Hard-fought win for Abhijeet

August 22, 2014 01:21 am | Updated 01:21 am IST - Abu Dhabi:

Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta started with a hard-fought win over Zendan Al-Zendani of Yemen in the first round of Abu Dhabi Masters here on Thursday.

The first round started with a last-minute pairing change owing to a few withdrawals but this did not deter most of the Indians from cruising to easy victories in the opener.

The lone shocker came from Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly who lost to Iranian girl Mitra Hejazipour after enjoying a commanding position for the major part of the game. Fenil Shah was another Indian to go down but he faced a much tougher opponent in Amin Baseem of Egypt.

Vidit Gujrathi, M.R. Lalith Babu, G.N. Gopal, Vaibhav Suri, Ankit Rajpara, Sahaj Grover and M. Shyam Sundar started their campaign with wins.

Important results: First round: Wang Hao (Chn) bt Oliver Dimakiling (Phi); Mohammad Samir (Syr) lost to Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukr); Alexander Areshchenko (Ukr) bt Mohamed Tissir (Mar); Atousa Pourkashiyan (Iri) lost to Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr); Zendan Al-Zendani (Yem) lost to Abhijeet Gupta; Fenil Shah lost to Amin Bassem (Egy); Surya Shekhar Ganguly lost to Mitra Hejazipour (Iri); Kazbek Primbetov (Kaz) lost to Vidit Santosh Gujrathi; Osama Zayan (Egy) lost to M. R. Lalith Babu; G. N. Gopal bt Vita Kryvoruchko (Ukr); Abdulla Gadimbayli (Aze) lost to Vaibhav Suri; Ayyad Maher (Brn) lost to Ankit Rajpara.

Sahaj Grover bt L. N. Ram Aravind; Diptayan Ghosh bt Janahi Zeyaad (Brn); Abdulwahab Marwan (Uae) lost to P. Shyam Nikil; M. Shyam Sundar bt Majid Laabi Chian (Iri); Mayed Al-Rashedi (UAE) lost to Murali Karthikeyan; Aydan Hojjatova (Aze) lost to Shardul Gagare; Ramnath Bhuvanesh bt Joemarie Villadelgado; Al-Kaabi Abdulla (UAE) lost to Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan; V. A. V. Rajesh bt Zayed Ali Al-Hamed (UAE); Mansour Abbas (UAE) lost to Eesha Karavade; P. Iniyan bt Mohammed Tarig Elther (Sud).

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