Kore holds van Wely
Dubai, April 18, 2012

Grandmaster norm holder Akshayraj Kore showed character and fighting skills as he held second seed Grandmaster Loek van Wely of the Netherlands to a draw in the second round of the 14th Dubai International Chess Open here on Tuesday.

van Wely and compatriot Ivan Sokolov failed to turn up in time for the game and Kore and Tania Sachdev were awarded walkovers by the arbiter. Kore pleaded that he wanted to play but the arbiter did not relent while Tania left for her hotel.

The results (second round, Indians unless stated): S. Nitin (1) lost to Baadur Jobava (Geo, 2); Loek van Wely (Ned, 1.5) drew with Akshayraj Kore (1.5); Ivan Sokolov (Ned, 1) w/o Tania Sachdev (2); Abhijeet Gupta (1.5) drew with Vishnu Prasanna (1.5); Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (1.5) drew with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Rou, 1.5); Labib Ibrahim Hasan (Egy, 1.5) drew with Parimarjan Negi (1.5); Ni Hua (Chn, 2) bt N. Srinath (1); Ankit Rajpara (1.5) drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly (1.5); Vladimir Baklan (Ukr, 2) bt M. Karthikeyan (1); Ramnath Bhuvanesh (1) lost to Amin Bassem (Iri, 2); Alexander Kovchan (Rus, 2) bt Anup Deshmukh (1); Sandipan Chanda (2) bt Antonio Viani D’cunha (1); Sanal Vahap (Tur, 1) lost to G.N. Gopal (2).

M.R. Lalith Babu (1.5) drew with Saleh Nagueb (UAE, 1.5); Elmira Mirzoeva (Rus, 2) bt Sahaj Grover (1); Sayantan Das (1) lost to P. Shyam Nikhil (2); M. Shyam Sundar (1.5) drew with Marcos Marvin (Phi, 1.5); P. Ambareesh (1) lost to Ezat Mohamed (Egy, 2); Swapnil Dhopade (2) bt Meredow Shanepes (Tkm, 1); Semiev Suhrab (Tkm, 1.5) bt Madhurima Shekhar (0.5); Timoshenko Georgy (Ukr, 1) bt Niklesh Jain (0).

Harshal Shahi (0) lost to N. Surendran (1); U. Ashwini (0) lost to Ikrom Ilhomzoda (Tjk, 1); M. Vigram (0) lost to Mihail Chommyyev (Tkm, 1); Kassem Magdy (Egy, 0) lost to P.V. Nandhidhaa (1); Sohib Okla (Syr, 1) bt Sasikumar Anusweud (1); Sameir Ramez (Egy, 1) bt Anshuman Singh (0); Kritik Satija (1) w/o Al-Zayat Ahmed (Lba, 0).

Source: http://www.thehindu.com

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