Sharma close to achieving IM norm

DUBAI, APRIL 24. With a creditable draw against Grandmaster Neverov Valery of Ukraine in 42 moves from an opposite Colour Bishop middle game, Dinesh Kumar Sharma of India moved a step closer in achieving the coveted International Master norm when he took his tally to 4 points.

Sharma needs 1.5 points from the remaining two games to achieve the international master feat.

T.S. Ravi upset GM Sergey Arkhipov (Russia) in 32 moves from a modern defence. The crucial victory gave Ravi a chance to gain Elo points. Ravi has already completed the IM title and when he reaches 2400 Elo rating, he will be awarded the title.

Sandipan Chanda lost a keenly-contested game against Kobalija Mihail (Russia) rated 2590 points while Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte was held to a draw by GM Safin Shukurat of Uzbekistan.

The top board matches ended in quick draws as GM Asrian Karen (Armenia), Jaan ehlvest (Estonia), Minisian Artashes (Armenia) and Vladimirov Evgeny (Russia) top the table with 5.5 points. A pack of 9 players is in the second spot with 5 points. GM Abhijit Kunte is one among this.

lThe results (seventh round): Asrian, Karen (5.5) drew with Jaan Ehlvest (5.5), Evgeny Vladimirov, Evgeny (5.5) bt Raouf Gadjily (4.5), Drazan Sermek, (5) drew with Aleksej Alexandrov (5), Abhijit Kunte (5) drew with Shukrat Safin (5), Artashes Minasian (5.5) bt Dusko Pavasovic (4.5), Andrei Kharlov (4.5) drew with Alexander Galkin (4.5), Alexander Motylev (5) bt Baadur Jobava (4), Alexander Volzhin (4.5) drew with Zurab Sturua (4.5), Andre Shariyazdanov (4.5) drew with Goran Dizdar (4.5), Alexei Fedorov (5) bt Maxim Sorokin (4), Mihail Kobalija (5) bt Chanda Sandipan (4), Evgenij Ermenkov (5) bt Alexey Kuzmin (4), Handszar Odeev (5) bt Igor V. Glek (4), Pavel Kotsur (4.5) bt Morteza Mahjoob (4), Evgeny Pigusov (4.5) bt Shojaat Ghane (3.5), Yuri Yakovich (4) drew with Imed Abdelnabbi (4), Ashot Anastasian (4.5) bt Fouad el Taher (3.5), Evgeny Sveshnikov (4.5) bt Srdjan Sale (3.5), Dinesh K. Sharma (4) drew with Valery Neverov (4), Elmar Magerramov (4) drew with C.S. Gokhale (4), Abdul Hameed el Arousy (4) drew with Orazly Annageldyev (4), Mohamad al-Modiakhi (4.5) bt Sayed Javad Alavi (3.5), Valerij Filippov (4) bt Khaled Mahdi (3), Thandalam S. Ravi (4) bt Sergey Arkhipov (3), Ahmed Hamed (4) bt Marat Dzhumaev (3), Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (4) bt Rahul Shetty (3), Rauf Mamedov (3.5) drew with Rufat Bagirov (3.5), Taher Vakhidov (4) bt Mohamed N. al Sayed (3), Farhad Tahirov (4) bt Akbar Alibaey (3), Moh. Bengafer (4) bt Mark Heidenfeld (3), A. Moussa Othman (4) bt Mansoor Abdullah (3), M. Sadatnajafi (4) bt R.B. Ramesh (2.5), Das Neelotpal (3.5) bt Mohamed Seif Hassan (2.5), Georgiy Li (3.5) bt Radik Asylguzhin (2.5), A.R. Saleh Jasim (3) drew with Nabil Saleh (3), Aris Ozolin (3.5) bt Rad Akhavan (2.5), Sergey Kayumov (3.5) bt Ghuloom Salem (2.5), Antonio Molina (3.5) bt Syed Aras Akbarinia (2.5), Hisham Al Argha (3) bt Abdo Somev (2), Jawad Ihsan (3) bt Abdul Latief Shabash (2), Mhamadreza Afshari (3) bt Kiril Kusnetsov (2), Ali Ghobadibaigan (3) bt Alshaali Khalid (2), Nabil E. Khechen (2.5) drew with Hasan Kolyaie (2.5), Nejad A. Ramezan (2.5) drew with Rabeea Othman (2), M. Sadegh Mahmoody (2.5) bt Vladimir Kase (1.5), G. Bahram Javanmard (2.5) bt Behna Fardbehbahani (1.5), Arif Zainal (2.5) bt Amirali Rahimi (1.5), Peter Straub (2) bt M. Essa Khori (1), Bidhendi Ghadiri (2) bt Abdulrahman Nizam (1).

- UNI

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