Eesha, Adhiban Make IM Norms
By Arvind Aaron

Woman Grand Master Eesha Karavade of Pune made her final International Master norm to become our fourth women to qualify for the IM title in the 9th Dubai  Open held at Dubai from April 22-30. B.Adhiban of Chennai, trained by International Master T.S.Ravi made his second IM norm in the same event. He had earlier made his first norm at the Parsvnath Open at Delhi this year. Both Eesha and Adhiban scored 5.5/9.

Eesha scored 5.5 points to obtain the nine game norm and also become the best performer among women who are non-GMs. GMs Humpy, Maya Chiburdanidze of Georgia and Zhu Chen finished ahead of her with six points but formed part of the regular prize list.

Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia won the tournament with 7/9 after he tied for the first place witth Gadir Guseinov (Aze), Amir Bagheri (Iri) and Sarhan Guliev (Aze) on the same points.

India's best performer in the tournament was P.D.S.Girinath of South Central Railway, Hyderabad. He was in line for a GM norm but lost the last round to GM Guseinov. Yet, for a player with 2378 Elo, his rating performance was 2508! Vikramaditya Kamble of Western Railway also had a good rating performance (2446) and finished in the main prize list. Eleventh seed Humpy finished seventeenth and top seed Estonian GM Jaan Ehlvest (now USA) finished 19th.

A total of 126 players including 25 GMs from 24 players took part in this event which had a prize fund of $45,000. Casto P.Abundo of the Philippines was the

chief arbiter.

Open Prizes No.Name Points Prize/$

1 Pantsulaia Levan (GEO) 7 4,500
2 Guseinov Gadir (AZE) 7 4,500
3 Bagheri Amir (IRI) 7 4,500
4 Guliev Sarhan (AZE) 7 4,500
5 Gelashvili Tamaz (GEO) 6½ 1,866
6 Sadvakasov Darmen (KAZ) 6½ 1,866
7 Megaranto Susanto (INA) 6½ 1,866
8 Anastasian Ashot (ARM) 6½ 1,866
9 Ghaem Maghami Ehsan (IRI) 6½ 1,866
10 Mchedlishvili Mikheil (GEO) 6½ 1,866
11 Kotsur Pavel (KAZ) 6 500
12 Safarli Eltaj (AZE) 6 500
13 Alavi Sayed Javad (IRI) 6 500
14 Petrosian Tigran L (ARM) 6 500
15 Girinath P D S (IND) 6 500
16 Toufighi Homayoon (IRI) 6 500
17 Koneru Humpy (IND) 6 550
18 Al-Modiahki Mohamad (QAT) 6 550
19 Ehlvest Jaan (EST) 6 500
20 Kamble Vikramaditya (IND) 6 500
21 El Taher Fouad (EGY) 6 550
22 Minasian Artashes (ARM) 6 500
23 Chiburdanidze Maya (GEO) 6 550
24 Zhu Chen (QAT) 6 550
25 Gopal G N (IND) 6 500

Ladies Prizes

No. Name Points Prize/$

1 Karavade Eesha (IND) 5.5 $425
2 Harika Dronavalli (IND) 5.5 $425
3 Meenakshi S. (IND) 5 $100
4 Atousa Pourkashian (IRI) 5 $100
5 Ghader Pour S. (IRI) 5 $100
6 Nadig Kruttika (IND) 5 $100
7 Hejazipour Mitra (IRI) 5 $100
8 Sukander Irine(INA) 5 $100
9 Ramaswamy Aarthie (IND) 5 $100

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Published : 07  May , 2007