Top seed Aleksandrov wins Mayor's Chess Cup

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011

Hi everyone,

The latest chess news from Mumbai is that top seed Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus has won the 4th Mayor's Cup International Chess Tournament. He went into the last round with a full-point lead and a quick draw with India's Deep Sengupta in the 11th and final round on Saturday gave him the top prize. 

Aleksej Aleksandrov 

GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine, seeded second, also needed just a draw for a clear second and he got that by beating Ziaur Rehman of Bangladesh in just 28 moves. 

The top final standings:

1 GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (2618, BLR) 9.5 points;
2 GM Martyn Kravtsiv (2583, UKR) 9;
3. Swayams Mishra (2354, IND) 8.5;
4. GM Neelotpal Das (2458, IND) 8.5;
5. GM Marat Dzhumaev (2492, UZB) 8;
6. GM Abhijit Kunte (2528, IND) 8;
7. GM Andrei Deviatkin (2580, RUS) 8;
8. IM Shyam Sundar M (2457, IND) 8;
9. GM Heberla Bartlomiej (2539, POL) 8;
10. GM Deep Sengupta (2572,IND) 8;

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Mumbai Mayor's Chess Cup R10: Aleksandrov extends lead to full point, needs draw for clear first in last round

GM Aleksandrov

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011

Hi everyone,

Here is the chess news update from the Mumbai Mayor's Cup Chess Tournament. Belarussian Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov has extended his lead to a full point after 10 rounds. He beat India's M S Thejkumar in the penultimate round. Aleksandrov needs just a draw in the last round to win the title. GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine is at second place with eight points. He beat GM Marat Dhumaev. Seven players are tied at the third spot with 7.5 points each going into the final day.

Here are the top two interesting games sent to us from Round 10 by Black and White Chess Magazine from India.

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