Thursday, May 12, 2011

Chess News
At the 10th Asian Individual Open Chess Championship 2011, Mashhad, Iran

GM P. Harikrishna and IM D. Harika won the Asian individual open chess championship ... Harikrishna clinched the title with 6.5 pts in a three-way tie-break with China's Ya Yangyi and Vietnam's Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son ... Top seed Harika was a clear winner with 6.5 pts as she finished half a point ahead of Vietnam's Pham Le Thao Nguyen.

With this win P. Harikrishna and D. Harika r qualified for the World Cup to be held in Khanty Mansiysk ( Russia) in August ... They will joined by National champions, Delhi's Parimarjan Negi and Pune's Soumya Swaminathan in the World Cup knockout stage.

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