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Yu Ruiyuan
emerges Champion, GM Norm for Akshayraj Kore
By R.R.Vasudevan
Yu Ruiyuan of China emerged the Chennai Open 2012 Champion with
9.0 points after the eleventh and final round of the SDAT – RMK
4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess
Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai
here today. Sharing the second spot with 8.5 points were top
seed Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), defending champion Kravtsiv
Martyn (Ukraine), Akshayraj Kore (India), Marat Dzhumaev
(Uzbekistan) and Gomez John Paul (Philippines) respectively.
(Photo Caption :
International Arbiter R Srivatsan, Shri D V Sundar, Vice
President, FIDE, Shri R Anantharam, Member, SPP Committee, FIDE,
Shri R S Munirathinam, Chairman, Lakshmikanthamma Educational
Trust, Shri J C D Prabhakar, MLA, President, All India Chess
Federation, Shri M Vijayakumar, IAS, Member Secretary, Sports
Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, Chennai Open 2012 Champion
Yu Ruiyuan, Shri S Ganesan, Chairman, Organising Committee)
In the crucial final round, Yu held Uzbek Grandmaster Marat
Dzhumaev without difficulty in a Sicilian game lasting 33 moves.
The tournament is big triumph for the untitled Chinese star Yu
Ruiyuan who started as the 13th seed with an ELO rating of 2491
and finished on top of the table. The title win fetches Yu an
International Master Norm, as well as a Grandmaster Norm.
As a silver lining, India's performing star in this event,
International Master Akshayraj Kore made his Grandmaster Norm
with a solid draw in the final round against defending champion
Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine. The Nimzo Indian game
saw the Indian gaining the upper hand with a pawn up position.
But accurate defence by the Ukraine Grandmaster saw the
Akshayraj Kore settling for a draw after 55 moves.
The cash prizes amounting to a total Rs.10 lakhs were
distributed by Shri R S Munirathinam, Chairman, Lakshmikanthamma
Educational Trust and by Shri M Vijayakaumar, IAS, Member
Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu. Present
on the occasion of the closing ceremony were Shri J C D
Prabhakar, MLA, President, All India Chess Federation, Shri D V
Sundar, Vice President, FIDE and Shri K Muralimohan, General
Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Shri S Ganesan,
Chairman, Organising Committee.
Final Placings : (Indians unless specified)
1. Yu Ruiyuan (China) 9, 2-5 Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus),
Akshayraj Kore (India), Gomez John Paul (Philippines), Kravtsiv
Martyn (Ukraine), Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan) 8.5, 6-17
Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine), S P Sethuraman, Hoang Thanh Trang
(Hungary), V Vishnu Prasanna, Zeng Chongsheng (China), P
Karthikeyan, J Deepan Chakkravarthy, T U Navin Kanna, S Nitin,
Ankit R Rajpara, Barbosa Oliver (Philippines), R R Laxman 8,
18-20 Ziaur Rahman (Bangladesh), Vaibhav Suri, Ma Qun (China)
7.5 pts
Results (Round 11) (Indians unless specified)
Yu Ruiyuan (China) 9 drew with Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan) 8.5,
Akshayraj Kore 8.5 drew with Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine) 8.5,
Barbosa Oliver (Philippines) 8 drew with Aleksandrov Aleksej
(Belarus) 8.5, Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) 8 drew with
Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) 8, Ma Qun (China) 7.5 lost to
Gomez John Paul (Philippines) 8.5, P Karthikeyan 8 drew with J
Deepan Chakkravarthy 8, V Vishnu Prasanna 8 drew with Zeng
Chongsheng (China) 8, Rahman Ziaur (Bangladesh) 7.5 drew with S
Nitin 8, T U Navin Kanna 8 bt Henrik Danielsen (Iceland) 7, S P
Sethuraman 8 bt Ghosh Diptayan 7, Ankit R Rajapara 8 bt M R
Venkatesh 7, Himanshu Sharma 7.5 drew with Vaibhav Suri 7.5, R R
Laxman 8 bt S Amardeep Bartakke 7, Gagare Shardul 7.5 drew with
Neelotpal Das 7, Paragua Mark (Philippines) 7.5 bt C Praveen
Kumar 6.5
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