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Deepan
Beats Kunte, joins Ganguly in the Lead
By Praful Zaveri
4th seeded GM Deepan Chakjravarthy of Tamil Nadu, representing Petroleum
Sports Promotion Board created a minor upset by beating 2nd seed GM
Abhijit Kunte in style to join overnight leader, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly
in the lead at the end of 10th round of the Atul 44th National A Chess
Championship of India in progress here at Atul.
Kunte, playing black, opted for the sharp line of the Sicilian defense by
sacrificing a pawn on the 13th move to break open the castled position of
Deepan. He created further complications by forgoing castling to launch a
counter-attack with his two Bishops. However, Deepan proved equal to the
task by combining defense with attack on the uncastled King. Kunte was
forced to give up one more pawn on the 20th move, after which the young
Grandmaster from Madurai romped home in 30-moves.
With Ganguly failing to break the dead-lock against Arun Prasad after 39
moves on the top board, now shares lead with Deepan with a score of 7
points in the this 45-player field.
On the 3rd board, IM D.P. Singh of Jharkhand who is 3rd seeded played an
entertaining game with 16-year old Ashwin Jayram of Tamil Nadu. In a
battle of fluctuating fortunes arising out of the Grunfeld Defense, Ashwin
matched his higher rated opponent in the opening and came out better on
material count in the middle-game by winning 2-pawns however, D.P. Singh
shifted the balance in his favour by launching an all-out attack against
Ashwin’s King to win the game in 63-moves. The win allowed D.P. Singh to
join Arun Prasad on the 2nd spot with a score of 6.5.
On 4th and 5th boards, experienced GM Pravin Thipsay & Dibyendu Barua were
able to survive scare against their opponent G.N. Gopal & Rohit
respectively and are now occupying the 3rd spot with 6 points along with
7-other players.
With 3-rounds remaining in this 13-round event, the fight for the
championship is still wide open to decide the National Champion of India.
Results of Round 10:
Ganguly Surya Shekhar 7 Drew Arun Prasad 6.5, Deepan Chakkravarthy 7 Beat
Kunte Abhijit 6, D P Singh 6.5 Beat Aswin Jayaram 5.5, Thipsay Praveen M 6
Drew Gopal G N 6, Rohit G 6 Drew Barua Dibyendu 6, Suvrajit Saha 6 Drew
Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 6, Gupta Abhijeet 5.5 Drew Palit Somak 6, Bakre
Tejas 5 Lost to Neelotpal Das 6, Sengupta Deep 5.5 Drew Venkatesh M R 5,
Rathnakaran K 5.5 Drew Murali Krishnan B T 5.5, Harika Dronavalli 5.5 Drew
Ramesh R B 5, Ravi Lanka 5.5 Beat Saravanan V 4.5, Swapnil Dhopade 4.5
Lost to Prathamesh Sunil Mokal 5.5, Babu N Sudhakar 4.5 Drew Sundararajan
Kidambi 4.5, Swathi Ghate 4 Lost to Poobesh Anand 5, Thejkumar M S 5 Beat
Konguvel Ponnuswamy 4, Prakash G B 4 Lost to Syed Anwar Shazuli 5, Parikh
Valay 4 Lost to Girinath P D S 5, Himanshu Sharma 4 Lost to Ravi Thandalam
Shanmugam 5, Karavade Eesha 4 Drew Kamble Vikramaditya 4 Koshy Varugeese
3.5 Lost to Abhishek Das 4, Sinha Sudhir Kumar 2.5 Drew Roktim
Bandyopadhyay 4
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29th
Dec, 2006
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