Harikrishna hits back after minor hiccup

Outlook , India
July 15 2005

>>From our chess correspondent Taiyuan (China), July 15 (PTI) World
Junior Champion Grandmaster P Harikrishna crashed threw the defenses
of Tigran Petrosian of Armenia to return to his winning ways in the
2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters chess tournament here.
It turned out to be another fine day for the Indian stalwart after he
was temporarily halted by Wang Yue of China in the previous round.

The victory gave Harikrishna another reason to celebrate as he
extended his lead yet again to a whopping 1.5 points in the
category-15 double round robin event.

With just four rounds remaining, Harikrishna took his tally to an
extremely impressive 6.5 points out of a possible 7 with his sixth
victory in the tournament.

Following him solely is Chinese Grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi drew with
compatriot Zhang Zhong.

Top seed Russian GM Alexander Motylev now has 4.5 points with an
extra game in hand slated on the rest day on 17th July against Ni
Hua.

Yue, Petrosian and world’s youngest ever GM Sergey Karjakin of
Ukraine are next in line on 4 points each while a full point adrift
of them are Hua and Wang Hao of China.

Petrosian had shown a lot of promise prior to his game against
Harikrishna but the Armenian simply could not find his form in this
very important game against the leader.

Playing white, Harikrishna showed extreme expertise in choosing the
Torre attack and the game transposed to a Pirc defense game.