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Negi Finishes Second
By Arvind Aaron
Second seed GM Andrei Istratescu of Romania won the Kaupthing Open A Group
with a final round win against top seed GM Bartosz Socko of Poland at
Differdange, Luxembourg on May 17.
Parimarjan Negi of Delhi won the final round in style sacrificing a rook
for knight to cement Yuri Drozdovsky's king with his material led by
queen. Teenaged Negi of Delhi tied for he first place on seven points from
nine rounds but finished second on tie-break.
The tournament was won by Koneru Humpy last year and Indians had developed
interest to participate here. However, Humpy preferred to stay back in
India and play the more lucrative Mayor's Cup International Open at Mumbai
this year.
This time, four Indians, three from Delhi took part and had a decent
finish. The other Indian on 6/8 who needed a win in the final round for
joint title, Abhijeet Gupta suffered a defeat to higher rated Russian GM
Frolyanov in a minor pieces ending.
Final placings: 1-2 GM Andrei Istratescu (Rom), GM Parimarjan Negi (Ind),
GM Dmitry Frolyanov (Rus) 7/9 each, 4-6 GM Leonid Kritz (Ger), GM Philipp
Schlosser (Ger), IM Monika Socko (Pol) 6.5 each, 7 GM Abhijeet Gupta 6, 32
IM Tania Sachdev 5, 57 FM Sahaj Grover 4...85 players.
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