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Top seeded Eshan Ghaem Maghami
of Iran held to a draw
R. Anantharam, International
Arbiter - Press & Media Incharge
The 2nd Chennai International Open Chess tournament sponsored by
LIC and ONGC, supported by government of India and Sports
Development Authority of Tamil Nadu and organized by Sports
Promotion Foundation got off with a bang, three youngsters
forcing experienced grandmaster opponents to creditable draw.
Thirteen year old unheralded WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama of
Andhra Pradesh held the top seeded Eshan Ghaem Maghami of Iran,
fourteen year old Osama Salim of Chennai split the point with
third seeded Kryakvin Dmitry of Russia and 1998 born B. Kumaran
of Chennai let India’s second grandmaster Dibyendu Barua off the
hook.
Sai Nirupama opted for the Reti Opening with white pieces and
both chose the main line of play. Maghami played a safe game,
exchanging the queens on 20th move, thus trying to outwit his
opponent through a simple end game. Once Sai Nirupama grabbed
the c- pawn, the game looked heading towards a draw and Maghami
could not make any breakthrough in a knight and pawn ending.
Maghami had to settle for the draw after 42 moves.
In a transposed Caro Kann game, Osama Salim defended well to
Dmitry’s attack and exchanged the queens on 23rd move. In the
end game, Dmitry had two advantageous connected pawns on the e-
and f- files in comparison to Osama’s h- pawn. Dmitry missed
some winning chances and allowed Osama to escape with a draw.
Kumaran, thiry six years younger to the seasoned grandmaster
Barua handled his knight very well, exchanging it later for a
rook and pawn. Barua managed to get back the exchange but was
left with a pawn down and he had to use all his resources to
repeat the position and extract half a point. Second seeded
Maxim Turov of Russia had it easy against Shiv Shankar Dave of
Rajasthan and Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan posted a comfortable
victory over S.L. Narayanan of Kerala. Arun Prasad, who is in
good nick accounted for S. Sathyanarayanan and the Ukraine
grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn did not sweat much to dispose V.S.
Sakthivel Pandian of Tamil Nadu.
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on January 25th , 2010
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