FUJAIRAH (UAE), Nov 15:
Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly outwitted higher rated compatriot Abhijeet Gupta to maintain a clean slate after the end of the second round of Fujairah International Chess tournament, here today.
Ganguly, who had been recently struggling with his form, played a consistent game to get the better of his former World junior champion opponent and capitalised on a blunder in the endgame to jump to two points from as many games in the super-strong open tournament.
Apart from Ganguly, GM Sandipan Chanda was the other notable Indian winner at the expense of International Master V Saravanan.
The USD 50,500 prize money tournament finds no 2700 rated players among the leaders as all four have dropped a half point now.
Top seed Baadur Jobava of Georgia had to sign peace with Gadir Guseinov of Azerbaijan while Etienne Bacort of France achieved the same result against Solak Dragan of Turkey.(PTI)
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