Bakre wins the First Saturday GM title

International Master Tejas Bakre (ELO 2446) of India won the First Saturday GM tournament with 9.5 Points. Bakre, who had received a walkover in the penultimate round, had a draw against Ilincic Zlatko in the last and final round also achieved his 2nd GM Norm.

Koneru Humpy (2484) drew the last Round against IM Paschall William (2393) of USA and finished fourth in this strong category X tournament with 7.5 points and missed her Third GM norm by 1.5 points. Humpy showed enough mettle and resilience in the second half of the tournament to finish fourth despite loosing first two matches.

Humpy faced 7 opponents with higher ELO rating, which comprises 4GMs, 3 IMs. She had 4 wins, 2 Draws, One loss from this group of Seven.

GM Berkes Ferenc (2541) of Hungary is in the Second Position with 9 Points and achieved his 2nd GM Norm.

GM Ilincic Zlatko (2521) of Yugoslavia are in Third Position with 8 Points.

The standings after the 13th round:

1. Tejas Bakre (India) - 9.5 points
2. Ferenc Berkes (Hungary) - 9 points
3. Zlatko Ilincic (Yugoslavia) - 8 points
4. Koneru Humpy (India) - 7.5 points
5. Horvath Jozsef (Hungary), Sang Cao (Hungary), Czebe Attila (Hungary), Gergely Antal (Hungary) and William Paschall (USA) - 6.5 points
10. Zoltan Varga (Hungary), Ruben Felgaer (Argentina)- 6 points
12. Schenk Andreas (Germany) - 5 points
13. Adam Horvath (Hungary) - 3.5 points
14. Albert Bokros (Hungary) - 3 points

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Humpy suffers shock defeat
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Source: www.koneruhumpy.com