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    Express Buzz
    Aug 13 2011

    Hovhannisyan stays on top


    CHENNAI: The Armenian GM duo of Robert Hovhannisyan and Samvel
    Ter-Sahakyan drew their top board game in the 10th round of the
    SDAT-RAMCO 50th World Junior & 29th Junior Girls Chess Championships
    here on Friday. The draw helped Hovhannisyan maintain half point lead
    on 8.5 points, followed by Samvel and Darius Swiercz (Poland) on eight
    points. Sharing fourth spot were GMs Baskaran Adhiban (India) and Ray
    Robson (USA) with 7.5 points.


    WGM from Peru Cori Tello Deysi stayed on top, holding Kubra Ozturk of
    Turkey to a draw. Russian Olga Girya joined Deysi in lead after
    scoring over Qizi Mammadova of Azerbaijan. Cori and Girya lead the
    table with 8.5 points.

    In the second board, Swiercz of Poland inflicted Indian FIDE Master
    Girish A Koushik his second consecutive defeat. Also facing continuous
    defeat was Italian Axel Rombaldoni, who went down to Indian
    Grandmaster Baskaran Adhiban.

    Chief Arbiter R Anantharam confirmed the following nine game norms
    viz., GM norm for Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (India), and IM norms for
    Janev Tihomir of Bulgaria and Vladislav Kovalev of Belarus. Among
    girls, Klaudia Kulon of Poland gained a 9 game WIM norm.

    Round 10 Results (Open) (Indians unless specified): Robert
    Hovhannisyan (ARM) 8.5 drew with Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (ARM) 8,
    Dariusz Swiercz (POL) 8 bt Girish A Koushik(7), Sasa Martinovic (CRO)
    6.5 lost to Ray Robson (USA) 7.5, Baskaran Adhiban (7.5) bt Axel
    Rombaldoni (ITA) 6.5, Aleksandr Shimanov (RUS) 6.5 drew with Vasif
    Durarbeyli (AZE) 7, Ivan Salgado Lopez (ESP) 6 lost to Milos
    Roganovic (SRB) 7, Grover Sahaj (6.5) drew with Nils Grandelius (SWE)
    6.5, Salem A R Saleh (UAE) 6 lost to S P Sethuraman (7), Oglu Rasulov
    (AZE) 6.5 drew with Leandro Krysa (ARG) 6.5, Vidit Gujrathi (6.5) drew
    with Niclas Huschenbeth (GER) 6.5, S L Narayanan (6) lost to Jan
    Krejci (CZE) 7, Sanan Sjugirov (RUS) 6.5 bt Burak Firat (TUR) 5.5, M
    Shyam Sundar (6) drew with Amorim Barbosa (BRA) 6.

    Girls: Kubra Ozturk (TUR) 7 drew with Cori T Deysi (PER) 8.5, Olga
    Girya (RUS) 8.5 bt Qizi Mammadova (AZE) 6.5, Irina Bulmaga (ROM) 7 bt
    Elena Semenova (RUS) 6.5, Hoang Thi Nhu (VIE) 6.5 drew with Padmini
    Rout (6.5), Julia Dogodkina (RUS) 7 bt Klaudia Kulon (POL) 6, Inna
    Agrest ((SWE) 7 bt P Michelle Catherina (6), Nazi Paikidze (GEO) 6.5
    bt Qizi Kazimova (AZE) 5.5, Anastasia Savina (RUS) 6 drew with
    Lkhamsuren Uuganbayar (MGL) 6, Guliskhan Nakhbayeva (KAZ) 6 bt
    Chandika Divyasree (5.5), Bhakti Kulkarni (6) bt P V Nandhidhaa (5),J
    Saranya (5.5) lost to Keti Tsatsalashvili (GEO) 6.5.

    http://expressbuzz.com/sport/hovhannisyan-stays-on-top/303737.html



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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