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Chanda Beats Humpy, Deepan Gets Third GM Norm |
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Chanda Beats Humpy, Deepan Gets Third
GM Norm
Round nine was the most dramatic round of the 43rd National A
Championship so far on April 9. J.Deepan Chakkaravarthy of Madurai
Kamaraj University made his third grandmaster norm (10-game) with
a game to spare by inflicting a defeat on rising star Himanshu
Sharma of Haryana.
Koneru Humpy suffered a defeat to Sandipan Chanda with the black
pieces. Surya S Ganguly and Deepan Chakkaravarthy have stormed
into lead with seven points from nine games. Humpy is on 6.5
points but from eight games and could use her extra game to go
ahead still.
Chanda's victory over Humpy, though expected if you look at the
ratings of the players has left the title race little unclear.
However, there is a lot left with 12 rounds still to be played in
this 21-player all-play-all. Seeing Deepan Chakkaravarthy's
performance in Hyderabad last month and the start at Visakhapatnam
there is no doubt that he will become our next grandmaster by
reaching the 2500 rating mark.
The tournament organising deserves credit and it goes to
K.V.S.Sarma, the dynamic Secretary of the All Vizag District Chess
Association. He had the task of working under time pressure as he
had to mobilise various resources within the short period of time.
So far things have gone very well in so short a time.
In women, higher rated players dominated the eighth round by
winning their games with the black pieces. Swati Ghate leads the
table with six points from eight games while top seed
Vijayalakshmi with back to back victories has jumped to the second
place with five points from eight games. The third spot is crowded
with four players on 4.5 points from seven games and it includes
S.Meenakshi, D.Harika, Kiran Mohanty and Mary Ann Gomes. Strangely
in this round none of white players won. Black took the lion's
share of six wins and three draws. Eleven rounds remain to be
played in this section.
The results:
Men Round 9
S.Arun Prasad (TN) 3.5/9 lost to D.P.Singh (Jha) 6/9,
Arghadip Das (Ben) 4/9 drew Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary (Ben) 5.5/9,
P.D.S.Girinath (AP) 2/9 drew Lanka Ravi (PSPB) 2.5/9,
Vikramaditya Kamble (Mah) 3/9 lost to Surya S Ganguly (PSPB) 7/9,
J.Deepan Chakkaravarthy (TN) 7/9 bt Himanshu Sharma (Har) 3/9,
Abhijeet Gupta (Raj) 3.5/8 - bye,
R.B.Ramesh (PSPB) 4.5/9 drew Sundararajan Kidambi (PSPB) 5/8,
Dinesh Kumar Sharma (LIC) 2.5/9 drew Abhijit Kunte (PSPB) 4.5/8,
Sandipan Chanda (PSPB) 5/8 bt Koneru Humpy (AP) 6.5/8,
M.S.Thejkumar (Kar) 3.5/8 drew B.S.Sivanandan (Kar) 3.5/8,
Sriram Jha (LIC) 2.5/8 drew M.R.Venkatesh (PSPB) 5.5/8.
Women round 8:
Eesha Karavade (Mah) 4/8 drew Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 3.5/7,
Amruta Mokal 3/8 lost to D.Harika (AP) 4.5/7,
Alka Das (Jha) 3/8 lost to S.Meenakshi (TN) 4.5/7,
L.Ishwarya Shobana (TN) 4.5/8 lost to S.Vijayalakshmi (TN) 5/8,
Nimmy George (Ker) 4.5/8 drew Aarthie Ramesh (TN) 3/8,
I.Ramyakrishna (AP) 3.5/7 lost to Supriya Maji (Ben) 3/8,
Swati Mohota (Ben) 3/7 lost to Anupama Gokhale (PSPB) 3.5/8,
Sowmya Swaminathan (Mah) 1/7 lost to Swati Ghate (LIC) 6/8,
Kiran Mohanty (Ori) 4.5/7 drew J.E.Kavita (TN) 3.5/8,
Mary Ann Gomes (Ben) 4.5/7 - Bye.
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