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Negi On A Roll
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Negi On A Roll
By Arvind Aaron
Grand Master Parimarjan Negi of Delhi is on a roll as he tied for the
first place in the 36th World Open at Philadelphia on July 6. He did
exactly what P. Magesh Chandran of Madurai did in July 2005 at
Philadelphia. He tied for first place and lost the blitz tie-break in the
US$75,000 prize money contest. The winner of the blitz tie-break was
Evgeny Najer.
Negi had previously won the Kaupthing Open jointly in Luxemburg and the
Philadelphia Open clearly. The shared first place should move the 15-year
old Delhi kid's rating northwards.
In the penultimate round, Negi thrashed Alexander Shabalov of United
States and then took a draw with the black pieces against Ljubomir Ftacnik
to share the first place.
"To me, he is Anand in the making," said a jubilant Bharat Singh Chauhan,
Secretary of the Delhi Chess Association. "I am sure Negi will bring more
laurels to the country," said R.M. Dongre, Vice President of the AICF who
is at Philadelphia.
This triumph of Negi in a star studded field should send notice to those
in the top both in United States and Europe. A few years back, Negi had
become the World's youngest grandmaster. Tata sponsored Negi had worked
with many GMs like Vladimirov and Ubilava besides Delhi's other best
players.
Negi, 15, is one of India's 18 grandmasters. He has plenty of potential to
go further up in the likes of other teenaged sensation Magnus Carlsen of
Norway.
Grand Master Parimarjan Negi of Delhi is on a roll as he tied for the
first place in the 36th World Open at Philadelphia on July 6. He did
exactly what P. Magesh Chandran of Madurai did in July 2005 at
Philadelphia. He tied for first place and lost the blitz tie-break in the
US$75,000 prize money contest. The winner of the blitz tie-break was
Evgeny Najer.
Negi had previously won the Kaupthing Open jointly in Luxemburg and the
Philadelphia Open clearly. The shared first place should move the 15-year
old Delhi kid's rating northwards.
In the penultimate round, Negi thrashed Alexander Shabalov of United
States and then took a draw with the black pieces against Ljubomir Ftacnik
to share the first place.
"To me, he is Anand in the making," said a jubilant Bharat Singh Chauhan,
Secretary of the Delhi Chess Association. "I am sure Negi will bring more
laurels to the country," said R.M. Dongre, Vice President of the AICF who
is at Philadelphia.
This triumph of Negi in a star studded field should send notice to those
in the top both in United States and Europe. A few years back, Negi had
become the World's youngest grandmaster. Tata sponsored Negi had worked
with many GMs like Vladimirov and Ubilava besides Delhi's other best
players.
Negi, 15, is one of India's 18 grandmasters. He has plenty of potential to
go further up in the likes of other teenaged sensation Magnus Carlsen of
Norway.
Peter Leko, the 1979-born Hungarian grandmaster from Szeged won the
Sparkassen Chess Meeting on July 6, 2008 with a clear 4.5/7 score at
Dortmund, Germany.
Leko had at best been the challenger to V. Kramnik's world title in 2004.
Regaining the title, Leko played at 2790 and would be gaining Elo from
this undefeated plus two (won against Ivanchuk and Gustafsson) score.
Former world champion Kramnik had a poor event. The king of Dortmund was
in poor form. In the final round he was defeated by Ivanchuk. Kramnik
improvedblack's play from his defeat against Naiditch from a Petroff but
made a 36th move mistake to lose. The event saw only two Petroff games and
both were by Kramnik and both were shot down. Kramnik has a lot of work in
the Petroff before the Bonn match this October 13.
The results (round seven): P. Leko drew with Arkady Naiditch, V. Ivanchuk
bt V. Kramnik, I. Nepomiachtchi drew with J. Gustafsson, Van Wely lost to
S. Mamedyarov.
Final placings: 1 P. Leko (Hun) 4.5/7, 2-5 V. Ivanchuk (Ukr), I.
Nepomniachtchi (Rus), S. Mamedyarov (Aze), Jan Gustafsson (Ger) 4 each, 6
A. Naiditch (Ger) 3.5, 7 V. Kramnik (Rus) 3, 8 Loek Van Wely (Ned) 1.
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Published on
08th July,
2008
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