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Abhijeet in second spot

NEW DELHI: Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta moved to the joint second place after posting his third straight victory for a tally of 5.5 points from seven rounds of the Balaguer International Open chess tournament at Balaguer, Spain, on Sunday.

The results (involving Indians):

Balaguer International (seventh round): Deep Sengupta (4.5) lost to Vladimir Burmakin (Rus, 5.5); Lazaro Bruzon (Cub, 5.5) bt M. R. Lalith Babu (4.5); Aleksandar Colovic (Mkd, 4.5) lost to Abhijeet Gupta (5.5); Swapnil Dhopade (5) bt Alexis Douriet (Cub, 4); T. Abhay (3.5) lost to Herman Riemsdijk (Bra, 4.5); Ivan Martinez Lopez (Esp, 4.5) bt Vishnu Prasanna (3.5); Angel Lazaro Porta (Esp, 3.5) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (4.5); C. P. Aatirah (3.5) lost to Oussama Adel Lalchaichi (Esp, 4.5); Soumya Swaminathan (3.5) lost to Kruttika Nadig (4.5); G. V. Saikrishna (4) received a walkover from Alberto Faro Perella (Esp, 3); Josep Lluis Turuguet Lopez (Esp, 3) lost to Devangi Patankar (4); S. V. Sathya Priya (3.5) drew with Joan Gensana Berzunces (Esp, 3.5).

Politiken Cup (third round): Aswin Jayaram (3) bt Claus Rossen (Den, 2); Tania Sachdev bt Jocab Mejvik (Swe, 2); (second round): Borge Hjerrild Nielsen (Den) lost to Aswin; Benjamin Arvola (Nor) lost to Tania; (first round): Aswin bt Andres Ronningen (Nor); Tania bt Henning Rasmussen (Den).

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