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Eight players share lead
By R.Anantharam, International
Arbiter & Media Incharge
Untitled Indians are in the forefront, as three of them R.
Sidharth of Tamil Nadu, Ankit Rajpara of Maharashtra and Anwesh
Upadyaya of Orissa lead with four points each, along with three
foreign grandmasters and two Philippino international masters at
the end of the fourth round of the LIC & ONGC sponsored Chennai
Open 2010 international chess tournament, organized by Sports
Promotion Foundation at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai
today. Ankit Rajpara continued his good show beating M.S. Thej
Kumar, international master from Karnataka and Anwesh accounted
for another IM Anup Deshmukh of LIC.
On the top board, Maxim Turov employed his favourite Caro Kann
defence against P. Shyam Nikil of Tamil Nadu, a former under 17
national champion. Maxim gained a pawn on the 17th move and
capitalized an unnecessary knight sacrifice by Shyam on the 23rd
move. Shyam resigned fourteen moves later. In an equal position
arising from a Queens Gambit Declined game, former under 25
national champion B.T. Muralikrishnan of Railways played a weak
f3 move against Ziaur Rehman of Bangladesh on the second board.
Eleven moves later, Murali lost a pawn and soon the game also.
Delhi youngster Vaibhav Suri upset the apple cart of GM Pavel
Kotsur of Kazakhstan in a French defence game by handling his
knight and rook well.
Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan played a steady game against
Vikramaditye Kamble of Railways and gained a minor piece in the
process. Both marched their pawn to the seventh rank, but
Marat’s rook was better placed and Kamble’s rook could not
prevent his opponent’s pawn from promotion. Marat won in 43
moves.
The day belonged to Ankit Rajpara again. In a queen and equal
pawn ending, Ankit’s b- pawn raced towards the eighth rank, when
Thej surrendered. Anwesh forced Anup to lose his knight and
threatened to queen the pawn. Anup resigned when he was about to
lose one more pawn. Top seeded Eshan Ghaem Maghami of Iran again
conceded a draw to Arun Karthik of Chennai to reach 3 points.
Highly rated GM, S. Arun Prasad of PSPB had to be content with a
draw against Chennai’s young player S. Kaushik.
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on January 27th , 2010
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