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Rohit on a roll, ready for IM title

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NEW DELHI: Teenager G. Rohit is on a roll. Last month, as a debutant, this engineering student from Andhra made the National team and in the process, picked up an International Master norm.

On Friday, Rohit brought down Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua to virtually become the country's latest IM after the seventh round of the Parsvnath International Open chess tournament here.

Rohit is among the six leaders with six points and now needs to simply play out the next two rounds for a nine-game title-norm.

Good win

Like Barua, fellow Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte, too, suffered his second straight loss as National `B' champion Nassir Wajih pulled off a well-crafted victory.

The others in lead, besides Rohit, are Alexey Dreev, S. Arun Prasad, Pravin Thipsay, Deepan Chakkravarthy, Abhijeet Gupta, Neelotpal Das and Egypt's Ahmed Adly.

The results (seventh round, Indians unless stated): Alexey Dreev (Rus, 6) drew with Shukhrat Safin (Uzb, 6); S. Arun Prasad (6) drew with Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr, 5.5); Ziaur Rehman (Ban, 5.5) drew with Mohammad Ezat (Egy, 5.5); Ahmad Adly (Egy, 6) bt S. Poobesh Anand (5); Himanshu Sharma ( 5.5) drew with Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban, 5.5); Arghyadip Das (5) lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy (6); Neelotpal Das (6) bt S. P. Sethuraman (5); Pravin Thipsay (6) bt Shyam Nikhil (5); G. Rohit (6) bt Dibyendu Barua (5); Abhijeet Gupta (6) bt Shashikant Kutwal (5); B. Adhiban (5.5) drew with S. Kidambi (5.5); Praveen Kumar (4.5) lost to Surya Shekhar Ganguly (5.5); Nassir Wajih (5.5) bt Abhijit Kunte (4.5); R. Balasubramanium (4.5) lost to Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb, 5.5); M. R. Lalith Babu (4.5) lost to M. R Venkatesh (5.5); Ravi Hegde (5.5) bt S. Vijayalakshmi (4.5); C. J. Arvind (5) drew with Niaz Murshed (Ban, 5); Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (5.5) bt Ram Prakash (4.5); Praful Mehta ( 4.5) lost to Sriram Jha (5.5); Sohan Phadke (4.5) lost to Saptarshi Roy (5.5); D. S. Negi (4.5) lost to Mahmood Lodhi (Pak, 5.5); G. N. Gopal (5) bt Fenil Shah (4.5); Emamul Hossain (Ban, 5) bt K. Priyadarshan (4); G. B. Prakash (5) bt Arvinder Preet Singh (4); S. Satyapragyan (5) bt Sahaj Grover (4); J. Sridhar (4) lost to K. Ratnakaran (5); Walaa Sarwat (Egy, 5) bt V. S. Negi (4); D. Lakshmanrao (4) lost to Roktim Bandyopadhyay (5); P. D. S. Girinath (5) bt Swayams Mishra (4); Anwesh Upadhayay (4.5) drew with Chandrashekhar Gokhale (4.5).

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