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Ganguly among leaders

NEW DELHI: National champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly salvaged India's pride with a surprise 76-move victory over 20th seeded Russian Sergey Volkov to be among the seven leaders on two points after the second round of the Aeroflot Open chess tournament in Moscow on Thursday.

On a day when K. Sasikiran, P. Hari Krishna, Parimarjan Negi and S. Vijayalakshmi lost, D. Harika did extremely well to hold Kazakh Grandmaster Darmen Sadvakasov, seeded 32 and rated 194 points higher.

The results (second round, involving Indians):

A1: Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2) bt Sergey Volkov (Rus, 1); S. Vijayalakshmi (1) lost to Evgeny Tomashevsky (Rus, 2); D. Harika (1.5) drew with Darmen Sadvakasov (Kaz, 1. 5); Igor Lysyj (Rus, 1.5) bt K. Sasikiran (0.5); P. Hari Krishna (0.5) lost to Valerij Popov (Rus, 1.5); Parimarjan Negi (0.5) lost to Wang Hao (Chn, 1.5).

A2: Shukhraj Safin (Uzb, 2) bt Abhijit Kunte (1); S. Yuri Balashov (Rus, 1) lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy (2); Alexander Zubarev (Ukr, 1) drew with G.N. Gopal (1); Jakov Geller (Rus, 0.5) lost to Deep Sengupta (1.5); Markus Ragger (Aut, 0.5) lost to G. Rohit (1.5); S. Meenakshi (1.5) bt Mohammad N. Al Sayed (Qat, 0.5); Ara Minasian (Arm, 1.5) bt Tania Sachdev (0.5); Andrei Kovalev (Blr, 1) bt Lanka Ravi (0); Sergei Iskusnyh (Rus, 1) bt S. Arun Prasad (0); Aswin Jayaram (0.5) drew with Wu Wenjin (Chn, 0.5).

B: Sahaj Grover (1) lost to Julia Kochetkova (Rus, 2); Bazar Hatanbaatar (Mgl, 1.5) bt B. Adhiban (0.5); Shakhriyar Hasanov (Aze, 0.5) lost to Dinesh Kumar Sharma (1.5); Michael Langer (U.S., 0.5) lost to Aarthie Ramaswamy (1.5); Andrei Kuznesov (Rus, 0.5) lost to R. Arun Karthik (1.5); Lou Yiping (Chn, 1.5) bt Abhishek Das (0.5); Wang Jiaquan (Chn, 0) lost to Suvrajit Saha (1); Gleb Kaganskiy (Rus, 1) bt Padmini Rout (0).

C: P. Sivasankari (1) lost to Suren Pushosyan (Arm, 2); Oleg Pankrotov (Rus, 1) lost to Amruta Mokal (2); P. Priya (2) bt Roman Sapozhnikov (Can, 1); Soumya Swaminathan (1.5) bt Ian Marks (Sco, 0.5); Ivan Dvornicen (Mda, 0) lost to Mahima Rajmohan (1).

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