Moscow: GM Krishnan Sasikiran finished his campaign with a finely crafted victory in the International Open chess tournament which was won by Grandmaster Emil Sutovsky of Israel. Sasikiran defeated GM Michael Roiz of Israel in the ninth and final round to salvage some pride after a disappointing run in the competition.

Sutovsky was the lucky winner after the final day?s excitement which saw many ups and downs. In the final round, he crushed Russian Sergey Volkov. Overnight leader Andrei Kharlov of Russia finished second with four others.

Apart from Sasikiran, Sandipan Chanda was the other Indian to win in the final round as he put it across GM Alexander Lastin of Russia in style.While Sandipan tallied 4.5 points, national champion Surya Sekhar Ganguly played out a draw with Robert Fontaine of France to end on four points.

In A2 section, International Master S. Kidambi did not waste much time in signing peace with Grandmaster Leonid Yurtaev of Kyrgyzstan. The draw took Kidambi?s tally to 5.5 points.