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Harikrishna wins
January 15, 2008 | News
Indian GM P Harikrishna came firing on all cylinders to beat GM Yifan Hou of China in a keenly contested game and emerged as joint leader on 1.5 points with five others in the Group ‘B’, being played simultaneously.Harikrishna became the first Indian to score a victory in the Corus tournament as Koneru Humpy played out a draw with Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the other game of Group ‘B’ while GM Parimarjan Negi suffered his second defeat in as many days in the Group ‘C’, going down to Arik Braun of Germany