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Commonwealth
Chess Championship 2006
By
Mr.Praful Zaveri
Sairkrishna
Turns Out to be WGM Killer
The 2nd round of the LIC/ONGC/MTNL
sponsored Commonwealth Chess Championship 2006, being held at Eskay
Resorts - Borivali, witnessed the giant killing run of 10-year old G.V.
Saikrishna from Vijayawada, who demolished WGM Eesha Karavade to move into
the 3rd round with the prestigious bracket of the top seeded
players with a full score.
Sai, who had shocked WGM Tania
Sachdev in the 1st round, has an enviable record in the
age-group championship at both Asian and World Championship. With this
performance he now appears to have moved into the top league.
Meanwhile, the seeded players had
no problems in 2nd round. On the top table, defending
Commonwealth Champion and former World Championship Challenger GM Nigel
short had no difficulty in disposing off the challenge of the young
kolkata player, Somak Palit in just 37 moves from the black side of the
Four Knight’s Defense.
On table 2, three times National
Champion and current Arjuna Awardee, GM S S Ganguly proved that he is the
real champion by winning with a clinical finish in a French Defense
against experienced IM Rahul Shetty in just 32 moves. The early exchange
of queens proved no problems for Ganguly as he created lot of weaknesses
in the opponent’s camp. He romped home by creating a passer on the
‘b’ file.
On the 3rd table, GM
Sandipan Chanda made the short work of the challenge of young B. Adhiban
in the closed Sicilian Defense in 35 moves.
The 4th board witnessed
the battle between GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh against Tanvir Gellani of
Pakistan. In a modern defense game Tanvir, playing Black, matched the play
of seasoned GM for most part of the game, calling Ziaur to use all his
experience to quell the challenge in over 60 moves.
The field is now led by a group of
28 players with a full score of 2-points in a very strong field of 168
players in this US $ 14000 prize money tournament.
Key Results of Round 2:
Somak Palit (1) lost to GM Nigel Short (2), GM S S Ganguly
(2) beat (2) IM Rahul Shetty (1), B
Adhiban (1) lost to GM Sandipan Chanda (2), GM Ziaur Rahman -Bangladesh
(2) beat Tunveer Gillani -Pakistan (1), GM Deepan Chakarvarthy (1.5) drew
IM Sudhakar Babu (1.5), Nikhil Shyam (1) lost to GM Praveen Thipsay (2),
GM R.B. Ramesh (2) beat Arjun Tiwari (1), Sriram Sarja (1) lost to
Neelotpal Das (2), IM Abhijeet Gupta (2) bear FM A Nitin (1), IM Ravi
Hegde (1.5) drew GM Wu Shaobin – Singapore (1.5), GM Dibyendu Barua (2)
beat IM Anup Deshmukh (1), WGM Nisha Mohota (1) lost to IM M R Venkatesh
(2), GM Niaz Murshed Bangladesh (1.5) drew WFM Mary Ann Gomes (1.5), O T
Anilkumar (1) lost IM S Kidambi (2), GM Tejas Bakre (2) beat FM K V
Shantharam (1), R Ashwath (1) lost to Akshayraj Kore (2), IM S Arun Prasad
(1.5) drew M K A Rusell - Sri Lanka (1.5), Akshat Khamparia (1.5) drew IM
S Vijayalakshmi (1.5), IM S Roy Chowdhury (2) bear FM Prasanna Rao (1),
Saptarshi Roy (2) beat WIM Bhagyashree Thipsay (1),
Complete
Results of Round - 2
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Published on 21.11.2006
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