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Mary Ann stuns Levin

NEW DELHI: Two-time Asian junior girls champion Mary Ann Gomes stunned seventh seed German Grandmaster Felix Levin while Abhijeet Gupta drew with third seed Bulgarian Aleksander Delchev in the eighth round of the Balaguer International Open chess tournament at Balaguer, Spain, on Tuesday.

Kruttika Nadig provided another encouraging result when she held 15th-seeded International Master Aleksandar Colovic.

In the Canadian Open in Montreal, K. Ratnakaran proved equal to fifth seeded Lithuanian GM Eduardas Rozentalis in 74 moves.

Ramesh starts well

In the Biel Open at Biel, Switzerland, GM R.B. Ramesh made a winning start but youngster N. Srinath unexpectedly lost.

Meanwhile, in the Politiken Cup at Copenhagen, Aswin Jayaram drew in the fourth round while Tania Sachdev lost.

The results (involving Indians):

Balaguer International (eighth round): Abhijeet Gupta (6) drew with Aleksander Delchev (Bul, 6); Levan Aroshidze (Geo, 6) bt Swapnil Dhopade (5); Mary Ann Gomes (5.5) bt Felix Levin (Ger, 4.5); Kruttika Nadig (5) drew with Aleksandar Colovic (Mkd, 5); Oussama Adel Lahchaichi (Esp, 5.5) bt Deep Sengupta (4.5); Alexander Ipatov (Ukr, 5) drew with M.R. Lalith Babu (5); G.V. Sai Krishna (4.5) drew with Karolina Ortiz Nadya (Col, 4.5); Devangi Patankar (4) lost to Boris Bruned (Esp, 5); Alexis Douriet (Cub, 5) bt Vishnu Prasanna (3.5); Joan Gensana Berzunces (Esp, 3.5) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (4.5); Angel Lazaro Porta (Esp, 3.5) lost to T. Abhay (4.5); Jose Codina Garcia (Esp, 3.5) lost to C. P. Aatirah (4.5); Manuel Sicilia Ruiz (Esp, 4.5) bt S.V. Sathyapriya (3.5).

Canadian Open (third round): Eduardas Rozentalis (Ltu, 2) drew with K. Ratnakaran (2); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (1.5) lost to Thomas Roussel-Roozmon (Can, 2); Arun Prasad (2) drew with Abhijit Kunte (2); Walter Arencibia (Cub, 2.5) bt Eesha Karavade (1.5); M. R. Venkatesh (2) bt Shiyam Thavandiran (Can, 1); John Bartholomew (USA, 2) bt Kiran Manisha Mohanty (1); Andrei Gulko (Can, 1) lost to Nisha Mohota (2); Swati Ghate (2) bt Maurice Poulin (Can, 1); Sai Meera (0.5) lost to Sylvain Barbeau (Can, 1.5).

Politiken Cup (fourth round): Yurij Kuzubov (Ukr, 3.5) drew with Aswin Jayaram (3.5); Tania Sachdev (3) lost to Boris Savchenko (Rus, 4).

Biel International (first round): Gonaloans De Andres (Esp) lost to R.B. Ramesh; Niek Oud (Ned) bt N. Srinath.

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