PUNE, AUGUST 30: India's Koneru Humpy (5) won a gold medal in the women's section of the Mind Sports Olympiad Masters Chess Championship when she drew her ninth and the final round game against compatriot International Master V Sarvanan (5) in just 10 moves, according to the reports reaching here.Abhijit Kunte, who had missed his Grandmaster norm title by a whisker yesterday losing to Israeli GM L Phsakhis, defeated International Master Dunnington of UK (Elo 2366) in the black's side of English Opening at the Olympiad Conference Hall, Kinsington (London), today.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 `g' file, the former National `A' 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 GM'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 leadPUNE: 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 D'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 Raut(4.5); Mallikarjuna (4.5) drew with Sanjay Karandikar (4.5); Rajesh Rajput (4) lost to Sunil Kolhe (5); Dwarkadas Patel (5) bt Joseph D'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 D'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).
