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LAXMAN STUNS GM BABUJIAN, SHARES LEAD
UNI (United News of India)
November 17, 2013 Sunday
DATELINE: c AI
c AI, Nov. 17 -- Former Commonwealth Champion, Grand Master R R Laxman
of India scalped a second GM in succession as he stunned Babujian Levon
of Armenia in the third round of the Chennai Grand Master International
Open tournament being held as part of the chess festival in tandem
with the FIDE World Chess Championship 2013m, here today.
Laxman, who upset top seed GM Popov in the previous round, scored an
exciting 46 move victory over Armenian Grandmaster Babujian Levon,
taking his tally to 3.0 points from as many rounds.
Sharing the lead at 3.0 points with Laxman were GMs Lalith Babu, Vishnu
Prasanna (both India) and Ter Sahakyan Samvel (Armenia), among others.
In another upset FIDE Master Aravindh Chithambaram defeated GM Drazic
Sinisa of Serbia.
The Results (Round 3) : (Indians unless specified) :
Swapnil S Dhopade (2.5) drew with Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (2.5)
M R Lalith Babu (3) bt Gagare Shardul (2)
Udeshi Aditya (2) lost to Ter-Sahakyan Samvel (Arm) 3
Babujian Levon (2) lost to R R Laxman (3),
B S Shivananda (2.5) drew with Mozharov Mikhail (Rus) 2.5,
V Vishnu Prasanna (3) bt S Ravi Teja (2)
Aravindh Chithambaram V R (3) bt Drazic Sinisa (Srb) 2,
N R Vignesh (2.5) drew with Rzayev Bahruz (Aze) 2.5,
Mirzoev Azer (Aze) 2.5 bt Ravichandran Siddharth (1.5),
Papin Vasily (Rus) 2 drew with Sardana Rishi (2). UNI XR VV RSS1742
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UNI (United News of India)
November 17, 2013 Sunday
DATELINE: c AI
c AI, Nov. 17 -- Former Commonwealth Champion, Grand Master R R Laxman
of India scalped a second GM in succession as he stunned Babujian Levon
of Armenia in the third round of the Chennai Grand Master International
Open tournament being held as part of the chess festival in tandem
with the FIDE World Chess Championship 2013m, here today.
Laxman, who upset top seed GM Popov in the previous round, scored an
exciting 46 move victory over Armenian Grandmaster Babujian Levon,
taking his tally to 3.0 points from as many rounds.
Sharing the lead at 3.0 points with Laxman were GMs Lalith Babu, Vishnu
Prasanna (both India) and Ter Sahakyan Samvel (Armenia), among others.
In another upset FIDE Master Aravindh Chithambaram defeated GM Drazic
Sinisa of Serbia.
The Results (Round 3) : (Indians unless specified) :
Swapnil S Dhopade (2.5) drew with Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (2.5)
M R Lalith Babu (3) bt Gagare Shardul (2)
Udeshi Aditya (2) lost to Ter-Sahakyan Samvel (Arm) 3
Babujian Levon (2) lost to R R Laxman (3),
B S Shivananda (2.5) drew with Mozharov Mikhail (Rus) 2.5,
V Vishnu Prasanna (3) bt S Ravi Teja (2)
Aravindh Chithambaram V R (3) bt Drazic Sinisa (Srb) 2,
N R Vignesh (2.5) drew with Rzayev Bahruz (Aze) 2.5,
Mirzoev Azer (Aze) 2.5 bt Ravichandran Siddharth (1.5),
Papin Vasily (Rus) 2 drew with Sardana Rishi (2). UNI XR VV RSS1742
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