PETROSIAN TRIUMPHS

The Hindu, India
March 7 2007

KOLKATA: Grandmaster Tigran Petrosian of Armenia won the second
Kolkata Open international chess tournament and the first prize of
$4,500 here at the Gorky Sadan on Tuesday. He drew his 10th round
game against GM Dimitri Komarov of Ukraine to end with eight points.

The 22-year-old graduate, currently serving the mandatory two years
in the Armenian army, had a quick eight-move draw on the top board
leaving others to fight it out for the other placing.

Top seed Sergei Tiviakov of the Netherlands defeated GM Abhijit Kunte
in 61 moves to tie for the second position with GM Darmen Sadvakasov
of Kazakhstan. A better tie-break score enabled the Dutch to occupy
the second spot. Sadvakasov was third.

Two Indians, IM Sriram Jha and Geetha Narayanan Gopal, ended a
creditabe fourth and fifth respectively. Both had confirmed their
first GM norm on Monday. National champion GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly
was seventh by virtue of his long-drawn victory against GM Mikhail
Kekelidze of Georgia.

Important results (Indians, unless mentioned): Dimitri Komarov (Ukr)
(7) drew with Tigran Petrosian (Arm) (8); Alon Greenfeld (Isr) (6.5)
drew with Darmen Sadvakasov (Kaz) (7.5); Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) (7.5)
bt Abhijit Kunte (6); S.S. Ganguly (7) bt Mikhail Kekelidze (Geo)
(6); Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) (7) beat IM S. Vijayalakshmi (6);
Sundararajan Kidambi (6) lost to Sriram Jha (7); G.N. Gopal (7)
bt Safin Shukhrat (Uzb) (6).