Round Seven
GM norm holder Sandipan Chanda of the Goodricke National Chess Academy shocked Victor Mikhalevski of Israel in round seven to raise the possibility of making another norm from the Goodricke International Open. Chanda is on 5.5 points. Meanwhile, GM Joseph Gallagher of Switzerland wrested sole lead with 6/7 by defeating Philipino Villamayor. GM norm seeking Prakash (4) lost while Ramesh, Harikrishna, Lanka Ravi and Nassir Wajih drew to reach 4.5 points.
Complete results:
Buenavent Villamayor (Phi) 5 lost to Joseph G. Gallagher
(Sui) 6; Dibyendu Barua 5 drew with Maxim Sorokin (Arg) 5; Sandipan Chanda
5.5 bt Victor Mikhalevski (Isr) 4.5; Andrei Kharlov (Rus) 5 bt G.B. Prakash
4; Nassir Wajih 4.5 drew with Abhijit Kunte 4.5; Ziaur Rahman (Ban) 5 bt
Igors Rausis (Lat) 4; C.S. Gokhale 4.5 drew with P. Harikrishna 4.5; R.B.
Ramesh 4.5 drew with Lanka Ravi 4.5; Tejas Bakre 3.5 lost to Evgeny Vladimirov
(Kaz) 4.5; T.S. Ravi 4 drew with Dimitri Komarov (Ukr) 4; Dimitri Reinderman
(Ned) 4.5 bt P.D.S. Girinath 3.5; Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iri) 4.5 bt Datu
Idelfanso (Phi)
3.5; Alexei Barsov (Uzb) 4.5 bt Dinesh K. Sharma 3.5;
Koneru Humpy 3.5 lost to S. Vijayalakshmi 4.5; Gurpreetpal Singh 4 drew
with Tomasz Markowski (Pol) 3.5; Alexie Khamatgaleev (Rus) 4 bt N. Sanjay
3; Anup Deshmukh 3 lost to Nelson Mariano (Phi) 4; S. Satyapragyan 3 lost
to Lunge Malupande (Zam) 4; Normunds Miezis (Lat) 3.5 bt Ponnuswamy Konguvel
2.5; Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban) 3 drew with Amon Simutowe (Zam) 3; Surya Shekhar
Ganguly 3 drew with Joana Dworakowska (Pol) 3; Neelotpal Das 3 drew with
Rahul Shetty 3; Jayant Gokhale 3 drew with Sriram Jha 3; Arghyadip Das
2.5 lost to Chito Garma (Phi)
3.5; Saheli Dhar-Barua 3 drew with Krishnamoorthy Murugan
3; S. Meenakshi 2 lost to Deep Sengupta 3.5; Christian Brauer (Ger) 2 lost
to B.T. Muralikrishnan 3; Vishal Sareen 3 bt Oleg Boricsev (Hun) 2; Saptarshi
Roy 2.5 bt Abhijit Gupta 2; Harkamal Singh Sandhu 1.5 lost to Julia Galianina
(Rus) 2.5; Shankar Roy 2.5 bt Pankaj Joshi 1.5; Saheli Nath 0.5 lost to
Anoori Shah 2.