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Debashis Das held Second seed GM Vladimir Bumakin
by V.Hariharan
Debashis Das (1.5) of Orissa with the black pieces held
the second seed GM Vladimir Burmakin of Russia to a
creditable draw at the end of the second round of the
XIV International tournament of Balaguer, Spain. But the
top seed of the tournament GM Kiril Georgiev of
Bulgaria, with his Queen and two Bishops deftly entered
Priyadharshan’s (1) Black monarch territory and clinched
his second point.
Our national sub junior champion Udeshi Aditya (2) with
black pieces played a scintillating game against the
Latvian IM Starstits Ilmars. In the middle game he
allowed his opponent to win two pieces for a Rook and
two pawns but in the ensuing battle he emerged
victorious with an extra rook which forced his opponent
resignation.
Girish A Koushik (1.5) of Karnataka put up a stubborn
defence to split the point with the GM Mateo Ramon of
Republic of Dominica. Deepthamsh Reddy (1.5) of Andhra
Pradesh playing with black against the German IM
Kohlveyer Bernd exchanged his queen early in the
classical variation of the Nimzo Indian Defence and
easily drew the resulting endgame.
IM Roeder Matthias of Germany defeated Rakesh
Kulkarni(1) in the rook and pawn endgame.
Shalmali Gagare (1.5) of Maharashtra employing the
English opening against the Georgian FM Bregdze Levan
(rating 2426) got an edge on the queen side but safely
agreed draw to her opponent proposal. All other
girls of our sub junior team easily won their respective
games against their lesser rated opponents. Llop Llop
Joseph of Spain lost to Bharathi.R (1) in the carokann
defence. Shristi J Shetty (1) defeated Sanchez Centelles
Sergi of Spain in the Ruy Lopez opening.
Ivanov Markov Radoslov of Spain lost to J.Saranya (1) in
the irregular Sicilian defence.
Pujari Rucha (1) won against Navarro Navarro Crescensi
of Spain in the Sicilian f4 system.
Pallabi Roy (1) with white defeated Ferror Font Jordi of
Spain in the carokann defence.
Fenil Shah (1.5) and Devangi Patankar (1) also won their
respective games without any difficulty.
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