Gopal, who started the tournament with a shocking loss against a lower-ranked player, scored his fifth victory defeating Meelis Kanep of Estonia to jump to six points out of a possible eight.
Sandipan Chanda matched Gopal on points as he made mincemeat of Franch Grandmaster Jean-Noel Riff. The fact that both Gopal and Chanda won with black pieces is an added bonus for the Indian as now in the final round game they will get white, considered the favourable colour in the game.
There was another twist in the tale of the tournament at the top of the tables as Vasilios Kotronias of Greece went down fighting against Alexander Onischuk of Ukraine. This threw the tournament wide open again as top seed Li Chao of China also won his game while Mikhail Ulybin of Russia caused an upset by beating Renier Igarza Vazquez of Spain.
Chao, Onischuk and Ulybin share the lead on 6.5 points with just one round to come in the 30000 prize money tournament and it's anyone's trophy in the final round. Gopal and Chanda are joint fourth on six points each sharing this spot with 10 others.
Vidit Gujrathi played out a fighting draw with Gao Rui of China. It was a wild middle game after Gujrathi sacrificed his rook for a knight and had a promising position. However, Rui got his act together around the centre and Gujrathi had to take the draw through perpetual checks. The Indian moved to 5.5 points and needs to win the final round to figure among prizes.
Highest-rated Indian here, Abhijeet Gupta did not find his form yet again and was held to a draw by Wang Yiye of China. While the Chinese player got his preparation on board in a Queen pawn game, Gupta outplayed but then again missed a crucial move to finally settle for the draw and inch to five points in all.
Sahaj Grover also moved to five points following another draw in the tournament. After a brilliant start saw him in joint lead in the tournament after round three with three victories, Grover is yet to win a game and in the penultimate round he was held by Jan Plachetka of Slovakia.
The other Indians had a forgettable penultimate round. M R Venkatesh lost to Konstantin Landa of Russia, S Arun Prasad found his nemesis in Kamil Dragun of Poland, V Vishnu Prasanna was shocked by much lower rated Laurent Large while S Kidambi could not find his rhythm and lost to English Mark Lyell.
Important and Indian results round 8 (Indians unless stated): Vasilios Kotronias (Gre, 6) lost to Vladimir Onischuk (Ukr, 6.5); Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian (Gra, 5.5) lost to Li Chao (Chn, 6.5); Mikhail Ulybin (Rus, 6.5) beat Renier Igarza Vazquez (Esp, 5.5); Gao Rui (Chn, 5.5) drew with Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (5.5); Meelis Kanep (Est, 5) lost to G N Gopal (6); Jean-Noel Riff (Fra, 5) lost to Sandipan Chanda (6); Kamil Dragun (Pol, 6) beat S Arun Prasad (5); M R Venkatesh (4.5) lost to Konstantin Landa (Rus, 5.5); Abhijeet Gupta (5) drew with Wang Yiye (Chn, 5); Sahaj Grover (5) drew with Jan Plachetka (Svk, 5); Laurent Large (Fra, 5.5) beat V Vishnu Prasanna (4.5); S Kidambi (4) lost to Mark Lyell (Eng, 5).
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