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Hari in joint second spot

NEW DELHI: A short draw with Poland’s Kamil Miton saw P. Hari Krishna slip to joint second spot behind leader Sergei Tiviakov after the sixth round of the Montreal International chess tournament in Montreal on Wednesday.

In what turned out to be the shortest game of the day, Hari settled for a 19-move peace treaty and raised his tally to four points. Tiviakov, one of the four overnight leaders, surged ahead of the pack after beating local hope Mark Bluvshtein.

At Balaguer, Spain, it was raining norms for the Indians in the Balaguer Open chess tournament that concluded on Wednesday.

National junior champion Abhijeet Gupta showed the way by reinforcing his claim on the final Grandmaster norm with an 11-move draw with Georgian GM Levan Aroshidze. Abhijeet’s tally of 7.5 points from 10 rounds also earned him the fourth place in the event.

The Bhilwara-lad, whose earlier norms came in the Andorra Open in Spain last year and in the Parsvnath International Open here in January this year, now needs to raise his rating from 2472 to 2500 for the title of GM.

Bulgaria’s Aleksander Delchev won the title on superior tiebreak score after being tied with Vinay Bhat at eight points.

Though official confirmation is awaited regarding Arun Karthik’s GM norm performance, and IM norm performances of National junior girls’ champion Soumya Swaminathan and Aswin Jayaram, Abhishek Das (IM) and Padmini Rout (WIM) emerged as the other norm makers.

In the Biel Masters, in Biel (Switzerland), Parimarjan Negi was among the five leaders with perfect scores after three rounds.

The 14-year-old defeated Frenchman Olivier Houhou to maintain his all-win record. However, D. Harika and S. Meenakshi lost to Grandmasters.

The results: Montreal International (sixth round): Kamil Miton (Pol, 3.5) drew with P. Hari Krishna (4); Mark Bluvshtein (Can, 2.5) lost to Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 4.5); Gata Kamsky (USA, 4) drew with Emil Sutovsky (Isr, 2); Pavel Eljano v (Ukr, 3.5) drew with Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr, 4); Pascal Charbonneau (Can, 1.5) bt Nigel Short (Eng, 0.5). Quebec Open (sixth round, involving Indians): Sandipan Chanda (4) drew with Anton Kovalyov (Arg, 4); Thomas Roussel Roozman (Can , 4) drew with Abhijit Kunte (4).

Balaguer Open (10th round, involving Indians): Abhijeet Gupta (7.5) drew with Levan Aroshidze (Geo, 7.5); Aswin Jayaram (7) drew with Mathias Roeder (Ger, 7); R. Arun Karthik (7) bt B. Adhiban (6); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (5.5) lost to A rkadij Rotsein (Ger, 6.5); Kruttika Nadig (5.5) lost to Logman Guliev (Ger, 6.5); March Pedro Mascaro (Esp, 5.5) lost to Abhishek Das (6.5); Dinesh Sharma (6.5) bt T. Purushothaman (5.5); Rashad Babaev (Aze, 6) bt Soumya Swaminathan (5); Ana Matnadze (Geo, 6) bt Sahaj Grover (5); Padmini Rout (5.5) bt L. Iswarya Shobana (5); Porta Angel Lazaro (Esp, 4.5) lost to Devangi Patankar (5.5).

Indians’ final standings: 4. Abhijeet, 7. Arun, 12. Aswin, 19. Abhishek, 25. Dinesh, 29. Adhiban, 36. Padmini, 43. Kiran, 44. Purushothaman, 50. Kruttika, 51. Devangi, 54. Soumya, 56. Sahaj, 62. Iswarya.

Biel Masters (third round, involving Indians): D. Harika (2) lost to Misho Cebalo (Cro, 3); Sebastien Maze (Fra, 3) bt S. Meenakshi (2); Parimarjan Negi (3) bt Oliver Houhou (Fra, 2); Christian Bauer (Fra, 2.5) bt S. Arun Prasad (1.5); Deepan Chakkravarthy (2) bt Neboisa Illijin (Rou, 1); Ireneusz Lada (Pol, 1.5) drew with Suvrajit Saha (1.5); Swati Ghate (2) bt Niek Oud (Ned, 1); Oliver Liepins (Lat, 0.5) lost to Amrutha Mokal (1.5).

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