Untitled Kundu Subhayan of India (left), GM Kirill Stupak of Belarus (center) and GM Peng Li Min of Switzerland (right) remain tied for the lead with 7 points each after the penultimate 9th round of the DINI International Chess Tournament in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photos by Sachini Ranasinghe).
Twelve players are half a point behind, namely GMs Diptayan Ghosh, Madhavan Hari, Guha Mitrabha, Sayantan Das, Karthikeyan Ajay, P Karthikeyan and B Vignesh (all India), Mihail Nikitenko (Belarus), Boris Savchenko (Russia), Kirill Kuderinov (Kazakhstan) and Alexei Barsov (Uzbekistan).
The last round will be played on Sunday the 4th of August. The tournament, sponsored by DINI Communications Inc., New Jersey, USA, is organized by the Blue and Gold Chess Club on behalf of the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, and is being held at the Mount Lavinia Hotel, Sri Lanka.
