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Wednesday, Jul 19, 2006

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Sahaj holds Mamedov

NEW DELHI: World under-10 boys' champion Sahaj Grover registered the biggest result of his budding career when he drew with sixth- seeded International Master Azerbaijan's Nidjat Mamedov in the opening round of the 11th Balaguer International Open chess tournament at Balaguer, Spain, on Monday.

Grover, whose rating of 2024 is the lowest among the 11 Indians on view, became the cynosure after holding Mamedov, rated 2521.

Barring Abhyudaya Rajpurohit, who lost to third-seeded Ukrainian Vladimir Baklan, other Indians defeated their lowly-rated rivals.

The results (involving Indians):

First round: Vladimir Baklan (Ukr) bt Abhyudaya Rajpurohit; Sahaj Grover drew with Nidjat Mamedov (Aze); S. Kidambi bt Joan Carles Vila Seuba (Esp); S. Satyapragyan bt David Serra Roig (Esp); Abhijeet Gupta bt Julio Curia Pinol (Cat); Jordi Paris Montserrat (Cat) lost to P. Konguvel; Vishal Sareen bt Alberto Faro Perella (Esp); Lanka Ravi bt Emilio Ortoneda Mayoral (Par); Ramon Sanso Codina (Cat) lost to Dinesh Sharma; Xavier Biosca Lacasa (Cat) lost to G.N. Gopal; Eesha Karavade bt Jose Perez Cabas (Cat).

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