Atanu Upsets Solovnichenko in Parsavnath Open

New Delhi (12 Jan 09 ) : Grandmaster Yuri Solodovnichenko added his name in to the casualty list in the ongoing 7th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament here at Modern School, when he lost his third round game against seasoned campaigner International Master Atanu Lahiri. Upsets are become the main feature of this edition of the tournament; as many as four grand masters tasted the bitterness of defeat in the first three rounds.

Meanwhile, at the top of the tables second seed Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukaraine continued to make merry at the expense of Rahul Shetty of Indian Airlines and

National Champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly overcame International Master Anup Deshmukh of LIC. Local favourite Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi got better off Fide Master Akshat Khamparia. Grandmaster Magesh Chandran and Niaz Murshed satisfied with half points against Chinmay Kulkarni and Abhishek Das respectively. It was a fruitful outing for the local players in the second day denied full points to International Master K Rathnakaran.

Earlier in the second round, Kerala based O T Anilkumar made another shocker of result as he toppled top seed Alexender Areshchenko of Ukraine. While young lad G V Sai Krishna made another surprise by beating Grandmaster Vinay Bhat of USA.

Important Results of Round 3 (Indians otherwise stated):

GM Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukaraine (3) beat IM Rahul Shetty (2), IM Anup Deshmukh (2) lost to GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (3), GM Parimarjan Negi (3) beat FM Akshat Khamparia (2), IM Atanu Lahiri (3) beat Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine (2), R Premnath (2) lost to GM Abhijit Kunte(3), GM Anuar Ismagambetov of Kazakhstan (3) beat FM J Ramakrishna (2), Joydeep Dutta (2) lost to GM Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan (3), GM Safin Shukhrat of Uzbekistan (3) beat Soumyaranjan Mishra (2), P Maheswaran (2) lost to GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (3) and GM Per Kostenko of Kazakhstan beat Shashikant Kutwal (2)

 

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