Tradewise Gibraltar Chess: Lalith upsets Cheparinov

January 31, 2015 03:22 am | Updated 03:22 am IST - Gibraltar:

Grandmaster M.R. Lalith Babu caused a major upset by defeating defending champion Ivan Cheparinov of Bulgaria in the third round of the Masters section of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess tournament here on Friday. With his third victory in as many games, Lalith Babu remained in joint lead.

Important Indian results: round 3: P Harikrishna (3) bt Ioan-Cristian Chirila (Rou, 2); M.R. Lalith Babu (3) bt Ivan Cheparinov (Bul, 2); B. Adhiban (3) bt Alexander Donchenko (Ger, 2); V. Vishnu Prasanna (2.5) drew with Daniel Naroditsky (Usa, 2.5); M.R. Venkatesh (2.5) drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2.5); Michael Roiz (Isr, 3) bt Soumya Swaminathan (2); S.P. Sethuraman (2) drew with Irina Krush (Usa, 2); Neelotpal Das (1.5) lost to A.R. Salem Saleh (Uae, 2.5); Ruben Felgaer (Arg, 2) drew with Padmini Rout (2); Deep Sengupta (2.5) bt Robert Bellin (Eng, 1.5); Johan Salomon (Nor, 2) drew with Debashis Das (2); Sandipan Chanda (2) bt Menna Barreto Felipe Kubiaki (Bra, 1); D Harika (1.5) drew with Urbina Perez Juan Antonio (Esp, 1.5); M Shyam Sundar (2) beat Hendrik Hoffmann (Ger, 1); Diego Herman (Arg, 1.5) drew with Arghyadip Das (1.5); Alan Walton (Eng, 1.5) drew with Eesha Karavade (1.5).

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