TUROV Wins Chennai Open

Maxim Turov of Russia won the Chennai Open 2010 international chess tournament collecting 9.5 points from 11 rounds and conceding only three draws. His title fetched him a cash prize of two lakh rupees. GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh, R. Siddharth of Tamil Nadu and national junior champion M.R. Lalith Babu of Andhra Pradesh, tied for the second to fourth places scoring 9 points each. They were placed in that order based on the Buchholz tiebreak.

Maxim had a formal seventeen move draw against Ziaur and Lalith Babu could not make any headway in his game against the fellow IM Richard Bitoon of Philippines and settled for a draw.

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