On the day of 47th Premier National Chess
Championship 09 Sponsored and organized by Venus Chess
Academy and hosted by Goregaon Sports Club six players
are sharing the lead with 2.5 points.
On the top table IM Sriram Jha (ELO 2479) of Delhi
playing with white pieces opted for Semi-slav meran
variation against GM Arun Prasad(ELO 2570) of Tamilnadu.
The game meandered to a draw in 30 moves.
On the 2nd table GM S Kidambi (ELO 2516) of Tamilnadu
played against Tejas Bakre( ELO 2474) of Gujarat. Tejas
accepted the Queens Gambit and played the classical
line. Kidambi was having a slight advantage in the
middlegame but Tejas managed to get the positions even
and drew the game in 30 moves
On the 3rd table IM Vidit Gujrathi (ELO 2459) of
Maharashtra had a good day as he drew his game against
the top seed of the tournament GM Gopal G N (ELO 2593)
of Kerala in 22 moves by forcing repetition of position
thrice.
On the 4th board IM Thejkumar M S (ELO 2453) playing
with black opted for Budapest Gambit against GM Abhijit
Gupta (ELO 2578) of Rajasthan. Abhijit made a fianchetto
on the King Side and launched a pawn storm on the queen
side winning the game in 25 moves.
On the 5th board IM Himanshu Sharma (ELO 2469) playing
with black replied with Slav Defense to GM Abhijit
Kunte’s (ELO 2522) move d4. The game was equally poised
till the middle game. On the 21st move Abhijit played an
incorrect move of Bishop and lost a piece on 27th move.
Though he was having 2 extra pawns in compensation he
lost them and the game in 44 moves.
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