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Laxman, Harika are Commonwealth champions

Rakesh Rao

CHAMPIONS ALL: The winners in the Commonwealth chess championship on Tuesday. From left: Pavel Maletin, D. Harika and R.R. Laxman.

GHAZIABAD: Russia's Pavel Maletin won the Commonwealth chess title following a 31-move draw against M.R. Lalith Babu while runner-up R.R. Laxman led an Indian sweep of the Commonwealth medals here on Tuesday.

Though Maletin and Laxman tied for the title on nine points after 11 rounds, the former's superior tie-break score made him the champion and Laxman walked away with the Commonwealth gold medal.

Best Indian on show

Laxman outplayed Argentina's Pablo Lafuente with the black pieces to emerge the best Indian on view.

The women's title when to D. Harika, who topped a three-way tie at 7.5 points with roommate Tania Sachdev and S. Meenakshi.

Meanwhile, a written protest by Chennai lad N. Srinath was upheld andhe was awarded the under-16 bronze medal.

The results (Indians unless stated):

11th round: Pavel Maletin (Rus, 9) drew with M.R. Lalith Babu (8.5); Abhijeet Gupta (8.5) drew with Dmitry Bocharov (Rus, 8.5); Pablo Lafuente (Arg, 8) lost to R. R. Laxman (9); Abhijit Kunte (8) drew with Alexey Dreev (Rus, 8); Tejas Bakre (8) drew with Parimarjan Negi (8); Eltaj Safarli (Aze, 8) bt Prasanna Rao (7.5); N. Srinath (7.5) drew with Dmitry Kokarev (Rus, 7.5); Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukr, 7) lost to Mahmood Lodhi (Pak, 8); Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz, 7.5) drew with Shyam Sundar (7.5); Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb, 8) bt Gurpreet Pal Singh (7); Suvrajit Saha (7) lost to Enamul Hossain (Ban, 8); Ramnath Bhuvanesh (7) lost to Aswin Jayaram (8); S. Nitin (8) bt Anwesh Upadhayaya (7); Sahaj Grover (8) bt K. Priyadharshan (7); P. Konguvel (8) bt Sayantan Das (7); Debashis Das (7.5) drew with Shakil Abu Sufian (Ban, 7.5); G.V. Sai Krishna (7.5) drew with Tania Sachdev (7.5); Girish Koushik (8) bt Swayams Mishra (7); Vinay Kumar Matta (7.5) drew with B. Adhiban (7); Anton Kovalyov (Arg, 7) drew with Vaibhav Suri (7).

Standings: Open: 1-2. Maletin, Laxman, 3-5, Abhijeet, Bocharov, Babu, 6-15. Negi, Dreev, Bakre, Safarli, Aswin, Nitin, Kunte, Lafuente, Konguvel and Hossain.

Commonwealth: Open: 1. R. R. Laxman (9 points), 2. Abhijeet Gupta (8.5), 3. M. R. Lalith Babu (8.5). Women: 1. D. Harika (7.5), 2. Tania Sachdev (7.5), 3. Subbaraman. Meenakshi (7.5). Under-20: Open: 1. M. R. Lalith Babu (8.5), 2. Parimarjan Negi (8), 3. Ashwin Jayaram (8). Girls: 1. R. Preethi (6.5), 2. A. Sithalatchumi (6.5), 3. Bhakti Kulkarni (6). Under-18: Open: 1. S. Nitin (8), 2. Debashis Das (7.5), 3. Shyam Sundar (7.5). Girls: 1. Devangi Patankar (6), 2. J. Saranya (6), 3. C.H. Savetha (6). Under-16: Open: 1. Sahaj Grover (8), 2. Prasanna Rao (7.5), 3. N. Srinath (7.5). Girls: 1. Padmini Rout (6), 2. Rucha Pujari (6), 3. Arunima Kalra (6). Under-14: Open: 1. Girish Koushik (8), 2. G. V. Sai Krishna (7.5), 3. Vaibhav Suri (7). Girls: 1. Pratyusha Bodda (6.5), 2. P.V. Nandhidhaa (6), 3. P. Michelle Catherina (5.5). Under-12: Open: 1. Sidhant Mohapatra (6.5), 2. S. L. Narayanan (6), 3. Hetul Shah (6). Girls: 1. Sunyasakta Satpathy (6.5), 2. Ivana Furtado (5.5), 3. G.K. Monnisha (5.5).

Under-10: Open: 1. Aryan Chopra (5.5), 2. Y. Grahesh (5), 3. Nitish Belurkar (5). Girls: 1. Darling Tiffany Charne (5), 2. Sivanesan Nithyalakshmi (4.5), 3. Tejaswini Sagar (4).

Under-8: Open: 1. Saurabh Anand (4.5), 2. P. Iniyan (4.5), 3. Subhasis Barik (4). Girls: 1. Palkin Kaur (3), 2. Adyasa Mahapatra (3), 3. Yahaya Nur Islamurni (3) .

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