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Eesha holds Tomas

OLOMOUC (CZECH REPUBLIC), AUG. 8. Pune-girl Eesha Karavade proved equal to fourth-seeded Czech Grandmaster Tomas Laubsch in the third round of the Olomouc Open as Tejas Bakre, R.B. Ramesh and S. Kidambi remained among the leaders here on Saturday.

The results (Indians unless stated):

GM Skanska Cup (fifth round): Pavel Simacek (Cze) (1.5) lost to Patryk Lagowski (Pol) (3); Richard Biolek (Cze) (2) bt Timur Balabaev (Kaz) (1); Evgeny Postny (Isr) (3) drew with Abhijit Kunte (3.5); Jerzy Slaby (Pol) (1.5) lost to Jiri Jirka (Cze) (2.5); Jan Bernasek (Cze) (0.5) lost to Vlastimil Babula (Cze) (4); Gediminas Sarakauskas (Ltu) (3.5) drew with Victor Laznicka (Cze) (4).

IM Proclient Cup (fifth round): Ladislav Salai (Svk) (3) bt Tania Sachdev (3); David Kanovsky (Cze) (3) drew with Roman Chytilek (Cze) (3); Martin Tupy (Cze) (1) lost to D. Ben Savage (Eng) (2.5); Charles Kennaugh (Eng) (2.5) drew with Martin Kraemer (Ger) (3); Parimarjan Negi (0.5) drew with Richard Biolek Jr. (Cze) (1); Rauan Mankeyev (Kaz) (4) bt Alexei Gavrilov (Rus) (3).

Olomouc Open (third round) (results involving Indians): Tejas Bakre (3) bt Michal Skalski (Pol) (2); Bernd Laubsch (Ger) (2) lost to R.B. Ramesh (3); Tomas Polak (Cze) (2.5) drew with Eesha Karavade (2.5); Petr Ruzicka (Cze) (2) lost to S. Kidambi (3); Michal Paterek (Pol) drew with Neelotpal Das (2.5); Vitezslav Musil (Cze) (2.5) drew with D. Harika (2.5); S. Meenakshi (2.5) bt R.R. Vasudevan (1.5); Leonid Bebchuk (Isr) (1.5) lost to Nisha Mohota (2.5).

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