Abhijeet Gupta suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Kaido Kulaots of Estonia and went out of contention for a podium finish after the seventh round of the 31st Cappelle La Grande international chess tournament here.
Not showing his best form, Gupta remained on 4.5 points out of seven rounds and will now have to win the remaining two games to get back the important rating points here.
Greece’s Vasilios Kotronias defeated Igor Kovalenko of Latvia to emerge as the new leader with six points.
Important results (seventh round, Indians only): Abhijeet Gupta (4.5) lost to Kaido Kulaots (Est, 5.5); Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (5) drew with Federico Perez Ponsa (Arg, 5); S. Arun Prasad drew with Kirill Stupak (Blr, 5); V. Vishnu Prasanna (4.5) drew with Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko (Ukr, 4.5); Alexandr Fier (Bra, 5) bt S. Kidambi (4); G.N. Gopal (5) bt Nikolay Milchev (Bul, 4); Sandipan Chanda (5) bt Yago De Moura Santiago (Bra, 4); Vincent Riff (FRA, 4.5) drew with Sahaj Grover (4.5); Hector Fiori (Arg, 3.5) lost to M.R. Venkatesh.
