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IM Deep Sengupta Shocks Kidambi
By Praful Zaveri
Eighteen year old International Master from Jharkhand, Deep Sengupta
produced a shock result on day 3 of the Atul 44th National A’ Chess
Championship, being played here at Atul Club by beating the seasoned IM
Sundarajan Kidambi to join a pack of four players in the lead with a score
of 2½ points.
Sengupta, playing black, opted for a very sharp line in the Slav defense
opening against Kidambi. The game developed on the theoretical lines and
most of the pieces were exchanged by the 23rd move. It appeared that the
game was heading towards a draw. However, Kidambi opted for a pawn
sacrifice to launch an attack on Black’s King by taking control of the 7th
rank with his Rook. But Sengupta was able to find accurate defense to
thwart off the attack. His extra pawn proved decisive, forcing Kidambi to
surrender on move 46.
The game between overnight leaders, GM Dibyendu Barua and IM Arun Prasad
turned out to be a dull affair as neither player were willing to take
chances and it ended in a draw after just 23 moves.
Veteran Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay showed his class by quelling the
challenge of K. Rahtnakaran of Kerala from the white-side of the French
defense game in a marathon battle lasting 68-moves. In a closed position
Thipsay launched a decisive attack on move 45 by sacrificing his Knight to
create two connected passers. The rest was a matter of technique for
Thipsay to romp home. With this win Thipsay now shares the lead with 2½
points along with GM Barua, IM Arun Prasad, IM Deep Sengupta and IM
Abhijeet Gupta.
Still 9 more rounds remains to be played in this 13-round swiss league
tournament for 45 selected players to decide the national champion of
India.
Key Results of Round 3:
1 GM Barua Dibyendu 2½ Drew 2½ IM Arun
Prasad S
2 IM Poobesh Anand S 2 Drew 2 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J
3 GM Thipsay Pravin M 2½ Beat 1½ Rathnakaran K
4 GM Neelotpal Das 2 Drew 2 WGM Swathi Ghate
5 IM Himanshu Sharma 1½ Lost to 2½ IM Gupta Abhijeet
6 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy 2 Drew 2 IM Venkatesh M R
7 IM Sundararajan Kidambi 1½ Lost to 1½ IM Sengupta Deep
8 IM Roktim Bandyopadhyay 1½ Drew 1½ IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi
9 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2 Beat 1 IM Prathamesh Sunil Mokal
10 IM Laxman R R 1 Lost to 2 GM Kunte Abhijit
11 Thejkumar M S 1 Lost to 2 IM Ravi Lanka
12 Palit Somak 1½ Drew 1½ IM Prakash G B
13 Gopal G N 2 Beat 1 Sinha Sudhir Kumar
14 IM Babu N Sudhakar 1½ Drew 1½ Parikh Valay
15 IM Suvrajit Saha 1½ Drew 1½ WGM Karavade Eesha
16 Swapnil Dhopade 1½ Drew 1½ WGM Harika Dronavalli
17 IM D P Singh 1½ Beat ½ IM Koshy Varugeese
18 IM RaviThandalam Shanmugam ½ Drew ½ GM Ramesh R B
19 Abhishek Das ½ Lost to 1½ Rohit G
20 IM Saravanan V 1 Drew 1 Aswin Jayaram
21 Kamble Vikramaditya 1 Drew 1 Syed Anwar Shazuli
22 Murali Krishnan B T ½ ½ - ½ ½ GM Bakre Tejas
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Published on :
20th
Dec, 2006
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