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Abhijeet, Sandipan keep winning

NEW DELHI: World junior champion Abhijeet Gupta and fellow Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda scored their third successive victory to be among the leaders after three rounds of the Kavala International Open chess tournament in Kavala, Greece, on Sunday.

On a lower board, Mumbai-lad Prasanna Rao did well to hold Romanian GM Mircea Parligras to a draw and reach two points.

Gopal loses

Grandmaster G. N. Gopal lost to fellow overnight leader Poland’s Wojciech Moranda in the third round of the Young Masters chess

tournament at Enschede, in the Netherlands, on Sunday.

Gopal, with two points, shares the third spot with Dutchman Twan Burg in this 18-player tournament.

Adhiban, Shyam lead

International Masters B. Adhiban and Shyam Sundar were among the 14 leaders with three points after three rounds of the Hogeschool Zeeland chess tournament at Vlissingen, Holland, on Sunday.

The results (involving Indians):

Kavala International Open (third round): Nikolai Chadaev (Rus, 2.5) drew with K. Humpy (2.5); Slavoljub Marjanovic (Srb, 2) lost to Sandipan Chanda (3); Abhijeet Gupta (3) bt Sopiko Khukhashvili (Geo, 2); Robert Hess (USA, 3) bt Aswin Jayaram (2); Andrei Deviatkin (Rus, 2) drew with D. Harika (2).

Prasanna Rao (2) drew with Mircea Parligras (Rou, 2); S. Arun Prasad (2) drew with Konstantinos Markidis (Gre, 2); Dejan Antic (Srb, 2.5) bt Arun Karthik (1.5); Ilarion Dorfanis (Gre, 1) lost to Deep Sengupta (2); Ekaterina Fakhridou (Gre, 1.5) drew with Swati Mohota (1.5).

Hogeschool Zeeland Open (third round): V. A. V. Rajesh (2) lost to Andrey Vovk (Ukr, 3); Padmini Rout (2) lost to B. Adhiban (3); Jelle Sarrau (Bel, 2.5) drew with M. R. Lalith Babu (2.5).

Kiran Manisha Mohanty (2) lost to Manuel Bosboom (Ned, 3); Pieter Reyniers (Bel, 2) lost to Shyam Sundar (3); P. Karthikeyan (2.5) bt Charles Kuijpers (Ned, 1.5); R. Meenu (2) drew with Marc Lacrosse (Bel, 2); S. Harini (1) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (2).

Second round: Adhiban bt Sven Stange (Ned); Mark Timmermans (Ned) drew with Karthikeyan; Lalith bt Joey Grochal (Ned).

Shyam bt Erik van Eijndhoven (Ned); Hicham Boulahfa (Ned) lost to Rajesh; Eduard Leinwand (Ned) lost to Padmini; Ivo Timmermans (Ned) drew with Meenu; Arlette van Weersel (Ned) bt Harini; Jonas van Cappellen (Bel) lost to Kiran; Soumya bt Amanda Hijweegen (Ned).

Badalona International Open (second round): Chinmay Kulkarni (1.5) drew with Cristhian Cruz (Per, 1.5); Daniel Moreno (Esp, 1) lost to S. Kidambi (2); P. Magesh Chandran (2) bt Adrian Randazzo (Ita, 1); Alexander Ipatov (Esp, 2) bt Aniruddha Deshpande (1); S. Satyapragyan (2) bt Vadim Matsenko (Rus, 1).

Abhishek Kelkar (1) lost to Pablo Garcia (Esp, 2); P. Priya (1) drew with Evgenij Kalegin (Rus, 1); Sai Meera (1) bt Jordi Bada Navarra (Esp, 0); Antonio Barroso (Esp, 0) lost to Anuprita Patil (1).

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