Anton Filippov of Uzbekistsan scored
his fifth consecutive win to join the overnight leader
Liem Le Quang of Vietnam at the top with 6.5 points
after 8 rounds in the 4th Kolkata Open, organized by
Alekhine Chess Club at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata today. S.
Satyapragyan of Indian Airlines scored a fluent win over
the Georgian GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil to join the
defending champion Viktor Laznicka of Czech Republic and
Evegeny Postny of Israel on the second spot with 6
points each. Satyapragyan is the first player in this
tournament to get the GM norm, with a round to spare.
Thirteen players have scored 5.5 points each.
The day’s honours go to the young Kolkatan boy Sayantan
Das, the world under 12 champion, who needed a draw to
secure his IM norm. But, he went on to defeat the
Bangladesh grandmaster Enamul Hossain in style. His
performance is noteworthy because of the fact that he
has been seeded 106th among a total of 116 players. WGM
Nisha Mohota also earned her IM norm by drawing her game
with Deep Sengupta quickly.
Sandipan Chanda had to lose his bishop for a seventh
rank pawn in a Sicilian defence game against Anton
Filippov. Anton mopped up Sandipan’s remaining three
pawns one by one culminating in Sandipan's resignation
after 77th move. Filippov started the tournament with a
loss and then has pulled on creditably. Evgeny Postny
posted a victory over Jan Markos of Slovakia by
combining his queen and bishop beautifully. Nigel Short,
a former world championship challenger to Kaparov won
comfortably over P.Magesh Chandran of Tamil Nadu, who
has applied for a US green card. Asian champion S.S.
Ganguly dashed the hopes of Sahaj Grover from Delhi by
outplaying him 51 moves of a Sicilian defence. In spite
of the loss, Sahaj needs only half a point to gain his
maiden nine game GM norm in the next round.
In a grueling game of 120 moves, Ni Hua of China, who
had a rating above 2700 in the July rating list, got the
better of the latest Indian GM Sundarrajan Kidambi of
PSPB. Ni Hua cornered Kidambi’s king using his bishop
and knight, the only two pieces on the board apart form
the kings. Himanshu Sharma needed one point from two
rounds for his GM norm, but the Kerala GM GN Gopal made
his life difficult by scoring an impressive win. Still,
he needs a point in the ninth game for a nine game norm.
B. Adhiban and R.R. Laxman of Tamil Nadu kept their GM
norm chances alive by signing the peace treaty with
Mamedov Rauf of Azerbaijan and Parimarjan Negi
respectively and a draw in the ninth round will fetch
them the norm.
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