Delhi International Open: Levan Pantsulaia clinches title
5 years, 11 months ago

Delhi International Open: Levan Pantsulaia clinches title

The Hindu  

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 at the Delhi International Open Grandmasters chess tournament here on Wednesday. NINTH ROUND REPORT Even the third and fourth prizes were claimed by overseas GMs, Belarus’ Kirill Stupak and Tajikistan’s Farrukh Amonatov. S. L. Narayanan drew with Levan Pantsulaia ; Farrukh Amonatov bt N. R. Visakh ; Abhijeet Gupta bt D. Gukesh ; Masoud Mosadeghpour bt E. Arjun ; Diptayan Ghosh bt C. Praveen Kumar ; Karen Movsziszian lost to Kirill Stupak ; Swapnil Dhopade drew with Tran Tuan Minh.

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The Hindu  

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