As the fight for supremacy intensified, all but one
game were decisive on the top ten boards in the ninth
round of the 47th Premier National Chess Championship 09
sponsored and organized by Venus Chess Academy, hosted
by Goregaon Sports Club and conducted by Bombay Chess
Association. Overnight leader IM B Adhiban of PSPB
posted a fluent win over his team mate and grandmaster
Deepan Chakkaravarthy to maintain the lead with 7.5
points. Adhiban remains undefeated and his five
consecutive wins is a very rare performance in the
National Premier championship. IM Sriram Jha of Delhi is
trailing Adhiban by half a point due to his win against
Railways' grandmaster R.R. Laxman.
Adhiban opted for English opening, symmetrical variation
against Deepan. On the 16th move, he got a slight
advantage attacking with Queen against uncastled king.
He temporarily sacrificed his bhishop for a pawn and got
a strong attack on king, thus regaining his piece and 2
pawns. Deepan accepted his defeat after 39 moves.
The game between IM Sriram Jha and GM R R Laxman was the
quickest of the tournament with a result in Sriram's
favor. Sriram played the white side of the Bogo Indian
defense. Laxman trying to put up a trap on 17th move
fell a victim to the same, due to his miscalculations.
Laxman resigned on the very next move. In the Philidor’s defense game adopted by GM
Neelotpal Das, the Tamil Nadu IM Sethuraman exchanged
his rook for the knight and a pawn, but failed to hold
on the initiative. With regular exchange of pieces, with
rook vs knight endgame, Das won the game in 45 moves.
Experience prevailed over youth when GM GN Gopal of PSPB
outwitted international master N. Srinath of Tamilnadu
in the pure rook ending of a Sicilian Dragon variation
game.
The game between GM S Kidambi (ELO 2516) and GM Arun
Prasad (ELO 2570) petered out into a draw after 30
moves. Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of Maharashtra, a silver
medalist in the world under 16 championship came back
into reckoning by defeating his team mate Swapnil
Dhopade. This is the first loss to Swapnil in nine
games. Four more rounds remain to be played.
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