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Sasikiran posts second win

NEW DELHI: Joint top seed K. Sasikiran showed signs of returning to form with a second straight victory even as fifth seed P. Hari Krishna's search for win continued after four rounds of the Aeroflot Open chess tournament in Moscow on Saturday.

Playing black, Sasikiran stopped Russia GM Sergej Dyachkov in 30 moves and reached 2.5 points. Russia's Evgeny Tomashevsky (4) also won with black pieces against Ukraine's Alexander Areshchenko to retain the lead.

Harika loses

D. Harika's unbeaten streak ended following her 39-move loss to Ukraine's Zahar Efimenko while Parimarjan Negi went down in 63 moves against this year's Corus `C' runner-up Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi.

In Group `B', where seven of the eight Indians emerged victorious, youngster Arun Karthik shared the lead with three others at 4.5 points.

The results (involving Indians): `A1' (fourth round): Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2.5) drew with Ni Hua (Chn, 2.5); D. Harika (2) lost to Zahar Efimenko (Ukr, 3); Sergej Dyachkov (Rus, 1.5) lost to K. Sasikiran (2.5); P. Hari Krishna (1.5) drew with Boris Savchenko (Rus, 1.5); Parimarjan Negi (1) lost to Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus, 2); S. Vijayalakshmi (1.5) drew with Thomas Luthar (Ger, 1.5).

`A2' (fourth round): Alexandre Danin (Rus, 3.5) bt Deepan Chakkravarthy (2.5); Benjamin Galstian (Arm, 2) lost to Abhijit Kunte (3); Le Quang Liem (Vie, 2.5) drew with G. Rohit (2.5); S. Meenakshi (2.5) drew with Gennady Tunik (Rus, 2.5); Tigran Kotanjian (Arm, 2) drew with G.N. Gopal (2); Dmitry Frolyanoc (Rus, 2.5) bt Deep Sengupta (1.5); S. Arun Prasad (1) lost to Jurij Tihonov (Blr, 2); Nikolay Konovalov (Rus, 1.5) bt Aswin Jayaram (0.5); Dmitry Batsanin (Rus, 1) drew with Tania Sachdev (1); Ilya Dudukin (Rus, 0.5) drew with Lanka Ravi (0.5).

`B' (fifth round): Arun Karthik (4.5) bt Florian Dinger (Ger, 3.5); Iokhan Doukhine (Rus, 3) lost to Suvrajit Saha (4); Dinesh Kumar Sharma (3.5) bt Viktoriya Tarasova (Rus, 2.5); Aarthie Ramaswamy (3.5) bt Yu Lie (Chn, 2.5); B. Adhiban (1.5) lost to Alexander A. Anoshkin (Rus, 2.5); Abhishek Das (2.5) bt Oswald Bindrich (Ger, 1.5); Nikolay Nazarov (Rus, 1.5) lost to Sahaj Grover (2.5); Padmini Rout (2) bt Ishaq Ahmed (UAE, 1).

`C' (fifth round): Mahima Rajmohan (3) lost to Viktor Statsenko (Rus, 4); Amruta Mokal (4) bt Timur Taysayev (Rus, 3); Xie Bowen (Chn, 3.5) drew with P. Priya (3.5); Shami Abdullaev (Aze, 2) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (3); Nikolay Simonyan (Kaz, 2) lost to P. Sivasankari (3).

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