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Sivakasi: Top
seed Deepan Chakravarthy and former world U-12 champion Deep
Sengupta shot into joint lead after posting wins with the black
pieces in the fifth round of the National Junior Championship on Nov
30 morning. Like in the boys, top seed Koneru Chandrahawsa and
National U-17 champion P.Uthra scored with the black pieces to stay
on top with 4.5/5 in the girls section. Five rounds remain to be
played and the half way mark has been reached. Results
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Harikrishna Has It Easy Pentyala
Harikrishna won the 9th Essent Grandmaster Tournament at Hoogeveen
in the Netherlands on Oct 29. Harikrishna scored a victory against
Stefanova with the black pieces and one over Ivan Sokolov with the
white pieces. He coasted to an easy title with draws in the
remaining games for his 4/6. Sokolov finished second with 3.5,
Sutovsky third with 2.5 and Stefanova last with two points. The
tournament started with a unique feature of inviting four players -
best Dutch player, World Junior Champion, World Women's Champion and
one veteran. This time Sutovsky was the veteran! View
games
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Mamedyarov Regains World Junior
Title At Istanbul In the boys section, Shakhriyar
Mamedyarov (Az) regained his title he won in 2003 with a 10.5/13
score. Elisabeth Paehtz (Ger) who missed the title last year won it
this time with ease. Former World U-14 girls champion Dronavalli
Harika tied for the third place but finished fifth.G.N.Gopal made his maiden IM norm in the
boys group. A total of 92 boys and 68 girls took part. Click
Bastia:
Milov Beats Anand 3-1 In The Finals
Vadim Milov, the Jewish player who moved from Russia to Biel in
Switzerland a decade ago stopped Anand from winning another Corsica
Masters title on Nov 5 at Bastia, France. Anand came back nicely in
the second game after losing the first game to force the tie-break
at 1-1. He lost both the tie-break games, after starting well in the
first and overlooking a back rank theme in the second. Earlier, he
beat Tomas Markowski (Pol) 2-0, Mikhail Gurevich (Bel) 2-0, Michael
Adams (Eng) 3-1 in the earlier stages. Two other players from
Chennai took part. Sasikiran lost to Zoltan Almasi 0.5-1.5 in the
pre-quarter finals and Ebenezer Joseph did not qualify from the
open. Here are the key games with a game
viewer.
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Zhang Zhong Wins Asian Chp
Indians Perform Poorly At Hyderabad. Still two players had a great
event: Himanshu Sharma obtained a 20-game IM norm and Valay Parikh
completed his IM title requirement.. Placings All
games Topalov Champion, Anand Second Bulgarian Veselin Topalov
played his career best chess at Argentina to win the FIDE World
Title with a round to spare. He scored 10/14. His start of 7.5/8 was
impressive. He remained undefeated. Anand and Svidler finished
second and third with 8.5 points. This event took place at San Luis,
Argentina from Sep 25-Oct 15. There is a game viewer here
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