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Anand to play Aronian in final

CHESS / Sasikiran ties for Ordix rapid title, Hari Krishna sixth

NEW DELHI: As expected, Viswanathan Anand chose to reserve his energies ahead of the much-anticipated final of the World rapid chess championship against Armenian Levon Aronian and drew all league games played on Saturday at Mainz.

Anand, eyeing his seventh successive rapid title in the German town, topped the six-game league with four points, half a point ahead of Aronian. Anand will also be looking to avenge the close loss suffered to Aronian in the World Chess960 final on Friday.

Meanwhile, in the 11th and final round of the Ordix Open rapid tournament, K. Sasikiran overpowered David Navara in the just 20 moves to share the title with the Czech Grandmaster on Sunday. Navara, who went into the final round with a one-point lead was already assured of the title due to his superior tiebreak score.

After Sasikiran, Georgia’s Mikhail Mchedlishvili also reached 9.5 points after beating Russia’s Alexander Grischuk. Eventually Sasikiran was placed third.

In fact, P. Hari Krishna , who finished sixth with nine points, should have nailed Navara in the ninth round but was very unlucky to have lost on time after holding a rook for a knight in the endgame where the players had a pawn each in the top-table battle. Later, like Hari, Parimarjan Negi also won the last two rounds to aggregate 7.5 points.

In the Banyoles International Open in Banyoles, Spain, Deep Sengupta and Aswin Jayaram continued their winning sequence and shared the lead with six others at three points.

The results: World rapid championship: Sixth round: Viswanathan Anand (4) drew with Etienne Bacrot (Fra, 2); Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzb, 2.5) drew with Levon Aronian (Arm, 3.5); Fifth round: Aronian drew with Anand; Bacrot lost to Kasimdzhanov; Fourth round: Kasimdzhanov drew with Anand; Bacrot lost to Aronian.

Ordix Open rapid tournament (involving Indians): 11th round: David Navara (Cze, 9.5) lost to K. Sasikiran (9.5); P. Hari Krishna (9) bt Robert Ruck (Hun, 8); Hans-Joachim Vatter (Ger, 6.5) lost to Parimarjan Negi (7.5); 1 0th round: Sasikiran bt Vladimir Burmakin (Rus); Manuel Leon Hoyos (Mex) lost to Hari; Negi bt Ingrid Lauterbach (Ger); Ninth round: Hari lost to David Navara (Cze); Maximilian Meinhardt (Ger) lost to Sasikiran; Negi lost to Tillm an Vogler (Ger); Eighth round: Sasikiran drew with Florian Jenni (Sui); Zoltan Medvegy (Hun) lost to Hari; Stefan Reschke (Ger) drew with Negi; Seventh round: Hari drew with Fabian Dottling (Ger); Sebastian Siebrecht (Ger) lost to Sasikiran; Negi drew with Gernod Beckhuis (Ger); Sixth round: Igor Glek (Ger) lost to Hari; Sasikiran bt Markus Schaefer (Ger); Norman Schutze (Ger) lost to Negi; Fifth round: Hari drew with Artem Ilji n (Rus); Negi lost to Dirk Poldauf (Ger); Gunnar Schnepp (Aut) lost to Sasikiran; Fourth round: Sasikiran lost to Adam Horvath (Hun); Viesturs Meijers (Lat) lost to Hari; Markus Schaefer (Ger) drew with Negi; Third round: Olivier Moor (Sui) lost to Sasikiran; Hari bt Georg Legde (Ger); Negi bt Tom Weber (Lux).

Abu Dhabi Masters (involving Indians): Seventh round: Aleksej Alksandrov (Blr, 4.5) drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly (4.5); Sami Khader (Jor, 3.5) lost to K. Humpy (4.5); Sarhan Guliev (Aze, 4.5) bt Akshat Khamparia (3.5); Tejas Bakre ( 4) drew with G. N. Gopal (4); Aditya Udeshi (3.5) drew with Mikhail Ivanov (Rus, 3.5); M. R. Venkatesh (4) bt Abdul Hameed El Arousy (Egy, 3); Turkan Mamedjarova (Aze, 3) lost to S. Kidambi (2.5); B. Adhiban (3.5) received a walkover from Ghuloom Salem (UAE, 2.5); S. P. Sethuraman (3.5) bt Knarik Mouradian (Lib, 2.5).

Banyoles International Open (involving Indians): Third round: Mihail Marin (Rom, 2.5) drew with Nisha Mohota (2.5); Jasper Fischer-Nielsen (Den, 2) lost to Deep Sengupta (3); Michiel Larmuseau (Bel, 2) lost to Aswin Jayaram (3); Mancho n Juan Miguel Gonzalez (Esp, 1.5) drew with K. Priyadarshan (1.5).

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