Negi settles for second place at Parsvnath chess

National champion Parimarjan Negi settled for a second place finish after top seed Ukrainian Grandmaster Alexnader Areshchenko clinched the title on the basis of better tie break score at the 8th Parsvnath Chess tournament.

New Delhi: National champion Parimarjan Negi settled for a second place finish after top seed Ukrainian

Grandmaster Alexnader Areshchenko clinched the title on the basis of better tie break score at the 8th Parsvnath International Chess tournament here on Sunday. Negi, who won the national championship last month, was tied along with Areshchenko, Yuriy Kuzubov, Austrian Grandmaster Ragger Markus and Chinese Grandmaster Ni Hua with nine points each at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here. In the final round encounters, Negi overcame CRG Krishna while Markus defeated Grandmaster Hanens Stefansson of Iceland and Ni Hua beat former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta to catch up with Areshchenko for the pole position. Areshchenko set for a draw with fellow Ukrainian Grandmaster Yuriy Kuzubov in the eleventh round but better tie break score helped Areshchenko to take the Winners trophy and pocketed a shared cash prize of Rs 1.51 lakh. Kuzubov finished at the third spot, while Markus and Ni Hua finished fourth and fifth respectively. Shri. V P Agarwal, Chairman Airport Authority of India; Shri Suneet Sachar, Vice President Parsvnath Developers; Shri Dhiraj Raghuvanshi, President Uttaranchal Chess Association give away the prizes in presence of Shri. Bharat Singh, President Delhi Chess Association. PTI