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.
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