Parsvnath international chess – Quang Liem upset in Rd 2
NEW DELHI
On a day when higher rated players found the going tough, unseeded D. Lakshmanrao stunned tournament favourite Grandmaster Le Quang Liem of Vietnam in the second round of the eighth Parsvanath International chess tournament here on Thursday. Lakshmanrao defeated Quang Liem in 32 moves to leave the 93rd ranked player in the latest Fide rankings gasping.
Fide Master Sayantan Das held GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh, Fenil Shah drew with Ukrainian GM Martyn Kravtsiv and Sohan Phadke split points with GM Alexander Zubarev of Ukraine to register the other surprises of the day.
However, Iranian GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami had it easy against S. Mari Arul to take his tally to two points from as many rounds.
Russian GMs Maxim Turov and Dmitry Kyrakvin also outplayed their respective opponents, IM Gopal Ravi Hegde and compatriot WFM Elena Semenova.
Among the Indians, GM Dibyendu Barua beat Santu Mondal, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy defeated Laltu Chatterjee, IM Himanshu Sharma got the better of Kanthilal Dave, IM M.R. Lalith Babu pipped CM Bhagwat Sood and FM Sahaj Grover comfortably won against Jitendra Kumar Chaudhary.
In the women’s section, IM Tania Sachdev and WGM Nisha Mohota won their respective games against Karma Pandya and Atishay Ajmera. Earlier in the first round, second seed GM Lenic Luka of Slovenia was held by Shiv Shankar Dave. Tenth seeded Kazakh Grandmaster Rinat Jumbayev was denied victory by a much lower rated Tamil Nadu lad L. Barath.
Meanwhile, the highest rated Indian S. Arun Prasad got a bye in the first two rounds on account of his participation in the world team chess championships in Turkey.
Source: http://epaper.asianage.com
Special thanks to Jagdish Dube for sending us the info.
That’s a monster upset