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Sandipan posts win

NEW DELHI: Sandipan Chanda displayed his endgame skills to outwit higher-rated Polish Grandmaster Bartlomiej Macieja and share the lead with USA’s Gregory Kaidanov at 2.5 points after three rounds of the Gausdal Classics chess tournament at Gausdal, Norway, on Thursday.

Important results: Gausdal Classics (third round): Barltomiej Macieja (Pol, 1.5) lost to Sandipan Chanda (2.5); Vyacheslav Ikonnikov (Rus, 1) drew with G.N. Gopal (1.5); Gregory Kaidanov (USA, 2.5) bt Vasilios Kotronias (Gre, 1.5);

Ruy Lopez Masters (sixth round): K. Humpy (3.5) bt Manuel Perez Candelario (Esp, 1); Michael Adams (Eng, 5) bt Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 2.5); Hou Yifan (Chn, 2) lost to Zhang Pengxiang (Chn, 4);

Dubai Open (fifth round, involving Indians): Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr, 4) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (4); Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr, 3.5) drew with R.B. Ramesh (3.5); Aswin Jayaram (3) lost to Li Chao (Chn, 4); Tania Sachdev (3) lost to Valeriy Neverov (Ukr, 4); Frhat Ali (Egy, 4) bt Parimarjan Negi (3); R.R. Laxman (3.5) bt Omid Noroozi (Iri, 2.5); Lanka Ravi (2.5) lost to Mohammed Tissir (Mar, 3.5); Sohan Phadke (3.5) bt Sami Khader (Jor, 2.5); Zhang Jilin (Chn, 2.5) drew with Bhuvanesh Ramnath (2.5); Sabri Al Mahayri (Syr, 2) lost to Dinesh Kumar (3); Sahaj Grover (2.5) drew with Pouya Mari Ooriad (Iri, 2.5); Elena Partac (Mda, 2.5) drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy (2.5); K. Haridas (3) bt Debashis Das (2); C.J. Arvind (3) bt Mohammad Saud (UAE, 2); Praveen Kumar (2) lost to Naved Chaichi (Iri, 3).

Abdo Somoff (Lib, 2.5) drew with Shiven Khosla (2.5); Dargan Paul (Eng, 3) bt C. Natarajan (2); N. Srinath (3) w/o Robert Arellano (Phi, 2); Nisha Mohota (2.5) bt Obay Ali (Sub, 1.5); Mikhail Nedochetov (Rus, 2) drew with Swati Mohota (2).

Anuprita Patil (1.5) lost to Farhan Mohammad (Jor, 2.5); Tejas Ravichandran (2.5) bt Hossein Mohammad (UAE, 1.5); Suresh Kumar (2.5) bt Charles Kayle (Ple, 1.5); Leonid Gaponenko (Kaz, 1.5) lost to P.I. Johny (2.5); Sai Meera (1.5) drew with Sheer Mohammad (Brn, 1.5).

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