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Rohit &
Suvrajit Shines, Ganguly Consolidates
By Praful Zaveri
Untitled 17-year old G.Rohit from Andhra Pradesh and IM Suvrajit Saha of
Eastern Railways created big upsets by scoring over their fancied rivals,
3rd seeded IM D.P. Singh and GM Pravin Thipsay respectively in the 12th &
penultimate round of the Atul 44th National A Chess Championship in
progress at Atul Club.
The sole overnight leader and top-seeded, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly
meanwhile consolidated his position with a draw against 17-year old G.N.
Gopal to be on course for the 4th successive title with a score of 8.5
points. The current ‘Arjuna’ awardee now needs only a draw to retain the
title as he stands better in the tie-break with a higher average rating.
The second spot is occupied by GM Deepan Chakravarthy & IM Arun Prasad
with a score of 8 points. Deepan took a short draw with IM Saptarshi Roy
Chowdhury and IM Arun Prasad stopped the dream run of 16-year old, Aswin
Jayram of Tamil Nadu. Both, Deepan and Arun still stand a theoretical
chance of winning the championship.
The third spot is occupied by 5 players - G.N. Gopal, GM Abhijit Kunte, G.
Rohit, Suvrajit Saha and GM Neelotpal Das with a score of 7.5 points. They
would now be fighting for one of the six berths in the Indian Chess team
to represent country in the international chess events.
With the new generation of players like Deepan, Gopal, Arun Prasad, Rohit
and Neelotpal staking a claim in the Indian team, the old guards like GM
Dibyendu Barua and GM Pravin Thipsay have struggled and, will now need a
miracle in the last round to make into the team.
The 13th & last round is scheduled tomorrow – 29th of December 2006 at
10.00 followed by the prize distribution ceremony at 17.00 hours.
Results of Round 12:
Ganguly Surya Sekhar 8.5 Drew Gopal G N 7.5, Deepan Chakkravarthy J 8 Drew
Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 7 Arun Prasad 8 Beat Aswin Jayaram 6.5, Kunte
Abhijit 7.5 Beat Palit Somak 6.5, Rohit G 7.5 Beat D P Singh 6.5, Suvrajit
Saha 7.5 Beat Thipsay Pravin M 6.5, Sengupta Deep 6.5 Lost to Neelotpal
Das 7.5, Harika Dronavalli 7 Drew Barua Dibyendu 7, Gupta Abhijeet 7 Beat
Poobesh Anand S 6, Syed Anwar Shazuli 6.5 Drew Murali Krishnan B T 6.5,
Ravi Lanka 6 Drew Venkatesh M R 6, Girinath P D S 5.5 Lost to Sundararajan
Kidambi 6.5, Bakre Tejas 6 Drew Saravanan V 6, Rathnakaran K 6.5 Beat Ravi
Thandalam Shanmugam 5.5 Roktim Bandyopadhyay 5 Lost to Prathamesh Mokal
6.5, Ramesh R B 5.5 Drew Konguvel Ponnuswamy 5.5 Thejkumar M S 5.5 Drew
Kamble Vikramaditya 5.5, Babu N Sudhakar 6 Beat Laxman R R 4.5, Parikh
Valay 5.5 Beat Karavade Eesha 4.5, Swathi Ghate 4.5 Lost to Abhishek Das
5.5, Swapnil Dhopade 5 Drew Koshy Varugeese 4.5, Himanshu Sharma 5 Beat
Sinha Sudhir Kumar 3
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29th
Dec, 2006
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