Seven share lead; Kamble holds
Kryakvin BY Gopakumar, International Arbiter
New Delhi (16 Jan 2010) : Seven players including third seed
Iranian Grandmaster Ghaem Maghami Ehsan share the lead with
perfect score at the end of fourth round matches in the ongoing
8th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament here at Modern
School today. Playing black side of Sicilian Defence, Maghami
overcame Indian International Master K Rathnakaran in 58 moves.
Meanwhile top Grandmasters in the fray finding it difficult to
get decisive results in their favour as five of them signed
peace treaty against lower rated opponents in the fourth round.
Russian Grandmaster Dmitry Kryakvin had to satisfy with half
point against Vikramaditya Kamble while Dibyendu Barua shook the
hands with young K Priyadharshan in 15 moves signaling a drawn
result. Third round hero Jharkhand youngster Abhishek Das had
another fruitful day in the office as he held Indian Grandmaster
Deepan Chakkravarthy to a creditable draw with black pieces.
Tenth seed Grandmaster Alexander Zubarev of Ukraine tried hard
to get a favourable result but forced to split the point against
Chandra Shekhar Gokhale after a marathon match that last 87
moves arrived out of Kings Indian Attack. Veteran Indian
Grandmaster Praveen Thipsay finding it difficult to find the
form as he settled for his third consecutive draw in the
tournament. In another surprising result, Indian International
Master Deep Sengupta had a shock defeat from the hands of young
Swayams Mishra of Orissa.
The fifth round of this 12.5 lakh prize money tournament is
still in progress at the time of latest report.
Important Results (Indians otherwise stated)
Round-4 :- IM K Rathnakaran (3) lost to GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan
(4); GM Maxim Turov of Russia (4) beat IM PDS Girinath (3); IM
Vikramaditya Kamble (3.5) drew with Dmitry Kryakvin of Russia
(3.5); IM Tolstikh Nikolay of Russia (3) lost to Saidali
Iuldachev of Uzbekistan (4); IM K Priyadharshan (3.5) drew with
GM Dibyendu Barua (3.5); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (3.5) drew with
Abhishek Das (3.5); Swayams Mishra (4) beat IM Deepsengupta (3);
Shiven Khosla (3) lost to IM Richard Bitoon of Philippines (4);
IM Himanshu Sharma (4) beat O T Anilkumar (3); Nassir Wajih (3)
lost to IM Oliver Dimakiling of Philippines (4); FM G V Sai
Krishna (3.5) drew with IM Ashwin Jayaram (3.5); IM Swapnil S
Dhopade (3.5) drew with FM J Ramakrishna (3.5); Gurpreet Pal
Singh (2.5) lost to GM Lenic Luka of Slovenia (3.5); Arjun
Tiwari (2.5) lost to GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh (3.5); IM
Chandrashekhar Gokhale (3) drew with GM Alexander Zubarev of
Ukraine (3)
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