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Barbosa clinches 10th Parsvnath Chess title

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:43:30 PST

New Delhi (23 Jan 12) :- Sixth seed Filipino Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa ensured a thrilling end to the 10^th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament by defeating Indian International Master Shyam Nikil in the eleventh and final round at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here on Monday. This victory enabled Barbosa to take his tally to nine and half points to take the Winner’s trophy and pocketed a cash prize of 2 lakh rupees.

Grandmaster Gomez John Paul of Philippines and Indian International Master Lalith Babu tied for the second spot with nine points but better tie-break score helped Filipino Grandmaster to finish second while Lalith satisfied with third spot finish. In the final round, Lalith outwitted International Master K Rathnakaran while Gomez drew with Ma Qun of China. Ma Qun secured International Master norm during the process.

Grandmaster Hoang Thanh Trang of Hungary and International Master bagged Best Women and Best Junior player prizes respectively while Diptayan Ghosh and Saurabh Anand adjudged as Best Under-16 and Best Under-10 players respectively. G B Joshi and Madhurima Shekhar won the Best Delhi Player and Best Delhi Girl Player prizes.

Dr. P C Kashyap, Executive Director Sport Authority of India along with Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hony Secretary AlCF and Shri. Sunit Sachar, Parsvnath Developers gave away the prizes in a colourful closing ceremony.

Final Standings :-

(1) GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines

(2) GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines

(3) IM Lalith Babu M R of India

(4) GM Mark Paragua of Philippines

(5) Ma Qun of China

(6) GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia

(7) Zeng Chongsheng of China

(8) IM Vaibhav Suri of India

(9) IM Shyam Nikil of India

(10) GM Abhijit Kunte of India

Special Prizes :-

Best Under-10 : Saurabh Anand

Best Under-16 : FM Diptayan Ghosh

Best Junior : IM Anwesh Upadhyaya

Best Delhi Player : G B Joshi

Best Delhi Women : Madhurima Shekhar

Best Women : GM Hoang Thanh Trang of Hungary

Best Rating Between Elo 1200 to 1900 : Jayesh M

Best Rating Between Elo 1901 to 2099 : Ankit Gajwa

Best Rating Between Elo 2100 to 2250 : Karthikeyan Murali

Best Rating Between Elo 2251 to 2399 : IM Nitin S

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-11 :- IM Shyam Nikil P (8) lost to GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (9.5); Ma Qun of China (8.5) drew with GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (9); IM Rathnakaran (8) lost to IM Lalith Babu (9); GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine (8) drew with IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (8); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (8.5) beat GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (7.5); IM Vaibhav Suri (8) drew with GM Abhijit Kunte (8); IM Nitin S (8) beat GM Sandipan Chanda (7); Zeng Chongsheng of China (8) beat GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (7); IM Somak Palit (7) lost to GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (8); GM Mikhailo Oleksienko of Ukraine (7.5) drew with IM R Siddharth (7.5); IM Vishnu Prasanna (7.5) drew with IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (7.5); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (7.5) drew with IM Debashis Das (7.5); GM Neelotpal Das (7.5) drew with Hemant Sharma (7.5); Abhishek Das (7) lost to IM Thejkumar MS (8); Narayanan S L (7) lost to GM Laxman R R (8); Pradeep Kumar RA (7.5) drew with IM Karthikeyan P (7.5); IM Ashwin Jayaram (7.5) beat IM P Konguvel (7).

(MS Gopakumar)
International Arbiter
Press Officer,10^th Parsvnath International Open

Parsvnath Chess heading for a close finish; International Master norm for Hemant Sharma

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:45:05 PST

New Delhi (22 Jan 12) :- With one round remaining, the tenth edition of Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament heading for a close finish as at the end of penultimate round matches at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Sunday, Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and John Paul Gomez leading the point table with eight and half points after registering emphatic victories over Grandmasters Mark Paragua and Deepan Chakkravarthy in the tenth round. Indian International Masters Lalith Babu M R, K Rathnakaran and Shyam Nikil along with untitled Chinese player Ma Qun are closely following the leaders with a drift of half point in this Rs. 15 lakh prize money tournament.

In the tenth round encounters, playing with white pieces in Grunfeld defence, Barbosa not given any chances to his countrymen rival to seal the match in 33 moves while displaying a solid tactical game in Kings Indian defence opening, Gomez overcame his Indian rival in 42 moves. Rathnakaran outwitted Kazakh International Master Kiril Kuderinov while Ma Qun shocked fifth seed Russian Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin to occupy the joint second spot with Lalith Babu and Shyam Nikil, who overcame their Indian International Master rivals Vishnu Prasanna and S Nitin respectively in the tenth round.

Meanwhile Delhi youngster Hemant Sharma brought cheers to the home crowd by making his maiden International Master norm after signing the peace treaty with International Master Ashwin Jayaram. In surprising results of the day, Kerala youngster Narayanan S L stunned Grandmaster Henrik Danielsen of Iceland while International Master Himanshu Sharma suffered shock defeat by the hands of Tamilnadu based R A Pradeep Kumar.

Barbosa takes on Shyam Nikil while Gomez paired with Ma Qun in the eleventh and final round, which will be held at Monday morning.

Game :

Oliver GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines - GM Paragua Mark of Philippines

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Bd3 0-0 7.0-0 Bg4 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 e6 10.Rd1 Nbd7 11.Bd2 Re8 12.Rac1 Nb6 13.Qe2 Qe7 14.c5 Nc8 15.f4 Nd7 16.b4 a6 17.Be1 f6 18.Qf3 Qf8 19.Bf2 e5 20.Nxd5 cxd5 21.Qxd5+ Qf7 22.Bc4 Qxd5 23.Bxd5+ Kh8 24.Bxb7 Ra7 25.c6 Nb8 26.dxe5 fxe5 27.e4 Rxb7 28.cxb7 Ne7 29.Rc7 Bf6 30.Bc5 Kg7 31.fxe5 Bg5 32.g3 Kf7 33.Rd6 1-0

GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines - GM Deepan Chakkravarthy of India

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.Nf3 d6 6.0-0 c6 7.Nc3 Qa5 8.e4 Qh5 9.Ng5 Qxd1 10.Rxd1 h6 11.Nf3 Nfd7 12.Be3 Na6 13.Rac1 Re8 14.Ne1 e5 15.d5 c5 16.a3 Nc7 17.Nd3 b6 18.b4 Ba6 19.Bh3 Rad8 20.Na4 Bc8 21.f3 f5 22.exf5 Nf6 23.bxc5 bxc5 24.g4 h5 25.g5 Nh7 26.fxg6 Bxh3 27.gxh7+ Kxh7 28.Nf2 Rf8 29.Nxh3 Rxf3 30.Bf2 e4 31.Re1 Rxh3 32.Bg3 Rxg3+ 33.hxg3 Bd4+ 34.Kg2 e3 35.Nc3 Kg6 36.Ne2 Re8 37.Rcd1 Re4 38.Kf3 Rg4 39.Rh1 Be5 40.Nf4+ Kf5 41.Rxh5 Bxf4 42.g6+ 1-0

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-10 :- GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (8.5) beat GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (7.5); GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (8.5) beat GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (7); GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (7) lost to Ma Qun of China (8); GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (7.5) drew with IM Vaibhav Suri (7.5); IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (7) lost to IM Rathnakaran K (8); IM Lalith Babu M R (8) beat IM Vishnu Prasanna (7); IM Nitin S (7) lost to IM Shyam Nikil (8); GM Sandipan Chanda (7) drew with GM Neelotpal Das (7); IM Swapnil Dhopade (6.5) lost to GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine (7.5); IM Debashis Das (7) drew with GM Mikhailo Oleksienko of Ukraine (7); GM Abhijit Kunte (7.5) beat IM Varugeese Koshy (6.5); IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (7.5) beat IM Saptarshi Roy (6.5); Hemant Sharma (7) drew with IM Ashwin Jayaram (6.5); GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (7) beat IM Praveen Kumar C (6); GM Henrik Danielsen of Iceland (6) lost to Narayanan S L (7); IM Thejkumar MS (7) beat Saravana Krishnan P (6); GM Laxman R R (7) beat Mu Ke of China (6); IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (6.5) drew with FM Prasenjit Datta (6.5); IM Himanshu Sharma (6) lost to Pradeep Kumar R A (7); IM Karthikeyan P (7) beat Shreyans K Shah (6); Anurag Mhamal (6) lost to Zeng Chongsheng of China (7); FM Shardul Gagare (6) lost to IM Somak Palit (7); IM R Siddharth (7) beat CM Prince Bajaj (6); Karthikeyan Murali (6.5) drew with IM Shivananda B S (6.5); IM Hegde Ravi Gopal (6.5) drew with FM Diptayan Ghosh (6.5); IM Murali Krishnan B T (6.5) drew with Sameer Kathmale (6.5); Surendran N (6.5) drew with IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (6.5); Visakh N R (6) lost to Abhishek Das (7); IM Konguvel P (7) beat Mugil Jayavel (6); GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (6.5) beat FM Shrestha Sujendra Prasad of Nepal (6).

(MS Gopakumar)
International Arbiter
Press Officer,10^th Parsvnath International Open

Paragua joins Barbosa and Gomez at top; International Master Norm for Diptayan Ghosh

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:16:22 PST

New Delhi (21 Jan 12) :- Filipino Grandmaster Mark Paragua defeated Indian International Master Debashis Das in the ninth round to join countrymen Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul to share the lead with seven and half points in the ongoing 10^th Parsvnath International Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Saturday.

Playing with white pieces in Semi-Slav variation, Paragua showed sheer attacking game with three continues piece sacrifices in the middle of game to garner full point against his Indian rival in 36 moves.

Kolkata based Diptayan Ghosh achieved his first International Master norm after signing the peace with World Under-12 Gold medalist Karthikeyan Murali in the ninth round while Zeng Chongsheng of China lost his ninth round encounter against Indian International Master Lalith Babu but secured his International Master norm during the process.

In other important ninth round matches, overnight joint leaders Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul settled for half point against Russian Grandmaster Evgeny Gleizerov and International Master Shyam Nikil respectively to maintain their pole position in the point table. In a major upset in the ninth round, playing with black pieces in Najdorf variation of Sicilian defence game, Delhi youngster Hemant Sharma shocked Uzbek Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev .

Eleven players including International Master Rathnkaran K, who held higher seeded Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin of Russia in the ninth round, are closely following the three leaders with a drift of half point.

Game :

GM Paragua Mark v/s IM Dabashish Das

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 h6 8.h3 e5 9.Bd2 0-0 10.g5 exd4 11.exd4 Re8+ 12.Be2 hxg5 13.Nxg5 dxc4 14.0-0-0 Nb6 15.Rhg1 Be6 16.Bh5 Qd7 17.Nce4 Nxe4 18.Qxe4 Bf5 19.Qh4 Re7 20.Nh7 Bxh7 21.Rxg7+ Kxg7 22.Bh6+ Kxh6 23.Bxf7+ Kg7 24.Rg1+ Kf8 25.Qh6+ Kxf7 26.Qxh7+ Ke6 27.Qe4+ Be5 28.Qxe5+ Kf7 29.Qh5+ Kf8 30.Qh8+ Kf7 31.Qh7+ Ke6 32.Qe4+ Kd6 33.Qf4+ Kd5 34.Rg5+ Ke6 35.Qe5+ Kf7 36.Qg7+ 1-0

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-9 :- GM Barbosa Oliver of Philippines (7.5) drew with GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (7); IM Shyam Nikil (7) drew with GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (7.5); IM Rathnakaran K (7) drew with GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (7); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (7.5) beat IM Debashis Das (6.5); GM Abhijit Kunte (6.5) drew with IM Swapnil Dhopade (6.5); IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (6) lost to IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (7); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (7) beat IM Himanshu Sharma (6); Zeng Chongsheng of China (6) lost to IM Lalith Babu MR (7); Ma Qun of China (7) beat IM Karthikeyan P (6); IM Ashwin Jayaram (6) lost to IM Nitin S (7); IM Vishnu Prasanna (7) beat IM Thej Kumar MS (6); IM Vaibhav Suri (7) beat IM Konguvel P (6); IM Shivananda B S (6) lost to IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (6.5); IM Girinath PDS (5.5) lost to GM Sandipan Chanda (6.5); GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine (6.5) beat Ankit R Rajpara (5.5); IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (6) drew with GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (6); GM Mikhailo Oleksienko of Ukraine (6.5) beat FM Rajesh VAV (5.5); GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (5.5) lost to Hemant Sharma (6.5); GM Neelotpal Das (6.5) beat Joshi G B (5.5); IM Koshy Vargueese (6.5) beat IM Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan (5.5); Saravana Krishnan P (6) drew with IM Ravichandran Siddharath (6); IM Saptarshi Roy (6.5) beat Shailendra Bajpai (5.5); FM Diptayan Ghosh (6) drew with Karthikeyan Murali (6); Prince Bajaj (6) drew with IM Murali Krishnan B T (6); GM Henrik Danielsen of Iceland (6) beat Chandika Divyasree (5.5).

(MS Gopakumar)
International Arbiter
Press Officer,10^th Parsvnath International Open

Barbosa and Gomez maintain joint lead on a day of peace treaties

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:18:26 PST

New Delhi (20 Jan 12) :- Most of the top board battles in the eighth round ended without decisive results and which helped overnight joint leaders Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul to maintain their joint lead with seven points after settling for half points against Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin of Russia and Mark Paragua of Philippines respectively in the ongoing 10^th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Friday.

A marathon 93 move battle on the top board battle between Deviatkin and Barbosa had its own twist and turn throughout the match as both players tried hard for a decisive result but at the end settled for the truce. Meanwhile top seed Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda got a major setback to his title hopes as he lost his eighth round match against Shyam Nikil. Playing with white pieces in King’s Indian Attack game, Chanda made crucial mistakes in the middle game to hand over full point to his International Master rival in 50 moves. This is the only match that ended with a decisive result in the top ten boards. This crucial victory enabled Shyam Nikil to occupy the joint second spot with six and half points. Grandmasters Deviatkin, Mark Paragua and Evgeny Gleizerov along with Indian International Masters Rathnakaran and Debashis Das are giving company to Shyam Nikil at second spot.

In the eighth round encounters, International Master Rathnakaran satisfied with half point against Debashis Das while Gleizerov signed the peace treaty with former national champion Abhijit Kunte by repetition moves.

In the ninth round tomorrow, Barbosa takes on Gleizerov while Gomez paired with Shyam Nikil. Three more rounds remaining in this Rs. 15 lakh prize money tournament.

Game :

GM Deviatkin Andrei v/s GM Oliver Barbosa

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 Nbd7 7.Nxc4 Nb6 8.Ne5 a5 9.Bg5 g6 10.f3 Bg7 11.e4 Be6 12.Be3 0-0 13.Be2 Qd6 14.Nd3 Nfd7 15.e5 Qc7 16.0-0 Rfd8 17.f4 f5 18.Qc2 Nd5 19.Bf2 Nb4 20.Nxb4 axb4 21.Nb1 Bd5 22.Nd2 e6 23.Bd3 Bf8 24.Nc4 Nb6 25.b3 Bxc4 26.bxc4 Ra5 27.Rfd1 Kh8 28.c5 Nd5 29.g3 Nc3 30.Rdc1 b6 31.cxb6 Qxb6 32.Qb3 Nd5 33.Qc4 Rc8 34.Bc2 c5 35.Bb3 Rc7 36.Qd3 Nc3 37.dxc5 Qb8 38.Bxe6 Bxc5 39.Bxc5 Raxc5 40.Re1 b3 41.Bxb3 Qxb3 42.Qd8+ Qg8 43.Qf6+ Rg7 44.e6 Rc6 45.a5 Ne4 46.Qd4 Rd6 47.Qb2 Rxe6 48.a6 h5 49.a7 Re8 50.Ra6 Kh7 51.Rea1 Ra8 52.Qd4 Qc8 53.Qd5 Qc5+ 54.Qxc5 Nxc5 55.R6a3 Rb7 56.Kg2 Kg7 57.Kh3 Kh6 58.Kh4 Ne4 59.Ra6 Rb2 60.R1a2 Rb7 61.R2a5 Nd2 62.Ra2 Nf3+ 63.Kh3 Kg7 64.R2a3 Nd4 65.R3a4 Nb3 66.Ra3 h4 67.g4 Nc5 68.R6a5 Rb3+ 69.Rxb3 Nxb3 70.Rb5 Nd2 71.Rb7+ Kf6 72.Kxh4 Ne4 73.g5+ Ke6 74.Kh3 Nd6 75.Rg7 Kd5 76.Kg3 Nb5 77.Rxg6 Rxa7 78.Rf6 Nd4 79.g6 Ke4 80.Rd6 Ra3+ 81.Kh4 Nf3+ 82.Kh5 Ra2 83.g7 Rg2 84.Kh6 Kxf4 85.h4 Nxh4 86.Kh7 Ke5 87.Ra6 f4 88.Ra5+ Ke4 89.Ra4+ Ke3 90.g8Q Rxg8 91.Kxg8 f3 92.Rxh4 f2 ½-½

GM Sandipan,Chanda v/s IM Shyam,Nikil P

1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.Qe2 Be7 4.Nf3 c5 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 Nc6 7.0-0 h6 8.Re1 0-0 9.e5 Ne8 10.Nbd2 f5 11.exf6 Bxf6 12.c4 g5 13.Nb3 Ng7 14.h3 b6 15.Bd2 a5 16.a4 Ra7 17.Bc3 Raf7 18.Rf1 Bb7 19.Rae1 Qd7 20.Bxf6 Rxf6 21.Nbd2 Nf5 22.Ne5 Nxe5 23.Qxe5 Qf7 24.cxd5 Bxd5 25.Ne4 Bxe4 26.Rxe4 Nd4 27.f4 Qd7 28.Re3 Qg7 29.Kh2 gxf4 30.gxf4 Rg6 31.Qxg7+ Rxg7 32.Be4 Rf6 33.h4 h5 34.Bg2 Rg4 35.Bh3 Rgxf4 36.Rxf4 Rxf4 37.Kg3 Rf6 38.Re5 Rf3+ 39.Kg2 Rxd3 40.Rxh5 Rb3 41.Rg5+ Kh7 42.Re5 Rxb2+ 43.Kg3 Rb3+ 44.Kg4 Rb4 45.Bg2 Kg6 46.h5+ Kf6 47.Re4 Nf5 48.Bh1 c4 49.Rf4 c3 50.Be4 0-1

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-8 :- GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (6.5) drew with GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (7); GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (7) drew with Mark Paragua of Philippines (6.5); IM Debashis Das (6.5) drew with IM Rathnakaran K (6.5); GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (6.5) drew with GM Abhijit Kunte (6); GM Sandipan Chanda (5.5) lost to IM Shyam Nikil P (6.5); IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (6) drew with Ma Qun of China (6); IM Thej Kumar (6) drew with GM Deepan Chakkaravarthy (6); IM Lalith Babu M R (6) drew with IM Vaibhav Suri (6); IM Karthikeyan P (6) drew with GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (5.5); GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (5.5) drew with FM Diptayan Ghosh (5.5); IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (5.5) drew with IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (5.5); Abhishek Das (5) lost to IM Ashwin Jayaram (6); FM Rajesh VAV (5.5) drew with GM Neelotpal Das (5.5); IM Swapnil Dhopade (6) beat Narayanan S L (5); IM Konguvel P (6) beat GM Laxman R R (5); IM Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan (5.5) drew with Saravana Krishnan P (5.5); Vikramjit Singh (5) lost to IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (6); IM Himanshu Sharma (6) beat Himal Gusain (5); Shardul Gagare (5) lost to Zeng Chongsheng of China(6); IM Nitin S (6) beat Mugil Jayavel (5); Akshat Chandra (5) lost to IM Vishnu Prasanna V (6); Joy Antony (5) lost to IM Shivananda B S (6); Shreyans K Shah (5) lost to GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine (5.5)

(MS Gopakumar)
International Arbiter
Press Officer,10^th Parsvnath International Open

Barbosa and Gomez maintains lead; Das stuns Aleksandrov

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:41:07 PST

New Delhi (19 Jan 12) :- Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul signed the peace treaty in their top board battle to maintain their joint lead with six and half points in the ongoing 10^th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Thursday.

Meanwhile there is no stopping for the upset galore in this edition as World Under-18 bronze medalist, Deabashis Das shocked second seed Grandmaster Aleksandrov of Belarus. Playing with black pieces in Semi-Slav variation, Das took his opponent’s queen for rook and bishop in 32 move and used his queen and knight combination to good effect in the middle game. Facing the defeat, Belarusian Grandmaster shook the hands of his Indian opponent signaling a win for the Orissa youngster.

Five players including Debashis Das and International Master K Rathnakaran, who held top seed Sandipan Chanda in the seventh round encounter are sharing the second spot with six points. Russian Grandmasters Andrei Deviatkin, Evgeny Gleizerov and Filipino Grandmaster Mark Paragua are the other players giving company to the Indian International Masters at second spot. In the seventh round, Deviatkin beat Uzbek Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev while Gleizerov and Paragua got better off Ashwin Jayaram and Zeng Chongsheng of China respectively.

Seasoned campaigner G B Joshi and young lad Akshat Chandra brought cheers to the home crowd as Joshi held third seed Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine to a creditable draw while Akshat stunned International Master Rahul Sangma of railways.

Game :

GM Aleksandrov,Aleksej of Belarus v/s IM Debashis,Das of India

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 h6 8.Rg1 e5 9.h4 e4 10.Nd2 g5 11.hxg5 hxg5 12.Be2 Nf8 13.b3 Be6 14.Bb2 Rh2 15.f3 exf3 16.Nxf3 Rh3 17.Nxg5 Rxe3 18.0-0-0 Bf4 19.Nxe6 Rxc3+ 20.Nxf4 Rxc2+ 21.Kxc2 Qd6 22.Rgf1 0-0-0 23.Bd3 dxc4 24.bxc4 Kb8 25.g5 Ng4 26.Bc1 Qxd4 27.Rfe1 Qc5 28.g6 Nxg6 29.Nxg6 fxg6 30.Bf4+ Ka8 31.Bf1 Qf5+ 32.Kb3 Rc8 33.Rd4 g5 34.Bg3 Nf2 35.Bg2 Nd3 36.Rd1 Nc5+ 37.Kb2 a6 38.R1d2 Ne6 39.Re4 Nf4 40.Bxf4 gxf4 41.Bf3 Qf6+ 42.Kb3 Ka7 0-1

IM Rathnakaran K of India v/s GM Sandipan Chanda of India

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Nxc6 dxc6 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.f3 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 Nd7 11.Be3 b6 12.a4 a5 13.Be2 Kc7 14.Kf2 Ba6 15.Rhd1 Rhd8 16.Rab1 e5 17.f4 Nc5 18.Bxc5 bxc5 19.Rxd8 Rxd8 20.fxe5 Re8 21.Ke3 Rxe5 22.Rf1 Re7 23.h3 h6 24.Kd3 Bc8 25.Bg4 Bxg4 26.hxg4 f6 27.Ke3 Re8 28.Rb1 Re5 29.Rh1 Re8 30.Rb1 Rd8 31.Ke2 Rh8 32.Ke3 Re8 33.Kf4 Re5 ½-½

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-7 :- GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (6.5) drew with GM Gomez John Paul (6.5); IM Rathnakaran K (6) drew with GM Sandipan Chanda (5.5); GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (5) lost to GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (6); IM Ashwin Jayaram (5) lost to GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (6); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (6) beat Zeng Chongsheng of China (5); GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus (4.5) lost to IM Debashis Das (6); IM Saptarshi Roy (4.5) lost to GM Abhijit Kunte (5.5); FM Diptayan Ghosh (5) drew with IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (5); Chinmay Kulkarni (4.5) lost to IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (5.5); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (5.5) beat IM Murali Krishnan B T (4.5); Kunal M (4.5) lost to IM Lalith Babu M R (5.5); IM Shyam Nikil P (5.5) beat IM Girinath PDS (4.5); Ma Qun of China (5.5) beat Ankit R Rajpara (4.5); GM Neelotpal Das (5) drew with IM Konguvel P (5); Bitan Banerjee (4.5) lost to IM Thej Kumar M S (5.5); IM Vaibhav Suri (5.5) beat Soumya Thakurta (4.5); GM Laxman R R (5) drew with FM Rajesh VAV (5); Shreyans K Shah (5) drew with IM Himanshu Sharma (5); Bai Jinshi of China (4.5) lost to IM Karthikeyan P (5.5); GM Mikhail Ulibin (5) beat Hemant Sharma (4.5).

(MS Gopakumar)
International Arbiter
Press Officer,10^th Parsvnath International Open

Barbosa and Gomez shares lead in 10th Parsvnath

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:16:49 PST

New Delhi (18 Jan 12) :- Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul defeated Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan and Indian International Master Lalith Babu M R respectively in the sixth round to emerge as the joint leaders in the 10^th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here on Wednesday.

Playing with black pieces in Caro-Kan defence game, Barbosa gained an exchange of rook for his minor piece in the thirty first move and facing the inevitable, Dzhumaev give up the match after six more moves. While playing white side of Maroczy Bind variation of Sicilian defence, Lalith Babu failed to convert a favourable middle game position and lost the initiative towards the end to hand over full point to his Filipino rival.

International Master K Rathnakaran with a drift of half point from the leaders is at sole second position. In the sixth round encounter, he defeated his railway team mate M S Thej Kumar. A pack of eight players including top seed Indian Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda, who beat Vishnu Prasanna in the sixth round match are at joint third position with five points.

The upset galore in this edition continued for another day as three Grandmasters suffered shock defeats from lower rated opponents and another six satisfied with half point. Playing with white pieces, untitled Chinese player Zeng Chongsheng shocked third seed Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine while Debashis Das and Shreyans K Shah outwitted Henrik Danielsen of Iceland and Hoang Thanh Trang of Hungary respectively. Among the Indian Grandmasters, former national champion Abhijit Kunte signed the peace treaty with Bitan Banerjee while Deepan Chakkravarthy, Neelotpal Das and R R Laxman satisfied with half point against Diptayan Ghosh, Ankit Rajapara and Hemant Sharma respectively. Chandigarh youngster Himal Gusain held eighth seed Mikhailo Oleksienko to a creditable draw and second seed Aleksandrov Aleksej settled for half point against Indian International Master P Karthikeyan.

Earlier in the fifth round, the young Indian brigade of Vaibhav Suri, Diptayan Ghosh and Ashwin Jayaram suffered their first defeats in the tournament by the hands of their high rated foreign Grandmaster rivals. Vaibhav lost to experienced Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan while Ashwin and Diptayan lost to Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul respectively in the fifth round encounters. In surprising results of the round, local youngster Hemant Sharma stunned Grandmaster Richard Bitoon of Philippines while Saravana Krishnan outwitted Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin of Russia.

Game :

IM Lalith Babu MR of India v/s GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines

1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.e4 Nf6 6.Nc3 d6 7.Be2 Nxd4 8.Qxd4 Bg7 9.Bg5 0-0 10.Qd2 a5 11.0-0 a4 12.Rad1 Be6 13.f4 Qc7 14.b3 axb3 15.axb3 Ra3 16.f5 Qb6+ 17.Be3 Qxb3 18.Bd4 Bc8 19.Rb1 Qxc3 20.Bxc3 Nxe4 21.Qe3 Nxc3 22.Qxe7 Nxb1 23.fxg6 hxg6 24.Rxb1 Bf5 25.Rd1 Rfa8 26.Qxd6 Bf8 27.Qf6 R3a6 28.Qb2 Bc5+ 29.Kh1 Rb6 30.Qc3 Bb4 31.Qb2 Bc5 32.Qc3 Re6 33.Bf3 Rae8 34.h3 Bf2 35.Kh2 b6 36.Rf1 Bh4 37.Qd2 Re3 38.Qd4 Bd8 39.Bd5 Bc7+ 40.Kg1 Bg3 41.Qf6 R8e7 42.Qg5 Kg7 43.Bf3 Bd6 44.Qh4 f6 45.Kh1 Bd3 46.Rd1 g5 47.Qf2 Bb4 48.Kh2 Bc5 49.Qg3 Bf5 50.Rd5 Be4 51.Rd2 Bd3 52.Rd1 Bxc4 53.h4 R3e5 54.Rd8 Be3 55.hxg5 Rxg5 56.Qh4 Bg8 57.Qb4 Bc5 58.Qf4 Rg6 59.g4 Be6 60.Kg2 Ra7 61.Rd2 Rg5 62.Re2 Bf7 63.Be4 Re5 64.Bf3 Rg5 65.Be4 Ra4 66.Qf3 Re5 67.Bc2 Bd5 68.Qxd5 Rxe2+ 69.Kf1 Rf2+ 70.Ke1 Ra1+ 71.Bd1 Ra7 72.Bb3 Ra1+ 73.Bd1 Raa2 74.Qd7+ Kg6 75.Qe8+ Kg5 76.Qh5+ Kf4 77.Qf5+ Kg3 78.Qd3+ Kh2 79.Qc4 Rab2 80.Bb3 Rb1+ 81.Bd1 Kg1 0-1

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-6 :- GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbeksitan (5) lost to Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (6); IM Lalith Babu M R (4.5) lost to GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (6); IM Thejkumar M S (4.5) lost to IM Rathnakaran K (5.5); GM Sandipan Chanda (5) beat IM Vishnu Prasanna V (4); IM Karthikeyan P (4.5) drew with GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus (4.5); Zeng Chongsheng of China (5) beat GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine (4); GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (5) beat IM Shivananda B S (4); GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (5) beat IM Rahul Sangma (4); GM Abhijit Kunte (4.5) drew with Bitan Banerjee (4.5); IM Debashis Das (5) beat GM Henrik Danielsen of Iceland (4); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (5) beat Naraynan S L (4); FM Diptayan Ghosh (4.5) drew with GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (4.5); IM Ashwin Jayaram (5) beat Saravana Krishnan P (4); Ankit R Rajpara (4.5) drew with GM Neelotpal Das (4.5); FM Rajesh VAV (4.5) drew with Vaibhav Suri (4.5); Hemant Sharma (4.5) drew with GM Laxman R R (4.5); IM Himanshu Sharma (4.5) drew with Bai Jinshi of China (4.5); IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (4.5) beat Puneet Jaiswal (4); Himal Gusain (4) drew with GM Oleksienko Mikhailo of Ukraine (4); IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (4.5) beat Shaildenra K Bajpai (3.5).

Round-5 :- GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines beat IM Ashwin Jayaram; GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines beat FM Diptayan Ghosh; IM Vaibhav Suri lost to GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan; Zeng Chongsheng of China drew with GM Sandipan Chanda; IM Visnhu Prasanna drew with GM Abhijit Kunte; Bitan Banerjee drew with GM Mark Paragua of Philippines; Shreyans K Shah lost to IM Lalith Babu M R; GM Neelotpal Das drew with IM Karthikeyan P; Shailendra K Bajpai lost to IM Thej Kumar; IM Rathnakaran K beat IM Akshayraj Kore; GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine beat IM Saptarshi Roy; GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus beat Mu Ke of China; Saravana Krishnan P beat GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia; IM Varugeese Koshy lost to GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia; Vikramjit Singh lost to Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia; GM Henrik Danielsen of Iceland beat Shardul Gagare; GM Richard Bitoon of Philippines lost to Hemant Sharma; Pradeep Kumar R A drew with IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi; Himal Gusain drew with Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan; GM Deepan Chakkravarthy beat G B Joshi.

(MS Gopakumar)
International Arbiter
Press Officer,10^th Parsvnath International Open

Vaibhav Suri and Diptayan Ghosh shocks Grandmasters

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:02:04 PST

Felicitation of Sasikiran and Humpy

New Delhi (17 Jan 12) :- Intense battles on the top boards produced exciting results on the day as city based International Master Vaibhav Suri shocked fifth seed Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin on the top board while West Bengal youngster Diptayan Ghosh accounted for Grandmaster Richard Bitoon of Philippines in the fourth round of the ongoing 10^th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here on Tuesday.

IM Vaibhav Suri

Playing black side of English opening, promising Indian youngster Suri made crucial tactical moves towards the end to register his fourth win in the tournament after 50 moves while Diptayan shown his end game supremacy to overcome Bitoon Richard in 57 moves arrived out of open Catalan variation. Six players including Suri, Ghosh and International Master Ashwin Jayaram, who beat Puneet Jaiswal in the fourth round battle, are leading the point table with perfect scores.

Diptayan Ghosh

In other important fourth round encounters, Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte signed the peace treaty with Zeng Chongsheng of China while Praveen Thipsay suffered his first defeat in the tournament by the hands of Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa of Philippines. Top seed Sandipan Chanda made short work of Chinese lad Bai Jinshi but second seed Belarusian Grandmaster Aleksej Alexksandrov satisfied with half point against Indian International Master B S Shivananda. In a surprising result in the fourth round, Shailendra Bajpai outwitted International Master Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan.

The fifth round of this eleven round Swiss System tournament is now under progress at the time of report and Delhi Chess Association felicitated Indian Grandmasters K Sasikiran and Koneru Humpy in a befitting ceremony before the start of fifth round matches.

Game :

GM Deviatkin Andrei of Russia v/s IM Vaibhav Suri of India

1.c4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.g3 0-0 6.Bg2 b6 7.0-0 Bb7 8.e3 Nbd7 9.Nc3 c5 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.Rfd1 Qc7 12.Rdc1 Qb8 13.d3 Rfd8 14.Rc2 Qa8 15.cxd5 Nxd5 16.Nxd5 Bxd5 17.e4 Bb7 18.h4 Qb8 19.h5 Bf6 20.Bc1 Qd6 21.Bf4 e5 22.Bc1 Nf8 23.Bb2 Ne6 24.Ba3 Ba6 25.Qe1 Qb8 26.Bf1 g6 27.b4 Nd4 28.Nxd4 cxd4 29.Rxc8 Bxc8 30.b5 gxh5 31.Rc1 Bd7 32.Qd1 h4 33.gxh4 Kh8 34.Qf3 Rg8+ 35.Kh2 Qd8 36.Bh3 Bxh3 37.Kxh3 Bxh4 38.Qf5 Bg5 39.Rc6 Qe8 40.Rc7 Qxb5 41.Qf3 Qb1 42.Bc1 Bf4 43.a4 Qa2 44.Bxf4 Qe6+ 45.Kh2 Qf6 46.Kh1 exf4 47.Qh3 Qg5 48.Rc1 f3 49.Rb1 Rg6 50.Qc8+ Kg7 0-1

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-4 :- GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (3) lost to IM Vaibhav Suri (4); GM Praveen Thipsay (3) lost to GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (4); GM Abhijit Kunte (3.5) drew with Zeng Chongsheng of China (3.5); FM Diptayan Ghosh (4) beat GM Bitoon Richard of Philippines (3); Sekar B (3) lost to GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (4); IM Lalith Babu M R (3.5) drew with Bitan Banerjee (3.5); GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (4) beat Himal Gusain (3); IM Ashwin Jayaram (4) beat Jaiswal Puneet (3); IM Thejkumar M S(3.5) drew with Shreyans K Shah (3.5); GM Sandipan Chanda (3.5) beat Bai Jinshi of China (3); IM Shivananda B S (3) drew with GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus (3); GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine (3) drew with IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (3); IM Girinath PDS (3) drew with GM Henrik Danielsen of Iceland (3); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (3.5) beat IM Praveen Kumar C (2.5); IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (3) drew with Ravi Lanka (3); Mu Ke of China (3) drew with GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (3); Narayanan S L (3) drew with IM Shyam Nikil P (3); Chinmay Kulkarni (2.5) lost to GM Neelotpal Das (3.5); FM Sharudl Gagare (3) drew with GM Laxman R R (3); IM Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan (2.5) lost to Shailendra K Bajpai (3.5)

Chanda gets top billing at 10th Parsvnath

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:56:34 PST

New Delhi (13 Jan 11) :- The 10th edition of prestigious Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament thats gets underway here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, Civil Lines from Saturday.

The event will see 20 Grandmasters and 32 International Masters in action in a field of around 300 players from more than 14 countries. Indian Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda will start as the rating favourite while Belarusian Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov and Ukrainian Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn are got the second and third seed respectively in this eleven round Swiss system tournament. The total prize fund of the event is Rupees 15 Lakhs out of which Rs. 3 Lakhs is reserved for the winner.

The event at the start of the New Year, every year now, attracts big stars from across the world and this time, Grandmaster duo from Russia, Mikhail Ulibin and Andrei Deviatkin along with Oliver Barbosa of Philippines amongst those will be eying the winner’s purse apart from the top seeds.

Shri. Ajay Maken, Hon’ble Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports will inaugurate the event at 1800 hrs on Saturday.

The Parsvnath group has been sponsoring this tournament for the ninth time running. The real estate majors are involved in almost all chess activities in the National Capital and it is because Mr. Pradip Jain has taken a stand to promote the game.

Parsvnath International Chess begins; Dhopade and Karthikeyan held

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:55:35 PST

New Delhi (15 Jan 12) :- The 10^th edition of prestigious Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament got off to a rousing start at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, Civil Lines on Sunday.

As expected almost all the top seeded players of the tournament, which include 19 Grandmasters, posted easy victories to advance to the second round with full points in their kitty. Top seed Indian Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda defeat Rajesh Kumar Nath while second seed Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belaurs had an easy outing against local lad Pavit Singh and third seed Ukrainian Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn made short work of Shyam Shetye. Among the Indian players, former national champions Grandmasters Abhijit Kunte and Praveen Thipsay started their tournament campaign on winning note as they defeated R Salini and Ravindra Dange respectively in the first round.

The surprises of the round came in the form of draws as International Masters Swapnil Dhopade and P Karthikeyan were denied victories by their lower rated opponents SBV Nair and local youngster Sarthak Mahajan respectively in the opening round.

The second round of this tournament, in which 302 players of 14 different countries are participating, was still in progress at the time of latest report.

Earlier in a colourful opening ceremony, Smt. Rashmi Singh, Director Government of Delhi inaugurated the event by making the customary first move in presence of Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary All India Chess Federation.

Important Results : Round- 1 (Indians otherwise stated) :- Rajesh Kumar Nath (0) lost to GM Sandipan Chanda (1); GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus (1) beat Pavit Singh (0); Shetye Shyam (0) lost to GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine (1); GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (1) beat Rajkumar S Singha (0); Kuldeep Kashyap (0) lost to GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (1); GM Barbosa Oliver of Philippines (1) beat Rajarishi Karthi (0); Anil Verma (0) lost to GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (1); GM Mikhailo Olekseienko of Ukraine (1) beat Pallavi Dutta (0); Salini R (0) lost to GM Abhijit Kunte (1); GM Henrik Danielsen of Iceland (1) beat D K Chopra (0); Manan Rai (0) lost to GM Mark Paraguaof Philippines (1); GM Richard Bitoon of Philippines (1) beat Aradhya Garg (0); Hussain S R (0) lost to IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (1); GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (1) beat Kumar Gaurav (0); Amrendra Kumar (0) lost to IM Kirill Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (1); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (1) beat Mukesh Chandra Joshi (0); Saksham Dewan (0) lost to IM Lalith Babu M R (1); IM Shyam Nikil P (1) beat Dinesh Kumar Gupta (0); Rakesh Gurung (0) lost to GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (1); Ma Qun of China (1) beat Saurabh Anand (0).

Games (Round-1)

Rajesh Kumar Nath of India (1852) v/s GM Sandipan Chanda of India (2628)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.c3 e6 5.d3 Be7 6.0–0 0–0 7.Re1 Nc6 8.Bb3 b5 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.Nf1 Ne5 11.Bc2 Rc8 12.Ng3 Nfd7 13.Nxe5 dxe5 14.Qg4 Kh8 15.f4 Bh4 16.Rf1 Bxg3 17.Qxg3 f6 18.Qh3 Qe7 19.Be3 Rfd8 20.Rae1 exf4 21.Rxf4 e5 22.Rf5 Nf8 23.Ref1 Rc6 24.R5f2 Bc8 25.Qh5 Be6 26.a3 Bf7 27.Qe2 Ne6 28.g4 Bg8 29.Rf5 c4 30.g5 Nxg5 31.d4 exd4 32.Bxd4 Re6 33.Rxb5 Nxe4 34.Qg2 a6 35.Rbf5 Nd6 36.Rh5 Re2 37.Qg6 Ne4 38.Bxe4 Qxe4 39.Qxe4 Rxe4 40.Ra5 Bd5 41.h3 Bb7 42.Rc5 Rc8 43.Rf2 h6 44.Rd2 Kh7 45.Bf2 Rxc5 46.Bxc5 Bc8 47.Rh2 g5 48.Bd4 f5 49.Rd2 f4 50.Kg2 h5 51.Bf2 Be6 52.Rd6 g4 53.hxg4 hxg4 54.Rxa6 Re2 55.Kf1 f3 56.Ra7+ 0–1

GM Alexksandrov Aleksej of Belarus (2612) v/s Pavit Singh of India (1851)

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 Bf5 7.Bxf6 Bxf6 8.Qb3 Nc6 9.Qxd5 Bd7 10.Nf3 0-0 11.Be2 Nb4 12.Qb3 a5 13.0-0 Be6 14.Bc4 Bg4 15.a3 Bxf3 16.gxf3 Nc6 17.Qxb7 Qd7 18.Bb5 Rfb8 19.Qxc6 1-0

A GREAT YEAR COME TO AN END; HOPING FOR ANOTHER FRUITFUL YEAR

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:49:42 PST

The year 2011 was a successful one for Delhi Chess Association in all fronts as its shown its capabilities on the board as well as of the board. Under the able leadership of great visionary Bharat Singh Chauhan as its President, Delhi Chess Association delivered the most in the past year.

International Master Sahaj Grover made us proud by winning bronze medal in the World Junior Chess Championship and Aryan Chopra bagged the Gold in Commonwealth Chess Championship at South Africa while Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi finished second in the prestigious Dubai open. At the year end, Madhurima Shekhar, Vantika Agarwal and Aradhya Garg brought laurels to our great nation and Delhi in particular by bagging medals in the 7^th Asian School Chess Championships. Madhurima and Vantika won Gold in Under-15 and Under-9 Girls Chess Championships while Aradhya bagged bronze in Under-13 open section.

In the administrative front also Delhi Association had shown its supremacy. DCA successfully conducted the India’s highest ever rated chess tournament; AAI International Grandmasters Tournament, 9^th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament, National Under-13 Chess Championships and several Fide rated events in the year 2011. The successful conduct of 7^th Asian School Chess Championship in an exemplary manner at year end, which was highly appreciated by one and all, added one more feather to association’s organizational capabilities. Our Joint Secretary and International Arbiter MS Gopakumar also made us proud by officiating in the prestigious World Youth Chess Championship at Brazil.

Delhi Chess Association takes this opportunity to extend its heartfelt thanks to all well wishers for their wonderful support to the association and hoping for the same in the years to come.

Arushi Kotwal assured title

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:11:02 PST

New Delhi (21 December 2011) :- With one round remaining, Jammu & Kashmir girl Arushi Kotwal assured the title in the Under-7 Girls category of the ongoing Asian School Chess Championship here at Indira Gandhi Stadium on Wednesday. In the penultimate round, Arushi defeated Divya Deshmukh to take her tally to eight points from as many matches and have a clear two point lead over her nearest rivals. In the final round tomorrow, Arushi is paired against Vrunda Naik and the outcome of result will not affect her title.

Meanwhile in the Under-15 Open section, top seed Girish Koushik signed the peace treaty with second seed Rishi Sardana and have the company of Anish Gandhi at top of point table. Anish beat Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad in the eighth round. In the girls section of this age category, second seed Delhi girl Madhurima Shekhar settled for half point against Arunima Goyal in the eighth round and have half point lead over top seed Nandhidhaa P V.

In the Under-13 Open section, top seed Diptayan Ghosh maintained his perfect run in the championship and have full point lead over his nearest rival national junior champion Aravindh Chithambaram. A draw in the final round against third seed Sidhant Mohapatra will pave the path for his title. In the Under-7 Open category, Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan is leading with seven and half points and apart from this category, Indian players are dominating the proceedings in all other categories.

The ninth and final round of the championship will be played on Thursday and closing ceremony scheduled at 1600 hrs.

Important Results Round -8 (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Under-15 Open

Rishi Sardana (5) drew with FM Girish A Koushik (6.5); Anish Gandhi (6.5) beat Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (5); Satkar Chirag (6) beat Isakzhanov Kelsinbek of Kyrgyz (5); Deep Kapoor (5.5) beat Ayush Garg (4.5); Yap Wan Lin of Malaysia (5.5) beat Tushar Anand (4.5).

Under-15 Girls

Arunima Goyal (4.5) drew with Madhurima Shekhar (7); Nandhidhaa P V (6.5) beat Matta Theja Sahhethhe (5); Gangamma B N (4.5) lost to Akhade Vaishnavi (5); Yashoda Maladkar (4) lost to Deodhar Vrushali Umesh (5.5); Vaibhavi Thakur (4.5) drew with Aarudhra Ganesh (4.5).

Under-13 Open

Shailesh Dravid (5.5) lost to FM Ghosh Diptayan (8); Dixit Nikhil (5.5) lost to FM Aravindh Chitharmbaram V R (7); Sidhant Mohapatra (6) beat Majed Al-Rashidy of UAE (5); Krishna Teja (6) Taalaibekiv Tagir of Krgyzstan (5); Satvik M (5.5) drew with Ritviz Parab (5.5).

Under-13 Girls

Shiny Das (5.5) lost to Smaraki Mohanty (6.5); Manasa B R (5) lost to Manjula R (6); Shoumi Mukerjee (4.5) lost to Shweta Priyadarshini (6); Meghna C H (5.5) beat Bhagya Jayesh (4.5); Meghna Upadhyay (4) lost to Ranasinghe Thinithi Sahanika of Sri Lanka (5.5).

Under-11 Open

Aradhya Garg (6.5) beat Siva Mahadevan (6.5); Abhishek A (6.5) beat Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy (5.5); Barath Kalyan M (6.5) beat Pruthu Deshpande (5.5); Aryan Chopra (6) beat Atharvaa P (5.5); Harikrishnan A (5) lost to Navnitan S V (6).

Under-11 Girls

Harishita Guddanti (5.5) lost to WFM Tarini Goyal (6.5); Musaeva Shakhnazi of Kyrgyzstan (5) lost to Khushi Dharewa (6.5); Vaisalie K (6) beat Sneha N G (5.5); Chitlange Sakhsi (5.5) drew with Shah Vishwa (5.5); Hilmi Parveen (5.5) beat Vaishnavi Thakur (4.5).

Under-9 Open

Iniyan P (8) beat Cheela Naga Sampath (5.5); Ram Aravind L N (7) beat Rahul Srivatshav P (6); Barath M (6) beat Kouchaki Penchah Jaber of Iran (5); Saurabh Anand (5.5) drew with Samal Ansuman (5.5); Aansh Gupta (6) beat Subhasis Barik (5).

Under-9 Girls

Vantika Agrawal (7) beat Adyasa Mahapatra (5.5); Askey Roshell Nathasha of Sri Lanka (5) lost to Samriddhaa Ghosh (7); Tejasvi M (6) beat Kaur Palkin (5); Swera Ana Braganza (6) beat Rajashree Rajeev (4.5); Makhija Aashna (4.5) lost to Bommini Mounika Akshya (5.5).

Under-7 Open

Raja Rithvik R (5) lost to Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan (7.5); Joy Anmol Rath (5.5) lost to Kushagra Mohan (7); Lye Lik Zang of Malaysia (6) beat Akilesh Viswaa (5.5); Mohit Kamal Rath (5) lost to Aryan Ranjan (6); Shah Aryan (6) beat Manpreet Singh (5).

Under-7 Girls

Arushi Kotwal (8) beat Divya Deshmukh (5); Niranjana Aishwarya Dass B (5) lost to Bhagyashree Patil (6); Bristy Mukherjee (6) beat Sayantika Nag (5); Mehendi Sil (5.5) beat Mrudual Dehankar (4.5); Samarasinghe Sithumi of Sri Lanka (5) beat David Avril R (4).

Under-5 Open

Solomko Artur of Kyrgyzstan (6) lost to Suyash Pai (7); Jyothis R (5) lost to Sumukh M G (6); Pranesh M (5) lost to Vallabh kavi (6); Al Taher Khaled Tarek (4.5) lost to Aum N Desai (5); Devansh Ajay Sarda (5) beat Prajval Vikas Koli (4).

Under-5 Girls

Tanisha Chatterjee (4) lost to Darsana M S (6); Wankhade Sanskruti (6) beat Khawaahish Shah (4); Shitika Raj (4) lost to Kaamyaa Negi (5); Khayal Shah (3) lost to Prathivya Gupta (5); Aswatha B (4) beat Srenethra R K (1.5).

Girish and Madhurima maintain sole lead

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:54:08 PST

New Delhi (20 December 2011) :- Top seed Girish Koushik defeated Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad to maintain his sole lead in the Under-15 Open Category of the ongoing ONGC 7^th Asian School Chess Championship-2011 here at Indira Gandhi Stadium on Tuesday. Meanwhile in the Under-15 Girls category, overnight sole leader Madhurima Shekhar kept her lead intact after settling for half point against Matta Theja Sahhethhe in the sixth round encounter.

In the Under-13 Open section, top seed Diptayan Ghosh leading the table with perfect score after sixth round matches and enjoys a full point lead over his nearest rivals. In the sixth round, he outwitted Nikhil Dixit while Iniyan P and Samriddhaa Ghosh are leading in the Under-9 Open and Girls categories respectively with perfect scores.

The seventh round matches are now underway at the time of report.

Important Results Round -6 (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Under-15 Open

FM Girish A Koushik (5.5) beat Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (4); Anish Gandhi (5) beat Isakzhanov Kelsinbek of Kyrgyzstan (4); Rishi Sardana (4) drew with Deep Kapoor (4); Walid Anwar (3) lost to Chirag Satkar (4.5); Meherjot S Kals (3.5) drew with Yap Wan Lin of Malaysia (4).

Under-15 Girls

Matta Theja Sahhethhe (4) drew with Madhurima Shekhar (5.5); Nandhidhaa P V (4.5) beat Aarudhra Ganesh (4); Deodhar Vrushali Umesh (3.5) drew with Gangamma B N (3.5); Vaibhavi Thakur (3) lost to Goyal Arunima (4); Yashoda Maladkar (4) beat Simranjeet Kaur (3).

Under-13 Open

FM Diptayan Ghosh (6) beat Nikhil Dixit (4.5); Vaisnav M (4) lost to FM Aravindh Chithambaram V R (5); Harshal Shahi (4.5) drew with R V Adith (4);Taalaibekov Tagir of Kyrgyzstan (5) beat Ritviz Parab (4); Majed Al-Rashidy of UAE (5) beat Manan Rai (4).

Under-13 Girls

Sunyasakta Satpathy (5.5) drew with Smaraki Mohanty (4.5); Bhagya jayesh (3.5) lost to Manjula R (5); Shiny Das (4.5) beat Chandreyee Hajra (3.5); Divya Gargh (3.5) lost to Meghna C H (3.5); Anigani Kavya (3) lost to Kesshni Bhassiin (4).

Under-11 Open

Aryan Chopra (5) drew with Harikrishnan A (5); Prathish A (4) lost to Siva Mahadevan (5.5); Manas O T (4.5) drew with Atharvaa P (4.5); Barath Kalyan M (4.5) drew with Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy (4.5); FM Mitrabha Guha (4.5) beat Rajabi Yazdi Khashayar of Iran (4).

Under-11 Girls

Sneha N G (5) drew with WFM Tarini Goyal (5); Khushi Dharewa (5) beat Sonal Mandhana (4); Shah Vishwa (4) drew with Vaishnavi Thakur (4.5); Harshita Guddanti (4.5) beat Hilmi Parveen (3.5); Chitlange Sakshi (4.5) beat Dakshinya TRS (3.5)

Under-9 Open

Rahul Srivatshav P (5) lost to Iniyan P (6); Ram Aravind L N (5) beat Thilakarathne G M H of Sri Lanka (4); Aansh Gupta (4) lost to Kouchaki Penchah Jaber (5); Saurabh Anand (5) beat Subhasis Barik (4); Aditya SSV (4) lost to Samal Ansuman (5)

Under-9 Girls

Mahija Aashna (4) lost to Samriddhaa Ghosh (6); Adyasa Mahapatra (5) beat Palkin Kaur (4); Vantika Agarwal (5) beat Tanishka Kotia (4); Tejasvi M (4.5) beat Choksey Maitri (4); Arya Ranjan (3.5) drew with Rajashree Rajeev (3.5).

Under-7 Open

Abdusattorov Nodirbek (5.5) beat Akilesh Visawaa (4.5); Joy Anmol Rath (5.5) beat Polakhare Aryan (4); Kushagra Mohan (5) beat Manpreet Singh (4); Raja Rithvik R (5) beat Sambit Panda (3.5); Hridhik Bhai (4.5) beat Sanket Chakravarty (3.5).

Under-7 Girls

Arushi Kotwal (6) beat Bristy Mukherjee (4); Sayantika Nag (4) lost to Niranjana Aishwarya Dass B (5); David Avril R (4) lost to Mehendi SIl (4.5); Aditi P Iyer (3.5) lost to Bhagyashree Pati (4); Srijita Sarkar (4) beat Alaina J J Pereira (3).

Under-5 Open

Rishabh Anand (5) given walk over to Solomko Artur (5); Leon Mendonca (4) lost to Vallabh Kavi (5); Suyash Pai (5) beat Sumukh M G (4); Raajas Vijay Kumar Mulye (4) beat Atharv Shukla (3); Pajval Vikas Koli (4) beat Dharmakari Kiran Chandra (3).

Under-5 Girls

Aswatha B (3) lost to Garima Gaurav (6); Wankhade Sanskruti (4) lost to Darsana M S (4); Khayal Shah (3) lost to Kaamyaa Negi (4); Tanisha Chatterjee (3) beat Prativya Gupta (3); Srenethra R K (1.5) lost to Khawaahish Shah (3).

Madhurima Shekhar on sole lead

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:12:33 PST

New Delhi (19 December 2011) :- Second seed Madhurima Shekhar overcome top seed Nandhidhaa P V to maintain the sole lead with perfect score after fifth round matches of the Under-15 Girls category of ongoing Asian School Chess Championship here at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Monday. Meanwhile in the Under-15 Open section top seed Fide Master Girish A Koushik failed to produce a decisive result in his favour and signed the peace treaty against his unrated Kyrgyzstan rival Kelsinbek Isakzhanov. But Girish maintain his sole lead in the section with four and half points.

In the Under-13 section, top seed Diptayan Ghosh jumped to sole lead after registering a crucial victory over second seed and national junior champion Aravindh Chithambaram while Aryan Chopra and A Harikrishnan are in joint lead in the Under-11 open section with four and half points. In the fifth round encounter, Aryan beat Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy and Harikrishanan outwitted Delhi lad Aradhya Garg.

Important Results Round -5 (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Under-15 Open

Isakzhanov Kelsinbek of Kyrgyzstan (4) drew with FM Girish A Koushik (4.5); Anish Ganhi (4) beat Ayush Jugele (3); Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (4) beat Walid Anwar (3); Deep Kapoor (3.5) drew with Chirag Satkar (3.5); Tushar Anand (3) lost to Rishi Sardana (3.5).

Under-15 Girls

Madhurima Shekhar (5) beat Nandhidhaa PV (3.5); Aarudhra Ganesh (4) beat Gangamma B N (3); Simranjeet Kaur (3) drew with Matta Theja Sahhethee (3.5); Akhade Vaishnavi (3) drew with Deodhar Vrushali Umesh (3); Goyal Arunima (3) beat Karimi Yeganeh of Iran (2.5).

Under-13 Open

FM Aravindh Chithambaran V R (4) lost to GM Diptayan Ghosh (5); Dixit Nikhil (4.5) drew with Vaisnav M (4); Manan Ravi (4) drew with Pavit Singh (3.5); Shailesh Dravid (4) lost to Sidhant Mohapatra (3); Pavan Karaande (3) lost to FM Harshal Shahi (4).

Under-13 Girls

Meghna C H (3.5) lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy (5); Manjula R (4) beat Divya Garg (3.5); Smaraki Mohanty (4) beat Manasa H R (3); Kesshni Bhasiin (3) lost to Shiny Das (3.5); Deekshidhaa P S (3) drew with Anigani Kavya (3).

Under-11 Open

Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy (4) lost to Aryan Chopra (4.5); Harikrishnan A (4.5) beat Aradhya Garg (3.5); Atharvaa P (4) drew with Barath Kalyan M (4); Herath HMAK (3.5) lost to Siva Mahadevan (4.5); Nishanth V G (3.5) drew with Kumar Gaurav (3.5).

Under-11 Girls

WFM Tarini Goyal (4.5) drew with Khushi Dharewa (4); Sneha N G Sweta (4.5) beat Chitlange Sakshi (3.5); Sweta Senapaty (3) lost to Sonal Mandhana (4); Vaishnavi Thakur (4) beat Musaeva Shakhnazi of Kyrgyzstan (3); Hilmi Parveen (3.5) beat Prabhugaonkar Adittee Aman (3).

Under-9 Open

Iniyan P (5) beat Ram Aravind L N (4); Kouchaki Penchah Jaber (4) lost to Rahul Srivatshav P (5); Subhasis Barik (4) beat Shavdirov Jamal of Uzbekistan (3.5); Kshitij Kadam (3) lost to Saurabh Anand (4); Samal Ansuman (4) beat Tushar K (3).

Under-9 Girls

Samriddhaa Ghosh (5) beat Adyasa Mahapatra (4); Makhija Aashna (4) beat Manya Bagla (3); Choksey Maitri (4) beat Srimathi R (3); Rajashree Rajeev (3) lost to Vantika Agrawal (4); Kaur Palkin (4) beat Askey Roshel Nathasha of Sri Lanka (3).

Under-7 Open

Akilesh Viswaa (4.5) drew with Joy Anmol Rath (4.5); Baibhan Singh (3.5) lost to Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan (4.5); Soumein Rajdev (3) lost to Raja Rithvik R (4); Mehta Naitik R (3.5) drew with Sanket Chakravarty (3.5); Polakhare Aryan (4) beat Mohit Kamal Rath (3).

Under-7 Girls

Mehendi Sil (3.5) lost to Arushi Kotwal (5); Bhagyashree Patil (3) lost to Sayantika Nag (4); Jesica (3) lost to Bristy Mukherjee (4); Jiya Shah (3) lost to David Avril (40; Divya Deshmukh (3) lost to Niranjana Aishwarya Dass (4).

Under-5 Open

Leon Mendonca (4) lost to Rishabh Anand (5); Sumukh M G (4) beat Dhruva H Dassan (3); Jyothis R (3) lost to Suyash pai (4); Solomko Artur (4) beat Raajas Vijay Kumar Mulye (3); Vallabh Kavi (4) beat Dev Shah (3).

Under-5 Girls

Garima Gaurav (5) beat Khayal Shah (3); Prativya Gupta (3) lost to Wankhade Sanskruti (4); Khawaahish Shah (2) lost to Aswatha B (3); Darsana M S (3) beat Yash Jyoti Bir (2); Kaamyaa Negi (3) beat Tanisha Chatterjee (2).

Manan Rai stuns Sidhant - Asian Schools

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:53:51 PST

New Delhi (18 December 2011) :- Delhi youngster Manan Rai stunned former Commonwealth Gold medalist Sidhant Mohapatra in the Under-13 open category of ongoing Asian School Chess Champion here at Indira Gandhi Stadium on Sunday. Playing with white pieces in Sicilian defence game, Manan maneuvered his bishop and king in the end game to good effect to garner full point against his fancied rival in 47 moves.

In other sections, as expected the seeded players sailed smoothly to the fourth round by registering comfortable victories in the third round. Top seed in Under-15 open section Girish Koushik got better Anish Gandhi while Dipatayan Ghosh and Aravindh Chithambaram defeated Raghav Srivathsav and Visheshwar respectively in Under-13 Open section.

Fourth round matches of this nine round swiss system championship is under progress at the time of report.

Important Results Round -3 (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Under-15 Open

Gandhi Anish (0) lost to FM Girish A Koushik (3); Rishi Sardana (2.5) drew with Chirag Satkar (2.5); Tushar Anand (3) beat Ayush Jugele (2); Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (2.5) drew with Isakzhanov Kelsinbek of Kyrgyzstan (2.5); Saksham Dewan (2.5) beat Rishideep Bordoloi (1.5).

Under-15 Girls

Madhurima Shekhar (3) beat Aarudhra Ganesh (2); Gangamma B N (3) beat Karimi Yeganeh of Iran (2); Arunima Goyal (2) lost to Nandhdhaa P V (2.5); Simranjeet Kaur (2) drew with Deodhar Vrushali Umesh (1.5); Akhade Vaishnavi (2) beat Vaibhavi Thakur (1).

Under-13 Open

Raghav Srivathsav (2) lost to FM Diptayan Ghosh (3); FM Aravindh Chithambaram V R (3) beat Visveshwar A (2); Manan Rai (3) beat Sidhant Mohapatra (2); Prasad Aurangabadkar (2.5) drew with FM Harshal Shahi (2.5); Nikhil Dixit (3) beat Shailesh Dravid (2).

Under-13 Girls

Kesshni Bhasiin (2) lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy (3); Omurbekova Diana of Kyrgyzstan (2.5) drew with Meghna C H (2.5); Manjula R (3) beat Maram Al Zadjali of UAE (2); Shiny Das (2.5) beat Shweta Priyadharshini (2); Vignashree T (1.5) lost to Divya Garg (2.5).

Under-11 Open

Aryan Chopra (3) beat Navnitan S V (2); Harikrishnan A (3) beat Swayam Bhatia (2); Rajabi Yazdi Khashayar (2) lost to Prathish A (3); Barath Kalyan (2.5) drew with Adarsh Shrivastava (2.5); Siva Mahadevan (3) beat Manas O T (2).

Under-11 Girls

Sonal Mandhana (3) beat Hilmi Parveen (2); WFM Tarini Goyal (3) beat Vishwa Shah (2); Chitlange Sakshi (2.5) drew with Bhosale Shruti (2.5); Khushi Dharewa (2.5) drew with Harshita Guddanti (2.5); Harshini A (2) lost to Vaisalie K (2.5).

Under-9 Open

Bhosale Shriraj (2) lost to Ram Aravind L N (3); Kouchaki Penchah Jaber of Iran (3) beat Cheela Naga Sampath (2); Thilakarathne GMH of Sri Lanka (3) beat Saurabh Anand (2); Subhasis Barik (2) lost to Aditya SSV (3); Kshitij Kadam (2) lost to Iniyan P (3).

Under-9 Girls

Srimathi R (2) lost to Adyasa Mahapatra (3); Bommini Mounika Akshaya (2) lost to Ghosh Samriddhaa (3); Choksey Maitri (3) beat Vantika Agrawal (2); Rajashree Rajeev (2.5) drew with Fernandes Krystal (2.5); Beverly Mendonca (1.5) lost to Tejasvi M (2.5).

Under-7 Open

Polakhare Aryan (2) lost to Raja Rithvik R (3); Atharva M Parulekar (2) lost to Joy Anmol Rath (3); Soumein Rajdev (2.5) drew with Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan (2.5); Akhilesh Vishwas (3) beat Adit Heerak Basu (2); Mehta Naitik R (2) lost to Baibhab Singh (3).

Under-7 Girls

Niranjana Aishwarya Dass (2) lost to Arushi Kotwal (3); Bhagyashree Patil (3) beat Mirlankyzy Azaliia of Kyrgyzstan (2); Sayantika Nag (2) lost to Divya Deshmukh (3); Jiya Shah (2) lost to Mehendi Sil (2.5); Alaina J J Pereira (1) lost to Samarasinghe Sithumi of Sri Lanka (2).

Under-5 Open

Solomko Artur of Kyrgyzstan (2) lost to Leon Mendonca (3); Narine Anirudh S (2) lost to Sumukh M G (3); Rajas nanda (2) lost to Suyash pai (3); Rishabh Anand (3) beat Vallabh Kavi (2); Kanishk Anil Israni (2) beat Akshar Garg (1).

Under-5 Girls

Prativya Gupta (3) beat Aswatha B (2); Wankhade Sanskruti (2) lost to Garima Gaurav (3); Darsana M S (2) beat Shitika Raj (1); Kaamya Negi (2) beat Yash Jyoti Bir (1); Tanisha Chatterjee (1) lost to Khayal Shah (1).

Hemant Kumar Singh (1982-2011)

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:11:30 PST

Hemant Kumar Singh, a talented Chess player and organiser took his last breath on 19th Nov 2011 due to a tragic truck accident. He was the live wire of the just concluded Chandrashekhar Memorial Chess Tournament in Delhi. A great loss to Chess in India and Delhi in particular. Delhi Chess extends our hearfelt condolences to his families members. May his soul Rest in Peace.

Mary Ann Gomes wins National Women Premier title

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:15:35 PST

Woman Grandmaster Mary Ann Gomes of Airport Authority of India, Kolkata emerged the champion in the Velammal 38^th National Women Premier Chess Championship 2011 being held at Media Centre, Nehru Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Mary Ann Gomes drew her final round game against Woman Grandmaster Kiran Manisha Mohanty of Orissa, taking her tally to 8.0 points. International Master Eesha Karavade of Maharashtra matched Mary Ann Gomes at 8.0 points, with a last gasp victory over Woman Grandmaster Padmini Rout of Orissa. But superior tie-break gave Mary Ann Gomes her maiden National Women Premier title, along with a winner's purse of Rs.75000.

Upon winning the National Women Premier chess title Mary said, "Of course, I feel amazing winning my first National Women Premier Championship. Its a completely different experience. I guess, when I think of it, I feel great joy. I dedicate this title to my mother Freda Gomes."

International Master Eesha Karavade scoring a surprisingly quick final round victory over Woman Grandmaster Padmini Rout. The Grunfeld game saw white wresting the advantage early, and a rook for minor piece sacrifice by Padmini did not improve her position. Further intrusions into black's kingside by Eesha's queen and double rooks decided the issue in 32 moves. The win takes Eesha on top of the table with 8.0 points. This third seed from Pune, came up with a remarkable show in the second half, taking the Runner-Up spot ahead of top seed Tania Sachdev.

With the fight for the top two spots decided, experienced Tania Sachdev of Air India secured the third spot with an energetic victory over Woman International Master Sai Meera of Indian Bank. A miracle draw yesterday against Divyasree and a facile win today, takes Tania to the third place finish in the final standings. Tania led the tournament for most part, before a defeat in the hands of second placed Eesha, derailed her. Nevertheless, Tania showed resilience, winning when it was required.

The experienced quartet of top four viz., Mary Ann Gomes, Eesha Karavade, Tania Sachdev and Nisha Mohota has been regulars in the Indian team for the past several years. Padmini Rout and Pratyusha Bodda give an element of youthfulness for the team. The top six players are seeded for the next National Women Premier championship and earn the right to represent the country in International events for an year.

The newcomer in this group would be Pratyusha Bodda of Andhra Pradesh. As the lone untitled player in the top six, her performance here has been outstanding. Seeded 21st, Pratyusha scalped WGMs Sowmya Swaminathan, Swathi Ghate and WIM Bhakti Kulkarni on way to her sixth place finish. Thanks to her hard work with N Rama Raju, the coach of Grandmaster Dronavalli Harika, this Vizag girl netted her second Woman International Norm and place in the Indian team, and the country can expect more of her.

The cash prizes amounting to Rs.2,50,000 were awarded to the prize winners by Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, World Chess Federation (FIDE) in a function presided over by Shri MVM Vel Mohan, Correspondent, Velammal Educational Trust.

Final Placings :

1-2 Mary Ann Gomes (AAI), Eesha Karavade (Mah) 8.0, 3 Tania Sachdev (AI) 7.5, 4-5 Nisha Mohota (PSPB), Padmini Rout (Ori) 7.0, 6-10 Pratyusha Bodda (AP), Meenakshi Subbaraman (IA), Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB), Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori), P Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5 pts

Results (Round 11)

Mary Ann Gomes (AAI) 8 drew with Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori) 6.5, Eesha Karavade (Mah) 8.0 bt Padmini Rout (Ori) 7.0, Tania Sachdev (AI) 7.5 bt Sai Meera (IB) 6.0, Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 7.0 bt Chandika Divyasree (AP) 6.0, Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB) 6.5 bt A G Nimmy (Ker) 5.5, Meenakshi Subbaraman (AI) 6.5 bt R Bharathi (TN) 5.5, P Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5 bt Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 5.5, Pratyusha Bodda (AP) 6.5 bt S Harini (TN) 5.0, Swathi Ghate (LIC) 6.0 bt Cholleti Sahajasri (AP) 4.5, Swati Mohota (WB) 5.0 drew with Pon N Krithika (AICF) 5.5, A Akshaya (TN) 5.0 drew with P Bala Kannamma (TN) 5.0, Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 5.0 drew with P V Nandhidhaa (TN) 4.5, Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 2.5 lost to J Saranya (TN) 5.5, Shweta Gole (Mah) 5.0 bt Supriya Joshi (Mah) 2.0, M Mahalakshmi (TN) 4.0 - Bye.

Abhijeet Gupta clinches National Premiers 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:54:11 PDT

Abhijeet receiving trophy from Education Minister Hon. Rajendra Darda

Abhijeet Gupta clinched his maiden title in the National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Marathwada Chess Association at MIT, Aurangabad today. He remained unbeaten collecting 9.5 points from 13 rounds, half a point ahead of the runner up Deepan Chakkaravarthy of Tamil Nadu.

After exchanging the queens on 29^th move in a Queens Gambit declined game, Negi won the exchange on 34^th move. But, there was nothing to cheer about on the board. At move 41, Abhijeet secured the draw he needed to be crowned as champion. Deepan, also remainig unbeaten, split the point with Vidit Santosh Gujrathi to earn the deserving runner up spot.

Under time pressure, former national under 17 champion P. Shyam Nikhil of Tamil Nadu missed a few winning chances to allow his team mate escape with a draw. The result enabled Sethuraman to finish third and pushed Shyam to seventh place.

MR Venkatesh of PSPB defeated his team mate Arun Prasad in a Benoni defence. In a queen and rook ending, Venkatesh had an extra passer pawn, sufficient to bring victory to him in 41 moves. Though Vidit and Venkatesh tied with Sethu, scoring 8.5 points, Venkatesh was placed fourth, ahead of Vidit, due to the difference in tiebreak.

In a queen and pawns ending of an English opening, GM Adhiban and Gopal tried to exploit the opponent’s weakness and none could succeed. They signed the peace treaty after 48 moves. With 8 points, Gopal just managed to put himself in the sixth position, the final place for the next year’s direct seeding.

Former champion Abhijit Kunte of PSPB and former under 12 world champion Deep Sengupta were involved in a long drawn battle in a Kings Indian game. The queen and rook of Kunte had a better combination than the queen and knight of Deep, with each having three connected pawns on the king side. Though Kunte penetrated into the opponent’s camp and grabbed one of Deep’s pawns, he could not proceed further and the game ended in a draw, pushing both out of contention.

Final Ranking

1 Gupta Abhijeet PSPB 9½ 2506

2 Deepan Chakkravarthy J TN 9 2502

3 Sethuraman S P TN 8½ 2488

4 Venkatesh M R PSPB 8½ 2478

5 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi MAH 8½ 2418

6 Gopal G N PSPB 8 2495

7 Shyam Nikil P TN 8 2488

8 Kunte Abhijit PSPB 8 2465

9 Sengupta Deep WB 8 2460

10 Bakre Tejas IA 7½ 2461

11 Arun Prasad S PSPB 7½ 2461

12 Negi Parimarjan PSPB 7½ 2448

13 Adhiban B PSPB 7½ 2435

14 Thipsay Praveen M MAH 7½ 2416

15 Sundararajan Kidambi PSPB 7½ 2412

16 Kulkarni Vikramaditya RLY 7½ 2395

17 Padmini Rout ORI 7 2461

18 Ashwin Jayaram TN 7 2440

19 Shyam Sundar M TN 7 2437

20 Satyapragyan Swayangsu IA 7 2431

Results of 13^th Round

Gupta Abhijeet PSPB 9½ drew with Negi Parimarjan 7½

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi MAH 8½ drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy J 9

Shyam Nikil P TN 8 drew with Sethuraman S P 8½

Kunte Abhijit PSPB 8 drew with Sengupta Deep 8

Arun Prasad S PSPB 7½ lost to Venkatesh M R 8½

Adhiban B PSPB 7½ drew with Gopal G N 8

Sundararajan Kidambi PSPB 7½ drew with Bakre Tejas 7½

Shyam Sundar M TN 7 drew with Thipsay Praveen M 7½

Ashwin Jayaram TN 7 drew with Padmini Rout 7

Satyapragyan S IA 7 drew with Neelotpal Das 7

Kulkarni Vikramaditya RLY 7½ beat Sriram Jha 6½

Murali Krishnan B T RLY 7 drew with G Akash 7

Karthikeyan P TN 6½ drew with Babu N Sudhakar 6½

Lalith Babu M R PSPB 6½ beat Shashikant Kutwal 5½

Laxman R R RLY 6 drew with Suvrajit Saha 6

Ghosh Diptayan WB 5½ lost to Swapnil S Dhopade 6½

Girish A Koushik KAR 6½ beat Rathnakaran K 5½

Himanshu Sharma HAR 5½ drew with Saptarshi Roy 6

Udeshi Aditya MAH 5 lost to Krishna C R G 5½

Soumya Swaminathan MAH 4½ drew with Sharma Dinesh K 5½

Narayanan Srinath TN 5½ drew with Swathi Ghate 4½

Tiwari Arjun RLY 4½ drew with Koshy Varugeese 5

Ravi Teja S AP 4½ beat Deshmukh Anup 4½

Sangma Rahul DEL 4½ drew with Konguvel Ponnuswamy 4½

Chithamabaram and Monnisha champions

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:59:00 PDT

New Delhi (10 Oct 11) : Top seed Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamilnadu ensured a thrilling end to the 25^th National Under-13 Chess by beating overnight sole leader Sidhant Mohapatra in the eleventh and final round at Kulachi Hansraj Model School here on Monday. Chithambaram tied for the top spot along with team mates Karthikeyan Murali and Vignesh N R with 9 points each but better tie break score helped Chithambaram to take the Winner’s trophy while Murali finished second and Vignesh satisfied with third spot finish. In the final round Murali defeat S Badrinath of Pondicherry while Vignesh defeated Krishna Teja of Andhra Pradesh to catch up with the top seed for the pole position.

Meanwhile in the girls’ section, defending champion G K Monnisha of Tamilnadu defended her title after settling for a quick draw with team mate M Mahalakshmi in the final round. Mahalakshmi finished second while Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhra Pradesh finished third after shocking top seed Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa in the last round.

International Master Lanka Ravi and Shri. Bharat Singh, Secretary All India Chess Federation gave away the prizes in a colourful closing ceremony.

Final Standings (Top 10)

Open

Rank	Name	State	Pts	Buchholz Tie Break
1	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr	TN	9	84
2	Karthikeyan Murali	TN	9	81½
3	Vignesh Nr	TN	9	76
4	Sidhant Mohapatra	ORI	8½	82
5	Pranav Vijay	TN	8½	79
6	Visakh Nr	TN	8½	79
7	Puranik Abhimanyu	MAH	8½	76
8	Krishna Teja N	AP	8	78½
9	Pranavananda V	AP	8	73
10	Sai Vishwesh C	TN	8	69½

Girls

Rank	Name	Club	Pts	Buchholz Tie Break
1	Monnisha Gk	TN	9½	78
2	Mahalakshmi M	TN	8½	74
3	Priyamvada Karamcheti	AP	8½	69
4	Shoumi Mukerjee	WB	8	77
5	Shiny Das	TRI	8	73
6	Ashwini U	TN	8	72½
7	Ivana Maria Furtado	GOA	7½	83½
8	Sunyasakta Satpathy	ORI	7½	71
9	Megha Gupta	GUJ	7½	68½
10	Divya Lakshmi R	TN	7½	68

Important Results :

Round-11 Open : Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamilnadu (9) beat Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa (8.5); Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (8.5) drew with Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra (8.5); Krishna Teja N of Andhra Pradesh (8) lost to Vignesh NR of Tamilnadu (9); Badrinath S of Puducherry (7.5) lost to Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (9); Siva Mahadevan of Tamilnadu (7.5) lost to Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (8.5); Mohammad Nubairshsh Shaikh of Maharashtra (7.5) drew with Nikhil Dixit of Maharashtra (7.5); Hetul Shah of Gujarat (7.5) drew with Pavit Singh of Delhi (7.5); Nishant Kumar of Jharkhand (7) lost to Sai Vishwesh C of Tamilnadu (8); Aradhya Garg of Delhi (7) lost to Pranavananda V of Andhra Pradesh (8); Rohan Ahuja of Goa (7.5) drew with Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (7.5); Naren Swaminathan P of Tamilnadu (7.5) drew with Sai Agni Jeevitesh of Andhra Pradesh (7.5); Kumaran B of Tamilnadu (7.5) beat Anantharam R U of Karnataka (6.5); Manan Rai of Delhi (6.5) lost to Harshal Shahi of Delhi (7.5); Suresh Krishna S of Puducherry (6.5) lost to Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhra Pradesh (7.5); Bharadwaj Akshay of Karnataka (7.5) beat Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand of Orissa (6.5).

Round-11 Girls :

Important Games : Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (9.5) drew with Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (8.5); Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa (7.5) lost to Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhra Pradesh (8.5); Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (8) beat Manjula R of Tamilnadu (7); Anigani Kavya of Andhra Pradesh (7) lost to Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (8); Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (7) lost to Shiny Das of Tripura (8); Sunyasakata Satpathy of Orissa (7.5) beat Divya Garg of Maharashtra (7); Asmita Das Munshi of West Bengal (6.5) lost to Divya Lakshmi R of Tamilnadu (7.5); Megha Gupta of Gujarat (7.5) beat Shweta Priyadarshini of Uttarpradesh (6.5); Rutuja Bakshi of Maharashtra (7) beat Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (6.5); Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (7) beat Sai Srrija P of Andhra Pradesh (6); Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (7) beat Nishi Mahalaxmi Iyer of West Bengal (6); Meghna Upadhyaya of Madhya Pradesh (6) lost to Meghna C H of Kerala (7); Dharani Sree R of Tamilnadu (7) beat Harshita Guddanti of Andhra Pradesh (6); Preethy P of Puducherry (7) beat Manasa H R of Karnataka (6); Chandreyee Hajra of West Bengal (7) beat Radhika Garg of Uttarpradesh (6).

Important Games :

Aravindh Chithambaram v/s Sidhant Mohapatra

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Ndb5 Bb4 7.a3 Bxc3 8.Nxc3 d5 9.exd5 exd5 10.Bd3 O-O 11.O-O d4 12.Ne2 Qd5 13.Nf4 Qd6 14.Nh5 Nxh5 15.Qxh5 h6 16.Qh4 Re8 17.Bd2 Qd5 18.Rae1 Bf5 19.Qh5 Be4 20.Qxd5 Bxd5 21.f4 a6 22.Kf2 Kf8 23.c3 dxc3 24.Bxc3 Rad8 25.Rxe8 Rxe8 26.Re1 Rxe1 27.Bxe1 Ke7 28.g3 g6 29.Ke3 f5 30.g4 Be6 31.Bc3 Kf7 32.gxf5 Bxf5 33.Bf1 Ke6 34.Bg2 Kd6 35.Bg7 h5 36.Bc3 Be6 37.Kf2 Bd5 38.Bh3 Be6 39.Bf1 Ne7 40.Bb4 Kd7 41.Bd2 Bd5 42.Ke3 Nf5 43.Kd3 Kc6 44.Kc3 b5 45.Bd3 Kc5 46.Be1 a5 47.Bf2 Kc6 48.b3 Bf3 49.Bc2 Bd5 50.Bd3 Bf3 51.Kb2 Bd5 52.a4 bxa4 53.bxa4 Bf7 54.Kc3 Kc7 55.Be4 Be8 56.Bc2 Bf7 57.Be1 Kb6 58.Bd1 Bd5 59.Bf2 Kc7 60.Bc5 Kc6 61.Bf8 Ne3 62.Be2 Nf5 63.Bb5 Kc7 64.Be8 Nh4 65.Be7 Ng2 66.Bg5 Be4 67.Kd4 Bc2 68.Kc5 Bd3 69.Bc6 Ne3 70.Be7 Nf5 71.Bf6 h4 72.Be5 Kc8 73.Kb6 h3 74.Kxa5 Ne3 75.Kb6 Ng4 76.a5 Nxh2 77.a6 Bxa6 78.Kxa6 Ng4 79.Kb5 h2 80.Bd4 Kd8 81.Bc5 Nf6 82.Kc4 Nh5 83.Be3 Ng3 84.Bf2 Nh5 85.Be3 Ng3 86.Bd2 Ke7 87.Kd3 Ke6 88.Be1 Nh5 89.Ke3 Kf5 90.Bd7 Kf6 91.Bh4 Kf7 92.Bc6 Ke6 93.Bg2 Kd6 94.Kf3 Ke6 95.Kg4 Kf7 96.Bg3 Nf6 97.Kh4 Nh7 98.Bxh2 Kf6 99.Kg4 Nf8 100.Bg3 Ne6 101.Bh4 Kg7 102.Bd5 Nd4 103.Kg5 Nc2 104.Bf2 Nb4 105.Be4 Na6 106.Bd4 Kg8 107.Kxg6 Nc7 108.f5 Kf8 109.Bc5 Ke8 110.Bc6 Kd8 111.Bb6 1-0

Mohapatra on sole lead; championship heading for a close finish

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:30:07 PDT

New Delhi (09 Oct 11) : Second seed and former commonwealth under-12 gold medalist Sidhant Mohapatra taken sole lead with eight and half points after signing peace treaty with his Tamilnadu rival Pranav Vijay in the penultimate round of the ongoing 25^th National Under-13 Chess Championship here at Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Ashok Vihar on Sunday.

Sole leader in the open section Sidhant Mohapatra

But the shock defeat of overnight joint leader Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu by the hands Krishna Teja of Andhra Pradesh made the championship wide open as six players including top seed Aravindh Chithamabaram are on second spot with a drift of just half point from the leader. World Under-10 bronze medalist Abhimanyu Puranik and Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu along with Kathikeyan Murali, Pranav Vijay and Krishna Teja are giving company to Chithambaram in the point table. Puranik beat local hope Aradhya Garg while Vignesh outwitted Rohan Ahuja of Goa in the tenth round.

In the eleventh and final round on Monday morning, Mohapatra takes on Chithambaram while Puranik, Teja and Murali paired against Pranav Vijay, Vignesh and Badrinath respectively.

In the girls’ section, defending champion Monnisha G K on course to her title defence as she produced an impressive victory over Shoumi Mukerjee in the tenth round. Playing with white pieces in Sicilian defence, Monnisha displayed her sheer class to overcome her West Bengal rival in 55 moves to extend her sole lead to full point.

Meanwhile top seed Ivana Maria Furtado suffered her first defeat in the championship by the hands of M Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu. Playing white side of Rubinstein variation of Nimzo-Indian defence, Mahalakshmi exposed Ivana’s defence with her bishop and rook in the middle game to register a crucial win in her favour. In the final round Monnisha takes on Mahalakshmi, who is occupying the second spot with eight points. Ivana and Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhra Pradesh, who beat Vaishali R of Tamilnadu in the penultimate round, are in joint third spot with seven and half points.

Important Results :

Round-10 Open : Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa (8.5) drew with Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (8); Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (8) lost to Krishna Teja N of Andhra Pradesh (8); Pranavananda V of Andhra Pradesh (7) lost to Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamilnadu (8); Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (8) beat Rohan Ahuja of Goa (7); Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharahstra (8) beat Aradhya Garg of Delhi (7); Sai Agni Jeevitesh J of Andhra Pradesh (7) drew with Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of Maharashtra (7); Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (7.5) beat Grahesh Y of Andhra Pradesh (6.5); Harshal Shahi of Delhi (6.5) lost to Siva Mahadevan of Tamilnadu (7.5); Pavit Singh of Delhi (7) drew with Naren Swaminathan of Tamilnadu (7); Badrinath S of Puducherry (7.5) beat Satvik M of Karnataka (6.5); Anirudh V Bhat of Goa (6) lost to Hetul Shah of Gujarat (7); Sai Vishwesh C of Tamilnadu (7) beat Anand Nadar of Maharahstra (6); Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (7) beat Chandar Raju of Kerala (6); Sayantan Chandra of West Bengal (6) lost to Nishant Kumar of Jharkhand (7); Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhra Pradesh (6.5) drew with Raghav Srivathsav V of Andhra Pradesh (6.5).

Round-10 Girls : Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (9) beat Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (7); Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (8) beat Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa (7.5); Shiny Das of Tripura (7) drew with Anigani Kavya of Andhra Pradesh (7); Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhra Pradesh (7.5) beat Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (6); Manjula R of Tamilnadu (7) beat Rutuja Bakshi of Maharashtra (6); Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (7) beat Chandreyee Hajra of West Bengal (6); Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (6.5) drew with Megha Gupta of Gujarat (6.5); Divya Garg of Maharashtra (7) beat Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (6); Nishi Mahalaxmi Iyer of West Bengal (6) lost to Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (7); Sunyasakata Satpathy of Orissa (6.5) beat Dhanashree Pandit of Maharashtra (5.5); Varshini V of Tamilnadu (5.5) lost to Asmita Das Munshi of West Bengal (6.5); Shweta Priyadharshini of Uttarpradesh (6.5) beat Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (5.5); Divya Lakshmi R of Tamilnadu (6.5) beat Gange Tanmayee of Maharashtra (5.5); Meghna C H of Kerala (6) drew with Chitlange Sakshi of Maharashtra (6); Manasa H R of Karnataka (6) drew with Dharani Sree R of Tamilnadu (6).

Important Games :

Sidhant Mohapatra (2189) v/s Pranav Vijay (2030)

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 Nbd7 4.Qd3 h6 5.Bxf6 Nxf6 6.e4 e6 7.Nf3 Be7 8.exd5 exd5 9.O-O-O O-O 10.Ne5 c6 11.f3 Bd6 12.f4 Qc7 13.Kb1 b5 14.g4 b4 15.g5 hxg5 16.fxg5 Ne8 17.Ne2 Bxe5 18.dxe5 Qxe5 19.Nd4 Bd7 20.Bh3 Qc7 1/2-1/2

Karthikeyan Murali (2124) v/s Krishna Teja N (1909)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 b5 7.O-O Bb7 8.Bf3 Nc6 9.Nxc6 dxc6 10.Qe2 Bd6 11.g3 Nf6 12.Bg2 e5 13.a4 O-O 14.Kh1 b4 15.Nb1 a5 16.Rd1 Ba6 17.Qe1 Rad8 18.Bg5 Be7 19.Nd2 h6 20.Bxf6 Bxf6 21.Bf1 Bc8 22.f3 Bg5 23.Nb3 f5 24.Bh3 c5 25.c4 bxc3 26.Qxc3 fxe4 27.Bxc8 Rxc8 28.fxe4 Rf2 29.Nxa5 Rcf8 30.Kg1 Kh7 31.Nc4 Qf7 32.g4 Qf4 33.Qg3 Qxe4 34.Nd6 Qc2 35.Qd3 Qxd3 36.Rxd3 Rxb2 37.Nc4 Re2 38.Rf1 e4 39.Rd5 Ra8 40.Rf2 Re1 41.Rf1 Rxf1 42.Kxf1 Rxa4 43.Rxc5 Ra1 44.Ke2 Ra2 45.Kd1 Rxh2 46.Re5 e3 47.Ke1 Kg6 48.Re6 Kf7 49.Re5 Kf6 50.Rf5 Kg6 51.Re5 Bf4 52.Re7 Kf6 53.Re8 Kg5 54.Nxe3 Bxe3 55.Rxe3 Kxg4 56.Kf1 Ra2 57.Kg1 g5 58.Rb3 Kh4 59.Rb6 h5 60.Rb3 g4 61.Rc3 g3 62.Rc1 Ra4 63.Kg2 Kg4 64.Ra1 Rf4 65.Ra8 Rf2 66.Kg1 Rb2 67.Ra1 Kh3 68.Rc1 h4 69.Ra1 Rb4 70.Rc1 Rb3 71.Ra1 Kg4 72.Ra4 Kf3 73.Ra1 h3 74.Rc1 Rb4 75.Kh1 Kg4 76.Rg1 Rf4 77.Ra1 g2 78.Kh2 Rf1 79.Rxf1 gxf1N 80.Kg1 Nd2 81.Kh2 Kh4 82.Kh1 Kg3 83.Kg1 Ne4 84.Kh1 Nf2 85.Kg1 h2 0-1

Monnisha G K (1974) v/s Shoumi Mukerjee (1776)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 d6 7.Nc3 Nf6 8.Be2 O-O 9.Nc2 Bd7 10.O-O Rc8 11.Rb1 Ne5 12.b3 Qc7 13.Bd4 Bc6 14.f3 Ned7 15.Kh1 a6 16.Rc1 Bh6 17.Be3 Bxe3 18.Nxe3 Qb6 19.Nc2 Nc5 20.Qd2 Kg7 21.Qe3 Ncd7 22.Qg5 h6 23.Qd2 Rh8 24.b4 Ne5 25.f4 Neg4 26.Bxg4 Nxg4 27.h3 Nf6 28.Qd3 Rhd8 29.a3 Qc7 30.Ne3 b5 31.cxb5 Bxb5 32.Nxb5 Qxc1 33.Rxc1 Rxc1 34.Kh2 axb5 35.e5 Ne8 36.Qxb5 Nc7 37.Qd3 d5 38.Qd2 Rc6 39.f5 g5 40.Ng4 f6 41.exf6 exf6 42.Qd4 Nb5 43.Qe3 Rd7 44.Qe8 Rcd6 45.Qg6 Kf8 46.Qxh6 Ke7 47.Qg7 Kd8 48.Qf8 Kc7 49.Nxf6 Rd8 50.Qe7 Kb6 51.a4 Nc3 52.Ne8 R8d7 53.Qe1 Rc6 54.b5 Rc4 55.Qe6 1-0

Mahalakshmi M (1954) v/s Ivana Maria Furtado (2073)

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Nge2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.Ng3 c5 8.dxc5 Bxc5 9.b4 Be7 10.Bb2 Nc6 11.Qc2 dxc4 12.Bxc4 a5 13.b5 Ne5 14.Be2 Bd7 15.O-O Rc8 16.Qb3 Qc7 17.Rac1 Qb8 18.Rfd1 Rfd8 19.h3 Be8 20.Nge4 Ned7 21.Bf3 Nb6 22.Na4 Rxc1 23.Rxc1 Nxe4 24.Bxe4 Nxa4 25.Qxa4 Rd2 26.Qb3 Rd8 27.Bf3 Bh4 28.Rc4 Be7 29.Rg4 e5 30.Bd5 Qd6 31.e4 b6 32.Rg3 Rc8 33.Rf3 Bf6 34.a4 Qb4 35.Qxb4 axb4 36.Rb3 Rc2 37.Rxb4 Be7 38.Rc4 Rxb2 39.Rc8 Rb4 40.Rxe8 Bf8 41.Rb8 Rxa4 42.Rxb6 Ra7 43.Rb8 g6 44.b6 Ra1 45.Kh2 Kg7 46.b7 Bc5 47.Rg8 Kxg8 48.b8Q Kg7 49.Qxe5 f6 50.Qxa1 Kf8 51.Qxf6 Ke8 52.Bc6 1-0

Mohapatra joins Murali at top

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:39:25 PDT

New Delhi (08 Oct 11) : Second seed and former Commonwealth Under-12 champion Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa joined overnight sole leader Karthikeyan Murali at top of point table after registering a contrasting victory over Y Grahesh of Andhra Pradesh in the ninth round of the National Under-13 Open Chess Championship here at Kulachi Hansraj Model School on Saturday.

Playing with black pieces, Mohapatra tested his Andhra Pradesh rival with sharp lines in exchange variation of Slav defence. With mate in sight, Grahesh shook the hand of his Orissa rival after 42 moves signaling a decisive result in favour of his opponent. Meanwhile overnight sole leader Karthikeyan Murali played a safe against his team mate Pranav Vijay in a closed Catalan game and signed the peace treaty in 30 moves. With seven and half points in the kitty, Pranav Vijay closely following the two leaders with a drift of half point. In other important encounters in the ninth round top seed Aravindh Chithambaram beat Harsha Bharathkoti of Andhra Pradesh while World Under-10 bronze medalist Abhimanyu Puranik and local lad Aradhya Garg defeated Ravindra Teja Muttineni of Andhra Pradesh and Debankan Dhara of West Bengal respectively to give company to top seed at joint third spot with seven points along with four others.

In the girls’ category, this is being held simultaneously, defending champion Monnisha G K maintained her sole lead with eight points after outwitting team mate Ashwini in the ninth round. Playing with black pieces in Ruy Lopez opening, Monnisha maneuvered her pieces to good effect and garnered full points after 29 moves. Meanwhile Ivana Maria Furtado defeated Rutuja Bakshi to keep a close check on Monnisha’s title defends with seven and half points.

Important Results :

Round-9 Open : Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (7.5) drew with Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (8); Grahesh Y of Andhra Pradesh (6.5) lost to Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa (8); Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamilnadu (7) beat Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhra Pradesh (6); Naren Swaminathan of Tamilnadu (6.5) drew with Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (6.5); Sai Vishwesh C of Tamilnadu (6) lost to Rohan Ahuja of Goa (7); Chandar Raju of Kerala (6) lost to Pranavananda V of Andhra Pradesh (7); Raghav Srivathsav V of Andhra Pradesh (6) lost to Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (7); Ravindra Teja Muttineni of Andhra Pradesh (6) lost to Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra (7); Krishna Teja N of Andhra Pradesh (7) beat Nikhil Dixit of Maharahstra (6); Aradhya Garg of Delhi (7) beat Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (6); Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of Maharashtra (6.5) beat Anantharam R U of Karnataka (5.5); Kumaran B of Tamilnadu (5.5) lost to Pavit Singh of Delhi (6.5); Suresh Krishna S of Puducherry (5.5) lost to Harshal Shahi of Delhi (6.5); Athul Krishna S of Kerala (5.5) lost to Badrinath S of Puducherry (6.5); Sai Agni Jeevitesh J of Andhra Pradesh (6.5) beat Akshay Bharadwaj of Karnataka.

Round-9 Girls : Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (6) lost to Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (8); Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa (7.5) beat Rutuja Bakshi of Maharahstra (6); Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (7) beat Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (6); Megha Gupta of Gujarat (6) lost to Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (7); Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (6) drew with Shiny Das of Tripura (6); Dharani Sree R of Tamilnadu (5.5) lost to Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhra Pradesh (6.5); Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (6) drew with Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (6); Anigani Kavya of Andhra Pradesh (6.5) beat Gange Tanmayee of Maharahstra (5.5); Nishi Mahalaxmi Iyer of West Bengal (6) drew with Varshini V of Tamilnadu (6); Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (5.5) drew with Harshita Guddanti of Andhra Pradesh (5.5); Meghna Upadhyay of Madhya Pradesh (5) lost to Manjula R of Tamilnadu (6); Chitlange Sakshi of Maharashtra (5.5) drew with Manasa H R of Karnataka (5.5); Chandreyee Hajra of West Bengal (6) beat Kratica Shekhawat of Rajasthan (5); Deekshidha P S of Tamilnadu (5) lost to Divya Garg of Maharashtra (6); Preethy P of Puducherry (5) lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa (5.5).

Important Games :

Pranav Vijay (2030) v Karthikeyan Murali (2124)

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.O-O c5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.e4 Nb6 9.Nc3 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Bf6 11.Ndb5 Nc6 12.Be3 Qe7 13.Qe2 Bxc3 14.Nxc3 Nd7 15.Rfd1 b6 16.Rac1 Bb7 17.Nb5 Rfd8 18.Nd6 Nf6 19.Nxb7 Qxb7 20.Qb5 Rxd1 21.Rxd1 Rd8 22.Rc1 Ne7 23.Bg5 Rc8 24.Rd1 Qc6 25.Qe2 e5 26.Bh3 Rf8 27.Rc1 Qd6 28.Rd1 Qc6 29.Rc1 Qd6 30.Rd1 1/2-1/2

Grahesh Y (1812) v Sidhant Mohapatra (2189)

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c6 3.Nf3 d5 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.d4 Nc6 6.Bf4 a6 7.e3 Bg4 8.Be2 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 e6 10.O-O Be7 11.Rc1 O-O 12.Na4 Rc8 13.a3 Na5 14.b4 Nc4 15.Qd3 a5 16.Rb1(=) axb4 17.axb4 Ra8 18.Nc3 Ra3 19.Qc2 Qd7 20.Rfc1 Rc8 21.Rb3 Rxb3 22.Qxb3 Nd2 23.Qb2 Nxf3 24.gxf3 Rc4 25.Na2 Qa4 26.Rxc4 dxc4 27.e4 b5 28.Bd2 h5 29.Kf1 Qd1 30.Kg2 h4 31.h3 Qb3 32.Bc3 Nh5 33.Qd2 g5 34.Nc1 Nf4 35.Kh2 Qa3 36.d5 exd5 37.Qd4 f6 38.e5 Qxc1 39.exf6 Qf1 40.f7 Kxf7 41.Qg7 Ke8 42.Qg8 Kd7 0-1

Ashwini U (1762) v Monnisha G K (1974)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.c3 d6 8.a4 Rb8 9.d4 Bb6 10.a5 Ba7 11.h3 Bb7 12.Be3 Nxe4 13.d5 Bxe3 14.dxc6 Nxf2 15.Qd5 Nxh3 16.Kh1 Qf6 17.gxh3 Bc8 18.Nbd2 Bxh3 19.Ne4 Qg6 20.Qxf7 Kd8 21.Nh4 Qxe4 22.Qf3 Qxh4 23.Qxe3 Bxf1 24.Kg1 Bc4 25.Qa7 Rc8 26.Bxc4 Qxc4 27.Qxa6 Rf8 28.Qa7 Qg4 29.Kh1 Rf6 0-1

Monnisha takes sole lead

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:30:53 PDT

New Delhi (07 Oct 11) : Defending champion G K Monnisha of Tamilnadu beat Hilmi Parveen of Kerala in the eighth round to take sole lead with seven points in the girls category of ongoing National Under-13 championship here at Kulachi Hansraj Model School on Friday.

Meanwhile in the Open section, all the top three boards produced decisive results and overnight sole leader Karthikeyan Murali maintained his lead after beating team mate Visakh N R on the top board. This crucial victory enabled Murali to maintain his half point lead over nearest contenders Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa and state mate Pranav Vijay. Mohapatra defeated Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhra Pradesh while Pranav outwitted Debankan Dhara of West Bengal.

Playing white side of Sicilian Najdorf game, Murali not granted any chance to his state mate rival to seal the match in 45 moves. Mohapatra employed unusual lines in the Sicilian defence to overcome Bharathakoti in 44 moves with black pieces and Pranav taken only 31 moves in Queen’s Gambit accepted game to garner full point against his West Bengal rival. In the ninth round on Saturday Murali takes on Pranav while Sidhant paired against Y Grahesh of Andhra Pradesh, who beat local hope Harshal Shahi in the eighth round battle.

Playing with white pieces, Monnisha displayed a finely crafted middle game in Scandinavian defence to overcome her Kerala rival in 56 moves while top seed and overnight joint leader Ivana Maria Furtado failed to produce a decisive result in her favour against Tripura rival Shiny Das in a Tarrasch variation of French Defence game and signed the peace treaty in 50 moves. This crucial results in the eighth round enabled Monnisha to take the slender half point lead over Ivana. Ivana is occupying the lone second spot in the point table with six and half points.

Important Results :

Round-8 Open : Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilandu (7.5) beat Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (6); Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhra Pradesh (6) lost to Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa (7); Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (7) beat Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (6); Rohan Ahuja of Goa (6) drew with Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamilnadu (6); Pranavanda V of Andhra Pradesh (6) drew with Naren Swaminathan of Tamilnadu (6); Harshal Shahi of Delhi (5.5) lost to Grahesh Y of Andhra Pradesh (6.5); Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra (6) drew with Raghav Srivathsav of Andhra Pradesh (6); Pavit Singh of Delhi (5.5) drew with Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of Maharahstra (5.5); Anirudh V Bhat of Goa (5) lost to Sai Vishwesh C of Tamilnadu (6); Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal (5) lost to Chandar Raju of Kerala (6); Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (6) beat Ritviz Parab of Goa (5); Adethya R of Tamilnadu (5) lost to Krishna Teja N of Andhra Pradesh (6); Nishant Kumar of Jharkhand (5) lost to Ravindra Teja Muttineni of Andhra Pradesh (6); Nikhil Dixit of Maharashtra (6) beat Anand Nadar of Maharashtra (5); Manu M of Kerala (5) lost to Satvik M of Karnataka (6).

Round-8 Girls : Shiny Das of Tripura (6) drew with Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa (6.5); Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (7) beat Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (5.5); Rutja Bakshi of Maharashtra (6) drew with Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (6); Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (6) beat Anigani Kavya of Andhra Pradesh (5.5); Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (6) beat Deekshidha P S of Tamilnadu (5); Manjula R of Tamilnadu (5) lost to Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (6); Divya Garg of Maharashtra (5) lost to Megha Gupta of Gujarat (6); Gange Tanmayee of Maharashtra (5.5) drew with Dharani Sree R of Tamilnadu (5.5); Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (5.5) beat Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa (4.5); Varshini V of Tamilnadu (5) drew with Chandreyee Hajra of West Bengal (5); Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhra Pradesh (5.5) beat Asmita Das Munshi of West Bengal (4.5); Divya Lakshmi R of Tamilnadu (4.5) lost to Nishi Mahalaxmi Iyer of West Bengal (5.5); Meghna C H of Kerala (4.5) lost to Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (5.5); Saughanthika A S of Tamilnadu (4) lost to Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (5); Kavisha S Shah of Gujrat (4.5) drew with Varsha C K of Tamilnadu (4.5).

Important Games :

Karthikeyan Murali (2124) v/s Visakh N R (2056)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 h5 10.O-O-O Nbd7 11.Kb1 Qc7 12.f4 b5 13.Nd5 Bxd5 14.exd5 Rc8 15.c3 O-O 16.Be2 Rfe8 17.Rhf1 Bf8 18.fxe5 Nxe5 19.Bd4 Nxd5 20.Bxh5 Nf6 21.Bf3 Re6 22.Bf2 Nxf3 23.gxf3 g6 24.Nd4 Ree8 25.Bh4 Nh5 26.Rfe1 Kh7 27.Nc2 Qb7 28.Qf2 a5 29.f4 f5 30.Nd4 Re4 31.Ne6 Bh6 32.Rd6 Nxf4 33.Red1 Nxe6 34.Rd7 Qxd7 35.Rxd7 Ng7 36.Bf6 Rce8 37.Qa7 Rg8 38.Bxg7 Bxg7 39.Qxa5 b4 40.Qc7 Kh8 41.Qg3 Rge8 42.Qxg6 Re1 43.Kc2 b3 44.Kxb3 Rb8 45.Kc2 1-0

Harsha Bharathakoti (1862) v/s Sidhant Mohapatra (2189)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3 d5 4.exd5 exd5 5.d4 Nf6 6.Bb5 Bd7 7.Bxd7 Nbxd7 8.O-O Be7 9.Bb2 O-O 10.Re1 Re8 11.Nc3 Rc8 12.Qd2 cxd4 13.Nxd4 Bb4 14.Rxe8 Qxe8 15.Qd3 Ne5 16.Qe3 Bc5 17.Na4 Bf8 18.Re1 Ned7 19.Qd2 Qd8 20.Nf5 h6 21.Qd3 Qc7 22.Re2 -? 23.Nc3 Nc5 24.Qf3 Ne6 25.Rd2 Qe5 26.Re2 Qf4 27.Qxf4 Nxf4 28.Re3 g6 29.Rf3 Ne6 30.Ng3 d4 31.Nce2 Rxc2 32.Nxd4 Rxb2 33.Nxe6 Ne4 34.h3 Nxg3 35.Rxg3 fxe6 36.Rxg6 Kf7 37.Rg4 Rxa2 38.Rc4 b5 39.Rc7 Kf6 40.Rc3 Bd6 41.g3 a5 42.Rf3 Ke7 43.Kf1 Ra3 44.Re3 a4 0-1

Shiny Das (1711) v/s Ivana Maria Furtado (2073)

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4 f6 9.exf6 Nxf6 10.Nf3 Bd6 11.O-O Qc7 12.Bg5 O-O 13.Bh4 Nh5 14.Qc2 h6 15.Bh7 Kh8 16.Bg6 Rxf3 17.Bxh5 Rf8 18.Bg3 Bd7 19.Rac1 Rac8 20.Bf3 Rf6 21.Qd2 Rcf8 22.Rc3 g5 23.Bxd6 Qxd6 24.Bg4 e5 25.Bxd7 Qxd7 26.dxe5 Nxe5 27.Ng3 d4 28.Rc5 Ng4 29.Ne4 Rf4 30.f3 b6 31.Rcc1 Ne3 32.Rfe1 R4f7 33.Qd3 Kg8 34.Ng3 g4 35.f4 Qb7 36.Qg6 Rg7 37.Qe6 Kh7 38.Re2 Rxf4 39.Nh5 Qc7 40.Rce1 Rgf7 41.Rxe3 dxe3 42.Nxf4 Qxf4 43.Qxe3 Qxe3 44.Rxe3 h5 45.Re6 Rd7 46.Kf2 h4 47.g3 Rd2 48.Re2 hxg3 49.hxg3 Rxe2 50.Kxe2 1/2-1/2

Monnisha G K (1974) v/s Hilmi Parveen (1652)

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 c6 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxf6 gxf6 10.Bb3 Bd6 11.Qe2 Qe7 12.O-O-O Nd7 13.Nh4 Bg6 14.g3 O-O-O 15.Kb1 Rde8 16.f4 f5 17.Rc1 f6 18.Rhe1 e5 19.dxe5 fxe5 20.fxe5 Bxe5 21.Qf2 Kb8 22.Nf3 Ka8 23.Nxe5 Nxe5 24.Bc3 Ng4 25.Qf4 Qc5 26.Bxh8 Rxh8 27.Rcd1 Nxh2 28.Qd2 Qb6 29.Qxh2 a6 30.Qd2 Bh5 31.Qd4 Qxd4 32.Rxd4 Rc8 33.Rd7 Bg6 34.Bf7 Ka7 35.Bxg6 hxg6 36.Ree7 Rb8 37.Rg7 Kb6 38.Rxg6 Re8 39.b3 a5 40.Rgg7 Rb8 41.Rgf7 f4 42.Rxf4 Re8 43.g4 Rh8 44.g5 Rh1 45.Kb2 Rg1 46.g6 Rg5 47.Rff7 Ka6 48.Rxb7 c5 49.Ra7 Kb5 50.a4 Kc6 51.Ra6 Kd5 52.Rd7 Ke4 53.g7 Kf3 54.Rf6 Ke3 55.Kc1 Rxg7 56.Rxg7 c4 1-0

Karthikeyan Murali maintains sole lead

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:07:32 PDT

New Delhi (06 Oct 11) : Overnight sole leader Karthikeyan Murali maintained his sole lead with six and half points after signing the peace treaty with second seed Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa in the seventh round of the ongoing 25^thNational Under-13 Open Chess Championship at Kulachi Hansraj Model School on Thursday.

Playing safe in Kan variation of Sicilian Defence, Murali and Mohapatra agreed to split the point after just 17 moves. Tamilnadu players Visakh N R, Pranav Vijay, Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhrapradesh and Debankan Dhara of West Bengal are giving company to Mohapatra in the joint second spot with a drift of half point from the leader.

In the seventh round encounters, Viaskh beat Nikhil Dixit of Maharahstra while Bharathkoti shocked third seed Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh. Pranav Vijay and Debankan Dhara got better off Krishna Teja of Andhrapradesh and Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu respectively. Top seed Arvindh Chithambaram suffered another setback to his title hopes as he satisfied with half point against Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra in the seventh round.

Meanwhile in the girls’ category, top seed Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa and defending champion Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu sharing the pole position with six points. Playing white side of Volga Gambit game, World Under-12 silver medalist Ivana defeated U Ashwini of Tamilnadu without much struggle in 33 moves while Monnisha overcame her state mate Vaishali R in 77 moves arrived out of Hungarian defence.

Six players including World Under-12 bronze medalist M Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu, who beat overnight joint leader Shoumi Mukjerjee of West Bengal are in joint second spot with five and half points.

Important Results :

Round-7 Open : Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa (6) drew with Kathikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (6.5); Arvindh Chithambaram V R of Tamilnadu (5.5) drew with Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra (5.5); Mohammad Nubairshah Shaik of Maharahstra (5) lost to Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhrapradesh (6); Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (6) beat Nikhil Dixit of Maharashtra (5); Krishna Teja N of Andhrapradesh (5) lost to Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (6); Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (6) beat Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (5); Raghav Srivathsav of Andhrapradesh (5.5) drew with Harshal Shahi of Delhi (5.5); Rohan Ahuja of Goa (5.5) beat Hetul Shah of Gujarat (4.5); Akshay Bharadwaj of Karnataka (4.5) lost to Pranavananda V of Andhrapradesh (5.5); Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal (5) drew with Pavit Singh of Delhi (5); Grahesh Y of Andhrapradesh (5.5) beat Kumaran B of Tamilnadu (4.5); Naren Swaminathan P of Tamilnadu (5.5) beat Anatharam R U of Karnataka (4.5); Ritviz Parab of Goa (5) drew with Nishant Kumar of Jharkhand (5); Sai Vishwesh of Tamilnadu (5) beat Kushagra Sharma of Rajasthan (4); Athul Krishna S of Kerala (4.5) drew with Saptorshi Gupta of West Bengal (4.5).

Round-7 Girls : Ivana Maria Furtado (6) beat Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (5); Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (5) lost to Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (6); Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (5.5) beat Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (5); Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa (4.5) lost to Shiny Das of Tripura (5.5); Rutuja Bakshi of Maharashtra (5.5) beat Meghna C H of Kerala (4.5); Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (5.5) beat Varshini V of Tamilnadu (4.5); Anigani Kavya of Andhrapradesh (5.5) beat Divya Lakshmi R of Tamilnadu (4.5); Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (4) lost to Divya Garg of Maharashtra (5); Megha Gupta of Gujarat (5) beat Kesshni Bhasiin of Delhi (4); Dharani Sree R of Tamilnadu (5) beat Kratica Shekhwat of Rajasthan (4); Gange Tanmayee of Maharashtra (5) beat Dhanshree Pandit of Maharashtra (4); Chitlange Sakshi of Maharashtra (4) lost to Manjula R of Tamilnadu (5); Deekshidha P S of Tamilnadu (5) beat Manasa H R of Karnataka (4); Vishwa Shah of Maharahstra (3.5) lost to Priyamvadha Karamcheti of Andhrapradesh (4.5); Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (4.5) beat Shweta Priyadharshini of Uttarpradesh (3.5).

Important Games :

Sidhant Mohapatra (2189) v/s Karthikeyan Murali (2124)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Bd3 Nf6 7.f4 Bb4 8.Bd2 d6 9.Qe2 Nbd7 10.O-O-O O-O 11.Kb1 Bxc3 12.Bxc3 e5 13.Nf5 Nc5 14.fxe5 dxe5 15.Rhf1 Bxf5 16.Rxf5 Nxd3 17.Rd3 1/2-1/2

Aravindh Chithamabaram V R (2213) v/s Abhimanyu Puranik (1918)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5 c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.Bd3 h6 10.Ne4 Nd5 11.Ng3 g6 12.Nc3 Nb4 13.Nge2 Nxd3 14.cxd3 Bg7 15.O-O O-O 16.b4 Nb7 17.Ba3 Rd8 18.Rac1 Qd7 19.Rb1 a6 20.Rfc1 Rb8 21.h3 Qxd3 22.Qc6 Be6 23.b5 Na5 24.Qc7 Nc4 25.Be7 Rdc8 26.Qa7 axb5 27.Bb4 h5 28.Qe7 Qxd2 29.Rd1 Qc2 30.Rbc1 Qf5 31.Ng3 1/2-1/2

Karthikeyan Murali on sole lead

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:01:00 PDT

New Delhi (05 Oct 11) : Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu jumped to sole lead with six points after shocking top seed and state mate Arvindh Chithambaram in the sixth round of the National Under-13 Open Chess Championship at Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Ashok Vihar on Wednesday.

Playing with white pieces in four knight’s variation of Sicilian Defence, Murali converted his opponent’s crucial mistakes in the middle game to good effect to register an important win the championship in 36 moves. Second seed Sidhant Mohapatra occupying the lone second spot with five and half points. In the sixth round Mohapatra beat Ritiviz Parab of Goa in a 42 moves French Defence classical system game.

In other sixth round matches in the open section, Debankan Dhara of West Bengal held fifth seed Visakh N R of Tamilnadu while third seed Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh and local hope Harshal Shahi overcame Manu M of Kerala and Sai Agni Jeevitesh of Andhrapradesh respectively to occupy joint third spot along with ten others.

Meanwhile in the girls’ section, five players including top seed Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa and defending champion Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu are sharing the pole position with five points. In the crucial sixth round encounters, Ivana signed with peace treaty with Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal after a marathon match that lasted 109 moves in exchange variation of Slav defence while Monnisha agreed to split the point with Rutuja Bakshi in 22 moves. Tamilnadu players Ashwini and Vaishali joined Ivana, Monnisha and Shoumi at the point table after registering impressive victories over Smaraki Mohanty and Manjula R respectively in the sixth round encounters.

Earlier in the fifth round, Arvindh Chithambaram beat Vignesh N R while Karthikeyan Murali got better off Athul Krishna of Kerala. In the girls’ category top three boards ended without any decisive result.

Important Results :

Round-6 Open : Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (6) beat Aravindh Chithambaram V R of Tamilnadu (5); Sidhant Mohapatra (5.5) beat Ritviz Parab of Goa (4.5); Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (5) drew with Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (5); Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (5) drew with Kumaran B of Tamilnadu (4.5); Manu M of Kerala (4) lost to Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of Maharashtra (5); Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (5) beat Satvik M of Karnataka (4); Harshal Shahi of Delhi (5) beat Sai Agni Jeeviesh J of Andhrapradesh (4); Raghav Srivathsav of Andhrapradesh (5) beat Athul Krishna S of Kerala (4); Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra (5) beat Visveshwar A of Tamilnadu (4); Digvijay Sonwane of Maharashtra (4) lost to Krishna Teja N of Andhrapradesh (5); Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhrapradesh (5) beat Anand Nadar of Maharashtra (4); Nikhil Dixit of Maharashtra (5) beat Ravindra Teja Muttineni of Andhrapradesh (4); Hetul Shah of Gujarat (4.5) beat Siva Mahadevan of Tamilnadu (4); Pranavananda V of Andhrapradesh (4.5) beat Atharva Madkar of Maharashtra (3.5); Ishaan Bansal of Punjab (3.5) lost to Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal (4.5).

Round-5 Open : Arvindh Chithambaram beat Vignesh N R; Visakh N R drew with Sidhant Mohapatra; Athul Krishna S lost to Karthikeyan Murali; Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh drew with Debankan Dhara; Nishant Kumar lost to Pranav Vijay; Ritviz Parab of Goa beat Kaustuv Kundu; Anand Nadar drew with Abhimanyu Puranik; Krishna Teja drew with Raghav Srivathsav; Hetul Shah drew with Saurabh Anand; Ravindra Teja Muttineni beat Karthik V; Kumaran B beat Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand; Kushagra Sharma lost to Harshal Shahi; Atharva Madkar drew with Naren Swaminathan; Rohan Ahuja drew with Aditya Hiren Vaidya; Ritabroto Ganguly lost to Harsha Bharathakoti.

Round-6 Girls : Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (5) drew with Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa (5); Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (5) drew with Rutuja Bakshi of Maharahstra (4.5); Meghna C H of Kerala (4.5) drew with Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa (4.5); Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (5) beat Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (4); Manjula R of Tamilnadu (4) lost to Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (5); Poulami Bhattacharyya of West Bengal (3.5) lost to Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (4.5); Varshini V of Tamilnadu (4.5) beat Varsha C K of Tamilnadu (3.5); Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhrapradesh (3.5) lost to Anigani Kavya of Andhrapradehs (4.5); Divya Lakshmi R of Tamilnadu (4.5) beat Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (3.5); Kratica Shekhwat of Rajasthan (4) drew with Megha Gupta of Gujarat (4); Shiny Das of Tripura (4.5) beat Chandreyee Hajra of West Bengal (3.5); Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (4.5) beat Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (3.5); Deekshidha P S of Tamilnadu (4) drew with Dharani Sree R of Tamilnad (4); Dhanashree Pandit of Maharashtra (4) beat Sai Srrija P of Andhrapradesh (3.5); Manasa H R of Karnataka (4) beat Sweta Senapaty of Orissa (3).

Round-5 Girls : Ivana Maria Furtado drew with Monnisha G K; Sunyasakta Satpathy drew with Manjula R; Smaraki Mohanty drew with Meghna C H; Tarini Goyal lost to Shoumi Mukerjee; Mahalakshmi M drew with Hilmi Parveen; Rutuja Bakshi beat Dhanashree Pandit; Anigani Kavya drew with Varhini V; Vaishali R beat Manasa H R: Sai Srrija P drew with Priyamvada Karamcheti; Ashwini U beat Divya Garg; Chandreyee Hajra drew with Divya Lakshmi R; Akankhya Kabi drew with Deekshidha; Varsha C K drew with Kratica Shekhwat; Megha Gupta beat Sovna Sonali Jena; Nimita Joshi lost to Shiny Das.

Important Games :

Karthikeyan Murali (2124) v/s Aravindh Chithambaram V R (2213)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Ne4 f5 9.Nd6 Bxd6 10.exd6 O-O 11.Be2 Qa5 12.Qd2 Qb6 13.O-O Bb7 14.c4 Nf6 15.Qc2 Ne4 16.Bf4 Rae8 17.Rad1 e5 18.c5 Qa5 19.Be3 Ba6 20.b4 Qa3 21.Bc1 Qc3 22.Qxc3 Nxc3 23.Bxa6 Nxd1 24.Rxd1 Rb8 25.Bd2 h6 26.a4 g5 27.b5 e4 28.bxc6 dxc6 29.Ba5 Kf7 30.d7 Ke7 31.Bc7 Rbd8 32.Bd6 Kf7 33.Bxf8 Kxf8 34.Bb7 Ke7 35.Bxc6 Rb8 36.d8Q Rxd8 37.Rxd8 1-0

Sidhant Mohapatra (2189) v/s Ritviz Parab (1790)

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 e6 4.e4 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 Bxg5 7.hxg5 Qxg5 8.Nh3 Qe7 9.Nf4 Nc6 10.a3 a6 11.Qd3 Nf8 12.Nh5 Rg8 13.O-O-O Bd7 14.Qg3 Ng6 15.f4 Qf8 16.f5 Nge7 17.f6 Nf5 18.Qf4 g5 19.Qf2 g4 20.Ng3 Nxg3 21.Qxg3 h6 22.Be2 O-O-O 23.Bxg4 Na5 24.Qh3 Nc4 25.Be2 b5 26.Bxc4 bxc4 27.Rd2 Rh8 28.g4 Qg8 29.Qh5 c5 30.Ne2 cxd4 31.Nxd4 c3 32.Rd3 cxb2 33.Kxb2 Kb7 34.Rb3 Ka8 35.Ka2 Rc8 36.Rhb1 Rc4 37.c3 Qh7 38.Rb6 Bc8 39.Rb8 Ka7 40.Qh2 Qd3 41.Qb2 a5 42.Qb6 1-0

Shoumi Mukerjee (1776) v/s Ivana Maria Furtado (2073)

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.d4 e6 3.c4 d5 4.g3 Bb4 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 O-O 7.Nc3 c6 8.cxd5 cxd5 9.O-O Nc6 10.Bf4 Nh5 11.Qd2 Nxf4 12.Qxf4 g5 13.Qd2 g4 14.Ne5 f5 15.Nxc6 bxc6 16.e3 Rf6 17.f3 gxf3 18.Bxf3 Rb8 19.Rfc1 Ba6 20.Be2 Bb7 21.Na4 Bd6 22.Nc5 Ba8 23.Bf3 e5 24.dxe5 Bxe5 25.Nd3 Bc7 26.Nf4 Bb6 27.Kg2 Qe7 28.Re1 Re8 29.Bh5 Rd8 30.Bf3 Re8 31.Bh5 Rd8 32.Bf3 Rh6 33.a4 Re8 34.Qd3 Qe5 35.Re2 Bxe3 36.Rae1 d4 37.Qc4 Kh8 38.Qf7 c5 39.Bxa8 Rxa8 40.Qd5 Qe4 41.Qxe4 fxe4 42.Nd5 Rb8 43.Nxe3 dxe3 44.Rc2 Rb3 45.Ree2 Rhb6 46.h4 R6b4 47.a5 Rb5 48.a6 Kg7 49.g4 Kf6 50.Rc3 Rxb2 51.Rcxe3 Rxe2 52.Rxe2 Ke5 53.Rd2 Rb6 54.Rd7 Rxa6 55.Rxh7 Ra2 56.Kg3 Ra3 57.Kf2 Kf4 58.g5 Ra2 59.Kf1 Ra1 60.Ke2 Ra2 61.Kf1 c4 62.g6 c3 63.Rc7 Ra1 64.Kg2 Ra6 65.h5 Ra5 66.Kf2 Rxh5 67.Rxc3 Rh2 68.Kf1 Rh1 69.Kf2 Rh2 70.Kf1 Rh6 71.Rc6 Rh1 72.Kf2 e3 73.Ke2 Rh2 74.Kd3 Rd2 75.Kc3 Rd7 76.Rf6 Kg3 77.Re6 Kf3 78.Rf6 Kg2 79.Re6 Kf2 80.Rf6 Ke1 81.Rf7 Rd6 82.g7 Rg6 83.Kd3 e2 84.Re7 Rg3 85.Kc2 a5 86.Kb2 a4 87.Ka2 Kf1 88.Rf7 Ke1 89.Re7 Kd2 90.Rd7 Kc3 91.Re7 Kd3 92.Rd7 Kc4 93.Re7 Kd3 94.Rd7 Kc2 95.Re7 Kd1 96.Rd7 Ke1 97.Re7 a3 98.Rd7 Kf2 99.Rf7 Kg1 100.Re7 Kf2 101.Rf7 Ke3 102.Re7 Kd2 103.Rd7 Kc3 104.Re7 Rg2 105.g8Q Rxg8 106.Rxe2 Ra8 107.Re3 Kb4 108.Rb3 Kc4 109.Rxa3 1/2-1/2

Seven share lead

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:39:02 PDT

Report by: M S Gopakumar

New Delhi (04 Oct 11) : Seven players including top seed and national junior champion Arvindh Chithambaram of Tamilnadu shares the lead with perfect score at the end of fourth round matches of the ongoing 25^th Natioanl Under-13 Open Chess Championship here at Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Ashok Vihar on Tuesday.

Playing with black pieces in Sveshnikov variation of Sicilian Defence, top seed Chithambaram displayed sheer attacking skills with his knight and bishop in the middle game to garner full point against his state mate Naren Swaminathan in 51 moves. Second seed and former Commonwealth Under-12 gold medalist Sidhant Mohapatra outwitted Rohan Ahuja of Goa in the fourth round battle. Employing Pirc Defence with black pieces, Ahuja failed to counter the attacks of his fancied Orissa rival and handed over full point in 58 moves.

In other important fourth round encounters, third seed Mohamamd Nubairshah Shaikh satisfied with half point against his lower seeded Jharkhand rival Nishant Kumar while fourth seed Karthikeyan Murali not shown any mercy against Manu M of Kerala and sealed the match in 30 moves. Visakh N R, Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu, Athul Krishna of Kerala and Debankan Dhara of West Bengal are the other players occupying the pole position. In the fourth round Tamilnadu brothers Visakh and Vignesh got better off their Andhrapradesh opponents Harsha Barathakoti and Ravindra Teja Muttineni respectively while Athul Krishan and Debankan Dhara defeated Saurabh Anand of Bihar and Amlan Swain of Orissa.

Meanwhile in the girls’ section which is being held simultaneously, top seed and World Under-12 silver medalist Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa along with defending champion G K Monnisha of Tamilnadu sharing the lead with four points from as many rounds. Ivana beat Divyalakshmi of Tamilnadu without much struggle with black pieces in 29 moves arrived out of Classical system of French Defence. Monnisha faced a tough fight from her Orissa rival Akankhya Kabi in Sicilian Dragon Yugoslav attack but managed to garner full points after 75 moves.

Fifth round of the championship is now underway at the time of report.

Important Results :

Round-4 Open : Naren Swaminathan of Tamilnadu (3) lost to Arvindh Chithambaram V R of Tamilnadu (4); Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa (4) beat Rohan Ahuja of Goa (3); Nishant Kumar of Jharkhand (3.5) drew with Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of Maharashtra (3.5); Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (4) beat Manu M of Kerala (3); Harsha Barathakoti of Andhrapradesh (3) lost to Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (4); Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal (3.5) drew with Anand Nadar of Maharashtra (3.5); Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (4) beat Ravindra Teja Muttineni of Andhrapradesh (3); Saurabh Anand of Bihar (3) lost to Athul Krishna S of Kerala (4); Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (4) beat Amlan Swain of Orissa (3); Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (3.5) beat Anantharam R U of Karnataka (2.5); Pranavananda of Andhrapradesh (2.5) lost to Ritviz Parab of Goa (3.5); Abhimnayu Puranik of Maharashtra (3.5) beat Suresh Krishna S of Puducherry (2.5); Badrinath S of Puducherry (2.5) lost to Krishna Teja N of Andhrapradesh (3.5); Raghav Srivathsav V of Andhrapradesh (3.5) beat Akshay Bharadwaj of Karnataka (2.5); Vignesh B of Tamilnadu (3) drew with Sai Vishwesh C of Tamilnadu (2.5)

Round-4 Girls : Divya Lakshmi R of Tamilnadu (3) lost to Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa (4);Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (4) beat Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (3); Manjula R of Tamilnadu (3.5) drew with Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (3.5); Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa (3.5) beat Chandreyee Hajra of West Bengal (3); Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (3.5) beat Dharani Sree of Tamilnadu (2.5); Meghna C H of Kerala (3.5) of Kerala (3.5) beat Megha Gupta of Gujarat (2.5); Shiny Das of Tripura (2.5) lost to Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (3.5); Deekshidha P S of Tamilnadu (3) drew with Varsha C K of Tamilnadu (3); Shweta Priyadharshini of Uttarpradesh (2) lost to Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (3); Kesshni Bhasiin of Delhi (2) lost to Rutuja Bakshi of Maharashtra (3); Varshini V of Tamilnadu (3) beat Kaavya S S of Tamilnadu (2); Kavisha S Shah of Gujarat (2) lost to Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (3); Priyamvada Karamcheti of AndhraPradesh (3) beat Chitlange Sakshi of Maharashtra (2); Vaishnavi Thakur of Haryana (2) lost to Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (3); Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (3) beat Sweta Senapaty of Orissa (2)

Smooth sail for seeded players

noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Singh) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:56:34 PDT

Report by: M S Gopakumar, IA

New Delhi (03 Oct 11) : Seeded players registered convincing victories in the third round and moved to the fourth round with full point in their kitty of the ongoing National Under-13 Open and Girls Chess Championships here at Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Ashok Vihar on Monday.

Playing with white side of Dragon variation of Sicilian defence, top seed Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamilnadu defeated local lad Pavit Singh in 42 moves while second seed Sidhant Mohapatra overcame his Andhrapradesh rival Sai Agni Jeevitesh in 60 moves arrived out of exchange variation of Slav defence. Third seed Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of Maharashtra faced a stiff resistance from his West Bengal opponent Suvradeepta Das, who employed the Dutch defence. But Shaikh made crucial tactical moves towards the end to register his third win the championship after 82 moves.

Meanwhile in the girls’ section, playing with white pieces of exchange variation of Queen’s Gambit Accepted variation, top seed Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa defeated Kerala girl Hilmi Parveen and second seed Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu had an easy day in the office as she got better of Dhanashree Pandit of Maharashtra with black pieces.

Earlier in the second round of open section, seventh seed Hetul Shah of Gujarat suffered a shock defeat by the hands of B Vignesh of Tamilnadu while Tanmayee Gange of Maharashtra held fourth seed Sunyasakta Satpathy in girls’ category.

Important Results :

Round-3 Open : Arvindh Chithambaram of Tamilnadu (3) beat Pavit Singh of Delhi (2); Sai Agni Jeevitesh of Andhra Pradesh (2) lost to Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa (3); Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of Maharashtra (3) beat Suvradeepta Das of West Bengal (2); Grahesh Y of Andhrapradesh (2) lost to Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (3); Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (3) beat Kumar Gaurav of Bihar (2); Ritviz Parab of Goa (2.5) drew with Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (2.5); Anand Nadar of Maharashtra (3) beat

Karthik V of Andhrapradesh (2); Sai Vishwesh C of Tamilnadu (2) lost to Saurabh Anand of Bihar (3); Suresh Krishna of Puducherry (2.5) drew with Pranavanda V of Andhrapradesh (2.5); Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal (3) beat Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand of Orissa (2); Kishore G V of Tamilnadu (2) lost to Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (3); Ravindra Teja Muttineni of Andhrapradesh (3) beat Harshal Shahi of Delhi (2); Athul Krishna S of Kerala (3) beat Aditya Hiren Vaidya of Gujarat (2); Krishna Teja of Andhrapradesh (2.5) drew with Vignesh B of Tamilnadu (2.5); Sarthak bansal of Delhi (2) lost to Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (3).

Round-2 Open : Raja Harshit lost to Arvindh Chithambaram; Sidhant Mohapatra beat Saptorshi Gupta; Agamjot S Kals lost to Mohammad Nubarishah Shaikh; Karthikeyan Murali beat Pavan Karaande; Satyam Kumar lost to Visakh N R; Pranav Vijay beat Ritabroto Ganguly; Vignesh B beat Hetul Shah; Karthik V beat Sudharshan Malga; Jash Mehta lost to Sai Vishwesh C; Pranavanda V beat Pratik Debnath.

Round-3 Girls : Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa (3) beat Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (2); Dhanashree Pandit of Maharashtra (2) lost to Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (3); Manjula R of Tamilnadu (3) beat Varshini V of Tamilnadu (2); Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (3) beat Manasa H R of Karnataka (2); Chandreyee Hajra of West Bengal (3) beat Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhrapradesh (2); Sai Srrija P of Andhrapradesh (2) lost to Divya Lakshmi R of Tamilnadu (3); Megha Gupta of Gujarat (2.5) drew with Deekshidha P S of Tamilnadu (2.5); Akankhya Kabi fo Orissa (3) beat Kratica Shekhawat of Orissa (2); Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (2.5) drew with Meghna C H of Kerala (2.5); Vishwa Shah of Maharashtra (1.5) lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa (2.5); Gange Tanmayee of Maharashtra (1.5) lost to Shoumi Mukherjee of West Bengal (2.5); Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (2) drew with Vaishnavi Thakur of Haryana (2).

Round-2 Girls : Divya Garg lost to WFM Ivana Maria Furtado; WFM Monnisha G K beat Meghna Upadhyay; Sunyasakta Satpathy drew with Gange Tanmayee; Varshini V beat Sakshi Chitlange; Nimita Joshi lost to Smaraki Mohanty; Shoumi Mukerjee drew with Vishwa Shah; Nishi Mahalaxmi Iyer drew with Vaishali R; Priyamvada Karamcheti beat Kaavya S S; Deekshidha P S beat Ashwini U; Divya Lakshmi R beat Sweta Senapaty.