Alexander Areshchenko wins Parsvnath International Chess Tournament, Parimarjan Negi runners-up

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Ukrainian Grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko

receiving the winner's cheque at the 9th Parsvnath 
International in New Delhi on Sunday.

Hi Everybody,

Grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko from Ukraine has won one of India's biggest prize-money tournaments, the Parsvnath International Chess Tournament with Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi coming in at runner-up on tie-break. You can find more details at the Indian Federation website here. These are the top-20 final standings:

Rk.			Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	Rp
1		GM	Areshchenko Alexander	UKR	2671	9.0	86.0	79.5	73.0	2703
2		GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2607	9.0	85.5	78.5	72.0	2656
3		GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	UKR	2624	9.0	80.0	76.0	71.0	2569
4		GM	Ragger Markus	AUT	2615	9.0	79.0	72.5	66.0	2558
5		GM	Ni Hua	CHN	2645	9.0	78.5	74.0	67.5	2582
6		GM	Lenic Luka	SLO	2613	8.5	83.0	76.0	70.0	2617
7		GM	Oleksienko Mikhailo	UKR	2552	8.5	82.5	76.0	70.0	2623
8		GM	Danielsen Henrik	ISL	2519	8.5	81.5	75.5	69.5	2542
9		GM	Postny Evgeny	ISR	2592	8.5	80.5	74.0	67.0	2577
10		IM	Nabaty Tamir	ISR	2565	8.5	77.5	72.5	66.0	2466
11			Zeng Chongsheng	CHN	2377	8.5	77.0	71.5	66.0	2477
12		GM	Rahman Ziaur	BAN	2528	8.5	73.5	68.5	63.0	2413
13		GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2590	8.0	83.0	77.5	71.0	2571
14		GM	Stefansson Hannes	ISL	2580	8.0	82.0	75.0	68.5	2521
15		GM	Babujian Levon	ARM	2456	8.0	80.0	74.0	68.0	2465
16		GM	Greenfeld Alon	ISR	2557	8.0	80.0	74.0	68.0	2465
17		GM	Laxman R R	IND	2463	8.0	78.0	73.5	67.0	2452
18		GM	Chernyshov Konstantin	RUS	2597	8.0	78.0	72.5	66.5	2471
19		GM	Zherebukh Yaroslav	UKR	2565	8.0	78.0	71.5	65.0	2421
20		GM	Kravtsiv Martyn	UKR	2566	8.0	76.5	70.0	64.0	2485

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