AGENCIES, SERBIA: FM Nitish Belurkar won GM Round Robin tournament in Serbia, achieved his 2nd IM norm.
Geno pharmaceuticals brand ambassador FM Nitish Belurkar achieved his second International Master norm when he defeated top seed FM Xu Zhihang (2501) of China.Nitish achieved his second IM norm with a round to spare as he remained undefeated in the GM round robin third Saturday Chess Tournament in Novi Sad, Serbia.
In earlier games, he defeated GM Damljanovic Branko (2486) of Serbia and CM Rohith Krishna ( 2358 ) of India.
Nitish also held IM Gorodetzky David (2461) of Israel, GM Brenjo Slavisa (2446 ) of Serbia , FM Danlelyan Vahe (2405 ) of Armenia, GM Sinisa Drazic ( 2354) of Serbia and IM Ravi Teja (2383) of India to a draw.
Nitish who began as the lowest seed in this round robin GM tournament won the tournament scoring 6.0 points in 9 rounds with a performance rating of 2541 and a rating gain of 51.6 points . IM Gorodetzky David of Israel came second with 5.5 points.
Nitish will participate in Grandmaster chess tournaments, Mayors Cup , Mumbai and 2nd Goa International Gramdmasters tournament, Goa in June 2019 where he will be in quest of his final IM norm. After that he will be representing Indian team in Asian Junior Chess Championship in Solo, Indonesia in July.
