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Sayantan Das holds S.Arun
Prasad
By R.Anantharam, International
Arbiter & Press officer
Former world under 10 champion
2008 Sayantan Das of West Bengal achieved the biggest victory of
his career by stunning the in form grand master S. Arun Prasad
of PSPB in the second round of the LIC and ONGC sponsored
Chennai Open 2010 chess tournament organized by Sports Promotion
Foundation at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, here today. Four
grandmasters Zubraev Alexander of Ukraine, Andrey Gutov of
Russia, R.R. Laxman of ICF and Deepan Chakkaravarthy of PSPB
shed half a point each, four international masters lost and four
more drew their games today.
Sayantan placed 365 points below Arun Prasad in the
international Elo ratings did not bother about it and played a
solid game. He did not try to recover the pawn he gave up in the
opening phase until the end of the middle game. He controlled
the e-file beautifully with his rook and Arun had to forego his
rook and a pawn to Sayantan’s bishop. This paved the way for his
memorable victory in 37 moves.
On the top board, second seeded Maxim Turov of Russia outwitted
Fenil Shah of Gujatat in a Caro Kann game extending to 38 moves.
Maxim extricated a pawn from his opponent on the 22nd move and
played a positional game steadily. After exchanging the queens,
Fenil resigned immediately when his rook was forked.
S. Vijayalakshmi, the first woman grandmaster from India and six
times national woman champion blundered a piece and lost the
game to J. Malleswar Rao of A.P. K. Rathnakaran of Railways,
unexpectedly lost to the upcoming fourteen year old G. Akash,
the TN state under 25 champion. Another international master
Himanshu Sharma of Haryana was a casualty at the hands of Vinod
Bhagwat.
Pavel Kotsur, playing black anchored his bishop at e3 and his
queen penetrated into the seventh rank to make a terrific attack
on Tejas Ravichandran’s (Chennai) king. It resulted in a loss of
material and Tejas resigned without any hesitation. With
exchange and two pawns up, Ziaur Rehman, the grandmaster from
Bangladesh wrapped up the game in style in 50 moves against
C.R.G. Krishna, winner of the N. Prasad memorial FIDE rated
tournament in Visakhapatnam. R.R. Laxman, who represented India
in the Asian Indoor Games had to agree for a draw against the
Commonwealth Under 18 girls’ champion Pon N Krithika of Chennai,
after losing the exchange. Local lad Ajay Srikanth forced a draw
against former national champion P. Knguvel of ONGC.
Former Asian Junior champion Deepan Chakkravarthy had to sweat
it out before securing a draw against C. Natarajan of ICF, by
perpetual checks.
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on January 26th , 2010
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