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Gopal in sole lead; Kunte wins

Gopal beats Armenian Grandmaster Tigran Kotanjian
Humpy defeats Bojkov, emerges sole leader

NEW DELHI: International Master G.N. Gopal continued his dream run by beating Armenian Grandmaster Tigran Kotanjian and taking the sole lead at 3.5 points after five rounds of the Lake Sevan International chess tournament at artuni in Armenia on Tuesday.

Gopal’s victory with black pieces earned him a half-point lead over Ukraine’s IM Yuri Yovk, Poland’s GM Bartlomiej and Armenia’s GM Tigran Petrosian.

At Differdange (Luxembourg), second seed Koneru Humpy defeated Bulgaria’s Dejan Bojkov to emerge as the sole leader with 4.5 points after the fifth round of Kaupthing Open. G. Rohit reached 3.5 points after beating Germany’s Maxim Lorman.

In the Benasque Open in Benasque, Spain, youngster Abhishek Das stunned Romanian Grandmaster Mihai Suba to join R. B. Ramesh and Abhijeet Gupta at five points after six rounds.

In the Canadian Open at Ottawa, Abhijit Kunte moved to 3.5 points after scoring over Canada’s David Begoray in 30 moves. Sandipan Chanda joined Kunte following a draw with Canada’s Thomas Roussel Roozman. Twelve players lead at four points while Kunte and Chanda are part of the 32-player pack that follows the leaders.

The results:

At Benasque (sixth round): Aswin Jayaram (4.5) drew with Nidjat Mamedov (Aze, 4.5); Mihai Suba (Rom, 4) lost to Abhishek Das (5); Jorge Cabrera Trujillo (Esp, 4) lost to Abhijeet Gupta (5); R.B. Ramesh (5) bt Jesus Cortes Lizano (Esp, 4); Marcos Llaneza Vega (Esp, 4) drew with Kruttika Nadig (4); Tania Sachdev (4.5) bt Boris Bruned (Esp, 3.5); T. Purushothaman (3.5) lost to Heikki Westerinen (Fin, 4.5); Alberto Chueca Forcen (Esp, 3.5) lost to Dinesh Kumar Sharma (4.5); Soumya Swaminathan (4) drew with Jose Ramon Perez (Esp, 4); R. Arun Karthik (3.5) lost to Sahaj Grover (4.5); Deepan Chakkravarthy (4) bt Jose Moreno de la Fuente (Esp, 3); Eneko Wu Martin (Esp, 3.5) drew with Eesha Karavade (3.5); Jose Antonio Diaz Rodriguez (Esp, 3) drew with Devangi Patankar (3); L. Shobana Iswarya (3.5) bt Miguel Angel Munoz Jorva (Esp, 2.5).

At Differdange (Luxembourg) (fifth round): K. Humpy (4.5) bt Dejan Bojkov (Bul, 3.5); G. Rohit (3.5) bt Maxim Lorman (Ger, 2.5).

At Ottawa (Canada) (fifth round): David Begoray (Can, 2.5) lost to Abhijit

Kunte (3.5); Sandipan Chanda (3.5) drew with Thomas Roussel Roozmon (Can, 2.5).

At Martuni (Armenia) (fifth round): Tigran Kotanjian (Arm, 1.5) lost to G. N. Gopal (3.5); Avetik Grigoryan (Arm, 1.5) lost to Tigran Petrosian (Arm, 3); Hrant Melkumyan (Ar, 2) lost to Li Chao (Chn, 2.5); Yuri Vovk (Ukr, 3) drew with Arman Pashikian (Arm, 2.5); Bartlomiej Macieja (Pol, 3) bt David Arutinian (Geo, 2.5).

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