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Himanshu stuns Timoschenko; three share lead

MUMBAI: International Master Himanshu Sharma (2403), employing a rook-and-pawn endgame, forced Grandmaster Georgy Timoschenko (2550) to resign on the 82th move in a fifth round clash at the Mumbai Mayors Cup international open chess tournament.

Second seed GM Alexander Aveshchenko (2657) of Ukraine, fifth seed GM Abhijeet Gupta (2570) of India and GM Andrei Deviatkin (2566) of Russia share the lead with five points each.

The results (fifth round): Deepan Chakravarthy 4 lost to Alexander Areshchenko (Ukr) 5; Tejas Bakre 4.5 drew Koneru Humpy 4.5; Abhijeet Gupta 5 bt K Rathnakaran 4; Meenakshi Subharaman 4 lost to Andrei Deviatkin (Rus) 5; Evgeny Miroshnichenko (Ukr) 4.5 bt Prathamesh Sunil Mokal 3.5; Himanshu Sharma 4.5 bt Georgy Timoschenko (Ukr) 3.5; Yaroslav Zinchenko (Ukr) 4.5 bt Dinesh Sharma 3.5; Satparshi Roy 4 drew with Zia-ur-Rehman 4; Neelotpal Das 4 drew with B S Shivananda 4; Sudhakar Babu 3.5 lost to Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) 4.5; Akash Thakur 3.5 lost to Alexander Fominyh (Rus) 4.5; Dibyendu Barua 4 drew with Krishnan Saravana 4.

Harika Dronavalli 4 drew with B G Joshi 4; Swayams Mishra 4 drew with Magesh Chandran 4; Serikbay Temibayev (Kaz) bt 4 drew with Prasanna Vishnu 4; Murali Krishnan 4 drew with Shivam Khosla 4; Rahul Shetty 4 drew with Shyam Sunder 4; Aniruddha Deshpande 3 lost to Vladimir Belov 4; Alexander Zubarev (Ukr) 4 bt Nasir Ali Syed 3; Petr Kostenko (Kaz) 4 bt Prantik Roy 3; Priya P 3 lost to Shukhrat Safin (Uzb) 4; P Konguvel 4 bt Kiran Mohanty 3; O.T. Anilkumar 4 bt Prince Bajaj 3; Stany GA 3 lost to Shalmali Gagare 4; Saheli Dhar-Barua 4 drew with Chandrasekhar Gokhale 4.

Fourth round: Dinesh Sharma 3.5 drew with E Miroshnichenko (Ukr) 3.5; A Areshchenko (Ukr) 4 bt Swapnil Dhopade 3; Koneru Humpy 4 bt Atanu Lahiri 3; Vinay Kumar Matta 3 lost to Abhijeet Gupta 4; A. Deviatkin (Rus) 4 bt Ram Krishnan 3; Meenakshi Subbaraman 4 bt A. Zubarev (Ukr) 3; G. Timoshenko (Ukr) 3.5 drew with Akash Thakur 3.5; Deepan Chakkravarthy 4 bt DP Singh 3; Vishnu Prasanna V 3.5 drew with Harika Dronavalli 3.5. — Special Correspondent

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