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Kolkata Open 2007

Armenian GM L. Tigran Petrosian has won the won the 2nd Kolkata Open GM Tournament 2007 held in Kolkata, India. He earned 8 points in this 10 round Swiss League Tournament. Dutch GM Sergei Tiviakov and Kazak GM Darmen Sadvakasov closely followed him with 7.5 points.
Bangladesh's few players also participated in this tournament. But they failed to achieve a satisfactory result. Among them, GM Niaz Murshed and GM Ziaur Rahman were placed in 12th-24th position with 6 points each.
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5th Parsvnath GM Tournament

Alexi Dreev of Russia has taken the 1st place in the 5th Parsvnath GM tournament held in India. Dreev, who has an ELO rating of 2658, defeated B Adhiban in the 10th and final round to finish a clear winner with 8.5 out of a possible 10 points to bag the purse of Rs two lakh in the Swiss-league tournament played at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium. Half a point adrift of Dreev were seven players - Rohit, GMs Ahmed Adly of Egypt, Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh, GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly of India, IMs Enamul Hossain and Abdulla Al-Rakib of Bangladesh, and Vikramaditya Kamble of India. All these players got a little over Rs. 50000 for their efforts. Ahmed Adly finished the second runner up and Rahman and Ganguly were fourth and fifth after the tiebreak was resolved under Bucholz system. Zipped PGN Games
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