Abhishek Das stuns Kotsur
BY Gopakumar, International Arbiter

New Delhi (15 Jan 2010 ) : In major upset, young Abhishek Das stunned Kazakh Grandmaster Pavel Kotsur in the third round of the 8th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament at the Modern School here on Friday. The foreign Grandmasters are now feeling the heat in the Delhi’s winter as many as three of them have tasted defeat in the third round matches. Andrey Gutov of Russia and Niaz Murshed of Bangladesh lost their third round encounters against Shiven Khosla and Atul Dahale respectively.

The star of the day was Jharkhand youngster Abhishek Das as he made mockery of the rating difference of 242 points to upstage Kotsur, rated 2568. Playing white side of Scicilian Kan variation, Das uprooted the defence of his fancied rival in just 29 moves. Meanwhile talented Maharashtra youngster Shiven Khosla overcame his Russian Grandmaster with black pieces in 45 moves arrived out of Kings Indian Defence.

Top seed Grandmaster Le Quang Liem of Vietnam and veteran Indian Grandmaster Praveen Thipsay were settled for second half point in the tournament as they forced to split the point against Vikramjit Singh and R K Bagdi respectively in the third round matches. Earlier in the second round Liem was signed the peace treaty against D Lakshman Rao while Thipsay had the same fate against Pon N Krithika.

However, Indian Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua continued to make merry at the expense of Shashikant Kutwal and Deepan Chakkravarthy overcame International Master Sharad Tilak in their third round encounters.

Continuing his fine run in the tournament West Bengal youngster Sayantan Das held Grandmaster Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine to a creditable draw. In the second round encounter he had the same result against Bangladeshi Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman.

Before the start of the second day matches, Delhi Chess Association facilitated GM S Sasikiran, GM S S Ganguly, GM G N Gopal, GM Arun Prasad and IM B Adhiban members of jubilant Indian team, which won bronze medal for the country in the just concluded World Team Chess Championship at Turkey.

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated)

Round-3 :- GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan of Iran (3) beat Akash Thakur (2) ; WGM Nisha Mohota (2) lost to Maxim Turov of Russia (3) ; Dmitry Kryakvin of Russia (3) beat Vaibhav Suri (2); Abhishek Das (3) beat GM Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan (2); GM Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan (3) beat P Saravana Krishnan (2); VAV Rajesh (2.5) drew with GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (2.5); GM Dibyendu Barua (3) beat Shashikant Kutwal (2); IM Sharad Tilak (2) lost to GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (3); IM Deep Sengupta (3) beat Bitan Banerjee (2); IM Richard Bitoon of Philippines (3) beat R Premnath (2); Matta Vinay Kumar (2) lost to IM Himanshu Sharma (3) ; IM M R Lalith Babu (2.5) drew with Arjun Tiwari (2.5); FM Prasenjit Dutta (2.5) drew with IM Sahaj Grover (2.5) ; GM Andrey Gutov of Russia (2) lost to Shiven Khosla (3); IM Oliver Dimakiling of Philippines (3) beat IM Varugeese Koshy (2)

Round-2 :- D Lakshmanrao drew with GM Le Quang Liem of Vietnam ; S Mari Arul lost to GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan ; GM Maxim Turov of Russia beat IM Hegde Ravi Gopal; WFM Semenova Elena of Russia lost to GM Dmitry Kryakvin of Russia; GM Pavel Kotsur of Kazkhstan beat Meghan Gupte; FM Sayantan Das drew with GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh; GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine drew with Fenil Shah; Sohan Phadke drew with Alexander Zubarev of Ukraine; Pritam Singh lost to GM Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan; GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan beat Haribalu V; Imocha Laishram drew with GM RR Laxman; Santu Mondal lost to GM Dibyendu Barua; GM Deepan Chakkravarthy beat Laltu Chattarjee ; Anjan Mallick lost to IM Deepsen Gupta; GM Praveen Thipsay drew with WFM Pon N Krithika

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