Areshchenko in lead, Saravana stuns Kostenko
Express News Service
Posted: Jan 27, 2009 at 0031 hrs IST
Gurgaon Former National Under-17 Champion Saravana Krishnan registered his third win against a Grandmaster in the Gurgaon International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament on Monday, getting past Kazakh GM Petr Kostenko in the seventh round. He had earlier defeated Grandmasters Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia and Nurlan Ibrayev of Kazakhstan respectively.
For the three Ukrainian players in the fray, though, it was a winning day as all of them registered emphatic victories. Top seed Alexander Areshchenko defeated overnight joint leader M Lalith Babu in 35 moves and jumped to sole lead with 6.5 points while second seed Grandmaster Yuriy Kuzubov overcame International Master PDS Girinath and Yuri Solodovnichenko got the better of Bangladesh Grandmaster Niaz Murshed.
Indian GM Neelotpal Das defeated SP Sethuraman and is now tied second on six points with Yuriy Kuzubov, Yuri Solodovnichenko, RR Laxman and Deep Sengupta. Laxman defeated International Master Arghyadip Das while Deep Sengupta got the better of Grandmaster norm holder Prathamesh Mokal.
In other upsets of the day, BS Shivananda beat Uzbek Grandmaster Safin Shukhrat while young Rahul Sangma beat his fancied Indian rival, Grandmaster Praveen Thipsay and Shashikant Kutwal held highly rated Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin to a draw.
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Laxman downs Yuri Solodovnichenko, share the lead with Areshchenko
Gurgaon (27 Jan 09) :- International Master R R Laxman outwitted Ukrainian Grandmaster Yuri Solodovnichenko in the eighth round of the Gurgaon International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Suncity World School on today and now share the top spot with 7 points along with top seed Alexander Areshchenko of Ukraine. Overnight sole leader Areshchenko settled for a quick draw against country mate second seed Yuriy Kuzubov in just 4 moves.
Displaying a fine attacking game in Ruy Lopez opening, Laxman gained a minor piece advantage in the 34th move and went on to seal the encounter in 48 moves. In the third board, Grandmaster Neelotpal Das and International Master Deep Sengupta signed the peace treaty after 50 moves and now sharing the second spot with 6.5 points along with Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine, Uzbek Grandmaster Saidali Iuldachev, Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin of Russia and Anwesh Upadhyaya. Saidali beat B S Shivananda in the eighth round encounter while Ulibin got better of young Rahul Sangma and Anwesh defeated M R Lalith Babu.
Former National Champion Abhijit Kunte drew his eighth round encounter against local International Master Himanshu Sharma while National ‘B’ Champion International Master B Adhiban suffered a shock defeat from the hands of Tajikistan Fide Master Djuraev Sokhib. Other Indian Grandmasters in the fray, P Magesh Chandran settled for a draw against Soumya Swaminathan while Praveen Thipsay defeated Sahaj Grover in the eighth round matches.
Important Results of Round 8 (Indians otherwise stated):
GM Alexander Areshchenko of Ukraine (7) drew with Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine (6.5) ; Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine (6) lost to IM R R Laxman (7) ; IM Deep Sengupta (6.5) drew with GM Neelotpal Das (6.5) ; IM Shyam Sundar (6) drew with GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (6) ; GM Abhijit Kunte (6) drew with IM Himanshu Sharma (6) ; IM N Srinath (6) drew with GM Anuar Ismagambetov of Kazakhstan (6) ; GM Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan (6.5) beat B S Shivanada (5.5) ; GM Mikhail Ulibin (6.5) beat Rahul Sangma (5.5) ; Anwesh Upadhyaya (6.5) beat M R Lalith Babu (5.5) ; IM BT Murali Krishnan (6) drew with Shashikant Kutwal (6) ; FM Djuraev Sokhib of Tajikistan (6) beat IM B Adhiban (5) ; GM P Magesh Chandran (5.5) drew with WGM Soumya Swaminathan (5.5) ; IM P Konguvel (5.5) drew with R Premnath (5.5) ; T U Navin Kanna (6) beat IM Justin Sarkar (5) ; Soumyaranjan Mishra (5) lost to GM Niaz Murshed (6) ; Sagar Shah (5.5) drew with M S Thejkumar (5.5) ; IM S P Sethuraman (6) beat IM R Balasubramaniam (5) ; T Purushothaman (5.5) drew with IM Saptarshi Roy (5.5) ; GM Nurlan Ibrayev (6) beat Arindam Mukherjee (5) ; IM Arghyadip Das (6) beat Jain Shreyansh Daklia (5).
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All the datas abbove have been collected from the official website of the tournament haryanachess.com