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S L Narayanan, Akshayraj Kore &
Vishnu Prasanna stun GMs, four share lead
By R.R.Vasudevan
Indian trio S L Narayanan, Akshayraj Kore and Vishnu Prasanna
stunned Grandmasters Mark Paragua (Philippines), Dzhumaev Marat
(Uzbekistan) and Gomez John Paul (Philippines) respectively in
the fourth round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012
International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose
Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today.
GMs Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) and Neelotpal Das (India)
along with IMs Vishnu Prasanna and Akshayraj Kore (both India)
shared the lead with 4.0 points after the fourth round.
Following the leaders half a point behind at 3.5 points were GMs
Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), S P Sethuraman (India), Ziaur
Rahman (Bangladesh) and Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) along with
15 other players.
The top board game between GMs Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) and
Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) ended in a draw after 40 moves. In
the upsets of the day, dynamic play on the black side of the
Sicilian netted Chennai lad Vishnu Prasanna a full point against
Grandmaster John Paul Gomez of the Philippines. It was
noteworthy that Vishnu used his king as an active piece in the
end game, moving it deep into enemy territory for delivering the
final blow. The 46 move victory propels Vishnu Prasanna into the
top board against GM Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) in the next
round.
Pune lad Akshayraj Kore punished Uzbek Grandmaster Dzhumaev's
tentative play in the Evans Gambit. The sacrifice of an early
pawn, could not fetch much of an initiative for the Grandmaster,
as Akshayraj increased his advantage and forced Dzhumaev to give
up after 39 moves.
13-year-old S L Narayanan found his touch on the right occasion,
as he played his black pieces with great enterprise. The middle
game tilted in the Indian boy's favor, as he went for a
king-side initiative forgoing his castle. The Philippino
Grandmaster Mark Paragua, misjudged the force of black's attack,
and resigned facing check mate or heavy loss of material.
GM John Paul Gomez - IM V Vishnu Prasanna
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6
7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5 cxd5 9.O-O O-O 10.Bg5 c6 11.Qf3 h6 12.Bxf6 Qxf6
13.Qxf6 gxf6 14.Ne2 Bd6 15.f4 Rb8 16.b3 Bg4 17.Ng3 h5 18.Bf5 Rb4
19.Bxg4 hxg4 20.Nh5 f5 21.Rad1 Kh7 22.c3 Rb7 23.c4 Kg6 24.Ng3
Bc5 25.Kh1 dxc4 26.Rc1 Rb4 27.Rc2 Rd8 28.h4 gxh3 29.gxh3 Rd3
30.Kh2 c3 31.Rg2 Be3 32.Kh1 Kf6 33.Re1 Rxf4 34.Nh5 Ke5 35.Nxf4
Kxf4 36.Rc2 Bd2 37.Re7 Kg3 38.Rxf7 Rf3 39.Rg7 Kxh3 40.Rh7 Kg3
41.Rg7 Kf2 42.Kh2 Ke2 43.Kg2 Rf4 44.Rd7 Rf2 45.Kg1 Rf3 46.Kg2
Rd3 0-1
GM Mark Paragua - S L Narayanan
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3
Be6 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.f3 h5 10.O-O-O Rc8 11.f4 b5 12.f5 Bc4 13.Kb1
Be7 14.h3 h4 15.Bd3 Qc7 16.Bg5 b4 17.Nd5 Nxd5 18.exd5 Qb6
19.Bxc4 Rxc4 20.Qe2 Qb5 21.Bxe7 Kxe7 22.Rhe1 Kf8 23.Qe3 Nf6
24.Qa7 Rc8 25.Nd2 Rh5 26.Qf2 Qc5 27.Qe2 Rxf5 28.Nb3 Qb5 29.Rd3
a5 30.Nd2 Qc5 31.Nb3 Qb6 32.Rd2 a4 33.Nc1 e4 34.Qd1 Rc5 35.Rd4
Rfxd5 36.Rexe4 Nxe4 37.Rxd5 Nc3 38.bxc3 bxc3 39.Nb3 axb3 0-1
Results (Round 4) (Indians unless specified)
Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) 3.5 drew with Aleksandrov ALeksej
(Belarus) 3.5, Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) 4 bt M S Thejkumar
(3), S P Sethuraman (3.5) drew with S Nitin (3.5), Gomez John
Paul (Philippines) 3 lost to Vishnu Prasanna V (4), Himanshu
Sharma (3.5) drew with M R Venkatesh (3.5), Debashis Das (3.5)
drew with Yu Ruiyuan (China) 3.5, Dzhumaev Marat (Uzbekistan)
lost to Akshayraj Kore (4), Ghosh Diptayan (3) lost to Neelotpal
Das (4), Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine) 3 drew with Shashikant Kutwal
(3.5), Ankit R Rajpara (3) drew with Danielsen Henrik (Iceland)
3, V A V Rajesh (2.5) lost to Ziaur Rahman (Bangladesh) 3.5,
Paragua Mark (Philippines) 2.5 lost to S L Narayanan (3.5), J
Deepan Chakkravarthy (3) drew with Mu Ke (China) 3, Barua
Dibyendu (3) drew with Gagare Shardul (3), Vaibhav Suri (3.5) bt
S Ravi Teja (2.5), Vakhidov Jahongir (Uzbekistan) 3.5 bt V R
Aravindh Chithambaram (2.5), M Kunal (3.5) bt G A Stany (2.5), K
Rathnakaran (3.5) bt Ramanathan Balasubramaniam (2.5), Singh S
Vikramjit (3) drew with P Karthikeyan (3).
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