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Adhiban beats Muzychuk to jump to joint fourth

Grandmaster B Adhiban rose back in contention by defeating Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine in the sixth round of the Masters section of Tradewise Gibralatar chess festival.
Adhiban beats Muzychuk to jump to joint fourth
Grandmaster B Adhiban rose back in contention by defeating Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine in the sixth round of the Masters section of Tradewise Gibralatar chess festival.
GIBRALTAR: Putting a disappointing loss in the previous round behind, Grandmaster B Adhiban rose back in contention by defeating Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine in the sixth round of the Masters section of Tradewise Gibralatar chess festival on Monday.
Having lost to tournament leader Hikaru Nakamura in the previous round, Adhiban knew he had to win in the sixth round and the former national champion delivered the goods with black pieces to take his tally up to a respectable five points out of a possible six.

Nakamura meanwhile remained unstoppable in the 175000 Pounds Sterling (About Rs. 1.7 Crores) festival as he recorded his sixth straight victory in the tournament at the expense of top seed and former world champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
The American, on six points, is now half a point ahead of Yangyi Yu of China and David Howell of England while Adhiban shares the fourth spot with Axel Bachmann of Paraguay, women's world champion Yifan Hou of China, Daniel Naroditsky of United States and young German International Master Dennis Wagner who all have five points apiece.
With four rounds still remaining, as many as 19 players are still in the hunt for the top prizes. This pack includes five Indians and topping the charts here is P Harikrishna along with Surya Shekhar Ganguly, S P Sethuraman, M R Lalith Babu and M R Venkatesh.
It turned out to be a dull day for Harikrishna as he played out a draw with compatriot Ganguly out of a Catalan opening where the former played black, Harikrishna got easy equality as black and did not have to exert much as the players reached an opposite coloured Bishops endgame in quick time.

Amongst the Indians, the day belonged to Venkatesh who got the better of A R Saleh Salem of UAE. After a sweet victory over Gawain Jones of England in the fifth round, this was Venkatesh's second 2600 scalp on the trot.
Sethuraman defeated Axel Smith of Sweden while Lalith Babu lived up to his favourite's tag against lower ranked Victor Plotkin of Canada.
Adhiban yet again showed his deep opening preparation and outplayed Muzychuk out of a Sicilian Taimanov. Playing black, the Indian calculated well in the middle game complexities and found a nice combination that led to winning a rook for a minor piece. The technicalities remained but Adhiban gave no chances thereafter and wrapped the issue in just 37 moves.
While Yifan Hou leads the women section, Indian duo of Padmini Rout and Soumya Swaminathan continued with their impressive run to reach four points. Rout defeated American Grandmaster Kayden Troff while Swaminathan played out a draw with highly regarded Canadian Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett.
Important and Indian results round 6 (Indians unless specified): Hikaru Nakamura (Usa, 6) beat Veselin Topalov (Bul, 4.5); Yu Yangyi (Chn, 5.5) beat Renier Vazquez Igarza (Esp, 4.5); Wei Yi (Chn 4.5) lost to David Howell (Eng, 5.5); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (4.5) drew with P Harikrishna (4.5); Maxim Rodshtein (Isr, 4.5) drew with Michael Roiz (Isr, 4.5); Yifan Hou (Chn, 5) beat Sandro Mareco (Arg, 4); Mariya Muzychuk (Ukr, 4) lost to B Adhiban (5); Daniel Naroditsky (Usa, 5) beat Sandipan Chanda (4); Dennis Wagner (Ger, 5) beat Viktor Bologan (Mda, 4); Dmitry Jakovenko (Rus, 4.5) beat V Vishnu Prasanna (4); Alexander Motylev (Rus, 4) drew with Debashis Das (4); Romain Edouard (Fra, 4) drew with M Shyam Sundar (4); Axel Smith (Swe, 3.5) lost to S P Sethuraman (4.5); A R Salem Saleh (Uae, 3.5) lost to M R Venkatesh (4.5); Neelotpal Das (4) drew with Benjamin Bok (Ned, 4); Soumya Swaminathan (4) drew with Kevin Spraggett (Can, 4); Victor Plotkin (Can, 3.5) lost to M R Lalith Babu (4.5); Jovanka Houska (Eng, 3.5) drew with Deep Sengupta (3.5); Padmini Rout (4) beat Kayden Troff (Usa, 3); Kristian Stuvik Holm (Nor, 3.5) drew with D Harika (3.5); Arghyadip Das (4) beat Klara Varga (Hun, 3); Eesha Karavade (3) drew with Jonathan Yu (Can, 3).
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