Inspite of a draw against the Vietnamese grandmaster Le
Quang Liem, Sandipan Chanda maintained his half a point
lead over ten other players at the end of the fifth
round of the 4th Kolkata GM Open tournament, organized
by Alekhine Chess Club at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata today. He
remains unbeaten and has made four wins and one draw at
the half way through stage of the ten round event.
Four boards among the top ten were decisive today. In a
Reti opening employed by Magesh Chandran of Tamil Nadu,
his opponent Gadir Guseinov of Azerbaijan had to lose
exchange on 25th move. Magesh’s powerful moves gained
him a rook also on the 32nd move. Four moves later,
Gadir resigned, when he was about to be checkmated.
World under 16 champion B. Adhiban of Tamil Nadu handled
the French defence played by Vadim Malakhatko of Belgium
very well. He grabbed the black bishop forcing an
exchange of queens on the 39th move. In the end game,
Adhiban had a knight and two pawns against four pawns to
his opponent. Vadim resigned after 54 moves.
In another French defence, which produced a fruitful
result, Parimarjan Negi of Delhi sacrificed his bishop
on the 14th move to drag Deep Sengupta’s queen away from
the line of defence. Three moves later, Deep gave up the
fight. The GM norm aspirant R.R. Laxman of Tamil Nadu
enhanced his norm chances by demolishing Jan Markos of
Slovakia in a Nimzo Indian game lasting 37 moves. Former
national champion P. Konguvel scalped the world junior
champion Abhijeet Gupta in an exciting game. WGM Nisha
Mohota of West Bengal defeated the out of form Neelotpal
Das, also hailing from the same state. Himanshu Sharma
of Haryana had the distinction of splitting the point
with the top seed Mamedyarov Shakhriyar of Azerbaijan,
ranked 21 in the world.
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