Indians Shine at Negroponte 2010 and Interviews with Ganguly,Sandipan Prasanna and Abhijeet Gupta on their wins

By Vijay Kumar

Chalkida, Greece 13th August 2010. The Indian Players had a good day in the 5th Round of the Ist Negroponte International Chess Championship 2010.

International Master Vishnu Parsanna, who defeated GM Stelios in the 4th round, went on to win his fifth round game against another Strong Grandmaster Evgeny Vorobiov [2592] with ease. Playing with white he opened the game with e4 and his opponent replied with c5. Later the game was fought on Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation. It was a fast track game and by 40th Move Prasanna cornered the Black King and forced him to surrender.

GM Sandipan Chanda played a tactically superior game and very soon converted it into a winning position with the Black King getting trapped between white Knight and the Rook.

GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly also won his game against IM G Leonid in just 29 moves. GM Abhijeet Gupta and IMs D Harika, Tania Sachdev, Shyam Sundar , and Sahej Grover won their respective games. Vaibhav Suri also won his game.

GM Deepan Chakravarthy and Karma Pandey drew their games. The only loss suffered by Indians in the fifth round was when WGM Somaya Swaminathan Lost to GM Ehsan Moradabadi of Iran.

GM Stuat Atalik and GM Zaven Andriasian won their game and with perfect score of 5 points from five games are Jointly leading the Championship. They will playing against eachother in the 6th Round while two indians

Vishnu Prasanna and GM Abhijeet Gupta are pitted against each other. GM Sandipan Chanda will take on GM Athanasios and Ganguly will play against GM Mahjoob Morteja of Iran

Here is Video Link of Negroponte Round 5 with Interviews
http://blip.tv/file/4003536 
 

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