Anand's visit inspired Ganguly to beat Kostenko

New Delhi (17 Jan 09 ) : The visit of world champion Vishy Anand to tournament hall boosted his second in the world cup, national champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly to beat overnight sole leader Kazakh grandmaster Petr Kostenko in the eighth round of 7th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament here at Modern School on Saturday.

With only two round remaining in the biggest open event of the country, Ganguly, Kostenko and Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin now share the lead on 7 points each while as many as 12 players including Abhijit Kunte and Dibeyandu Barua are in proximity of the leaders with 6.5 points apiece.

Ganguly displayed sheer class to beat Kostenko from the white side of Sicilian Defence after 70 moves while grandmaster Ulibin defeated International Master Roktim Bandopadhyay in Kings Indian Defence to catch up with the leaders. Former national champion Abhijit Kunte split the point with P Karthikeyan while Dibeyandu Barua signed peace treaty with IM norm hopeful Shashikant Kutwal. GM norm hopeful International Master SP Sethuraman drew his game against state mate and International Master RR Laxman. Local favourite Parimarjan Negi got another set back to his title contention as he satisfied with half point against International Master K Rathanakaran.

During the course of the round World Champion Viswanathan Anand along with his better half Aruna visited the tournament hall and it was a pleasant experience for the players and spectators.

Important Results of Round 8 (Indians otherwise stated):

GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (7) beat GM Petr Kostenko of Kazakhstan (7) ; GM Abhijit Kunte (6.5) drew with IM P Karthikeyan (6.5) ; GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (7) beat IM Roktim Bandyopadhyay (6) ; Shashikant Kutwal (6.5) drew with Dibyendu Barua (6.5) ; IM RR Laxman (6.5) drew with IM SP Sethuraman (6.5) ; Vishnu Prasanna (6.5) drew with GM Alexander Areshchenko of Ukraine (6) ; IM Sriram Jha (6) drew with GM Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine (6) ; GM Parimarjan Negi (6) drew with IM Rathnakaran (6) ; GM Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine (5.5) lost to M S Thejkumar (6.5) GM Iuldachev Saidalin of Uzbekistan (6) drew with IM Akshayraj Kore (6) ; GM Vinay Bhat of USA (5.5) lost to IM GB Prakash (6.5) ; GM Neelotpal Das (6.5) beat IM Atanu Lahiri(5.5) ; IM Prathamesh Mokal (6.5) beat M R Lalith Babu (5.5) ; IM Justin Sarkar of USA (5.5) lost to Joydeep Dutta (6.5) ; IM Suvrajit Saha (6) drew with IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (6).
 

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