IM Mashafizul (left) produced another good result today by drawing his 6th round game in The Dubai Open 2008 against higher rated player from Azerbaijan- GM Rasul Ibrahimov (2535). In the game Mas played and interesting exchange sacrifice on move 31 and gain a strong initiative. A couple of move later Mas managed to cracked open black defend but surprisingly the game ended in a draw. My personal guess is Mas didn’t want to risk his chance of collecting his first GM norm after a good start with two draw against 2500+ player ( including 1 GM) in two rounds before.
31.Rxd6 ! an excellent exchange sacrifice 31.. Bxd6 32.Qxd6 a5 33.Qxe6 axb4 34.axb4 Re8 35.Qf5 Nh5 ½–½ 
a suprising result because Mas should probably have a strong advantage with possible variation like 36.Qg6+ Ng7 37.Qxh6 g4 38.Ne4 Re6 39.Qh4 gxf3 40.Nc5 fxg2+ 41.Kg1 which should be winning for white!
In the 7th round which will be held tomorrow, Mas will meet Indian prodigy- GM Negi Parimarjan (right) .Mas die hard fan should remembered that Mas has beat |Parimarjan in their last encounter at The Commonwealth Championship held at
on Mas beating GM Negi. Let’s hope Mas will continue his good results against Negi.
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