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Kuzubov wins the Gurgaon Open GM Tournament

Second seed Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukriane won the Gurgaon International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament with eight points at Suncity World School today. Kuzubov tied for the top spot along with countrymate and top seed Alexander Areshchenko, Indian Grandmaster Neelotpal Das, Kazak Grandmaster Anuar Ismagambetov and International Master RR Laxman. But better tie break score helped Kuzubov to take the top position and winner’s trophy.

The winner of Gurgaon, Ukrainian GM Yuri Kuzubov

In the final round, Kuzubov settled for a quick draw against National Under-25 champion RR Laxman in just 8 moves while Areshchenko had the same results against Neelotpal Das. Anuar Ismagambetov defeated T. U. Navin Kanna in the final round encounter and tied for the pole position with eight points. The five ways tie resolved by bucholz score and Kuzubov edged out rest four. Areshenchenko finished second while Laxman, Anuar and Neelotpal secured third, fourth and fifth position respectively. But all the five pocketed Rs.1,12,000 (1,765 Euros or US $2,300) as prize money as the prize money shared among the tied players as per the tournament rules.

Laxman, Girinath and Shivanda achieved their grandmaster norms while Shashikant Kutwal and Akash Thakur achieved International Master Norms. Uzbek girl, Muminova Nafisa declared as the best women player of the tournament and she also achieved her Women International Master Norm from this tournament. A P Joshua finished first among unrated players while in the veteran category International Master Boris Arkhangelsky finished at the top.

Final standings (top finishers: 7.0 points or higher)

Rnk	Sd	Ti.	Name	Rtg	FED	Pts	BH.
1	2	GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	2626	UKR	8	69
2	1	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2673	UKR	8	68½
3	14	IM	Laxman R R	2478	IND	8	65
4	6	GM	Ismagambetov Anuar	2523	KAZ	8	64
5	12	GM	Neelotpal Das	2490	IND	8	63½
6	15		Lalith Babu M R	2477	IND	7½	67½
7	9	GM	Ulibin Mikhail	2511	RUS	7½	66½
8	4	GM	Gleizerov Evgeny	2544	RUS	7½	66½
9	19	IM	Sengupta Deep	2445	IND	7½	65
10	31	IM	Girinath P D S	2404	IND	7½	65
11	28	GM	Ibrayev Nurlan	2407	KAZ	7½	61
12	45		Shivananda B S	2347	IND	7½	60
13	65		Anwesh Upadhyaya	2269	IND	7½	59½
14	62		Thakur Akash	2281	IND	7½	59
15	29	IM	Himanshu Sharma	2405	IND	7½	57½
16	76		Mehar Chinna Reddy	2246	IND	7½	57½
17	26	IM	Sethuraman S P	2415	IND	7	67½
18	3	GM	Solodovnichenko Yuri	2571	UKR	7	67
19	30	IM	Das Arghyadip	2404	IND	7	64
20	78		Saravana Krishnan P	2243	IND	7	63½
21	24	IM	Shyam Sundar M	2426	IND	7	63½
22	18	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2453	IND	7	63
23	35	IM	Narayanan Srinath	2397	IND	7	63
24	27	IM	Saptarshi Roy	2410	IND	7	62
25	10	IM	Adhiban B	2504	IND	7	61½
26	16	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2462	IND	7	61½
27	49		Sangma Rahul	2322	IND	7	60
28	37	IM	Suvrajit Saha	2368	IND	7	60
29	59		Shashikant Kutwal	2285	IND	7	59½
30	21	IM	Rathnakaran K	2431	IND	7	59
31	54		Navin Kanna T U	2302	IND	7	59
32	25		Thejkumar M S	2424	IND	7	58½
33	43	FM	Djuraev Sokhib	2353	TJK	7	58½
34	97	FM	Mohammad Javed	2188	BAN	7	57
35	91		Anilkumar O T	2207	IND	7	54
36	72		Jain Shreyansh Daklia	2250	IND	7	53