World Open Rd - 9

By Vijay Kumar

Grandmaster Viktor Laznicka played a marathon game against Dutch Grandmaster Leok Van Welly in the final round game of the 38th World Open 2010 which concluded on Monday here in Valley Forge, near Philadelphia. Van Welly tried hard to win the game to o crack and agreed for a draw. Viktor Laznicka, who finished with 7.5 points from 9 games, lifted the coveted Title and a Prize tag of $20,000/-

On the 2nd board Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna played against M Kazheshievli and was lucky to beat his opponent with black pieces. He took the 2nd place followed by Grandmasters Luke McShane and Ilya Smirin who also won their games against their opponents and finished at 7 points.

GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly and GM Sandipan Chanda drew their games while GM P Magesh won his last encounter to take his score to 5 points. GM Sundaraja Kidambi was unfortunate to loose against a lower rated FM. Deepak Aaron, Grand son of IM Manuel Aaron with a low rating of 2142 gave a creditable performance in the Grandmasters Open Section getting 5 points and finished on 44th place ahead of GM Sundaraja Kidambi who wound up on 4 points .

Under 2400 category IM C S Gokhle finished with 7 points and came 2nd jointly with 4 other players. A large number of Indian expatriates could be seen playing in differt categories.

As many as 34 Grandmasters battled for 7 days in this biggest Chess event of the world having over 1500 chess players from all over the world participating in various categories.

Final Standing

1 GM   Viktor Laznicka          2636 CZE 7.5
2 GM   P Harikrishna             2660 IND 7.0
3 GM   Ilya Smirin                 2634 ISR 7.0
4 GM   Luke McShane           2623 ENG 7.0
5 GM   Loek Van Wely           2653 NED 6.5
6 GM   Jan Gustafsson           2640 GER 6.5
7 GM   Vladimir Potkin           2634 RUS 6.5
8 GM   Aleksandr Lenderman  2598 USA 6.5
9 GM   Francisco Vallejo        2703 ESP 6.0
10 GM Gata Kamsky             2702 USA 6.0
11 GM Sandipan Chanda        2640 IND 6.0
20 GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly 2672 IND 5.5
33 GM P Magesh                   2539 IND 5.0
44 Deepak Aaron                    2142 IND 5.0
46 GM S Kidambi                   2520 IND 4.5

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