2011 Asian Individual Open Chess Championship Round 7 : Yu Yangyi maintains lead ; So ,Paragua closes in ,Top 4 finish still within reach.

 Yu Yangyi's second straight draw,this time against Krishnan Sasikiran was enough to maintain his hold of the lead after seven rounds of the Asian Individual Open Chess Championship. Philippines top bet Wesley So and Mark Paragua beat their respective opponents to up their score to 4.5
points and now only one point behind the leader and improve their  chance for a top 4 finished with only two rounds left.

ROUND 7  RESULTS & STANDINGS

1. Sasikiran,K ---       Yu Yangyi              draw     QID ,60 moves
2. Harikrishna P ---    Ganguly,S              draw     Reti , 28 moves
3. Bu Xiangzhi ---       Adhiban B             1-0       QGD , 40 moves
4. Jumabayev R ---    Trong Son N N      draw  Dutch ,38 moves
5. Negi, P  ---            Moradiabadi E        0-1       Ruy Lopez  ,52 moves
6. Wen Yang ---        Zhao Jun                 draw   Sicilian Dragon ,
7. Barbosa, O ---       Kasimdzhanov R     draw   Catalan 35 moves
8. So,Wesley ---        Gomez,J P              1-0    French Defense 49 moves
9. Zhou Weiqi ---       Ismagambetov A    1-0  Modern Benoni  48 moves
10. Paragua Mark ---   Yang Kaiqi             1-0   Sicilian 55 moves
11. Lu Shanglei ---       Cao Sang               draw   Sicilian 43 moves
12. Gopal G N  ---      Kunte, A                draw Sicilian Taimanov 30 moves
13. Darini,P ---            Megaranto S           0-1   Scandinavian , 19 moves
14. Sethuraman S P --- Dao Thien Hai        1-0    Slav , 28 moves
15. Laylo,Darwin ---    Lou Yiping              draw   Gruenfeld ,34 moves
16. Wang Chen ---       Hou Yifan              draw     Sicilian Moscow
17. Alavi, SJ  ---         Ghaem Maghami E   0-1    Sicilian , 17 moves
18. Gao Rui  ---          Vidit Santosh           draw
19. Debashis Das  ---  Shyam Sundar         draw   KID
20. Pourramezanali A ---  Vaibhav Suri       0-1   Sicilian Defense
21. Ahmadinia E  ---   Annageldyev O        1-0   Giuoco Piano 24 moves
22. Arabi Saeid   ----  Noroozi Omid   0-1  QGD 24 moves
23. Yu Ruiyuan  ----  Khademi M    1-0  Two Knights 38 moves
24. Sadeh Shahin  ---  Al-Ali Hussein Ali     0-1    London System
25. Yang Ching Wei --- Bakr Jwan        0-1    Sicilian  41

 RANKING LIST

5.5 pointers ---    Yu Yangyi

5.0 pointers ---    Bu Xiangzhi ; PHarikrishna ;  K Harikrishna;  E Moradiabadi;

4.5 pointers ---    R Jumabayev ;  Wen Yang ; Surya Ganguly ; Zhou Weiqi ;
                            Zhao Jun  ; Nguyen Ngoc Trong Son ; Wesley So ; Mark Paragua

4.0 pointers ---    Oliver Barbosa ; Lu Shanglei ;  P Negi ;   B Adhiban  ;  S Megaranto  ;
                            S P Sethuraman ; Rustam Kasimdzhanov

3.5 pointers ---     A Ismagambetov ;  Wang Chen ;  Abhijit Kunte ; Darwin Laylo ;
                             Lou Yiping ;  Yang Kaiqi ; E Ahmadinia ; G N Gopal ; E Ghaem Maghami ;
                             S Vaibhav   ;  John Paul Gomez ; Cao Sang ;
                           
3.0 pointers ---     Dao Thien Hai ; Santosh Vidit ;  P Darini   ; Sundar Shyam ; 
                             Debashis Das ;  Omid Noroozi  ; Gao Rui  ; Hou Yifan

2.5 pointers ---      Sayed Alavi ; Pourramazanali A ;   Yu Ruiyuan ; O Annageldyev
                              Al-Ali Hussein Ali Hussein

2.0 pointers ---      Saeid Arabi  ;  Jwan Bakr

1.5 pointers  ---      Shahin Sadeh  ;  Mohammad Khademi

0                  ---      Yang Ching Wei Austin