Haridas Pascua finishes strong in Aeroflot 2009

Haridas Pascua made an emphatic finish by defeating his beautiful opponent in the ninth and final round, WGM Baira Kovanova of Russia, to post a very decent 6.0-point output which put him at 15th place overall in the 80-man strong Tournament B.

His 6.0 points came from 4 wins (3 with black), 1 loss, and 4 draws (+4 -1 = 4).

He is only a point off the tournament champ, Russian Nikolay Ogloblin who posted 7.0 points.

He is tied with nine other 6.0 pointers at 6th to 15th place.

His performance round by round:
Round 1: Win
Round 2: Draw
Round 3: Draw
Round 4: Loss
Round 5: Win
Round 6: Draw
Round 7: Win
Round 8: Draw
Round 9: Win

I don’t know if he finally earned a FIDE title from this tournament.

Congratulations, Haridas!