Round eight
Joseph Gallagher of Switzerland drew Sandipan Chanda and is holding
on to lead in the 12th Goodricke Open with 6.5 points from eight games
February 12.
Koneru Humpy who drew Tejas Bakre needs a draw on Wednesday for her
second WGM norm. Prakash kept his GM norm chances alive but ended Lanka
Ravi's by winning against him. Three round remain to be played.
Joseph G. Gallagher (Sui) 6.5 drew with Sandipan Chanda 6; Maxim
Sorokin (Arg) 5.5 drew with Andrei Kharlov (Rus) 5.5; Ziaur Rahman
(Ban) 5.5 drew with Buenavent Villamayor (Phi) 5.5; Abhijit Kunte 5 drew
with Dibyendu Barua 5.5; Evgeny Vladimirov (Kaz) 5.5 bt Victor Mikhalevski
(Isr) 4.5; Lanka Ravi 4.5 lost to Dimitri Reinderman (Ned) 5.5; P. Harikrishna
5 drew with R.B. Ramesh 5; S. Vijayalakshmi 4.5 lost to Ehsan Ghaem Maghami
(Iri) 5.5; Alexei Barsov (Uzb) 4.5 lost to Nassir Wajih 5.5; Dimitri Komarov
(Ukr) 5 bt C.S. Gokhale 4.5; Igors Rausis (Lat) 4.5 drew with T.S. Ravi
4.5; G.B. Prakash 5 bt Gurpreetpal Singh 4; Nelson Mariano (Phi) 4.5 drew
with Alexei Khamatgaleev (Rus) 4.5; Chito Garma (Phi) 4.5 bt S. Satyapragyan
4; Tomasz Markowski (Pol) 4 drew with P.D.S. Girinath 4; Dinesh K. Sharma
3.5 lost to Normunds Miezis (Lat) 4.5; Koneru Humpy 4 drew with Tejas Bakre
4; Datu Idelfanso (Phi) 4.5 bt Deep Sengupta 3.5; Amon Simutowe (Zam) 4
bt B.T. Muralikrishnan 3; Jayant Gokhale 3.5 drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly
3.5; Joana Dworakowska (Pol) 4 bt Neelotpal Das 3; Sriram Jha 4 bt Vishal
Sareen 3; Krishnamoorthy Murugan 4 bt Anup Deshmukh 3; N. Sanjay 3.5 drew
with Lungu Malupande (Zam) 3.5; Rahul Shetty 3.5 drew
with Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban) 3.5; Saheli Dhar-Barua 3 lost to
Shankar Roy 3.5; Julia Galianina (Rus) 3.5 bt Arghyadip Das 2.5; Ponnuswamy
Konguvel 3.5 bt Saptarshi Roy 2.5; Abhijit Gupta 3 bt Oleg Boricsev (Hun)
2; Anoori Shah 2 lost to Christian Brauer (Ger) 3; Pankaj Joshi 1.5 lost
to S. Meenakshi 3; Saheli Nath 1.5 bt Harkamal Singh Sandhu 1.5.