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Abhijeet, Negi, Ramesh among leaders

NEW DELHI: Grandmasters Abhijeet Gupta, Parimarjan Negi and R.B. Ramesh were among the 60 first round leaders of the 10th Dubai Open chess championship in Dubai on Sunday.

The results (first round, involving Indians): Gadir Guseinov (Aze) bt C. Natarajan; Sai Meera lost to Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iri); Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr) bt N. Srinath; Ahmed Adly (Egy) bt Bhuvanesh Ramnath; Pavel Kotsur (Kaz) bt Suresh Kumar; Abhijeet Gupta w.o. Samer Mehdi (Iri); Antonio Molina (Phi) lost to Parimarjan Negi; K. Haridas lost to Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz).

R. R. Laxman bt Swati Mohota; Husein Mroweh (Lib) lost to R. B. Ramesh; Julio Catalino Sadorra (Phi) bt Shiven Kholsa; Obay Ali (Sud) lost to Aswin Jayaram; Anuprita Patil lost to Logman Guliev (Aze); Tania Sachdev bt Ghazal Hakimifard (Iri); Wang Li (Chn) bt Tejas Ravichandran; Nisha Mohota lost to Khalil Al-Housa (Ple).

Lanka Ravi bt Qu Yanqiao (Chn); Ali Abdulkarim (UAE) lost to Dinesh Sharma; Sahaj Grover bt Fayeqa Bukhashem (UAE); Aarthie Ramaswamy bt Amal Abdulaziz (UAE); Eman Abdulaziz (UAE) lost to Debashis Das; C. J. Arvind bt Ali Abdulaziz (UAE); C. Praveen Kumar bt Ali Abdullah (UAE); Sohan Phadke bt Ayesha Eisa Al Zarooni (UAE).

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