GM Boris Savchenko of Russia outwitted GM Farrukh Amonatov of Tajikistan in the final round to emerge as the winner in the GITAM University Grandmasters chess tournament here on Friday. Five players GMs Paichadze Luka of Georgia, Stupak Kirill of Belarus, Harsha Bharathakoti, IM S. Nitin and GM Mitrabha Guha scored seven points each to finish from second to sixth …
Ukraine’s Stanislav Bogdanovich defeated India’s N. R. Visakh in the seventh round to move into the sole lead, with seven points, at the 12th Chennai Open International Grand Master Chess tournament here on Thursday. Chennai-based Grand Master M. R. Venkatesh is hot on the heels of the Ukranian GM along with eight others, including the top-seed Pavel Ponkratov of Russia. …
The rocks were gifted to all existing nations at that time and have since been lost to time, destroyed or stolen. The 63-year-old retired NASA special agent is the “Moon Rock Hunter.” “Some people go rock hunting,” Gutheinz said in an interview with AFP at his law office in a Houston suburb decorated with awards from NASA and the US …
It took Georgia’s Levan Pantsulaia just 13 moves to draw his top-table game against S. L. Narayanan but he had to wait for over six hours to know his fate. Eventually, when the tie-break rules were applied, Pantsulaia managed to pip young Iranian contender Masoud Mosadeghpour on Sonneborn-Berger score by just 0.25 points for the top prize of ₹six lakh …
Masoud Mosadeghpour won far more easily than expected to take the lead in the ongoing Delhi International Open chess tournament. With two rounds to go, Masoud leads with seven points, half-point ahead of the overnight joint-leaders Debashis Das and Diptayan Ghosh, besides Abhijeet, Narayanan, Visakh, Levan Pantsulaia and Kirill Stupak. READ: Delhi International Chess: Diptayan Ghosh trumps Ziaur Rahman Well …
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