Top seed Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) led the table along with Yu Ruiyuan (China) with 7.0 points after the eighth round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today.

Half a point behind the leaders at 6.5 points were ten players including GMs Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine), Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan), Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary), J Deepan Chakkravarthy and S P Sethuraman (both India) among others.

Untitled Chinese Yu Ruiyuan continued his impressive run, holding top seed Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus to a draw. The Scotch game, where regular elimination of pieces nullified mutual advantage, peace was signed after 43 moves.

GM Sethuraman overcame fellow IM Siddharth in a complicated game, while local challenger International Master M R Venkatesh moved ahead in standings scoring over Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan.

Among those with 9 game Norm chances tomorrow were Yu Ruiyaun (China) and Shashikant Kutwal (India) with GM Norm and IM Norm respectively.

GM Oleksienko Mikhailo - IM Himanshu Sharma

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.O-O Nf6 8.Kh1 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Bc5 10.Qd2 b5 11.Qg5 O-O 12.e5 Ne8 13.Bd3 f5 14.Bf4 Bb7 15.Qg3 Rc8 16.a4 b4 17.Ne2 d5 18.a5 Bc6 19.Be3 Bb5 20.Bxb5 axb5 21.a6 Rf7 22.Nf4 Re7 23.Nd3 Bxe3 24.Qxe3 Qc4 25.b3 Qc3 26.Qb6 Nc7 27.Qd6 Ree8 28.Ra2 d4 29.a7 Nd5 30.a8Q Rxa8 31.Rxa8 Rxa8 32.Qxe6 Kf8 33.Qxd5 Ra1 34.Kg1 1-0

GM S P Sethuraman - IM Siddharth Ravichandran

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 f5 4.Bg2 Nf6 5.d3 Bb4 6.Bd2 d6 7.a3 Bxc3 8.Bxc3 O-O 9.Nf3 Qe8 10.O-O Qh5 11.d4 f4 12.dxe5 dxe5 13.gxf4 Bh3 14.fxe5 Ng4 15.Qd5 Kh8 16.e6 Rf5 17.Qd7 Rg8 18.Qxc7 Bxg2 19.Kxg2 Rxf3 20.exf3 Nge5 21.Bxe5 Nxe5 22.Qxb7 Ng6 23.Kh1 Nh4 24.Rg1 Nxf3 25.Rg2 Nh4 26.Rg3 Nf5 27.Rg2 Nh4 28.Qd5 Qe2 29.Rg3 Qxf2 30.Qe4 Ng6 31.Re1 Re8 32.Rf3 Qxb2 33.Qc6 Qb8 34.Rb3 Qd8 35.Qd7 Qa8 36.Qd5 Qc8 37.Rb7 Ne7 38.Qd7 Qa8 39.Reb1 h6 40.c5 Kh7 41.c6 a5 42.R1b6 Nf5 43.Qd3 Kg6 44.Rf7 1-0

IM Jahongir, Vakhidov - IM M R Venkatesh

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.Nf3 c5 7.O-O Nc6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.h3 Be6 11.b3 Rc8 12.Bb2 Qe7 13.Rc1 Rfd8 14.Qe2 a6 15.Rfd1 Ba7 16.Bb1 h6 17.Qd3 d4 18.Ne4 Nxe4 19.Qxe4 f5 20.Qd3 dxe3 21.Qe2 exf2 22.Kf1 Bd7 23.Qc4 Be6 24.Qe2 Re8 25.Ba1 Bc5 26.Bd3 b5 27.Rd2 Nb4 28.Bb1 Nd5 29.Rxc5 Qxc5 30.Bd4 Qc1 31.Rd1 Nf4 32.Qd2 Qxd2 33.Nxd2 Bd5 34.Bxf5 Re2 35.Nf3 Bxf3 36.gxf3 Rd8 0-1

R Ashwath - GM Henrik Danielsen

1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.e4 Bg4 5.d5 Nf6 6.Nc3 O-O 7.Be2 Bxf3 8.Bxf3 c6 9.O-O Qc7 10.Bf4 cxd5 11.cxd5 Nbd7 12.Rc1 Rfc8 13.Be3 a6 14.Qb3 Qd8 15.a4 Rc7 16.a5 Rac8 17.Qa3 Qf8 18.Na4 Bh6 19.b4 Ne5 20.Nb6 Bxe3 21.Qxe3 Nc4 22.Qd3 Nxb6 23.Rxc7 Rxc7 24.axb6 Rc8 25.b5 a5 26.Qa3 Qd8 27.Qxa5 Ra8 28.Qc3 Qxb6 29.e5 Ne8 30.Rb1 Ra2 31.Qc8 Qxb5 32.Re1 dxe5 33.Bg4 Kg7 34.Bd7 Qb6 35.Rf1 Nd6 36.Qc3 f6 37.Qh3 Ne4 38.Qh4 Nxf2 0-1


Results (Round 8) (Indians unless specified)

Yu Ruiyuan (China) 7.0 drew with Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) 7.0, Karthikeyan P (6.5) drew with Ma Qun (China) 6.5, Zeng Chongsheng (China) 6.5 drew with Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) 6.5, Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) 6.5 bt Himanshu Sharma (5.5), Sethuraman S P (6.5) bt Ravichandran Siddharth (5.5), Vakhidov Jahongir (Uzbekistan) 5.5 lost to Venkatesh M R (6.5), Deepan Chakkravarthy J (6.5) bt Vishnu Prasanna V (5.5), Dzhumaev Marat (Uzbekistan) 6.5 bt Shashikant Kutwal (5.5), Vaibhav Suri (5.5) lost to Akshayraj Kore (6.5), Ashwath R (5.5) lost to Danielsen Henrik (Iceland) 6.0, Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine) 6.0 bt Ankit R Rajpara (5.0), Ghosh Diptayan (5.5) drew with Rahman Ziaur (Bangladesh) 5.5, Toth Christian Endre (Brazil) 5.5 drew with Paragua Mark (Philippines) 5.5, Konguvel Ponnuswamy (5.5) drew with Bitoon Richard (Philippines) 5.5, Gomez John Paul (Philippines) 6.0 bt Rajesh V A V (5.0), Neelotpal Das (5.5) drew with Babu N Sudhakar (5.5), Barua Dibyendu (5.5) drew with Narayanan S L (5.5), Praveen Kumar C (6.0) bt Thejkumar M S (5.0), Phadke Sohan (5.5) drew with Laxman R R (5.5), Debashis Das (6.0) bt Sagar Shah (5.0)
 

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