Karthikeyan Wins Masters Tourney
By Arvind Aaron

International Master P. Karthikeyan of Chennai won the inaugural International Masters Chess Tournament with a 9/11 score at Colombo on September 3, 2008. Recently Indians finished 1-2-3. This week they improved on it by taking 1-2-3-4-5 and Indians are always improving on all overseas performances.

Sri Lankans and Bangladeshi player had to take the other places. It was a 12-player all-play-all. The details are on www.lankachess.com.

Final placings: 1 IM P. Karthikeyan 9/11, 2-4. FM Akshat Kamparia, IM D.K. Sharma, FM Shyam Nikhil 8 each, 5. IM R. Balasubramaniam 6.5, 6. M.K.A. Russell (Sri) 5.5, 7. G.C. Anuraddha (Sri) 4.5, 8. FM Nasir Ahmen (Ban) 4, 9-10. T.G.M. Peiris (Sri), W.G. Luxman (Sri) 3.5 each, 11. R. Weerawardane (Sri) 3, 12. R.M.C.M. Rajapakse (Sri) 2.5.


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