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Rohit makes maiden GM norm

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NEW DELHI: Continuing a dream run, G. Rohit attained his maiden Grandmaster norm in great style when he toppled former joint champion and Uzbek GM Saidali Iuldachev to share the lead after eight rounds of the Parsvnath International Open chess tournament at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here on Saturday.

Rohit, top-seeded Russian Alexey Dreev and Egypt's Ahmed Adly tallied seven points after resounding victories. Dreev stopped Pravin Thipsay and Adly raced away to his fourth successive victory at the expense of Uzbek Shukhrat Safin.

Rohit, who tamed GMs Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Dibyendu Barua earlier in the week, added the name of Iuldachev to his list of victims with a 42-move victory to make a nine-game norm with a round to spare.

The scores: Eighth round (Indians unless stated): Alexey Dreev (Rus, 7) bt Pravin Thipsay (6); Shukhrat Safin (Uzb, 6) lost to Ahmed Adly (Egy, 7); Deepan Chakkravarthy (6.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (6.5); Neelotpal Das (6.5) drew with S. Arun Prasad (6.5); Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb, 5.5) lost to G. Rohit (7); Sriram Jha (6) drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly (6); Yuri Dorzdovskij (Ukr, 6) dew with Himanshu Sharma (6); Saptarshi Roy (5.5) lost to Ziaur Rehman (Ban, 6.5); Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban, 6) drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (6); M.R. Venkatesh (6.5) bt Nassir Wajih (5.5); S. Kidambi (6) drew with Ravi Hegde (6); Ezat Mohammed (Egy, 5.5) lost to B. Adhiban (6.5); Mahmood Lodhi (Pak, 5.5) lost to Enamul Hossain (Ban, 6); Dibyendu Barua (6) bt N. Sudhakar Babu (5); P. Shyam Nikhil (5) lost to Niaz Murshed (Ban, 6); Preetham Sharma (5.5) drew with G.N. Gopal (5.5); Poobesh Anand (6) bt C.J. Arvind (5); Arnold Essing (Ger, 5.5) drew with G.B. Prakash (5.5); Gurpreet Pal Singh (5.5) drew with S. Satyapragyan (5.); K. Ratnakaran (6) bt Debaraj Chatterjee (5); Shashikant Kutwal (5) lost to Walaa Sarwat (6); T. Purushothaman (5.5) drew with Arghyadip Das (5.5); S.P. Sethuraman (5) lost to Aditya Udeshi (6); Roktim Bandyopadhyay (6) bt Mohammad Irshad (5); Mohammad Ali (5) lost to P.D.S. Girinath (6); Naveen Hegde (5) lost to Swapnil Dhopade (6); Vikramaditya Kamble (6) bt Debashish Das (5); Abhijit Kunte (5.5) bt Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (5); S. Vijayalakshmi (5.5) bt Praful Mehta (4.5); Prathamesh Mokal (5.5) bt Manthan Chokshi (4.5).

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