Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Chess News
At FIDE World Cup Chess Tournament 2011, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia

Round One
[G2] Rauf Mamedov (AZE,2679) 0-1 Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2627) - ½-1½
[G2] P. Harikrishna (IND,2669) ½-½ Maxim Rodshtein (ISR,2637) - 1½-½

Round Two
[G1] Parimarjan Negi (IND,2642) - (7) Teimour Radjabov (AZE,2744)
[G1] P. Harikrishna (IND,2669) - (10) Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS,2736)
[G1] Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2627) - Samuel L. Shankland (USA,2539)

Abhijeet Gupta scored exciting victory with black pieces over higher-ranked Mamedov in 47 moves ... Hari comfortably draw his game and joined Abhijit and Negi in the second round.

In the second round Negi and Hari r facing experienced seeded opponents ... Abhijit is facing American L. Samuel Shankland, who upset 18th seed Hungarian Peter Leko 1½-½ in the first round.

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