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Dzhumaev Marat marches on

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NEW DELHI: Showing no mercy, Dzhumaev Marat marched past top seed Ehsan Ghaem Maghami on a day of fierce battles on the leading boards of the 6th Parsvnath International Open chess tournament at the Modern School here on Thursday.

Marat, seeded seven, maintained his impeccable all-win record, following a 50-move victory in an ending involving a rook each and pawns. Marat’s seventh victory in as many rounds kept him half a point ahead of four-time National champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly.

The second seed from Kolkata ended the unbeaten run of G.B. Prakash in a king-and-pawn ending lasting 64 moves and became the only player to reach 6.5 points. Three more rounds remain in the competition.

The results: Seventh round (Indians unless stated): Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb, 7) bt Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iri, 5.5); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (6.5) bt G.B. Prakash (5.5); Igor Kurnosov (Rus,5.5) drew with Elizbar Ubilava (Esp, 6); K. Ratnakaran (5.5) drew with Abhijit Kunte (5.5); Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb, 6) bt Pravin Thipsay (5); S. Arun Prasad (5) lost to Nguyen Anh Dung (Vie, 6); Enamul Hossain (Ban, 5.5) drew with Tania Sachdev (5.5); V. A. V. Rajesh (5.5) drew with Morteza Mahjoob (Iri, 5.5); Abhijeet Gupta (6) bt Zhanibek Amanov (Kaz, 5); Ziaur Rahman (Ban, 6) bt Bitan Banerjee (5); Debashis Das (6) bt Aswin Jayaram (5); Yuri Solodovnichenko (Ukr, 5.5) bt Akash Thakur (4.5); Safin Shukhrat (Uzb, 5.5) bt Swapnil Dhopade (4.5); Sapar Batyrov (Tkm, 5) drew with K. Priyadarshan (5); Arjun Tiwari (4.5) lost to Sriram Jha (5.5); M.R. Venkatesh (5.5) bt Vinay Kumar Matta (4.5); S. Kidambi (5) drew with P. Praveen Prasad (5); J. Ramakrishna (5.5) bt R.R. Laxman (4.5); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (5) drew with P.D.S. Girinath (5); Akshayraj Kore (5.5) bt Mary Ann Gomes (4.5); P. Konguvel (4.5) lost to C. Praveen Kumar (5.5); M.S. Thejkumar (4.5) lost to Swayams Mishra (5.5); Kantilal Dave (4.5) lost to V. Saravanan (5.5); Roktim Bandyopadhyay (5.5) bt Badri Nepali (Nep, 4.5); Rakesh Kulkarni (5) drew with Swati Ghate (5); J. K. Raju (5) drew with Sudhakar Babu (5); P. Karthikeyan (5) drew with Anurag Mhamal (5); E. P. Nirmal (4) lost to Shojaat Ghate (Iri, 5); Morteza Darban (Iri, 5) bt O. T. Anil Kumar (4); Malleshwara Rao (4.5) drew with Vikramaditya Kamble (4.5).

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