Magesh continues winning ways

Meanwhile, Sushant Bannerjee deservingly won the Category 'B tournament of the festival that ended Tuesday. Bannerjee logged eight points out of a possible nine to pocket Rs one lakh winner's purse out of a total prize pool of Rs 3,50,000.

Category 'A' Important Results

(Round-5) (Indians otherwise specified):- GM P Magesh Chandran (4.5) beat IM Kirill Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (3.5); GM Lalith Babu MR (4) drew with GM Lu Shanglei of China (4); IM Ashwin Jayaram (3.5) drew with GM Abhijeet Gupta (3.5); IM Saptarshi Roy (3.5) drew with GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus (3.5); GM Adhiban B (3.5) drew with Karthikeyan Murali (3.5); IM Rathnakaran K (3.5) drew with GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (3.5); GM Vaibhav Suri (4) beat Ram S Krishanan (3); IM Ankit R Rajpara (4) beat IM Shyam Sundar M (3); FM Shardul Gagare (3.5) drew with IM Swapnil D Dhopade (3.5); GM Murshed Niaz of Bangladesh (3.5) drew with GM Laxman R R (3.5); IM Anup Deshmukh (4) beat GM Sahaj Grover (3)

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