Humpy strikes gold

Dunnington proposed a draw as early as in the 12 moves, when black had equalised the position and Queens were off the boards. However, the IOC employee Abhijit Elo 2465 refused the draw offer and led the game to a two rooks-knight and seven pawns end-game. With control over center and an open g8217; file, the former National A8217; champion penetrated in opponents territory brilliantly and succeeded in mating white after 42 moves.

Abhijit 8,missed his final GM norm by half a point, but finished for a tie for 8-14 places.

Meanwhile, the first place was shared by three GM8217;s each having seven points. On the top board, overnight leader GM A Baburin Elo 2593 lost to GM Speelman, while GM Phsakhis of Israel defeated GM Gallagher in the whites side of Kings Indian attack to join Baburin and Speelman on the top.

Mumbai trio share lead

PUNE: Mumbai trio, top seed Vilesh Bhatt, third seed Shirish Patil and fourth seed Madan Bagyatkar share the leaderboard with 5.5 points each after the end of sixth round in the All-India Open Chess tournament for the blind and visually impaired at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi, here today.

Trailing the leaders by half a point are five players, including Charudutta Jadhav, No 6 Swapnil Shah and Joseph D8217;Mello.

RESULTS
Round VI: Madan Bagyatkar 5.5 drew with Vilesh Bhatt 5.5; Charudatta Jadhav 5 drew with Shirish Patil 5.5; Swapnil Shah 5 bt S K Raut4.5; Mallikarjuna 4.5 drew with Sanjay Karandikar 4.5; Rajesh Rajput 4 lost to Sunil Kolhe 5; Dwarkadas Patel 5 bt Joseph D8217;Mello 4; Sobha Lokhande 4 lost to V D Patil 5.

Round Vth: V Bhatt 5 bt S Shah 4; S K Raut 4.5 drew with C Jadhav 4.5; S Patil 5 bt R Rajput 4; J D8217;Mello 4 lost to M Bagyatkar 5; S Karandikar 4 drew with Sunil Sasane 3; Vasant Patil 4 bt Abhay Nelge 3; B Shivkumar 4 bt N Siddhayya 3; Muthuraman 4 bt Nilesh Bendre 3; Inger Ibrahim 3 lost to Pandiya Rajan 4; Sita Wasan 4 bt Manish Tul 3; Rajesh Oza 3.5 bt Geeth 2.5; Ravi Jadhav 3 lost to Shobha Lokhande 4.