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Areshchenko posts win

MUMBAI: Grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko defeated GM Yaroslav Zinchenko in the eighth round of the Mumbai Mayors Cup international open chess tournament, aggregating 7.5 points and leading the field by half a point.

The match between the two Ukrainian GMs on the top board, a Sicilian defence game, saw the latter resigning on the 59th move.

Top seed GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko, GM Deepan Chakkravarty and Magesh Chandran share the second spot with 6.5 points each, defeating GM Alexander Fominyh, GM Saidali Iuldachev and GM Abhijeet Gupta respectively at the Goregaon Sports Club.

GM Dibyendu Barua lost to IM Suvrajit Saha, Mumbai schoolboy and IM norm holder Aditya Udeshi, developing a strong middle game, stunned Ukraine’s GM Alexander Zubarev in 25 moves.

The results (eighth round): Alexander Areshchenko (Ukr) 7.5 bt Yaroslav Zinchenko (Ukr) 6; Alexander Fominyh (Rus) 6 lost to Evgeny Miroshnichenko (Ukr) 7; Safin Shukhrat (Uzb) 6.5 drew with Koneru Humpy 6.5; Andrei Deviatkin (Rus) 6.5 drew with Petr Kostenko (Kaz) 6.5; Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) 6 lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy 7; Magesh Chandran 7 bt Abhijeet Gupta 5.5.

Swayangsu Satyapragyan 5.5 lost to Vladimir Belov (Rus) 6.5; Shyam Sundar 5.5 lost to Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr) 6.5; Zia-ur-Rehman (Ban) 6 drew with Himanshu Sharma 6; Suvrajit Saha 6.5 bt Dibyendu Barua 5.5; Swapnil Dhopade 6 drew with Serikbay Temirbayev (Kaz) 6; Akash Thakur 6.5 bt Tejas Bakre 5.5; Aditya Udeshi 6 bt Alexander Zubarev (Ukr) 5. — Special Correspondent

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