KARACHI, July 2: Fide Master (FM) Omer Khan clinched the Sindh Chess Championship on a tie-breaker after he was tied with Aziz Farooqi and Raees Ansari at the conclusion of ninth and final round at Karachi Chess Academy Monday night.

No one could emerged a clear winner because the game on the top table between Omer and Khalid Zafar of Hyderabad ended in draw.

Similarly on second and third board NM Aziz Farooqi outplayed NM Haseeb Ahmed and Raees Ansari defeated Hafeez-ur-Rehman.

Thus on the points table top place is being shared by Omer, Aziz and Raees Asad each have 7.5-points.

The complication is simplified by adopting tie break formula and Omer finished on the top to take the title. Aziz finished runner-up and Raees were scured third placed.

9th round results:

NM Mahmood Khan bt Faraz Saleem, NM Sabir Khan bt M. Younus, NM Waqar bt Shakir Hussain, NM Ased Rampuri bt Shaikh Barkat, NM Salman Farooqi bt Ashfaq Khan, Akhtar Hussain bt Fahim Barlas, Dr. Haroon bt Riasat Ali Nazim, Aftab Alam bt Israr Hussain, Akbar bt Asif Abbasi, Hasan Tariq bt Tafseer Ahmed, Alhaj Mehmood bt M. Rafiq, Yaseen Qureshi bt Azhar Aleem, Bushra Tayyaba bt Shakeel Iqbal, Imtiaz-ul-Haq bt Ghazala Shabbir, Syed Rashid Ali bt Munawar Baig, G.M.Khan bt M. Qasim (Hyd).

Following have been selected for the forthcoming National Chess Championship to be held in the last week of July in Karachi.

FM Omer Khan 7.5-Points NM Aziz Farooqi 7.5 Points Raees Ansari 7.5 Points NM Mahmood Khan 7- Points NM Haseeb Ahmed 6.5-Points Khalid Zafar 6.5-Points NM Sabir Khan 6.5-Points Muhammad Dawood 6-Points Hafeez-ur-Rehman 6-Points Faraz Saleem 6-Points.—APP