Pune girl Soumya Swaminathan had a dream start to the
Dieren open with a comprehensive win over IM Karthikeyan
in the 2nd round of the Dieren open being held here.
She is now in joint lead along with IM’s Adhiban, Shyam
Sundar and Lalith Babu and 9 others with 2 points. In a
game from white side of Archangel variation, Soumya
chose a harmless continuation with d3 structure.
Karthikeyan played a reckless early d5 pawn break before
developing his pieces and was duly punished by being
made to lose a pawn for little compensation. Karthikeyan
then went on a Kingside attack only to be beautifully
refuted by a brilliant Queen sacrifice by Soumya which
threatened mate or the loss of an exchange.
Highly rated GM’s Ikonnikov and Yuri Vovk were held to
draws by their less rated rivals.
IM Shyam Sundar played the longest game of his career so
far in beating lesser rated Van Blokland of Netherlands,
with the game stretching beyond 100 moves. Finally
Shyams opponent lost on time with Shyam having a Queen
and Knight against opponents Queen. The game lasts 6
hours of play.
July 07 2010 - This is to inform all chess
players / organisers / officials that any chess event organized
under the banner of "Chess Association of India" is not
recognized by the All India Chess Federation... more news
Kind Attention : Tournament Organizers / State
Associations
May 06 2010 - Please be informed that the FIDE has announced that, here after
all the rating tournaments should be registered 30 days in
advance. We therefore request all the organizers / State chess
associations to send their Bidform along with prescribed fee to
organize any FIDE rating events, 45 days in advance to All India
Chess Federation for onward submission to FIDE and enable us to
allot the FIDE / AICF event code for the event. Download the Bidform
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