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Hari Krishna recovers to force a draw

NEW DELHI: P. Hari Krishna recovered in time to hold Canada’s Pascal Charbonneau in the seventh round of the Montreal International chess tournament in Montreal on Thursday.

With leader Sergei Tiviakov (5.5 points) and overnight joint second Vassily Ivanchuk (5) emerging victorious, Hari found himself sharing the third spot with USA’s Gata Kamsky at 4.5 points.

Positions unchanged

In the Quebec Open, also in Montreal, Sandipan Chanda held top seed Israel’s Alexander Huzman and Abhijit Kunte drew with Slovakia’s Tomas Likavsky. For the second straight day, draws on the leading boards kept the positions unchanged. In the 39th Dutch Open championship at Dieren, Holland, Dibyendu Barua and V. Saravanan were following the leaders group at 2.5 points after three rounds. All six Indians remained unbeaten. Barua, Saravanan, N. Srinath, Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury and Deep Sengupta won while Saheli Dhar-Barua drew.

In the Politikan Cup at Copenhagen, Denmark, lone Indian G. Rohit was sharing the seventh spot with 13 others at 5.5 points after seven rounds. Meanwhile, it stands confirmed that Arun Karthik indeed made his maiden Grandmaster norm and Soumya Swaminathan achieved her first International Master norm in the Balaguer Open at Balaguer.

Soumya went on to complete her Woman International Master title after picking up WIM norms in the Sort Open and the Benesaque International in succession. Similarly, Aswin Jayaram also met the technicalities for claiming the International Master title. For Jharkhand-lad Abhishek Das, too, it was a fruitful outing with two IM norms in succession.

The results: Montreal International (seventh round): P. Hari Krishna (4.5) drew with Pascal Charbonneau (Can, 2); Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 5.5) bt Kamil Miton (Pol, 3.5); Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr, 5) bt Mark Bluvshtein (Can, 2.5); Emil Sutovsky (Isr, 2.5) drew with Pavel Eljanov (Ukr, 4); Nigel Short (Eng, 1) drew with Gata Kamsky (U.S.A., 4.5).

Quebec Open (seventh round, involving Indians): Sandipan Chanda (4.5) drew with Alexander Huzman (Isr, 4.5); Abhijit Kunte (4.5) drew with Tomas Likavsky (Svk, 4.5).

Biel Masters (fourth round): Misho Cebalo (Cro, 4) bt Parimarjan Negi (3); Bruno Kamber (Sui, 2.5) drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy (2.5); S. Meenakshi (2.5) drew with D. Harika (2.5); Dan Zoler (Isr, 2) lost to Swati Ghate (3); S. Arun Prasad (2.5) bt Luca Spinedi (Sui, 1.5); Suvrajit Saha (2.5) bt Rene Deubelbeiss (Sui, 1.5); Amruta Mokal (2.5) bt Selim Citak (Tur, 1.5).

Dutch Open (third round): Dibyendu Barua (2.5) bt Roi Miemdema (Ned, 1.5); V. Saravanan ( 2.5) bt Wim Heemskerk (Ned, 1.5); Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (2) bt Robin van Kempen (Ned, 1); Thibaut Maenhout (Bel, 1.5) drew with Saheli Dhar-Bar ua (1.5); Bram van der Velden (Ned, 1) lost to N. Srinath (2); Laura Bensdorp (Ned, 0.5) lost to Deep Sengupta (1.5).

Politiken Cup (seventh round): G. Rohit (5.5) bt Larsen Karsten (Den, 4.5).

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