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Venkatesh shocks Bluvshtein

NEW DELHI: M.R. Venkatesh shocked ninth seed Canadian Grandmaster Mark Bluvshtein and moved to the tied third spot with three others at five points after seven rounds of the Canadian Open chess tournament in Montreal on Friday.

In Copenhagen, Aswin Jayaram’s unbeaten streak in the Politiken Cup ended following his loss to 10th-seeded Swede Emanuel Berg in 35 moves. Tania Sachdev joined Ashwin at 5.5 points after drawing with Ukraine’s Petr Marusenko. In the Biel Masters, R.B. Ramesh drew with Vladimir Belov.

The results (involving Indians): Canadian Open: Seventh round: Surya Shekhar Ganguly (4) lost to Victor Mikhalevski (Isr, 5.5); Thomas Roussel-Roozemon (Can, 4.5) drew with Abhijit Kunte (4.5); M.R. Venkatesh (5) bt Mark Bluvshtein (Can, 4); K. Ratnakaran (4.5) bt Shiyam Thavandiran (Can, 4); S. Arun Prasad (4) bt Eesha Karavade (3.5); Nisha Mohota (4) bt Eric Hansen (Can, 3); Swati Ghate (3.5) bt Kiran Manisha Mohanty (2.5); Roland Chabot (Can, 3) bt Sai Meera (2.5).

Politiken Cup: Eighth round: Emanuel Berg (Swe, 6.5) bt Aswin Jayaram (5.5); Petr Marusenko (Ukr, 5.5) drew with Tania Sachdev (5.5).

Biel Masters: Fifth round: Vladimir Belov (Rus, 4) drew with R.B. Ramesh (4); N. Srinath (3) lost to Alexey Kim (Cor, 4).

Dutch Open: Fourth round: Thomas Michaelczar (Ger, 2.5) drew with Sandipan Chanda (2.5); Sriram Jha (3) bt Vincent Diepeveen (Ned, 2).

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