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Abhijeet jolts third seed Pantsulaia

NEW DELHI: Continuing his unbeaten run, Abhijeet Gupta upstaged third seeded Georgian Grandmaster Levan Pantsulaia in 34 moves to share the second spot with five points after six rounds of the Dubai Open chess tournament on Friday.

The 20th seed from Bhilwara punished Pantsulaia for trading a knight for two kingside pawns on the 17th move. Later, Abhijeet exchanged a knight for a rook and forced Pantsulaia to give up.

Commonwealth champion R. B. Ramesh drew with top seeded Azerbaijani Gadir Guseinov to reach four points. Georgia’s Merab Gagunshvili ended Filipino Wesley So’s winning run to take the lead with 5.5 points.

In the Gausdal Classics, Sandipan Chanda scored his third straight victory after facing USA’s Eric Moskow and emerged as the sole lead with 3.5 points from four rounds, at Gausdal in Norway. G. N. Gopal drew his fourth successive game following an equal battle with Norway’s Hole Oystein.

Humpy finishes fourth

In the Ruy Lopez Masters in Merida, Spain, Koneru Humpy finished fourth with 4.5 points from seven rounds. In the final round of this eight-player competition, she defeated Italy’s Fabiano Caruana in 40 moves. England’s Michael Adams won the title with 5.5 points.

The results:

Dubai Open (sixth round, involving Indians): Abhijeet Gupta (5) bt Levan Pantsulaia (Geo, 3.5); R. B. Ramesh (4) drew with Gadir Guseinov (Aze, 4); Eltaj Safarli (Aze, 4) drew with R. R. Laxman (4); Anuar Ismagambetov (4.5) bt Sohan Phadke (3.5); Parimarjan Negi (4) bt Wu Xibin (Chn, 3); Evgenij Kalejin (Rus, 4) bt C. J. Arvind (3); N. Srinath (3.5) drew with Aswin Jayaram (3.5); Navid Chaichi (Iri, 3) lost to Tania Sachdev (4); Vasif Durarbeyli (Aze, 4) bt K. Haridas (3); Dinesh Sharma (4) bt Dargan Paul (Eng, 3); Bhuvanesh Ramnath (3.5) bt Nisha Mohota (2.5); Pouya Mari Ooriad (Iri, 3) drew with Lanka Ravi (3); Shiven Khosla (3.5) bt Zhang Jilin (Chn, 2.5); Ilgar Bajarni (Aze, 3.5) bt Suresh Kumar (2.5); Ibrahim Khalil (UAE, 3) drew with P. Doostkom (Iri, 2.5); Farhan Mohannad (Jor, 3.5) bt Tejas Ravichandran (2.5); P. I. Johny (2.5) lost to Abdo Somoff (Lib, 3.5); Debashis Das (3) bt Antonio Molina (Phi, 2); Swati Mohota (2.5) drew with C. Praveen Kumar (2.5); C. Natarajan (2.5) drew witih Alexey Poleschikov (Rus, 2.5); Anuprita Patil (2.5) bt Sai Meera (1.5).

Gausdal Classics (fourth round): Sandipan Chanda (3.5) bt Eric Moskow (USA, 0.5); G. N. Gopal (2) drew with Hole Oystein (Nor, 1); Gregory Kaidanov (USA, 3) drew with Vyacheslav Ikonnikov (Rus, 1.5); Vasilios Kotronias (Gre, 2) drew with Lie Kjetil (Nor, 2.5); Irina Krush (USA, 2) drew with Bartlomiej Macieja (Pol, 2).

Ruy Lopez Masters (seventh round): Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 2.5) lost to K. Humpy (4.5); Gabriel Sagrissian (Arm, 4.5) drew with Michael Adams (Eng, 5.5); Zhang Pengxiang (Chn, 5) bt Julio Granda Zuniga (Per, 2); Manuel Perez Candelario (Esp, 2) bt Hou Yifan (Chn, 2).

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