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J.Deepan Chakkaravarthy |
J.Deepan Chakkaravarthy of Madurai moved into sole lead with a fine endgame
victory over S.Arun Prasad of Salem in the 13th round of the 43rd GVMC
National Men's A Chess Championship being played at the Swarna Bharati Indoor
Stadium, Visakhapatnam on April 12. Deepan is on 10 points from 13 games.
Overnight leader Koneru Humpy was held to a draw by B.S.Sivanandan of
Karnataka when they reached lone king versus lone king in 59 moves! Humpy and
Ganguly are on 9.5 points from 12 games and could surpass Deepan if they cash
that point from the extra game they have on hand.
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Supriya Maji |
Ganguly proposed a draw on the
13th turn that was not accepted by D.K.Sharma. However, Ganguly latched on to
a 59th move blunder to win two pieces for a rook and win the game. Girinath
gave a strong display to humble D.P.Singh in a nicely played game. Eight
rounds remain to be played and the top three will be selected from this event
to the Indian team for the Turin Olympiad.
Swati Ghate continued to stay in lead after scoring a brisk 28-move victory
over five-time champion and room mate Anupama Gokhale in the twelfth round of
the 32nd National Women's A Championship. Taking a space advantage right from
the start Swati attacked and engaged the enemy king and was threatening mate
which forced resignation. Swati is on 8.5/11 and is leading by a slender half
point margin.
Mary Ann Gomes of Kolkata scored a fluent victory with the
black pieces over Ishwarya Shobana of Salem to keep the second position with
8/11. S.Meenakshi is in third place with 7.5 points from eleven games while
her sister Vijayalakshmi is in fourth place with the same points but from
twelve games.
Harika escaped defeat when Ramyakrishna failed to convert a two pawn
advantage. Harika is the only undefeated player in this event. Nimmy George
won a pawn in a tactic against defending champion Nisha Mohota but lost the
pawn up ending. While Ramyakrishna needs to read books on converting extra
pawns while Nimmy needs to concentrate on how not to lose pawn up endings!
The results:
Men round 13:
P.D.Girinath (AP) 5/13 bt D.P.Singh (Jha) 8.5/13,
Vikramaditya Kamble (Mah) 4/13 lost to Arghyadip Das (Ben) 5/13,
J.Deepan Chakkaravarthy (TN) 10/13 bt S.Arun Prasad (TN) 6/13,
R.B.Ramesh (PSPB) 5.5/13 lost to Lanka Ravi (PSPB) 4.5/12,
Dinesh Kumar Sharma (LIC) 3.5/13 lost to Surya S Ganguly (PSPB) 9.5/12,
Sandipan Chanda (PSPB) 7.5/12 bt Himanshu Sharma (Har) 3.5/12,
M.S.Tejkumar (Kar) 5/12 bt Abhijeet Gupta (Raj) 5.5/12,
Sriram Jha (LIC) 3/12 lost to Sundararajan Kidambi (PSPB) 7.5/12,
M.R.Venkatesh (PSPB) 8/12 drew Abhijit Kunte (PSPB) 7.5/12,
B.S.Sivanandan (Kar) 5/12 drew Koneru Humpy (AP) 9.5/12,
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ben) 6.5/12 - bye.
Women round 12:
Alka Das (Jha) 3.5/12 drew Eesha Karavade (Mah) 6/11,
L.Ishwarya Shobana (TN) 5/12 lost to Mary Ann Gomes (Ben) 8/11,
Nimmy George (Ker) 6.5/12 lost to Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 6.5/11,
I.Ramyakrishna (AP) 5/11 drew Dronavalli Harika (AP) 7/11,
Swati Mohota (Ben) 4.5/11 lost to S.Meenakshi (TN) 7.5/11,
Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 3/11 lost to S.Vijayalakshmi (TN) 7.5/12,
Kiran Monisha Mohanty (Ori) 6/11 drew Aarthie Ramesh (TN) 6/12,
J.E.Kavitha (TN) 5/11 lost to Supriya Maji (Ben) 5/12,
Swati Ghate (LIC) 8.5/11 bt Anupama Gokhale (PSPB) 3.5/11,
Amruta Mokal (Mah) 4/11 - bye.
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