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Ganguly First, Meenakshi Fourth
By Arvind Aaron
Surya Shekhar Ganguly of Kolkata, India won the Asian
Individual Chess Championship that concluded at Subic
Free Port in the Philippines. Ganguly drew the final
round game with the black pieces. GM Zhou Weiqi of China
also drew with the black pieces and they tied for first
place on 8/11. Both players remained undefeated in this
competition.
China made a podium sweep of the women's section.
Unknown WIM Zhang Xiaowen won the title with 9/11 by a
wide one point margin. Chennai's WGM Meenakshi finished
fourth with a final round win on 7.5. She finished with
a strong 3.5/4 for the fourth place. In fact, Meenakshi
tied for the bronze medal.
The Asian Championship that ran from May 12-23 at the
Subic Freeport in the Philippines attracted 86 players
from 15 nations. It included 40 GMs, 15 IMs, 8 FMs and
the top seed was Chennai's Krishnan Sasikiran. In the
women's section, 45 players took part from eleven
nations with one GM, 13 WGMs, 1 IM, 8 WIMs and 10 WFMs.
This event will select players for the World Cup from
Nov 20 to Dec 15 at Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. The women
event will select players for the next cycle next year.
Final placings: 1-2. GM S.S. Ganguly, GM Zhou Weiqi (Chn)
8/11 each; 3-8. Yu Yangyi (Chn), GM Yu Shaoteng (Chn),
GM Le Quang Liem (Vie), GM R. Antonio (Phi), GM Hou
Yifan (Chn), GM Zhou Jiangchao (Chn) 7.5 each; 9 GM S.
Chanda 7; 10 GM K. Sasikiran 7; 11 GM Abhijit Kunte 7;
12 GM Abhijeet Gupta 7; 13 GM P. Negi 7; 33 Deepan
Chakkravarthy 6; 42 IM Dronavalli Harika 5.5; 44 FM
Vidit Gujrathi 5.5; 54 IM Ashwin Jayaram 5; 62 IM
Akshayaraj Kore 5; 69 FM K. Priyadharshan 4.5...86
players.
Women placings: 1 WIM Zhang Xiaowen (Chn) 9; 2 WGM Huang
Qian (Chn) 8; 3-4. WFM Ding Yixin (Chn), WGM S.
Meenakshi (Ind) 7.5 each; 8 WGM Eesha Karavade 7; 10 IM
Tania Sachdev 6.5; 21 WGM Swati Ghate 5.5; 27 WGM Nisha
Mohota 5; 31 WGM Kruttika Nadig 5...46 players.
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