KARACHI, July 1: Fide Master Omer Khan occupied the leaders position despite a draw against unfancied Raees Ansari in the eighth round of the Sindh Class Championship at the Karachi Chess Academy Sunday evening.

Ansari started confidently and put Omer under pressure in the middle game. But experienced master hold him to a draw.

National Master Haseeb Ahmed handed out another defeat to reigning champion Waqar Ahmed to almost ended his chances to finish among the top three.

Results

Khalid Zafar bt Fahim Barlas, Shakir Hussain bt Alhaj Mahmood, Faraz Saleem bt Risat Ali Nazim, Mohammad Asif Abbasi bt M. Rafiq, Muhammad Dawood bt Aftab Alam, Hasan Tariq bt G.M. Khan, Salman Farooqi N.M. bt Tahir Qayum Khan, Akbar bt Tariq Ansari, Akhtar Hussain bt Wahid Hussain, Yaseen Qureshi bt M. Ali Muneer, Jehangir Ahmed bt A.Q. Shakoor, Imtiaz-ul-Haq bt Khalid Zafar, Dr Haroon Chohan bt Mirza Munawar, Azhar Aleem bt M. Yameen, Israr Hussain bt Tafseer Ahmed, Arslan Hyder bt Azeem Barlas, M. Ashfaq Khan bt Saheel Iqbal bt M. Afaq Ansari bt Shakeel Ahmed, Shaikh Barkat bt Muhammad Qasim, Ghazala Shabbir bt Akmal Hussain.

Points position after round 8:

FM Omer Khan 7 points; NM Haseeb Ahmed, Raees Ansari, NM Aziz Farooqi - 6.5 points; NM Mahmood Khan, Khalid Zafar (Hyd), Hafeez-ur-Rehman (Hyd), Faraz Saleem 6 points; NM Sabir Khan, Imtiaz Ahmed, Muhammad Dawood and M. Younus 5.5 points; NM Waqar (AOL), NM Asad (UBL), NM Salman Farooqi (Hyd), Ashfaq Khan, Fahim Barlas, Jahangir Ahmed, Risat Ali Nazim, Israr Hussain, Shakir Hussain, Shaikh Barkat, Junaid Hameed, Akbar Hussain, Dr Haroon 4.5 points.—APP