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Abhijeet Gupta shocks Maghami

NEW DELHI: India’s latest Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta stunned fourth-seeded Iranian Ehsan Ghaem Maghami to stay in the lead with seven others after three rounds of the 10th Dubai Open chess tournament in Dubai on Tuesday.

Two other Indian youngsters, R.R. Laxman and C. Praveen Kumar, did well to hold Chinese GM Lio Chao and Azebaijan’s GM Sarhan Guliev.

In the Gausdal Classic at Gausdal, Norway, Kerala’s lone Grandmaster G.N. Gopal posted a commendable result in the first round by drawing with top seed Greek GM Vassilios Kotronias in 34 moves.

The results: Dubai Open (third round, involving Indians): Abhijeet Gupta (3) bt Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iri, 2); R.R. Laxman (2.5) drew with Li Chao (Chn, 2.5); Ahmed Adly (Egy, 3) bt R.B. Ramesh (2); C. Praveen Kumar (2) drew with Sarhan Guliev (Aze, 2); Fouad El Taher (Egy, 2) drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy (2); Sohan Phadke (1.5) lost to Aswin Jayaram (2.5); Gadir Guseinov (Aze, 2) bt R. Bhuvanesh Ramnath (1); Sabri Al-Mahayri (Syr, 1) lost to Parimarjan Negi (2); T.J. Suresh Kumar (1) lost to Evgenij Kalegin (Rus, 2); Tania Sachdev (2) bt Shayesteh Ghader Pour (Iri, 1); Lanka Ravi (2) bt Moha Ed Saud (UAE, 1); Leonid Gaponenko (Kaz, 1) lost to Dinesh Kumar Sharma (2); K. Haridas (1.5) drew with Abdullah Hassan (UAE, 1.5); Wu Xibin (Chn, 2) bt Swati Mohota (1); Sahaj Grover (2) bt Shiven Khosla (1); Ehsan Nikzaban (2) bt Debashis Das (1); C.J. Arvind (2) bt Charles Kayle (Ple, 1); Tejas Ravichandran (1.5) drew with Omid Noroozi (1.5); Robert Arellano (Phi, 2) bt C. Natarajan (1); Dargan Paul (2) bt N. Srinath (1); Nisha Mohota (1) bt P.I. Johny (0.5); Sai Meera (1) bt Juma Jamila (UAE, 0); Anuprita Patil (1) bt Amal Abdulaziz (UAE, 0).

Gausdal Classic (first round): G.N. Gopal drew with Vassilios Kotronias (Gre); Gergory Kaidanov (USA) bt Irina Krush (USA); Vyacheslav Ikonnikov (Rus) drew with Sandipan Chanda; Hole Oystein (Nor) lost to Kjetil Lie (Nor); Bartlomiej Macieja (Pol) bt Eric Moskow (USA).

Ruy Lopez Masters (fourth round): Koneru Humpy (2) drew with Hou Yifan (Chn, 1); Michael Adams (Eng, 3) drew with Zhang Pengxiang (Chn, 2.5); Gabriel Sargissian (Arm, 2) drew with Manuel Perez Candelario (Esp, 1); Zuniga Julio Granda (Per, 1.5) drew with Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 2.5).

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