashad Babaev (Aze, 3) bt Soumitra Majumdar (2); Lara Stock (Cro, 3) bt Prathamesh Mokal (2); Himdan Maher (Egy, 3) bt Shatrughan Jha (2); Danny Baltazar (Phi, 1.5) lost to Aarthie Ramaswamy (2.5); N. Srinath (2.5) bt Kayle Charles (Ple, 1.5); K. Priyadarshan (2.5) bt Sultan Haifa (UAE, 1.5); Alsharhan Faisal (UAE, 2) drew with Dhyani Dave (2); Abdulgalil Husain (Brn, 1.5) lost to Shantanu Lahiri (2.5); Prasanna Rao (2) bt Sahaj Grover (1); W.A. Khan (2) bt Mahmuda Haque Chowdhury (Ban, 1); Malallah Khadija (UAE, 0.5) lost to Natun Dasgupta (1.5). — PTI

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