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WGM
Swati Ghate Upsets
By Praful Zaveri
Former national champion, Grandmaster
Dibyendu Barua of West Bengal and young International Master, S. Arun
Prasad surged ahead into the lead with two points apiece after as many
rounds in the Atul 44th National ‘A’ Chess Championship in progress here
at Atul Club.
While the games on the top three tables ended in a draw, the 4th board
game between Gujarat’s Valay Parikh and Dibyendu Barua proved interesting.
Barua, playing white, opted for the French Defense to the ‘e4’ reply of
Valay, who opted for an off-beat line to steer the game into unknown
territories. Both the players castled on opposite wings. The game went on
equal footing however, an error by Valay allowed Barua to win a piece on
the 50th move. Valay resigned immediately.
On the 07th table, IM Arun Prasad scored an expected win over the lowest
seeded player, Sudhir Sinha to join Barua in the lead. A big pack of
14-players are following the leaders on the 3rd spot with a score of 1.5
points.
The notable upsets of the day was the loss of GM R.B. Ramesh at the hands
of IM Himanshu Sharma and Gujarat’s GM Tejas Bakre suffering his 2nd
consecutive loss to IM Prathamesh Mokal in a plus position on time.
Key Results of Round 2:
SL Title Name
Pts Res.
Pts Title
Name
1 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J
1˝ Drew
1˝
Rathnakaran K
2 IM Roy Chowdhury
Saptarshi 1˝ Drew
1˝ GM
Thipsay Praveen M
3 IM Gupta Abhijeet
1˝ Drew
1˝ IM
Konguvel Ponnuswamy
4
Parikh Valay
1 Lost to
2 GM
Barua Dibyendu
5 IM Venkatesh M R
1˝ Drew
1˝ IM
Roktim Bandyopadhyay
6 WGM Swati Ghate
1˝ Drew
1˝ IM
Sundararajan Kidambi
7
Sinha Sudhir Kumar
1 Lost to
2
IM Arun Prasad S
8 WGM Harika Dronavalli
1 Drew
1 GM
Ganguly Surya Shekhar
9 GM Kunte Abhijit
1˝ Drew
1˝ IM
Suvrajit Saha
10 GM Ramesh R B
˝ Lost to
1˝ IM
Himanshu Sharma
11 Rohit
G
˝ Lost to
1˝ GM
Neelotpal Das
12 IM Sengupta Deep
1˝ Beat
˝
Abhishek Das
13 Syed Anwar
Shazuli
˝ Lost to
1˝ IM
Poobesh Anand S
14 IM Ravi Lanka
1 Drew
1 IM
Babu N Sudhakar
15 IM Prakash G B
1 Drew
1
Thejkumar M S
16 WGM Karavade Eesha
˝ Drew
1
Gopal G N
17 IM Ravi Thandalam S
˝ Drew
˝ IM
D P Singh
18 GM Bakre Tejas
0 Lost to
1 IM
Prathamesh Sunil Mokal
19 IM Koshy Varugeese
˝ Drew
˝ IM
Saravanan V
20 Murali
Krishnan B T
0 Lost to
1 IM
Laxman R R
21 Aswin
Jayaram
˝ Drew
˝
Kamble Vikramaditya
22 IM Girinath P D S
0 Lost to
1
Swapnil Dhopade
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Published on :
20th
Dec, 2006
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