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Parimarjan Negi wins Politiken Cup

Parimarjan beat ninth-seeded Berg in 28 moves
Sethuraman finishes ninth

NEW DELHI: In a sensational finish, 16-year-old Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi won the Politiken Cup chess title at Copenhagen on Sunday.

Starting the 10th and final round in joint second place with three others, including teammate S.P. Sethuraman, 12th seeded Parimarjan destroyed ninth-seeded Swede Emannuel Berg in just 28 moves on the second board before Israel’s Boris Avrukh inflicted a surprise 36-move defeat on overnight leader Russia’s Vladimir Malakhov.

As a result, Parimarjan and Avrukh, seeded seven, tied for the title with 8.5 points. Parimarjan was declared the winner due to superior tiebreak score. Malakhov took the third spot after heading a four-player tie at eight points.

In the penultimate round on Saturday, Parimarjan drew in just 10 moves with Malakhov before Sethuraman stunned Russian GM Alexei Dreev in 38 moves. However, in the final round, second seed Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark) stopped Sethuraman in 26 moves. Sethuraman settled for the ninth place.

The results (involving Indians): Andorra International (eighth round): Yaacov Zilberman (Isr, 5.5) bt Chinmay Kulkarni (4.5); Mark Berkovich (Isr, 5) drew with Shiven Khosla (5); David Monell (Esp, 5) drew with Eesha Karavade (5); Benjamin Bok (Ned, 5.5) bt Sai Meera (4.5); Anuprita Patil (4.5) drew with Aniruddha Deshpande (4.5); Jose Joaquin Bas Mas (Esp, 4) lost to P. Priya (5); Antonio Angel Barruz (Esp, 3.5) lost to Abhishek Kelkar (4.5).

Paleochora Open (sixth round): David Alberto (Lux, 4.5) drew with Tejas Bakre (4.5); D. Harika (4.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (4.5); M.R. Venkatesh (4) lost to Robert Fontain (Fra, 5); Erik Hedman (Swe, 4.5) drew with Deep Sengupta (4.5); Arghyadip Das (5) bt Kateryna Lahno (Ukr, 4); Sahaj Grover (4) bt Georgios Souleidis (Gre, 4); Konstantinos Ignatiadis (Gre, 4) drew with Aswin Jayaram (4); P. Konguvel (4.5) bt Ioannis Stavrianakis (Gre, 3.5); Ludmila Tsfanskaya (Isr, 3) lost to Saptarshi Roy (4); Arun Karthik (4) bt Emanouel Fragiadakis (Gre, 3); Karma Pandya (4) bt Markus Reich (Ger, 3); Prasanna Rao (3.5) bt Andriano Andrenelli (Ita, 2.5).

Dutch Open (fifth round): Erwin L’Ami (Ned, 4) bt Shyam Sundar (3); Sander van Eijk (Ned, 3) lost to B. Adhiban (4); Grigori Kodenstov (Ned, 3.5) bt Kiran Manisha Mohanty (2.5); P. Karthikeyan (2.5) drew with Thijs Laarhoven (Ned, 2.5); Jaap Vogel (Ned, 2) lost to M.R. Lalith Babu (3); Joost van Rosmalen (Ned, 2.5) drew with Soumya Swaminathan (2.5); V.A.V. Rajesh (3) bt Tobias Kabos (Ned, 2); Padmini Rout (2) lost to Peter Ypma (Ned, 2); Koen Lambrechts (Ned, 2) drew with Shreyansh Daklia (2); R. Meenu (2) drew with Ewoud de Groote (Ned, 2); S. Harini (2.5) bt Paul-Peter Theulings (Ned, 1.5); P. Uthra (1) lost to Rob van Helvoort (Ned, 2).

Sitges Open (fourth round): S. Satyapragyan (4) bt Jose Gonzales (Mex, 3); Santiago Beltran (Esp, 4) bt Magesh Chandran (3); S. Arun Prasad (3.5) bt Enrique Fernandez (Esp, 3); Jens Dehmel (Ger, 2) lost to S. Kidambi (3).

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