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Abhijeet joint second; Ubilava leads

NEW DELHI: Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta moved into the joint second spot after beating Cuban International Master Maikel Gongora Reyes in the seventh round of the Benasque International Open chess tournament at Benasque, Spain, on Wednesday.

Eleven players with six points follow Viswanathan Anand’s former trainer Spain’s Elizbar Ubilava (6.5) who emerged as the sole leader following his top-board victory over fellow overnight joint leader Azerbaijan’s Nidjat Mamedov.

It proved a disappointing round for most of the leading Indians. Neelotpal Das lost to the fifth-seeded Canadian Kevin Spraggett on a day when youngsters B. Adhiban and S. P. Sethuraman also lost.

The results (seventh round, involving Indians):

Kevin Spraggett (Can, 6) bt Neelotpal Das (5); Abhijeet Gupta (6) bt Maikel Gongora Reyes (Cub, 5); Jordi Magem Badals (Esp, 6) bt B. Adhiban (5); Manuel Leon Hoyos (Mex, 5.5) bt S. P. Sethuraman (4.5).

Emilia Djingarova (Bul, 5) drew with D. Harika (5); Prasanna Rao (5) drew with Carlos Garcia Palermo (Ita, 5); Ilya Khmelniker (Isr, 4.5) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (5.5).

T. Abhay (4) lost to Azer Mirzoev (Aze, 5); Romain Edouard (Fra, 5) bt Kruttika Nadig (4); Jesus Penalosa Pinilla (Esp, 4) lost to R. B. Ramesh (5); R. Preethi (4) lost to Xavier Vila Gazquez (Esp, 5).

Bhakti Kulkarni (4) lost to Swapnil Dhopade (5); Jonathan Torres Tellez (Esp, 4) lost to Vishnu Prasanna (5); Manuel Cabanas Jimenez (Esp, 4) lost to M. R. Lalith Babu (5).

Alvar Lluis Alabedra (Esp, 4) lost to Shyam Sundar (5); Angelico Armando Camilo (Ang, 4.5) drew with K. Priyadarshan (4.5); Deep Sengupta (4.5) bt Jose Antonio Caleto Calderon (Esp, 3.5); Antonio Viani D’cunha (3.5) lost to Joaquin Miquel Antoli Royo (Esp, 4.5); Shalmali Gagare (3.5) lost to Nanko Dobrev (Bul, 4.5); P. Uthra (3.5) lost to Lazaro Lorenzo de la Reva (Esp, 4.5); Fco Javier Sanchez Carrasco (Sp, 3.5) lost to S. Meenakshi (4.5).

Mary Ann Gomes (4.5) bt Javier Corral Sierra (Esp, 3.5); S. Nitin (4.5) bt Aaron Bendayan Claros (Esp, 3.5); Devangi Patankar (4) drew with Jordi Coll Ortega (Esp, 4); A. Niji (4.5) bt Daniel Travesset Ribera (Esp, 3.5).

Pon N. Krithika (4) drew with Gabriel Garcia Salamero (Esp, 4); G. V. Sai Krishna (4) bt Galder Salterain Gonzalez (Esp, 3); Marcelo-Rafael Orfali (Ita, 4) bt S. V. Sathyapriya (3); Diego Ananos Palacios (Esp, 2) lost to C. P. Aatirah (3).

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