GANGULY, SANDIPAN SHINE IN FUJAIRAH

Fujairah, UAE: Grandmasters Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda settled for a quick draw for a share of first place along with Alexander Moiseenko of the Ukraine in the Fujairah International open chess tournament that concluded on Wednesday.

The three joint winners scored 6.5 points in all and got a little over $ 10,000 apiece as prize money for their efforts. Ganguly started the tournament with three wins and remained in joint lead throughout the tournament.

Having done the hard work in the previous rounds, the Kolkata- based practice partners had no reason to look for more as a tie for the top spot was almost assured with the drawn result in their game.

There was an added incentive for Ganguly after the ties were resolved as he had the best tie- break score among three players sharing the top slot.