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Maxim maitains lead
By R.Anantharam, International
Arbiter and Media Incharge
Russian grandmaster Maxim Turov (7.5 points)
maintained his half point lead over Uzbek GM Marat Dzhumaev and
unstoppable Anwesh Upadyaya of Orissa at the end of the eighth
round of the LIC & ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010
international chess tournament organised by Sports promotion
Foundation at the Multipurpose Indoor stadium, Chennai today.
Six players among whom three are Indians – P. Shyam Nikil, M.R.
Lalith Babu of A.P. and Vikramaditya Kamble of Railways have
scored 6.5 points each.
Anwesh again played a sensational game and his fine run
continued, the victim in the eighth round being Ukraine GM
Martyn Kravtsiv. Playing Petroff defence, Anwesh sacrificed his
knight for two central pawns on the 17th move. He again
sacrificed his rook two moves later but got it back soon. When
the result was clear on the wall by move 35, Anwesh was up by
four pawns. By the end of the eighth round and after making the
ninth round pairing, Anwesh has secured his IM norm and set to
make his GM norm also, if the trend continues.
Maxim and Lalith Babu played the Caro kann defence very fast,
with plenty of time left on the clock. Maxim played a strong Nf5
on move 15, which almost decided the game in his favour. The
grandmaster’s vast experience helped him later to pocket the
point in a bishop Vs knight ending with an extra pawn.
In a Ruy Lopez opening by Shyam Nikil, his opponent R.B. Ramesh,
former Commonwealth and British champion overlooked an in
between Qb3 move by Shyam. Shyam gained a minor piece in
exchange for his two pawns and kept the tempo to earn a point
and his final IM norm.
In a classical Sicilian defence, Marat was involved in a long
drawn battle before securing a full point against Dimtry
Kryakvin of Russia. Marat marched his pawn towards the eighth
rank and Dmitry had to forego his knight to eliminate the pawn
from the board. The rest was mere technique and Marat won in 83
moves.
Irespective of losing the queen for rook, Vikramdit Kamble
brilliantly defended his position to force a draw in a French
classical exchange game against Maniuk Mikulas the GM from
Slovekia. After agreeing to a well fought draw in 30 moves with
J. Deepan Chakkaravarthy of PSPB, R. Siddharth of Tamil Nadu
obtained his IM norm, with a round to spare.
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on January 31st , 2010
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