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Petrosian triumphs

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KOLKATA: Grandmaster Tigran Petrosian of Armenia won the second Kolkata Open international chess tournament and the first prize of $4,500 here at the Gorky Sadan on Tuesday. He drew his 10th round game against GM Dimitri Komarov of Ukraine to end with eight points.

The 22-year-old graduate, currently serving the mandatory two years in the Armenian army, had a quick eight-move draw on the top board leaving others to fight it out for the other placing.

Top seed Sergei Tiviakov of the Netherlands defeated GM Abhijit Kunte in 61 moves to tie for the second position with GM Darmen Sadvakasov of Kazakhstan. A better tie-break score enabled the Dutch to occupy the second spot. Sadvakasov was third.

Two Indians, IM Sriram Jha and Geetha Narayanan Gopal, ended a creditabe fourth and fifth respectively. Both had confirmed their first GM norm on Monday. National champion GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly was seventh by virtue of his long-drawn victory against GM Mikhail Kekelidze of Georgia.

Important results (Indians, unless mentioned): Dimitri Komarov (Ukr) (7) drew with Tigran Petrosian (Arm) (8); Alon Greenfeld (Isr) (6.5) drew with Darmen Sadvakasov (Kaz) (7.5); Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) (7.5) bt Abhijit Kunte (6); S.S. Ganguly (7) bt Mikhail Kekelidze (Geo) (6); Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) (7) beat IM S. Vijayalakshmi (6); Sundararajan Kidambi (6) lost to Sriram Jha (7); G.N. Gopal (7) bt Safin Shukhrat (Uzb) (6).

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