The 4th Kolkata GM Open Chess
Tournament got off to a flying start at the Gorky Sadan
today, many foreign GMs finding the Indians very hot to
handle. On the third board, Rahul Sangma, who is in good
nick in the recent past, played like a computer against
Chinese GM Ni Hua to force a draw with black pieces.
Young K. Priyadharshan from Madurai extricated half a
point from the fourth seeded GM Tkachiev Vladislav of
France in a long drawn battle. Though Vladislav had two
connected pawns against a lone pawn of Priyadarshan in
bishop Vs knight ending, a decisive result could not be
achieved. While Akash Thakur of Maharashtra held Evgeny
Postney, the sixth seed from Israel, another Maharashtra
player Vikramaditya Kamble shared the point with Indian
GM Parimarjan Negi. Filippov Anton, the grand master
from Uzbekistan succumbed to the onslaught of the
Kolkatan IM Suravjit Saha.
The talk of the day was the victory of Shiven Khosla of
Mumbai over the seasoned grand master Sundarrajan
Kidambi in just about 20 moves. The day belonged to the
Maharashtra players, as one more player from the state
Ankit R. Rajpara stunned the experienced international
master K. Rathnakaran of Railways and Arjun Tiwari drew
with Reefat bin Sattar, the grand master from
Bangladesh. Sahaj Grover of Delhi had a satisfying day
by splitting the point with the West Bengal GM Neelotpal
Das. National champion S.S. Ganguly of West Bengal did
not exert much to earn a point in the first round and
his colleague and state mate Sandipan Chanda had to draw
all his resources to achieve a hard fought win over the
Tamil Nadu player V. Vishnu Prasanna. The top two seeds
Mamadeyarov Shakhriyar of Azerbaijan and Nigel Short of
England were casual in their victories today.
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