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Chess
By P.K. Ajith Kumar
D. Harika watches Nguyen Anh Dung of Vietnam (right) playing against Zhang Peng Xiang of China in the eighth round of the Commonwealth chess championship in Mumbai on Friday.
Harika will get a nine-game norm regardless of what happens in her ninth round game against Vasilios Kotronias of Cyprus on Saturday. She's already scored the required 5.5 points. Nguyen Anh Dung is on seven points, half-a-point ahead of the top seed Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan, who was held to a draw on the top board by fellow-countryman Marat Dzhumaev. On six points there are six players, including India's Krishnan Sasikiran, the top seed who is certainly not playing as well as he can, and Dibyendu Barua. Fourth seed Evgeny Vladimirov of Kazakhstan, fifth seed Maxim Sorokin of Argentina and the two Uzbekistan players, Dzhumaev and Saidali Iuldachev, who shocked the third seed Kotronias are the others in the joint third position, with just two rounds to go. In the penultimate round on Saturday, in a crucial game on the top board Sasikiran takes on Dung with black pieces. Barua, also with black, meets Dzhumaev. S. Vijyalakshmi did well to get half-a-point from GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly. Young G. Rohit held Iranian GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami to a draw. Harika made her norm with a comfortable 43-move win over Saptarshi Roychoudhury from a Reti Opening. She said she was happy with the way she played all her games here. "I lost against Sasikiran in the opening round, which has been my only loss so far, but even in that game I thought I did reasonably well, against such a strong player.'' For a second successive day, Sasikiran was in considerable trouble. With black pieces in a King's Indian Samisch variation, Thipsay won an exchange - though he was in a probably avoidable hurry to give it back -- and then a couple of pawns, before Sasikiran, not without some help from his rival, fought back and won in 65 moves, taking his king all the way to the only safe square on the eighth rank. "I think Pravin missed a draw in the ending too,'' said the Chennai lad later. Pravin admitted it was a game he shouldn't have lost, and won even. "I know I should've done better,'' he said. On the second board Dung employed Sicilian Defence and won in 37 moves as Zhang Peng Xiang was in considerable time pressure. Dibyendu Barua appeared to be in a better position when he took the offer of draw from Igor Rausis, who had adopted Caro-Kann Defence. "It was the second time he was offering, and since I'd made a few mistakes earlier I accepted, but when we analysed the game later I found that I was winning the game,'' a frustrated Barua said later. In a Ruy Lopez Breyer variation, Vijayalakshmi, with black pieces, forced Ganguly to accept an exchange sacrifice and scored equality. The game lasted 46 moves. Important results (eighth round; Indians unless specified): Marat Dhzhumaev (Uzb) 6 drew with Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzb) 6.5; Zhang Peng Xiang (Chn) 5.5 lost to Nguyen Anh Dung 7; Dibyendu Barua 6 drew with Igor Rausis (Ban) 5.5; Krishnan Sasikiran 6 bt Praveen Thipsay 5; Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) 6 bt Vasilios Kotronias (Cyp) 5; Evgeny Vladimirov (Kaz) 6 bt Sandipan Chanda 5; Neelotpal Das 5 lost to Maxim Sorokin (Arg) 6; Surya Shekhar Ganguly 5.5 drew with S. Vijyalakashmi 5.5; Abhijit Kunte 5.5 drew with Alexander Fominyh (Rus) 5.5; Pendyala Harikrishna 5.5 bt B.S. Sivananandan 4.5; Dinesh Kumar Sharma 4.5 lost to Ruslan Sherbakov (Rus) 5.5; K. Ratnakaran 4.5 lost to Tahir Vakhidov (Uzb) 5.5; Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Ira) 5 drew with G. Rohit 5; Sukhrat Safin 5 (Uzb) drew with Wang Yu (Chn) 5; Ruslan Pogorelov (Ukr) 5.5 bt N. Sudhakar Babu 4.5; Reefat Bin Sattar (Ban) 5.5 bt T.S. Ravi 4.5; K. Visweswaran 4.5 lost to Sriram Jha 5.5; D. Harika 5.5 bt Saptarshi Roychoudhury 4.5; Abhijeet Gupta 4 lost to R.B. Ramesh 5; Niaz Murshed (Ban) 5 bt R.R. Laxman 4; R. Balasubramanium 4 lost to Rahul Shetty 5; Deepan Chakravarthy 5 bt Swati Ghate 4; Ravi Hegde 5 bt J. Ramakrishna 4; Preetham R. Sharma 5 bt G.N. Gopal 4; Vikramaditya Kamble 4.5 drew with Prathamesh Mokal 4.5; Atanu Lahiri 5 bt G. Dinesh Kumar 4; Enamul Hossain (Ban) 4.5 bt S. Meenakshi 3.5; Nisha Mohota 4 drew with Tejas Bakre 4; Lanka Ravi 4.5 bt Ahmad Nasir (Ban) 3.5; Abdulla Al Rakib (Ban) 4.5 bt Amit Kumar Medda 3.5; D.V. Prasad 4.5 bt S. Rishipal Singh 3.5; Suvrajit Saha 4 drew with C.J. Arvind 4; Akshayraj Kore 3.5 lost to M.R. Venkatesh 4.5; R. Srinivasan 4 drew with C.S. Gokhale 4; C. Natarajan 4 drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy 4; Siti Zuleikha (Mas) 4 drew with M. Darban Vaighani (IRI) 4; Aminul Islam (Ban) 4.5 bt Rahul Sangma 3.5; D. Saisreenivas 4 drew with Wong Zi Jing (Mas) 4; P. Konguvel 4.5 bt Y. Kalyan Kumar 3.5; Anup Deshmukh 4.5 bt Koneru Chandra Hawsa 3.5; Vishal Shah 4.5 bt M. Shrinivas Rao 3.5; G.L. Wijesuryiya (Sri) 3 lost to Koneru Humpy 4; Roktim Bandyopadhyay 3 lost to Soumitra Mazumdar 4; V. Saravanan 4 bt M. Priyadarshini 3; Saimeera Ravi 3 lost to Poobesh Anand 4.
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