Heraklion (Greece), May 3 (PTI) Indian Woman Grandmaster R Vaishali on Tuesday won the Herkalion 2022- 8th Fischer Memorial chess tournament, scoring seven points from nine rounds.

She also secured a Grandmaster norm, her second, in the process and gained 20 rating points.

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Vaishali, sister of teenage star R Praggnanandhaa, started with a draw against Greek GM Spyridon Kapnisis and a defeat at the hands of Oleg Korneev (Spain) before scoring five straight wins including one over the tournament top-seed Georgios Mitsis (Greece) in round six.

She posted a win against France's Marco Materia in the ninth and final round to finish with seven points.

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Vaishali and Israel's Yoav Milikov finished equal on seven points but the Indian won the title on the basis of a better tie-break score.

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand congratulated Vaishali and wrote on Twitter: "Congrats on a great performance at Heraklion Open getting her second GM norm ! Great to see our WACA girl win !!"

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