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FIVE leaders
By Prof. Rathinam
Ananthram
Five players Sandipan Chanda of West
Bengal, P. Magesh Chandran of Tamil Nadu, Nigel Short of
England, Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh and Safarli Eltaj
of Azerbaijan share the lead with 3 points each at the
end of the third round of the 4th Kolkata Open GM
tournament, organized by Alekhine Chess Club, here,
today. Twelve other players are trailing behind by half
a point.
To avoid a checkmate, Khusnutdinov Rustam of Kazakhstan
had to forego his queen for a rook and bishop against
Sandipan Chanda, the local celebrity. Rustam gave up the
fight after 38th move, when Chanda had a queen and
knight against his two rooks. In an interesting game,
Magesh, playing black gained two minor pieces, when his
opponent Mamedov Rauf of Azerbaijan was forced to give
them up in compensation for two advancing pawns. In the
resulting two knights Vs pawn ending, Mamedov tried in
vain to achieve a draw. But, Magesh forced Mamedov’s
king to the corner and brought his two knights in tandem
for a checkmate threat. Mamedov resigned after 85 moves.
Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia made a hasty 37th Ng7 move
in a Caro Kann defence against three times Commonwealth
champion Nigel Short of England. It enabled Short to
post a win on the 40th move, threatening with a rook
check with a bishop support, leading to a checkmate. In
a Ruy Lopez game between Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh
and Abhijeet Gupta of PSPB, the latter had to give up
his bishop for a seventh rank pawn of Enamul on the 40th
move. Abhijeet resigned four moves later.
Himanshu Sharma of Haryana was checkmated by Safarli
Eltaj of Azerbaijan in just 26 moves, who combined his
queen and knight beautifully. The Asian chess champion
Surya Shekhar Ganguly had a formal 20 move draw with the
Bangladesh GM Ziaur Rahman in a queen pawn game.
The top seed Mamedyarov Shakhriyar of Azerbaijan
overcame indisposition and Vidit Santosh Gujrati to
pocket a point in 26 moves. Vikramaditya Kamble of
Railways performed creditably to get a draw against
third grand master in a row. The hat trick of draws is
all against super GMs Negi, Ni Hua and finally G.N.
Gopal.
Round Three
|
Bo. |
|
Name |
FED |
Rtg |
Pts. |
Result |
Pts. |
|
Name |
FED |
Rtg |
|
1 |
GM |
Short Nigel D |
ENG |
2706 |
3 |
beat |
2 |
GM |
Gagunashvili Merab |
GEO |
2564 |
|
2 |
GM |
Rahman Ziaur |
BAN |
2554 |
2.5 |
drew |
2.5 |
GM |
Ganguly Surya Shekhar |
IND |
2634 |
|
3 |
GM |
Mamedov Rauf |
AZE |
2626 |
2 |
lost to |
3 |
GM |
P Magesh Chandran |
IND |
2532 |
|
4 |
GM |
Sandipan Chanda |
IND |
2611 |
3 |
beat |
2 |
GM |
Khusnutdinov Rustam |
KAZ |
2506 |
|
5 |
GM |
Safarli Eltaj |
AZE |
2587 |
3 |
beat |
2 |
IM |
Himanshu Sharma |
IND |
2471 |
|
6 |
GM |
Hossain Enamul |
BAN |
2516 |
3 |
beat |
2 |
GM |
Gupta Abhijeet |
IND |
2584 |
|
7 |
GM |
Kunte Abhijit |
IND |
2515 |
2.5 |
drew |
2.5 |
GM |
Malakhatko Vadim |
BEL |
2569 |
|
8 |
GM |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
AZE |
2721 |
2½ |
beat |
2 |
FM |
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi |
IND |
2423 |
|
9 |
GM |
Guseinov Gadir |
AZE |
2667 |
2½ |
beat |
1½ |
GM |
Bakre Tejas |
IND |
2465 |
|
10 |
IM |
Karthikeyan P |
IND |
2449 |
2 |
drew |
2 |
GM |
Postny Evgeny |
ISR |
2651 |
|
11 |
GM |
Aleksandrov Aleksej |
BLR |
2639 |
2½ |
beat |
1½ |
|
Swapnil S Dhopade |
IND |
2407 |
|
12 |
GM |
Negi Parimarjan |
IND |
2615 |
2½ |
beat |
1½ |
IM |
Shyam Sundar M |
IND |
2403 |
|
13 |
IM |
Roy Chowdhury S |
IND |
2436 |
1½ |
lost to |
2½ |
GM |
Mchedlishvili Mikheil |
GEO |
2613 |
|
14 |
IM |
Konguvel Ponnuswamy |
IND |
2440 |
1½ |
lost to |
2½ |
GM |
Le Quang Liem |
VIE |
2602 |
|
15 |
GM |
Hillarp Persson Tiger |
SWE |
2577 |
1½ |
lost to |
2½ |
FM |
Grover Sahaj |
IND |
2288 |
|
16 |
GM |
Markos Jan |
SVK |
2565 |
2½ |
beat |
1½ |
|
Tiwari Arjun |
IND |
2268 |
|
17 |
IM |
Das Arghyadip |
IND |
2407 |
2 |
drew |
2 |
GM |
Deepan Chakkravarthy |
IND |
2524 |
|
18 |
FM |
Akshat Khamparia |
IND |
2263 |
2 |
drew |
2 |
IM |
Sriram Jha |
IND |
2497 |
|
19 |
|
Abhishek Das |
IND |
2263 |
2 |
drew |
2 |
IM |
Sengupta Deep |
IND |
2494 |
|
20 |
FM |
Das Sayantan |
IND |
2235 |
2 |
drew |
2 |
IM |
Adhiban B |
IND |
2490 |
|
21 |
GM |
Ni Hua |
CHN |
2692 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
IM |
Prathamesh Mokal |
IND |
2387 |
|
22 |
|
Praveen Kumar C |
IND |
2354 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
GM |
Tkachiev Vladislav |
FRA |
2669 |
|
23 |
GM |
Laznicka Viktor |
CZE |
2634 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
|
Udeshi Aditya |
IND |
2363 |
|
24 |
GM |
G N Gopal |
IND |
2598 |
1.5 |
drew |
1.5 |
IM |
Kamble Vikramaditya |
IND |
2350 |
|
25 |
|
Thakur Akash |
IND |
2363 |
1.5 |
drew |
1.5 |
GM |
Filippov Anton |
UZB |
2595 |
|
26 |
GM |
Ismagambetov Anuar |
KAZ |
2528 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
IM |
Zozulia Anna |
BEL |
2338 |
|
27 |
IM |
Suvrajit Saha |
IND |
2337 |
1 |
lost to |
2 |
GM |
Sundararajan Kidambi |
IND |
2516 |
|
28 |
GM |
Kostenko Petr |
KAZ |
2491 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
IM |
Sharma Dinesh K |
IND |
2335 |
|
29 |
IM |
Laxman R R |
IND |
2486 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
WIM |
Padmini Rout |
IND |
2330 |
|
30 |
WGM |
Mohota Nisha |
IND |
2334 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
IM |
Lalith Babu M R |
IND |
2477 |
|
31 |
IM |
Thejkumar M S |
IND |
2467 |
1.5 |
drew |
1.5 |
|
Matta Vinay Kumar |
IND |
2320 |
|
32 |
|
Shiven Khosla |
IND |
2309 |
1 |
lost to |
2 |
IM |
Satyapragyan Swayangsu |
IND |
2439 |
|
33 |
|
Chatterjee Debaraj |
BAN |
2281 |
1 |
lost to |
2 |
FM |
Shyam Nikil P |
IND |
2410 |
|
34 |
IM |
Girinath P D S |
IND |
2405 |
1 |
lost to |
2 |
IM |
Singh D P |
IND |
2289 |
|
35 |
IM |
Saptarshi Roy |
IND |
2389 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
|
Phadke Sohan |
IND |
2207 |
|
36 |
|
Palit Somak |
IND |
2388 |
2 |
beat |
1 |
|
Aadityan N |
IND |
1827 |
|
37 |
|
Ankit R Rajpara |
IND |
2259 |
1.5 |
drew |
1.5 |
|
Shivananda B S |
IND |
2388 |
|
38 |
|
Ram S Krishnan |
IND |
2244 |
1.5 |
drew |
1 |
GM |
Neelotpal Das |
IND |
2471 |
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Caution
