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Karthikeyan stuns GM John Paul
Gomez, Aleksandrov shares lead
By R.R.Vasudevan
Former Asian Junior Champion and International Master Pandian
Karthikeyan defeated Philippino Grandmaster John Paul Gomez in
the seventh round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012
International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose
Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today.
Top seed Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) and Yu Ruiyuan (China)
shared the lead with 6.5 points, scoring over Vaibhav Suri
(India) and Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) respectively. Sharing
the third spot were GM Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary), IM Pandian
Karthikeyan (India), Zeng Chongsheng, Ma Qun (both China) at 6.0
points.
Aleksandrov scored a smooth technical 68 move win in the top
board, while Yu Ruiyuan shocked higher rated Grandmaster
Oleksienko Mikhailo in an attacking Sicilian game.
International Master Pandian Karthikeyan showed superior
preparation, as he outplayed Grandmaster John Paul Gomez of
Philippines. Gaining advantage right out of the opening,
Karthikeyan maintained a small edge right through. Stretching
himself to equalise John Paul Gomez was found wanting in an
exchange down position. Speaking after his victory Karthikeyan
said, "I followed the game from Vishy Anand-Vallejo Pons, Bilbao
2011 and gained initiative early. Slowly I improved upon the
position, gained technical edge and converted it to full point."
Upsets were the order of the day in the top boards as untitled
Chinese star Yu Ruiyuan (ELO 2491) defeated GM Oleksienko
Mikhailo of Ukraine. Another Ukraine Grandmaster, defending
Champion Kravtsiv Martyn went down to GM Hoang Thanh Trang of
Hungary in the third boad.
IM P Karthikeyan - GM John Paul Gomez
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 dxc4 4.e4 b5 5.a4 b4 6.Nce2 Ba6 7.Nf3 Qa5
8.Ng3 Nd7 9.Be2 e6 10.O-O h5 11.h4 Bd6 12.Ng5 g6 13.e5 Be7
14.Bf3 Rc8 15.N5e4 Bxh4 16.Nd6 Kf8 17.Nxc8 Bxc8 18.Ne4 Ba6
19.Nd6 Qc7 20.Be2 Nh6 21.Bxh6 Rxh6 22.Bxc4 Bxc4 23.Nxc4 Be7
24.Rc1 h4 25.Qf3 c5 26.Nd6 Bxd6 27.exd6 Qxd6 28.dxc5 Nxc5 29.Qf6
Rh5 30.Rfd1 Rd5 31.Rxd5 Qxd5 32.Qh8 Ke7 33.Qxh4 Kd7 34.Qg4 Nd3
35.Rd1 Ke7 36.Qg3 Nf4 37.Rxd5 Ne2 38.Kh2 Nxg3 39.Ra5 1-0
GM Thanh Trang Hoang - GM Martyn Kravtsiv
1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 c5 4.Nc3 e6 5.Nb5 Na6 6.c3 Be7 7.dxc5
Bxc5 8.Nf3 O-O 9.Bd3 Be7 10.O-O Bd7 11.a4 Nc5 12.Bc2 a6 13.Nbd4
Be8 14.Ne5 Bd6 15.Ng4 Bxf4 16.exf4 Nxg4 17.Qxg4 a5 18.Rfe1 f5
19.Qe2 Bd7 20.Qe3 Qb6 21.Nf3 Ra6 22.Ne5 Rc8 23.b4 axb4 24.a5 Qd6
25.cxb4 Ne4 26.Bd3 d4 27.Qf3 Ra7 28.Bxe4 fxe4 29.Qxe4 Be8 30.Nf3
d3 31.Rad1 Bg6 32.Qxe6 Qxe6 33.Rxe6 Rf8 34.Ne5 Rxf4 35.Rb6 Rd4
36.Nxg6 hxg6 37.f3 Kh7 38.Kf2 Ra6 39.Rxb7 Re6 40.Rd2 g5 41.b5
Kg6 42.a6 1-0
Results (Round 7) (Indians unless specified)
Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus)6.5 bt Vaibhav Suri (5.5), Yu
Ruiyuan (China) 6.5 bt Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) 5.5, Hoang
Thanh Trang (Hungary) 6.0 bt Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine) 5,
Himanshu Sharma (5.5) drew with Sethuraman S P (5.5), Rahman
Ziaur (Bangladesh) 5 lost to Zeng Chongsheng (China) 5,
Karthikeyan P (6) bt Gomez John Paul(Philippines) 5,
Ma Qun (China) 6 bt Debashis Das (5), Venkatesh M R (5.5) bt
Konguvel Ponnuswamy (5),Danielsen Henrik (Iceland) 5 drew with
Swayams Mishra (5), Suvrajit Saha(4.5) lost to Deepan
Chakkravarthy J (5.5), Ramnath Bhuvanesh R (4.5) lost to
Dzhumaev Marat (Uzbekistan) 5.5,
Neelotpal Das (5) drew with Praveen Kumar C (5), Babu N Sudhakar
(5) drew with Barua Dibyendu (5), Laxman R R (5) drew with
Narayanan S L (5), Mohota Nisha (4.5) lost to Vakhidov Jahongir
(Uzbekistan) 5.5, Shashikant Kutwal (5.5) bt Rathnakaran K
(4.5),Nitin S (4.5) lost to Ashwath R (5.5), Ravichandran
Siddharth(5.5) bt Aravindh Chithambaram V R (4.5), Vishnu
Prasanna V(5.5) bt Lokesh P(4.5),Akshayraj Kore (5.5) bt Vinoth
Kumar M (4.5).
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on January 08th 2012
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