44th National "A" Chess Championship                                                     Event Code : 055-2006/GUJ

Ganguly & Thipsay Moves into the lead
By Praful Zaveri


The defending champion and top seeded, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly moved into the top gear by winning his second consecutive round to move into the lead jointly with GM Pravin Thipsay with 4 points apiece after five rounds in the Atul 44th National A Chess Championship in progress here at Atul Club, Atul.


On the top table Ganguly had no difficulty in defeating IM Abhijeet Gupta in 38 moves from the white side of the Petroff Defense opening.


On the 2nd table the former national champions, GM Dibyendu Barua and GM Abhijit Kunte preferred to preserve their energy for the latter rounds and agreed for a quick draw in just 10 moves. While the game on the 3rd table between G.N. Gopal and GM Deepand Chakravarthy also ended in a draw after 29 moves.


On the 4th board, five times former national champion, GM Pravin Thipsay surprised IM Lanka Ravi with the rarely played Bishop’s opening and won the game in 60 moves. With this win, Thipsay now moves into the lead with Ganguly and will be now clashing with him in the next round. The leaders are followed by a group of five players on 3.5 points namely, Dibyendu Barua, Abhijit Kunte, G.N. Gopal, Arun Prasad and Deepan Chakravarthy.


The tournament is a 13-round swiss league tournament for the 45 selected players to decide the national champion of India. The prize fund of the tournament is Rs. 2.75 Lakhs, which is sponsored by Atul Ltd.
 

Key result of round : 5

                           

Bo. Name  pts result  pts Name 
1 Ganguly Surya Shekhar 4 beat 3 Gupta Abhijeet
2 Barua Dibyendu 3½    drew  3½ Kunte Abhijit
3 Gopal G N 3½ drew 3½ Deepan Chakkravarthy J
4 Thipsay Praveen M 4 beat 3 Ravi Lanka
5 Sundararajan Kidambi 3 drew 3½ Arun Prasad S
6 Himanshu Sharma 3 drew 2½ Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi
7 Konguvel Ponnuswamy 3 drew 2½ Sengupta Deep
8 Swapnil Dhopade 2½ lost to 3 D P Singh
9 Neelotpal Das 2½ drew 2½ Suvrajit Saha
10 Girinath P D S 2 lost to 3 Venkatesh M R
11 Roktim Bandyopadhyay 2 lost to 3 Rathnakaran K
12 Poobesh Anand S 2½ drew 2½ Harika Dronavalli
13 Laxman R R 2 lost to 3 Parikh Valay
14 Palit Somak 2½ drew 2½ Rohit G
15 Babu N Sudhakar 2½ drew 2½ Swathi Ghate
16 Ravi Thandalam Shanmugam 2 drew 2 Bakre Tejas
17 Karavade Eesha 2½ beat 1½ Prakash G B
18 Saravanan V 2 drew 2 Sinha Sudhir Kumar
19 Kamble Vikramaditya 2½ beat 1½ Abhishek Das
20 Prathamesh Sunil Mokal 2½ beat 1½ Syed Anwar Shazuli
21 Thejkumar M  S 1 lost to 2 Ramesh R B
22 Murali Krishnan B T 1½ drew 1½ Aswin Jayaram

     
 

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Published on : 22th Dec, 2006

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