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Gopal, Udeshi finish strongly

NEW DELHI: Grandmaster G.N. Gopal tied for the fourth spot in the Balaguer International Open chess tournament after winning the 10th round against Germany’s Roeder Matthias in Balaguer, Spain, on Wednesday.

Gopal, with seven points, had to settle for the fifth spot after the tie was broken. Venezuela’s Eduardo Iturrizaga pipped Bulgaria’s Kiril Georgiev on tiebreak score to claim the title after the two aggregated eight points.

National sub-junior champion Aditya Udeshi (6.5 points) signed off his stupendous run with a victory over teammate Deepthamsh Reddy and finished a highly creditable joint sixth before taking the eighth spot in this formidable field.

Devangi Patankar scored over Finland’s GM Heikki Westerinen as most Indians finished strongly.

Parimarjan posts win

Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi (5.5 points) came up with a brilliant tactical display to beat Sweden’s Stellan Brynell with black pieces and shared the second spot with five others after six rounds of the Politiken Cup chess tournament at Copenhagen.

Sasikiran held

Top seed K. Sasikiran (2.5 points) drew with Polish GM Bartlomiej Macieja in just 23 moves in the fifth round of the Najdorf memorial chess tournament at Warsaw.

The results (involving Indians):

Balaguer International (10th round): Roeder Matthias (Ger, 6) lost to G.N. Gopal (7); Joan Fluvia (Esp, 6.5) drew with K. Priyadharshan (6.5); Aditya Udeshi (6.5) bt Deepthamsh Reddy (5.5); Debashis Das (6) bt Lluis Quintas (Esp, 5); Fenil Shah (5) lost to Manuel Sicilia (Esp, 6); Shalmali Gagare (5.5) drew with Rakesh Kulkarni (5.5); Devangi Patankar (6) bt Heikki Westerinen (Fin, 4.5); J. Saranya (5.5) bt Rucha Pujari (4.5); Alberto Aranzana (Esp, 4) lost to Girish Koushik (5.5); Ramon Morales (Esp, 4) lost to R. Bharathi (5); Pallabi Roy (5) bt Jose Reves (Esp, 4); Shristi Shetty (5) bt Fermin Rodriguez (Esp, 4).

Indians’ standings: 5. Gopal, 8. Udeshi, 16. Priyadarshan, 23. Debashis, 26. Devangi, 30. Deepthamsh, 31. Shalmali, 33. Saranya, 35. Girish, 38. Rakesh, 39. Fenil, 42. Pallabi, 43. Bharathi, 50. Shristi, 52. Rucha.

Andorra International (fifth round): Daniyyl Dvirnyy (Ita, 3.5) drew with Chinmay Kulkarni (3.5); Shiven Khosla (3) lost to Joerg Wegerie (Ger, 4); Eesha Karavade (3.5) drew with Ricard Morros (Esp, 3.5); Aniruddha Deshpande (3) lost to Benjamin Bok (Ned, 4); Abhishek Kelkar (3.5) drew with Sabrina Vega (Esp, 3.5); Sai Meera (3) lost to Artur Kogan (Isr, 3.5); P. Priya (3) bt Manuel Garcia-Blazquez (Esp, 2); Aleix Jareno (Esp, 1.5) lost to Anuprita Patil (2.5).

Poleochora tournament (third round): Evgeniy Najer (Rus, 3) bt M.R. Venkatesh (2); D. Harika (2) lost to Vasilios Kotronias (Gre, 3); Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukr, 3) bt P. Konguvel (2); Saptarshi Roy (2.5) drew with Alberto David (Lux, 2.5); Abhijeet Gupta (2.5) drew with Arghyadip Das (2.5); Andrey Rychagov (Rus, 3) bt Prasanna Rao (2); Deep Sengupta (2.5) drew with Sahaj Grover (2.5); Tejas Bakre (3) bt Pavlos Katzourakis (Gre, 2); Ioannis Kalogeris (Gre, 1) lost to Arun Karthik (2); Antigoni Skaraki (Gre, 1) lost to Karma Pandya (2); Aswin Jayaram (1.5) bt Lampros Giannoulakis (Gre, 0.5).

Dutch Open (second round): B. Adhiban (2) bt Djurre Den Heeten (Ned, 1); Soumya Swaminathan (2) bt P. Karthikeyan (1); M.R. Lalith Babu (2) bt Dirk van Dooren (Ned, 1); Shyam Sundar (2) bt Tjerk van Blokland (Ned, 1); P. Uthra (0.5) lost to Henk van der Poel (Ned, 1.5); Shreyansh Daklia (1.5) bt S. Harini (0.5); Amir Nicolai (Ned, 0.5) lost to V.A.V. Rajesh (1.5); Padmini Rout (1.5) bt Stefan Beukema (Ned, 0.5); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (0.5) drew with Peter van den Bergh (Ned, 0.5); Heike Vogel (Ger, 0) lost to R. Meenu (1).

Sitges Open (first round): Enric Chalmeta (Esp) drew with Arun Prasad; S. Kidambi bt Antoni Roure (Esp); P. Magesh Chandran bt Jaume Rios (Esp); Vincenzo Costa (Esp) lost to S. Satyapragyan.

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