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Harikrishna Goes Down Fighting By Arvind Aaron
Indian interest
in the Cap d'Agde Masters ended in the quarter finals when P.Harikrishna
of Hyderabad went down fighting to Andrei Volokitin of Ukraine in the
fourth quarter final match in France on Tuesday.
Harikrishna came back from deficit to level the scores twice in the
tie-break but after game seven, the match ended 4-3 and he did not get the
reverse white game. Earlier, the two rapid games were drawn. In the
first rapid game, Harikrishna won two pieces for a rook but could not
convert.
The rapid match started with two draws, then in the first set of
tie-breaks, Volokitin won with white and
Harikrishna rebounded to level with his white game. In the next pair of
games, the same pattern was witnessed. Volokitin won an exchange and the
game when they played for the seventh time in a day. However, Harikrishna
did not get his white turn. Harikrishna has a rating of 2674 and Volokitin
2645. Both players are 1986-born.
Meanwhile, top seed Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan who is rated 2729 is
racing ahead having beaten French her Etienne Bacrot 2-0 in the second
quarter finals.
In the semis, Karjakin plays Carlsen and Radjabov takes on Volokitin.
The quarter final results: S.Karjakin (Ukr) bt Zhao Xue (Chn) 1-1,
1.5-0.5, T.Radjabov (Aze) bt E.Bacrot (Fra) 2-0, L.Fressinet (Fra) lost to
M.Carlsen (Nor) 0-2, P.Harikrishna (Ind) lost to A.Volokitin (Ukr) 1-1,
1-1, 1-1, 0-1.
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Published on : 01.11.2006
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