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Neelotpal loses to Epishin

NEW DELHI: Overnight leader Neelotpal Das went down to fellow Grandmaster and top-seeded Russian Vladimir Epishin in the seventh round of the Sitges international open chess tournament in Sitges, Spain, on Thursday.

Epishin, Alexei Barsov and Viktor Moskalenko share the lead with six points.

GM R.B. Ramesh, seeded five, joined Neelotpal on 5.5 points after beating Germany's Christian Hess.

Youngster Prasanna Rao raised his tally to five points after defeating Spain's Jaiver Avila Jimenez. Swati Mohota and Sai Meera gave a good account of themselves by drawing with 12th and 14th seeded Spanish International Masters.

The results (involving Indians):

Seventh round:

Vladimir Epishin (Rus, 6) bt Neelotpal Das (5.5); Christian Hess (Ger, 4.5) lost to R.B. Ramesh (5.5); Jose Maria Hernando Rodrigo (Esp, 4.5) drew with Swati Mohota (4.5); Alfonso Jerz Perez (Esp, 4.5) drew with Sai Meera (4.5); Prasanna Rao (5) bt Javier Avila Jimenez (Esp, 4); Alberto Chueca Forcen (Esp, 4.5) drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy (4.5).

First loss for Negi

GM Parimarjan Negi (4.5 points) suffered his first loss in the Politiken Cup chess tournament in the sixth round in Copenhagen on Thursday.

The 40-move loss with white pieces to Denmark's Allen Stig Rasmussen pushed the 13-year-old among those between 14th and 27th places.

In the seventh round, ninth-seeded Negi faces another lower-rated local challenger Dan H. Andersen.

Hari starts favourite

Top seed P. Hari Krishna will start his campaign in the Marx Gorgy memorial chess tournament with fellow Grandmaster and former World junior champion Peter Acs in Paks, Hungary, late on Friday.

The other players in the six-player double round-robin meet are Hungary's Zoltan Almasi, Ferenc Berkes, Ukraine's Zahar Efimenko and China's Wang Yue. The 10-round event ends on August 7.

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