Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta made the most of his white pieces to outwit Marcin Tazbir of Poland to move to joint third spot after the end of the fifth round of the 31st Cappelle La Grande international chess tournament here.
Grandmaster S. Arun Prasad, matched Abhijeet on points after a fine victory over Andrey Sumets.
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Important and Indian results after round 5 (Indians unless specified): Vladimir Onischuk (Ukr, 5) bt Igor Kovalenko (Fra, 4); Renier Vazquez Igarza (Esp, 4.5) bt Erwin L’Ami (Ned, 3.5); Axel Bachmann (Par, 4) drew with Kamil Dragun (Pol, 4); Konstantin Landa (Rus, 4) bt Sahaj Grover (3.5); Andrey Vovk (Ukr, 4) bt Gao Rui (Chn, 3); Abhijeet Gupta (4) bt Marcin Tazbir (Pol, 3); Fabien Libiszewski (Pol, 3.5) drew with Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (3.5).
Sandipan Chanda (3.5) drew with Lucian-Costin Miron (Rou, 3.5); S. Arun Prasad (4) bt Andrey Sumets (Ukr, 4); G.N. Gopal (3.5) bt Catalin Navrotescu (Fra, 2.5); Andrey Grekh (Ukr, 3) drew with S. Kidambi (3); V. Vishnu Prasanna (3) bt Max Warmardam (Ned, 2); Pavel Certik (Svk, 2.5) drew with M.R. Venkatesh (2.5).
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