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 Grandmaster
Sarunas Sulskis of Lithuania won the 13th Goodricke International Open Chess tournament, while K Sasikiran produced the
second best-ever performance by an Indian finishing second at the Alekhine Chess club,
Calcutta here today. Sasikiran scored a fluent victory over GM Andrey Shariyazdanov of Russia in 40 moves to take his tally to eight points, half-a-point behind
Sulskis, the
second best performance by a home player in the tournament's 13-year history.
Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand in his only appearance at this
prestigious event, tied for the first place during 1992. Requiring just a draw to clinch the top prize, Sulskis split the point with GM Alexey Kuzmin of Russia in the last round today to annex the title and pocket
the winner's purse of USD 2430. The two players agreed to the draw after 26 moves in the exchange variation of the
Queen's Gambit Declined. While Sulskis topped the table with 8.5 points, Kuzmin finished third on seven points.
Four other GMs - Russian Ruslan
Sherbakov,
Slovakian Drazen Shermek, Iranian Ehasan Ghaem Meghamai and Ukraninan Sergey Ovsejevitsch - finished on seven points each, but Kuzmin
piped the rest with a better tie-break score. The only other Indian to figure in the prize list this year was veteran GM Dibyendu
Barua, who finished 15th.
Ovsejevitsch drew with Shermek and was placed fourth while Maghamai, Sermek and Sherbakov claimed the fifth, sixth and seventh spots respectively.
Final Placings
| Rank |
Player |
Country |
Points |
Prize Money |
1 |
Sulskis
Sarunas |
Lithuania |
8.5 |
USD
2430 |
2 |
Sasikiran
Krishnan |
India |
8.0 |
INR
85750 |
3-7 |
Kuzmin
Alexey |
Russia |
7.0 |
USD
747 |
3-7 |
Ovsejevitsch
Sergey |
Ukraine |
7.0 |
USD
747 |
3-7 |
Ghaem
Maghami Ehsan |
Iran |
7.0 |
USD
747 |
3-7 |
Sermek
Drazen |
Slovenia |
7.0 |
USD
747 |
3-7 |
Sherbakov
Ruslan |
Russia |
7.0 |
USD
747 |
8-15 |
Sheriyazdanov
Andrey |
Russia |
6.5 |
USD
213 |
8-15 |
Fominyh
Alexander |
Russia |
6.5 |
USD
213 |
8-15 |
Goloshchapov
Alexander |
Ukraine |
6.5 |
USD
213 |
8-15 |
Kotsur
Pavel |
Kazakhstan |
6.5 |
USD
213 |
8-15 |
Aleksandrov
Aleksej |
Belarus |
6.5 |
USD
213 |
8-15 |
Sorokin
Maxim |
Argentina |
6.5 |
USD
213 |
8-15 |
Motylev
Alexander |
Russia |
6.5 |
USD
213 |
8-15 |
Barua
Dibyendu |
India |
6.5 |
INR
11600 |
Round 11 Results A Kuzmin
(Rus) 7.0 drew with S Sulskis (Ltu) 8.5
K Sasikiran (Ind) 8.0 beat A Shariyazdanov (Rus) 6.5
S Ovsejevitsch (Ukr) 7.0 drew with D Sermek (Slo) 7.0
Ghaem Maghami Ehsan (Irn) 7.0 drew with P Kotsur (Kaz) 6.5
M Sorokin (Arg) 6.5 drew with A Alexandrov (Blr) 6.5
A Fominyh (Rus) 6.5 drew with A Motylev (Rus) 6.5
R Sherbakov (Rus) 7.0 beat A Yegiazarian (Arm) 6.0
Abhijit Kunte (Ind) 6.0 drew with A Goloshchapov (Ukr) 6.5
E Gleizerov (Rus) 6.0 drew with S Satyapragyan (Ind) 6.0
Lanka Ravi (Ind) 6.0 drew with B Lalic (Eng) 6.0
D Barua (Ind) 6.5 beat Wong Zi Jing (Ind) 5.5
P Mahesh Chandran (Ind) 6.0 drew with Sandipan Chanda (Ind) 6.0
K Humpy (Ind) 5.5 drew with J Blauert (Ger) 5.5
RB Ramesh (Ind) 6.0 beat DK Sharma (Ind) 5.0
T Bakre (Ind) 6.0 beat TS Ravi (Ind) 5.0
Enamul Hossain (Ban) 5.0 lost to GB Prakash (Ind) 6.0
S Kidambi (Ind) 5.0 lost to Rahul Shetty (Ind) 6.0
Sriram Jha (Ind) 5.0 lost to Al Sayed Mohamad N (Qat) 5.5
Vikramjit S Singh (Ind) 4.5 lost to Suvrajit Saha (Ind) 5.5
K Visweswaran (Ind) 5.5 beat Yogesh Gore (Ind) 4.5
Saptarishi Roy Chowdhury (Ind) 4.0 lost to Deep Sengupta (Ind) 5.0
Aarthie Ramaswamy (Ind) 4.0 drew with Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban) 4.0
Rahul Sangma (Ind) 4.5 beat Nisha Mohota (Ind) 3.5
P Konguvel (Ind) 4.5 beat Ghader Pour Shayeste (Irn) 3.0
PDS Girinath (Ind) 3.5 drew with Swati Ghate (Ind) 3.5
Krishna Thapa (Nep) 2.0 lost to Saheli Dhar-Barua (Ind) 3.0
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