Tata Steel Asian Team Chess Championship 2009 - India and Indonesia lead

By Grandmaster D.Barua

India A and Indonesia have won both matches so far to lead the table with 4 match points each at the end of the second round of the Tata Steel Asian team Chess Championship, organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy at the Town Hall, Kolkata. On the distaff side, India A and Vietnam have collected the full match points (4) from two rounds. For each win, a team gets two match points and a draw will fetch one match point. Each match is played over four boards.

India A team made short work of India B team by a score of 3.5 – 0.5. On the top board, national champion B. Adhiban of the B team, settled for a draw in 30 moves with P. Harikrishna, the highest rated player in the tournament. While Sasikiran and S.S. Ganguly of the A team did not strain much to beat their counterparts Sathyapragyan and R.R. Laxman respectively, Negi was stretched by Deep Sengupta of the B team, before Negi could win.

Second seeded Vietnam was held to a draw by third seeded Iran in a tough encounter. Ghaem Maghami Eshan outplayed the Kolkata Open winner Le Quang Liem and Nguuyen Ngoc Truong Son did a favour to Vietnam by winning against Moradiabadi Elshan. The other two games were drawn.

Harika and Tania Sachdev defeated their Iran opponents Atousa Pourkashiyan and Ghader Pour to put India ahead. Eesha Karavadw and world junior champion Soumya Swaminathan drew their games to make the score 3-1. The Vietnamese women team shocked the second seeded India B 3-1, the only consolation win coming from the local girl Mary Ann Gomes. Nisha Mohota, Padmini Rout and Bhakti Kulkarni lost to either lower or equally rated opponents.

Results of Round 2

 

2.1	INDIA B		½ - 3½	INDIA A
1	Adhiban B	2486	½ : ½	Harikrishna P	2672
2	Satyapragyan Swayangsu	2480	0:01	Sasikiran Krishnan	2664
3	Laxman R R	2511	0:01	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2654
4	Sengupta Deep	2488	0:01	Negi Parimarjan	2620
2.2	VIETNAM		2 - 2	IRAN
1	Le Quang Liem	2624	0:01	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	2603
2	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	2616	1:00	Moradiabadi Elshan	2560
3	Bui Vinh	2488	½ : ½	Mahjoob Morteza	2510
4	Dao Thien Hai	2524	½ : ½	Toufighi Homayoon	2454
2.3	BANGLADESH		½ - 3½	INDONESIA
1	Rahman Ziaur	2545	0:01	Megaranto Susanto	2522
2	Murshed Niaz	2409	½ : ½	Purnama Tirta Chandra	2417
3	Md  Jamal Uddin	2150	0:01	Novita Anjas	2340
4	Mohammed Abdul Malek	2290	0:01	Kaisar Jenius Hakiki	2227
2.4	NEPAL		0 - 4	SINGAPORE
1	Mahato Rajkishor	1994	0:01	Wu Shaobin	2454
2	Karmacharya Punya Man	2015	0:01	Chua Zheng Yuan Terry	2256
3	Shrestha Rajendra Prasad	1982	0:01	Lo Kin Mun Dominic	2174
4	Shrestha Sujendra Prasad	2084	0:01	Tan Weiliang	2168
2.5	YEMEN		2 - 2	SRILANKA
1	Abdullah Sonbul	0	0:01	Hapuarachchi H L M	2019
2	Fouad Mofleh	2199	1:00	Edirisinghe Dulan	2137
3	Faraj Yahya	2280	0:01	Kalugampitiya R S	2135
4	Al-Aqrabi Saleh	2201	+ : -	Anuruddha G C	2158
2.1	IRAN		1 - 3	INDIA A
1	Pourkashiyan Atousa	2306	0:01	Harika Dronavalli	2467
2	Paridar Shadi	2242	½ : ½	Karavade Eesha	2413
3	Ghader Pour Shayesteh	2187	0:01	Tania Sachdev	2399
4	Hejazipour Mitra	2176	½ : ½	Soumya Swaminathan	2303
2.2	INDIA B		1 - 3	VIETNAM
1	Gomes Mary Ann	2384	1:00	Le Thanh Tu	2344
2	Mohota Nisha	2351	0:01	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	2295
3	Padmini Rout	2334	0:01	Nguyen Thi Thanh An	2334
4	Bhakti Kulkarni	2263	0:01	Hoang Thi Nhu Y	2150
2.3	NEPAL		0 - 4	SINGAPORE
1	Khamboo Monalisa	0	0:01	Tay Li Jin Jeslin	2099
2	Namrata Chudal	0	0:01	Liu Yang	2066
3	Adhikari Asmita	0	0:01	Chan Wei Yi Victoria	1924
4	Ghale Tara	0	0:01	Neo Xiuwen Christabel	1798
2.4	INDONESIA		4 - 0	SRILANKA
1	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	2304	1:00	Ranasinghe S D	1839
2	Lestari Baiq Vina	2170	1:00	Premanath Dinushki	1819
3	Dewi Aa Ci Ra	1938	1:00	Thilakawardana Supeshala	1809
4	Medina Warda Ulia	1959	+ : -	Walallawita Lihini	1797

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