- 4th Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2009

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Leaders after 3 rounds:

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Panchanathan Magesh Chandran	IND	2532	3,0	5,5	4,5	2,5
2	GM	Sandipan Chanda	IND	2611	3,0	5,0	4,0	2,0
	GM	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2587	3,0	5,0	4,0	2,0
4	GM	Hossain Enamul	BAN	2516	3,0	4,5	4,0	2,0
5	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2706	3,0	4,5	3,5	2,0
6	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2634	2,5	5,5	4,5	2,5
	GM	Malakhatko Vadim	BEL	2569	2,5	5,5	4,5	2,5
8	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2721	2,5	5,5	4,0	2,0
9	GM	Rahman Ziaur	BAN	2554	2,5	5,0	4,0	2,5
10	GM	Guseinov Gadir	AZE	2667	2,5	4,5	3,5	2,0
	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	BLR	2639	2,5	4,5	3,5	2,0
12	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2615	2,5	4,0	3,0	1,5
	GM	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2602	2,5	4,0	3,0	1,5
	GM	Markos Jan	SVK	2565	2,5	4,0	3,0	1,5
15	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	GEO	2613	2,5	3,5	3,0	1,5
16	FM	Grover Sahaj	IND	2288	2,5	3,5	2,5	1,5
17	GM	Kunte Abhijit	IND	2515	2,5	3,0	3,0	2,5

Full results here.

Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

Chanda, Panchanathan among five share Kolkata Open lead
PTI 3 September 2009.

KOLKATA: Local GM Sandipan Chanda and GM Magesh Chandran Panchanathan shot into the lead along with three other GMs after third round of the
fourth Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament at Gorky Sadan on Thursday.

GM Nigel Short of England, GM Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan and GM Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh were the other leaders.

Chanda used his white pieces effectively to crush GM Rustam Khusnutdinov in a Queens Gambit accepted game.

The Indian won his opponent’s queen for a rook and a minor piece and used his material advantage to eventually pocket the full point.

Panchanathan was lucky to win against GM Rauf Mamedov of Azerbaijan. He had two knights against the King and pawn of his opponent, but still managed to win a theoretically drawn position when the Azerbaijian GM lost his way in time trouble.

Playing white, Short registered another fine win against GM Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia.

It was a Caro Kan defence employed by the Georgian, which proved inadequate as Short used wicked pin against opponent’s king to eventually win the game on the 40th move.

GM Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan stopped the winning streak of International Master Himanshu Sharma.

The Indian IM was defensive from the onset with his Sicilian defence and his exposed king was subjected to a neat combination, which would have eventually led to mate.

The game lasted 26 moves.

Indian GMs Surya Sekhar Ganguly and Abhijit Kunte took draws in 20 moves against fellow GMs Bangladeshi Ziaur Rahman and Vadim Malakhatko of Belgium, respectively.

In the age group clash, world champions Sayantan Das (U-12) drew against IM B Adhiban (U-16).

Important results of Round 3 (Indian unless specified): GM Nigel Short (Eng, 3) bt GM Merab Gagunashvili (Geo, 2); GM Ziaur Rahman (Ban, 2.5) drew GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly (2.5); GM Mamaedov Rauf (Aze, 2) lost to GM Magesh Chandran (3); GM Sandipan Chanda (3) bt GM Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz, 2); GM Eltaj Safarli (Aze, 3) bt IM Himanshu Sharma (2); GM Enamul Hossain (Ban, 3) bt GM Abhijeet Gupta (2); GM Abhijit Kunte (2.5) drew GM Vadim Malakhatko (Bel, 2.5); GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 2.5) bt FM Vidit Gujrathi (2); GM Gadir Guseinov (Aze, 2.5) bt GM Tejas Bakre (1.5); IM P.Kartikeyan (2) drew GM Evgeny Postny (Isr, 2); GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (Blr, 1.5) bt Swapnil Dhopade (1.5); GM Parimarjan Negi (2.5) bt IM Shyam Sundar (1.5); IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (1.5) lost to GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili (Geo, 2.5); IM P Konguvel (1.5) lost to GM Le Quang Liem (Vie, 2.5); GM Tiger Hillarp Persson (Swe, 1.5) lost to FM Sahaj Grover (2.5); GM Jan Markos (Svk, 2.5) bt Arjun Tewari (1.5); IM Arghyadip Das (2) drew GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (2); FM Akshat Khamparia (2) drew IM Sriram Jha (2); Abhishek Das (2) drew IM Deep Sengupta (2); FM Sayantan Das (2) IM B Adhiban (2).
Source:- THE TIMES OF INDIA.

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September 3, 2009 at 4:27 pm

Where’s Short?
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September 4, 2009 at 2:21 am

Chanda, Panchanathan among five share Kolkata Open lead
PTI 3 September 2009.

KOLKATA: Local GM Sandipan Chanda and GM Magesh Chandran Panchanathan shot into the lead along with three other GMs after third round of the
fourth Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament at Gorky Sadan on Thursday.

GM Nigel Short of England, GM Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan and GM Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh were the other leaders.

Chanda used his white pieces effectively to crush GM Rustam Khusnutdinov in a Queens Gambit accepted game.

The Indian won his opponent’s queen for a rook and a minor piece and used his material advantage to eventually pocket the full point.

Panchanathan was lucky to win against GM Rauf Mamedov of Azerbaijan. He had two knights against the King and pawn of his opponent, but still managed to win a theoretically drawn position when the Azerbaijian GM lost his way in time trouble.

Playing white, Short registered another fine win against GM Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia.

It was a Caro Kan defence employed by the Georgian, which proved inadequate as Short used wicked pin against opponent’s king to eventually win the game on the 40th move.

GM Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan stopped the winning streak of International Master Himanshu Sharma.

The Indian IM was defensive from the onset with his Sicilian defence and his exposed king was subjected to a neat combination, which would have eventually led to mate.

The game lasted 26 moves.

Indian GMs Surya Sekhar Ganguly and Abhijit Kunte took draws in 20 moves against fellow GMs Bangladeshi Ziaur Rahman and Vadim Malakhatko of Belgium, respectively.

In the age group clash, world champions Sayantan Das (U-12) drew against IM B Adhiban (U-16).

Important results of Round 3 (Indian unless specified): GM Nigel Short (Eng, 3) bt GM Merab Gagunashvili (Geo, 2); GM Ziaur Rahman (Ban, 2.5) drew GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly (2.5); GM Mamaedov Rauf (Aze, 2) lost to GM Magesh Chandran (3); GM Sandipan Chanda (3) bt GM Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz, 2); GM Eltaj Safarli (Aze, 3) bt IM Himanshu Sharma (2); GM Enamul Hossain (Ban, 3) bt GM Abhijeet Gupta (2); GM Abhijit Kunte (2.5) drew GM Vadim Malakhatko (Bel, 2.5); GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 2.5) bt FM Vidit Gujrathi (2); GM Gadir Guseinov (Aze, 2.5) bt GM Tejas Bakre (1.5); IM P.Kartikeyan (2) drew GM Evgeny Postny (Isr, 2); GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (Blr, 1.5) bt Swapnil Dhopade (1.5); GM Parimarjan Negi (2.5) bt IM Shyam Sundar (1.5); IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (1.5) lost to GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili (Geo, 2.5); IM P Konguvel (1.5) lost to GM Le Quang Liem (Vie, 2.5); GM Tiger Hillarp Persson (Swe, 1.5) lost to FM Sahaj Grover (2.5); GM Jan Markos (Svk, 2.5) bt Arjun Tewari (1.5); IM Arghyadip Das (2) drew GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (2); FM Akshat Khamparia (2) drew IM Sriram Jha (2); Abhishek Das (2) drew IM Deep Sengupta (2); FM Sayantan Das (2) IM B Adhiban (2).
Source:- THE TIMES OF INDIA.

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