Harikrishna and Peter ACS Share First Place at Gyorgy Marx Rapid

Mainz, Aug 15 (UNI) Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna drew against Cs Balogh in the final 10th round game to score 6 points from 10 outings to share the Top honours with Peter ACS, who also finished with 6 points after 10 rounds at the 5th Gyorgy Marx Memorial Rapid Championship, which Concluded today in Paks, Hungary.

In this double Round robin championship, Harikrishana started with a loss in the first game and thereafter drew the next three games with Korchonoi, Berkes and Balogh. He went on to win the next three games and drew 8th and 9th game to emerge leader of the championship with 5.5 points, half a point ahead of his nearest rivals ACS and Balogh who scored 5 points each from 9 games.

In the Final Round Harikrishna had black pieces against Cs Balogh and despite playing an attacking game could not get a full point and drew the game.

With this drawn game Harikrishna finished the championship with 6 points. His nearest rival Peter ACS defeated his opponent legendry Victor Korchnoi to get one full point to equalize the score with Harikrishna and shared the First Place with the Indian Grandmaster.

Harikrishna will now play two rapid tournament in Mainz Chess Classic, where he won the Chess960 Junior world Rapid Champions title last year.

Final Standings - (After Round 10) 1 Pentala Harikrishna and P.Acs 6 points each Joint Ist Place 2 Cs Balogh 5.5 points 3 F Berkes 5 points 4 Viktor Korchnoi 4.5 points 5 Y Hou 3 points UNI