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Few of the 148 players found a single leader in three rounds. Arjun Erigaisi took the rare honor by winning his third straight Abu Dhabi Chess Masters after facing Croatia’s Aleksandar Indijic in Abu Dhabi late on Thursday.
Among the 26 players who finished second with 2.5 points, young Raunak Sadhwani was second-seeded Russian Evegeny Tomashevsky.
Nihal Sarin, Aryan Chopra, SP Sethuraman, M. Karthikeyan and Harsha Bharathakoti are the 11 Indians in the second group
Leading results (Indians, unless otherwise stated):
Third round: Evegeny Tomashevsky (CRF, 2.5) tied with Ranuak Sadhwani (2.5); Arjun Erigaisi (3) bt Aleksandar Indjic (Cro, 2); M. Karthikeyan (2.5) tied with David Anton (Esp, 2.5); Harsha Bharathakoti ( 2.5) draw with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Ger, 2.5); Aryan Chopra (2.5) draw with P. Iniyan (2.5); Sammed Shete (2.5) draw with SP Sethuraman (2.5); lose to Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh (1.5) Amin Baseem (Egy, 2.5); Nihal Sarin (2.5) bt Evgeny Zanan (Isr, 1.5); Abhijeet Gupta (1.5) to Aditya Samant (2.5); Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (Arm, 1.5) and Kushagra Mohan (2) Tie; B. Adhiban (2.5) bt Seyed Kian Poormosavi (Iri, 1.5).
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