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Kruttika
Nadig Knocks Out Swati Ghate
By Arvind Aaron
Wild card
entrant, Woman International Master Kruttika Nadig, a Bangalore based
student shocked the National Women's Champion WGM Swati Ghate of LIC, Pune
1.5-0.5 to enter the second round in the Poona Club Knock Out Rapid Chess
Tournament that began in Pune on October 30.
While most of the favourites had a smooth time into the second round,
former Olympiad gold medal winner Dibyendu Barua beat youngster Abhishek
Kelkar only in the tie-break after he suffered a shocking loss in the
first rapid game. Barua won the second rapid game, levelled scores and
then took the match 1-1, 2-0 in the tie-break to enter the second round.
The other player to make news was Chinmay Kulkarni who shocked Grand
Master R.B.Ramesh of Indian Oil, Chennai in the second rapid game to level
the scores and force the play off. Ramesh won the play off 2-0 but he had
enough trouble in round one.
The top half of the draw were seen in action on Monday and the second half
of the draw will happen on
Tuesday. The 5 lakh event is organised by the CPAI and Buddhibal Kreeda
Trust of Pune at the Poona Club.
Eesha Karavade, Pune's woman grandmaster needed six long games to defeat
Saurabh Kherdekar after she won 1-1, 1-1, 2-0 to make it to the second
round. Kherdekar took the lead in the match when Karavade overstepped the
time limit in a queen and pawn versus lone queen ending.
The new Monroi system of inputing moves were used. This is yet to
catch the fancy of the world but has been experimented in a select band of
events and this was one of them.
The results (1st round): S.S.Ganguly bt M.S.Din 2-0, Lanka Ravi bt Sohan
Phadke 1.5-0.5, Gopal Rathod lost to Venkatachalam Saravanan 0.5-1.5,
Vikramaditya Kamble bt Prasanjit Dutta 2-0, Harish Sharma lost to
M.R.Venkatesh 1-1, 0-2, R.B.Ramesh bt Chinmay Kulkarni 1-1, 2-0, Sharad
Tilak bt Purushothaman 1.5-0.5, Naveen Jain lost to Tania Sachdev 0.5-1.5,
Swati Ghate lost to Kruttika Nadig 0.5-1.5, Tejas Bakre bt Amruta Mokal
1.5-0.5, Prathamesh Mokal bt O.T.Anil Kumar 1.5-0.5, Akshay Raj Kore bt
Chaitanya Vaidya 1.5-0.5, Abhishek Kelkar lost to Dibyendu Barua 1-1, 0-2,
Eesha Karavade bt Saurabh Kherdekar 1-1, 1-1, 2-0, Megan Gupte lost to
P.M.Thipsay 0-2, Abhijit Kunte bt Sunny Renju 2-0.
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Published on : 01.11.2006
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