Akshayraj Kore joins leaders, Norms for Yu Ruiyuan & Shashikant Kutwal
By R.R.Vasudevan

Pune based International Master Akshayraj Kore defeated fellow Indian Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy and joined the leaders with 7.5 points after the ninth round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today.

Akshayraj joined the trio of leaders viz., Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), Yu Ruiyuan, Zeng Chongsheng (both China) at 7.5 points.Sharing the next point position at 7.0 points were GMs Oleksienko Mikhailo, Kravtsiv Martyn (both Ukraine), S P Sethuraman (India), Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan), Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) and John Paul Gomez (Philippines) among others.

A fighting draw against Grandmaster S P Sethuraman in the second board fetched Yu Ruiyuan of China a Grandmaster Norm. The second Norm of the day was achieved by Maharashtra player Shashikant Kutwal who defeated veteran Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua. Kutwal posted his fourth International Master Norm and now requires to touch the ELO rating of 2400 to get his International Master title confirmed.

The top board game between Grandmasters Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) and Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) turned out to be hard battle for supremacy. Aleksandrov pressed all the buttons, but Oleksienko hunted white's extra pawn in the 'b' file, and fetched himself a draw after 60 moves.

Two more rounds remain in this mega 16 nation event that concludes on 12th January, 2012.

IM Akshayraj Kore - GM Deepan Chakkravarthy

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be2 O-O 7.O-O a6 8.b3 Bg4 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Bxf3 e6 11.Bb2 Nbd7 12.Rc1 Re8 13.Re1 Qb6 14.Qc2 Rad8 15.Red1 Qa7 16.Ne2 Qb8 17.Ng3 h5 18.a4 Nf8 19.b4 Rc8 20.e4 h4 21.Ne2 dxe4 22.Bxe4 e5 23.d5 cxd5 24.Bxd5 Nxd5 25.Rxd5 Qc7 26.Qe4 Qe7 27.c5 Nd7 28.Rd6 Nb8 29.Nc3 Nc6 30.Qg4 Rcd8 31.Nd5 Qf8 32.b5 axb5 33.axb5 Nd4 34.Nc7 Re7 35.b6 f5 36.Qxh4 Ne2 37.Kh2 Nxc1 38.Ne6 Rxe6 39.Rxd8 Re8 40.Qc4 Kh7 41.Qh4 Kg8 42.Qc4 Kh7 43.Rd7 Nb3 44.Qxb3 Qxc5 45.Qf7 Rg8 46.Qf6 1-0

IM Debashis Das - GM Kravtsiv Martyn

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 c6 6.e3 Bf5 7.Nge2 Nd7 8.Ng3 Bg6 9.Nh5 Qb6 10.Be2 Qxb2 11.Na4 Qb4 12.Kf1 b5 13.Nc5 Nxc5 14.dxc5 Bxh5 15.Bxh5 Qxc5 16.Rc1 Qb6 17.Bf3 Nf6 18.g4 Rd8 19.Qc2 c5 20.g5 Ne4 21.Bxe4 dxe4 22.Qxe4 Qe6 23.Qb7 Qd7 24.Qa6 O-O 25.h4 f6 26.Rg1 Kh8 27.Rg3 c4 28.Kg1 fxg5 29.hxg5 Qd2 30.Rf1 c3 31.Rh3 Qd7 32.Kg2 Qg4 33.Rg3 Qf5 34.g6 c2 35.Rh1 Qe4 36.Rf3 Rd6 0-1

Results (Round 9) (Indians unless specified)

Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) 7.5 drew with Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) 7.0, S P Sethuraman (7.0) drew with Yu Ruiyuan (China) 7.5, M R Venkatesh (7) drew with P Karthikeyan (7), Akshayraj Kore (7.5) bt J Deepan Chakkravarthy (6.5), Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) 7.0 drew with Dzhumaev Marat (Uzbekistan) 7.0, Ma Qun (China) 6.5 lost to Zeng Chongsheng (China) 7.5, Debashis Das (6.0) lost to Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine) 7.0, Danielsen Henrik (Iceland) 6.5 drew with C Praveen Kumar (6.5), Swayams Mishra (6) lost to Gomez John Paul (Philippines) 7.0, Babu N Sudhakar (5.5) lost to Barbosa Oliver (Philippines) 6.5, Rahman Ziaur (Bangladesh) 6.0 drew with B S Shivananda (6.0), Mark Paragua (Philippines) 6.0 drew with Ghosh Diptayan (6.0), Bitoon Richard (Philippines) 6.5 bt Toth Christian Endre (Brazil) 5.5, Mohota Nisha (6.0) drew with Ashwin Jayaram (6.0), S L Narayanan (5.5) lost to Neelotpal Das (6.5), Shashikant Kutwal (6.5) bt Barua Dibyendu (5.5), Gagare Shardul (6.0) drew with Vaibhav Suri (6.0), R R Laxman (6.0) drew with Konguvel Ponnuswamy (6.0), Chandika Divyasree (5.5) lost to Vakhidov Jahongir (Uzbekistan) 6.5, Himanshu Sharma (6.5) bt Phadke Sohan (5.5)

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