Chennai: India's 14-year old Grand Master Nihal Sarin Saturday won the blitz event in the Asian Continental Chess Championship at Xingtai, China. Sarin scored eight points from nine rounds and finished a point ahead of the field. He had recently crossed 2600 Elo points on the FIDE rating list and became the third youngest to achieve the feat. Another Indian Srinath Narayanan took the third spot with seven points behind Le Quang Liem of Vietnam.
Meanwhile, four Indians qualified for the World Cup to be held in Russia later this year with impressive performances in the open section. Karthikeyan Murali (6.5 points) finished second in the open event behind Liem (7 points). Along with Karthikeyan, three other Indians-S P Sethuraman, who finished third (6.5 points), Srinath Narayanan (6.5 pts).
