Air India stuns PSPB By Gopa Kumar, International
Arbiter
Gurgaon (24 Feb 10) :- Top seed and defending champions
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board suffered a huge set back to
their title contention as they lost crucial fifth round
encounter against second seed Air India 1 -3. For Air India,
Grandmaster Tejas Bakre defeated Grandmaster Arun Prasad in
second board and G B Joshi stunned Grandmaster Deepan
Chakkravarthy in fourth board while Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi
and International Master Satyaprgyan snatched half points from
Grandmasters K Sasikiran on top board and Abhijit Kunte on third
board respectively.
In another fifth round matches,
Railway Sports Promotion Board A not given any chance to their
rivals West Bengal and registered a comfortable 4 -0 win. While
second railway team in the fray, also had an easy day in the
office as they got better off Kerala 3.5- .5. Tamilnadu held
Life Insurance Corporation of India to creditable draw while
Punjab defeated Delhi 3.5 .5.
Meanwhile in the Womens section, Dibeyandu Barua Chess Academy
defeated Bihar while host Hayana lost to Life Insurance
Corporation of India.
Results Round 5 (Open ) with match points :- Air India (10)
beat Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (8) ; Railway Sports
Promotion Board A (8) beat West Bengal (6) 4 - 0; Railway
Sports Promotion Board B (8) beat Kerala (6) 3.5 - .5 ;
Tamilnadu (7) drew with Life Insurance Corporation of India (7)
2 - 2 ; Punjab (6) beat Delhi (4) 3.5 .5 ; Himachal Pradesh
(4) lost to Bihar A (6) 1 - 3; Haryana A (5) drew with
Uttarpradesh (5) 2 - 2 ; Tata Consultancy Services(5) drew with
Services Sports Control Board (5) 2 - 2; Madhya Kshetra Shatranj
Sangh A (3) lost to Madhya Kshetra Shatranj Sangh B (6) 1
3; All India Chess Federation for Blind (2) lost to Budhibal
Kreeda Trust (4) 1 - 3; Bihar B (4) beat Kamaksha HP (2) 3 -1;
HBTI (2) lost to All India Electricity Sports Control Board (4)
0 - 4; Haryana B(2) got Bye.
Results Round-2 (Women) :- Bihar lost to Dibeyandu Barua Chess
Academy 0 - 4 ; Haryana lost to Life Insurance Corporation of
India 1.5 2.5.
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