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Harikrishnan shocks Nisha Mohota,
Vijayalakshmi held
By RR Vasudevan
10 year old A Ra Harikrishnan, a student of Sethu Baskara
School, Ambattur, Chennai delivered the first upset in the SDAT
– RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess
Tournament defeating Woman Grandmaster and former National women
champion Nisha Mohota, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet,
Chennai here today.
Obtaining an advantage in an hard fought middle game,
Harikrishnan led the game into an exchange up ending. The
Chennai boy handled the double rook versus a rook and bishop
ending deftly to outwit the more experienced Nisha Mohota. The
four hour game from Harikrishnan (ELO 1755) showed the strength
and depth of Tamil Nadu players in chess, as he overcame Nisha
Mohota (ELO 2323).
The day offered a tough start for many seeds with International
Masters Vijayalakshmi Subburaman, Suvrajit Saha and Vaibhav Suri
conceding draws to their lower rated opponents viz., M
Sabhareesh, U Ashwini and Shetye Siddhali respectively.
Top seed Grandmaster Aleksij Aleksandrov of Belarus had a
relatively easy outing in the first board against Sarbajit
Adhikari. Defending Champion and second seed Kravtsiv Martyn of
Ukraine was fully stretched in his victory over S Vigneshwaran
in the second board. Running into the last few minutes of his
allotted time, Martyn found his way to win thanks to check mate
threat through queen and bishop that fetched him an extra piece
and the point.
Indian challenge led by Grandmasters Sethuraman, Deepan
Chakkravarthy, Neelotpal Das and Dibyendu Barua took off
smoothly with minimum resistance from lower seeds.
297 players including 16 Grandmasters, 31 International Masters,
2 WGM’s, and 3 WIM’s from 15 countries viz., Belarus, Ukraine,
Iceland, Bangladesh, China, Uzbekistan, Hungary, Brazil, Nepal,
Botswana, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and the Philippines are
participating in this tournament. This eleven round Swiss round
runs till 12th January, 2012.
Results (Round 1) (Indians unless specified)
Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) bt Sarbajit Adhikari, Vigneshwaran
S lost to Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine), Barbosa Oliver
(Philippines) bt Azikri Gur (Israel), Sanjit Saha lost to
Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine), Danielsen Henrik (Iceland) bt
Alahakoon Isuru (Sri Lanka), Kotepalli Sai Nirupama lost to
Sethuraman S P, Rahman Ziaur (Bangladesh) bt De Silva Osheen
(Sri Lanka), Atul Kumar lost to Paragua Mark (Philippines),
Bitoon Richard (Philippines) bt Rathanvel V S, Apurva G lost to
Gomez John Paul (Philippines), Venkatesh M R bt Sai Prahlad K,
Shrestha Lav Kumar (Nepal) lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy J, Yu
Ruiyuan (China) bt Deep Kapoor, Arjun K lost to Dzhumaev Marat
(Uzbekistan), Ma Qun (China) bt Rohan Ahuja, Anshuman K lost to
Ashwin Jayaram, Neelotpal Das bt Hema Priya N, Ram Aravind L N
lost to Barua Dibyendu, Thejkumar M S bt Anjana Krishna S,
Shetye Siddhali drew with Vaibhav Suri.
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on January 04th 2012
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