Chess: Petrosian Wins

PETROSIAN WINS

Hindu, India
July 17 2007

NEW DELHI: K. Sasikiran went down to eventual runner-up USA’s
Gata Kamsky 1.5-2.5 in the quarterfinals of the Chess960 Internet
championship during the two-day knockout phase that ended on Sunday.

Armenia’s Tigran Petrosian won the title by beating Kamsky 4-2 in
the final.

Earlier, Petrosian eliminated K. Ratnakaran, the other Indian
challenger, 3-0 in the round of 32 on Saturday.

On Friday, Sasikiran and Ratnakaran scored 7.5 points from the
nine-round qualifiers to be among the 32 players who made the knockout
phase from all over the world.