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It was a good day for Indians in the fourth round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship, with youngsters Narayanan Srinath, K Priyadharshan and Karma Pandya defeating Grandmasters Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh, Pablo Lafuente of Argentina, Ruslan Pogorelov of Ukraine respectively.
Meanwhile, Russian Grandmasters Alexey Dreev, Dmitry Bocharov and Maletin Pavel maintained their winning momentum and lead the table along with Sriram Jha, Harika and N Srinath. Dreev beat Swapnil Dhopade on Wednesday, while Bochrov and Maletin got the better of Debashis Das. Jha beat his city mate Tania Sachdev and Harika outwitted fellow Indian International Master S Shyam Sundar. The other leader on the points table is GM Kravtisv Martyn of Ukarine, who beat International Master K Rathnakaran in their fourth-round encounter.
In other fourth-round clashes, Nikil Shyam and S Nitin forced GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan and Tejas Bakre to split the points, while former world junior champion Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta satisfied with half point against MR Venkatesh.
Players and officials also celebrated Viswanathan Anand's fourth world title by cutting a cake and distributing sweets at the venue on Wednesday.
Key Results (RounD 4) (Indian unless stated otherwise)
IM Swapnil S Dhopade (3) lost to GM Alexey Dreev of Russia (4); GM Dmitry Bocharov of Russia (4) beat IM Ashwin Jayaram (3); GM Pavel Maletin of Russia beat IM Debashis Das (3); IM Venkatesh MR (3.5) drew with GM Abhijeet Gupta (3.5); GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine (4) beat IM K Rathnakaran (3); IM Tania Sachdev (3) lost to GM Sriram Jha (4); GM Hossain Enamul of Bangaldesh (3) lost to IM N Srinath (4); FM Shyam Nikil (3.5) drew with GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (3.5); IM Shyam Sundar (3) lost to IM D Harika (4); GM Tejas Bakre (3.5) drew with FM S Nitin (3.5); Sameer Kathmale (3) lost to GM Elataj Safarli of Azerbaijan (3.5); GM Parimarjan Negi (3.5) beat WGM S Meenakshi (2.5); GM Dmitry Kokarev of Russia (3.5) beat Abhishek Das (2.5); IM K Priyadharshan (3.5) beat Pablo Lafuente (2.5); GM Rustam Khusnutdinov of Kazakhstan (3.5) beat Vaibhav Suri (2.5).
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