Indians steal the show
By Prof. Rathinam Ananthram
The 4th Kolkata GM Open Chess Tournament got off to a flying start at the Gorky Sadan today, many foreign GMs finding the Indians very hot to handle. On the third board, Rahul Sangma, who is in good nick in the recent past, played like a computer against Chinese GM Ni Hua to force a draw with black pieces. Young K. Priyadharshan from Madurai extricated half a point from the fourth seeded GM Tkachiev Vladislav of France in a long drawn battle. Though Vladislav had two connected pawns against a lone pawn of Priyadarshan in bishop Vs knight ending, a decisive result could not be achieved. While Akash Thakur of Maharashtra held Evgeny Postney, the sixth seed from Israel, another Maharashtra player Vikramaditya Kamble shared the point with Indian GM Parimarjan Negi. Filippov Anton, the grand master from Uzbekistan succumbed to the onslaught of the Kolkatan IM Suravjit Saha.
The talk of the day was the victory of Shiven Khosla of Mumbai over the seasoned grand master Sundarrajan Kidambi in just about 20 moves. The day belonged to the Maharashtra players, as one more player from the state Ankit R. Rajpara stunned the experienced international master K. Rathnakaran of Railways and Arjun Tiwari drew with Reefat bin Sattar, the grand master from Bangladesh. Sahaj Grover of Delhi had a satisfying day by splitting the point with the West Bengal GM Neelotpal Das. National champion S.S. Ganguly of West Bengal did not exert much to earn a point in the first round and his colleague and state mate Sandipan Chanda had to draw all his resources to achieve a hard fought win over the Tamil Nadu player V. Vishnu Prasanna. The top two seeds Mamadeyarov Shakhriyar of Azerbaijan and Nigel Short of England were casual in their victories today.
|
Bo. |
|
Name |
Pts. |
Result |
Pts. |
|
Name |
|
1 |
GM |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
0 |
1 – 0 |
0 |
|
Shivananda B S |
|
2 |
IM |
Prathamesh Sunil Mokal |
0 |
0 – 1 |
0 |
GM |
Short Nigel D |
|
3 |
GM |
Ni Hua |
0 |
½ – ½ |
0 |
|
Sangma Rahul |
|
4 |
FM |
Priyadharshan K |
0 |
½ – ½ |
0 |
GM |
Tkachiev Vladislav |
|
5 |
GM |
Guseinov Gadir |
0 |
1 – 0 |
0 |
IM |
Saravanan V |
|
6 |
|
Thakur Akash |
0 |
½ – ½ |
0 |
GM |
Postny Evgeny |
|
7 |
GM |
Aleksandrov Aleksej |
0 |
1 – 0 |
0 |
|
Udeshi Aditya |
|
8 |
FM |
Abu Sufian Shakil |
0 |
0 – 1 |
0 |
GM |
Ganguly Surya Shekhar |
|
9 |
GM |
Laznicka Viktor |
0 |
1 – 0 |
0 |
|
Ramnath Bhuvanesh R |
|
10 |
|
Praveen Kumar C |
0 |
0 – 1 |
0 |
GM |
Mamedov Rauf |
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Indians come into their own
KOLKATA: Indian players came into their own in the second round of the fourth Kolkata Open chess tournament at the Gorky Sadan on Wednesday.
Leading the onslaught against the GMs were International Masters Himanshu Sharma, Fide Masters Sahaj Grover and Vidit Santosh Gujarathi and the untitled Arjun Tiwari who won their games in a facile manner.
There were as many as nine Indians who held GMs to a draw. And the most celebrated was Sriram Jha holding the top seed and super GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan on the top board.
Fifteen with two points were jointly in lead while 25 followed them half a point behind.
In an interesting game, Gujarathi played solidly in a Modern Benoni Knight a6 system. In an equal position, GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal played a dubious move Nd2 which allowed Gujarathi a Bishop pair advantage.
The 14-year-old Nashik boy won a pawn and steered the game in to an opposite colour Bishop ending with two passed pawns on the ‘a’ and ‘b’ files which decided the issue in 58 moves.
Tiwari surprised GM Neelotpal Das in another game. The results (Top 15 boards): Sriram Jha (Ind, 1.5) drew with Mamedyarov Shakhriyar (Aze, 1.5); Nigel Short (Eng, 2) bt Petr Kostenko (Kaz, 1); Deep Sengupta (Ind, 1.5) drew with Gadir Guseinov (Aze, 1.5), B. Adhiban (Ind, 1.5) drew with Aleksej Aleksandrov Aleksej (Blr, 1.5); S.S. Ganguly (Ind, 2) bt R.R. Laxman (Ind, 1).
Himanshu Sharma (Ind, 2) bt Viktor Laznicka (Cze, 1); Rauf Mamedov Rauf (Aze, 2) bt M.S. Thejkumar (Ind, 1); Mikheil Mchedlishvili Mikheil (Geo, 1.5) drew P. Konguvel (Ind, 1.5); S. Satyapragyan (Ind, 1) lost to Sandipan Chanda (Ind, 2).
Le Quang Liem (Vie, 1.5) drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ind, 1.5); Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (Ind, 2) bt Geetha Narayanan Gopal (Ind, 1); P. Shyam Nikil (Ind, 1) lost to Safarli Eltaj (Aze, 2).
Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 2) bt Saptarshi Roy (Ind, 1); Swapnil S. Dhopade (Ind, 1.5) drew with Hillarp Persson Tiger (Swe, 1.5); Vadim Malakhatko (Bel, 2) bt Somak Palit (Ind, 1).
Rank after Round 3
Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 IND GM Panchanathan Magesh Chandran IND 2532 3,0 5,5 4,5 2,5
2 IND GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2611 3,0 5,0 4,0 2,0
AZE GM Safarli Eltaj AZE 2587 3,0 5,0 4,0 2,0
4 BAN GM Hossain Enamul BAN 2516 3,0 4,5 4,0 2,0
5 ENG GM Short Nigel D ENG 2706 3,0 4,5 3,5 2,0
6 IND GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2634 2,5 5,5 4,5 2,5
BEL GM Malakhatko Vadim BEL 2569 2,5 5,5 4,5 2,5
8 AZE GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2721 2,5 5,5 4,0 2,0
9 BAN GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2554 2,5 5,0 4,0 2,5
10 AZE GM Guseinov Gadir AZE 2667 2,5 4,5 3,5 2,0
BLR GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2639 2,5 4,5 3,5 2,0
12 IND GM Negi Parimarjan IND 2615 2,5 4,0 3,0 1,5
VIE GM Le Quang Liem VIE 2602 2,5 4,0 3,0 1,5
SVK GM Markos Jan SVK 2565 2,5 4,0 3,0 1,5
15 GEO GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 2613 2,5 3,5 3,0 1,5
16 IND FM Grover Sahaj IND 2288 2,5 3,5 2,5 1,5
17 IND GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2515 2,5 3,0 3,0 2,5
Source:- http://chess-results.com/tnr24974.aspx?art=1&rd=3&lan=1&flag=30&m=-1&wi=1000