Prakash, New GM
G.B.Prakash (6/9) of Indian Bank, Chennai became India's sixth GM when he defeated GM Dimitri Komarov of Ukraine on February 14 in the ninth round of the 12th Goodricke Open at the Gorky Sadan, Kolkata. However Prakash will have to wait until he reaches 2500 Elo. He has made five of his six IM and GM norms from this tournament. Sandipan Chanda (6.5/9) obtained his second GM norm by making a draw against GM Evgeny Vladimirov of Kazakhstan, Iran's Ehsan Ghaem Maghami made an IM norm too in an eventful round nine. Andra Kharlov, Gallagher, Chanda, Maghami are leading with 6.5/9. Two rounds remain to be played.
Complete results.
Andrei Kharlov (Rus) 6.5 drew bt Joseph G. Gallagher (Swi) 6.5; Sandipan
Chanda 6.5 drew with Evgeny Vladimirov (Kaz) 6; Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Ira)
6.5 bt Buenavent Villamayor (Phi) 5.5; Dimitri Reinderman (Ned) 6 drew
with Ziaur Rahman (Ban) 6; Dibyendu Barua 6 drew with Nassir Wajih 6; P.
Harikrishna 5 lost to Maxim Sorokin (Arg) 6.5; R.B. Ramesh 6 bt Abhijit
Kunte 5; G.B. Prakash 6 bt Dimitri Komarov (Ukr) 5; Miezis Normunds (Lat)
4.5 lost to Nelson Mariani (Phi) 5.5; Chito Garma (Phi) 5.5 bt Igors Rausis
(Lat) 4.5; T.S. Ravi 4.5 lost to Alexei Barsov (Uzb) 5.5; Victor Mikhalevski
(Isr) 5.5 bt Lanka Ravi 4.5; C.S.Gokhale 4.5 lost to S. Vijayalakshmi 5.5;
Alexej Khamatgaleev (Rus) 4.5 lost to Datu Idelfanso (Phi) 5.5; Tomasz
Markowski (Pol) 5 bt Sriram Jha 4; Amon Simutowe (Zam) 5 bt Koneru Humpy
4; Tejas Bakre 5 bt Joana Dworakowska (Pol) 4; P.D.S. Girinath 4.5 drew
with Krishnamoorthy Murugan 4.5; Gurpreetpal Singh 5 bt S. Satyapragyan
3.5; Surya Shekhar Ganguly 4.5 bt Dinesh Sharma 3.5; Shankar Roy 4.5 bt
Julia Galianina- Ryjanova (Rus) 3.5; Lungu Malupande (Zam) 3.5 lostto Ponnuswamy
Konguvel 4.5; Deep Sengupta 4.5 bt N. Sanjay 3.5; Abdulla Al- Rakib (Ban)
4 drew with Jayant S. Gokhale 4; B.T. Muralikrishnan 3 lost to Rahul Shetty
4.5; Neelotpal Das 4 bt S. Meenakshi 3; Vishal Sareen 4 bt Saheli Dhar-Barua
3; Anup Deshmukh 3 lost to Abhijit Gupta 4; Christian Brauer (Ger) 3 lost
to Arghyadip Das 3.5; Oleg Boricsev (Hun) 3 bt Saptarshi Roy 2; Harkamal
Singh Sandhu 2.5 bt Anoori Shah 2; Pankaj Joshi 2.5 bt Saheli Nath.