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Krasenkow wins Mayor’s Cup

MUMBAI: Notwithstanding a hard-fought 79-move loss to Uzbek youngster Anton Filipov, Poland’s Michal Krasenkow topped a six-way tie to win the Mayor’s Cup International Open chess title here on Monday.

Rarely have the top eight boards produced decisive battles in the final round of an Open event in India. As a result, second seed K. Humpy managed to justify her seeding following a 27-move victory over M.S. Thejkumar.

Ziaur Rahman, Abhijit Kunte, Filipov and Saidali Iuldachev finished in that order behind Humpy after six players tied for the title with nine points from 11 rounds.

The results (Indians unless stated):

11th round: Anton Filipov (Uzb, 9) bt Michal Krasenkow (Pol, 9); K. Humpy (9) bt M.S. Thejkumar (8); Abhijit Kunte (9) bt Anup Deshmukh (8); Ram S. Krishnan (8) lost to Ziaur Rahman (Ban, 9); Merab Gaganashvili (Geo, 7.5) lost to Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb, 9); Macieja Bartlomiej (Pol, 8.5) bt Saptarshi Roy (7.5); Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban, 8.5) bt P. Konguvel (7.5); Reefan Bin Sattar (Ban, 7.5) lost to Somak Palit (8.5); D.P. Singh (8) drew with Arun Prasad (8).

Tejas Bakre (8) drew with B.T. Muralikrishnan (8); S. Satyapragyan (8) drew with Vishnu Prasanna (8); R.R. Laxman (8) bt P. Shyam Nikhil (7.5); J. Ramakrishna (7) lost to K. Ratnakaran (8); Debashis Das (8) bt Sriram Jha (7); Praveen Kumar (7) lost to Himanshu Sharma (8); G.B. Joshi (7) lost to Swapnil Dhopade (8); Soumyaranjan Mishra (7) lost to Swati Ghate (8).

Final standings: 1-6: Krasenkow, Humpy, Rahman, Kunte, Filipov, Iuldachev (9 each); 7-9: Abdulla, Macieja, Palit (8.5 each); 10-27: Thejkumar, Bakre, Laxman, Deep, Arun, Ram Krishnan, Murali Krishnan, Swapnil, D.P. Singh, Debashis, Ratnakaran, Satyapragyan, Atanu, Deshmukh, Prasanna, Swati, Himanshu and Shyam Sundar (8 each).