Three share lead

by R.B.Ramesh, Grand Master

Three players, young Anish Giri, L’Ami Erwin and Vovk Andrey are leading the table with full score from 3 rounds. In the joint second position is India’s IM Adhiban along with 11 others on 2.5 points.

On the top board IM Lalith Babu, who recently won the Leiden open, faced the Catalan opening from LÁmi and got into a passive position very early in the game. He misplayed a move in opening and soon lost a pawn in the center. Lalith managed to create some confusion in the game but L’Ami defended coolly to pocket the point.

Young Padmini Rout made a creditable draw again IM Bitalzadeh from black side of Sicilian Najdorf opening 6.h3 system. This is the second time she is facing the opening in the last few days, the early one being against fellow Indian IM Adhiban at Leiden open were she misplayed in the opening and lost. This time she was well prepared and even managed to get some advantage in the middlegame. Under mutual time scramble, Padmini couldn’t find the right moves and settled for a creditable draw.

WGM Soumya Swaminathan came very close to making a draw with black pieces against the top seed GM Sipke Ernst. In a completely equal position Soumya blundered by allowing her opponent to sacrifice his Queen and get 3 pieces in return. After that it was downhill for Soumya who lost the game soon.

Result of 3rd Round involving Indian players:

 

Source: http://onk.schaakbond.nl/deelnemers/open-nk

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