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Eesha eyes IM norm

Girinath and Harika suffer reverses

NEW DELHI: Eesha Karavade moved with a draw of making her final International Master norm after a much-needed victory over Iran's Mehdi Mahdavirad in the eighth and penultimate round of the Dubai Open chess tournament on Sunday.

On a day when Grandmaster norm-aspirants P.D.S. Girinath and D. Harika lost, K. Humpy drew with Georgia's Zurab Sturua and Tejas Barke held Armenian Tigran Petrosian.

Azerbaijan's Gadir Guseinov, the conqueror of Girinath, and Georgia's Levan Pantsulaia share the lead at six points with one round remaining in the $45,000 event.

The results (eighth round, involving Indians): Gadir Guseinov (Aze, 6.5) bt P.D.S. Girinath (5.5); K. Humpy (5.5) drew with Zurab Sturua (Geo, 5.5); Ashot Anastasian (Arm, 6) bt D. Harika (5); Artashes Minasian (Arm, 5.5) bt R.B. Ramesh (5); Tejas Bakre (5) drew with Tigran Petrosian (Arm, 5); S. eenakshi (4.5) lost to G.N. Gopal (5.5); Kruttika Nadig (5) bt Tissr Mohamed (Egy, 4); Salem Saleh (UAE, 4.5) drew with S. Kidambi (4.5); Sitanggang Salor (Ina, 5) bt M.R. Lalith Babu (4); B. Adhiban (5) bt Raes Abdulqader (Syr, 4); Mehdi Mahdavirad (Iri, 4) lost to Eesha Karavade (5); Shayesteh Ghader Pour (Iri, 4) lost to Vikramaditya Kamble (5); Shirin Navabi (Iri, 4.5) drew with S.P. Sethuraman (4.5); Aditya Udeshi (3.5) lost to Asghar Golizadeh (Iri, 4.5); Sahaj Grover (4.5) bt Mario Sandhu (Ina, 3.5); Mitra Hejazipour (Iri, 4) drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy (4); N. Srinath (3.5) drew with Asim Obeed Ali (Sud, 3.5); Prasanna Rao (3.5) bt Michael Klyszcz (Ger, 2.5); Shiven Khosla (2) lost to Saleh Yahya Mohamed (UAE, 3).

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