Deep moves closer to title
Hindu.com

NEW DELHI: Eighth-seeded International Master Deep Sengupta moved closer to claiming the honours in the 47th Doeberl Cup chess tournament after beating 10th-seeded Australian Grandmaster Darryl Johansen in the eighth and penultimate round at the Hellenic Club in Canberra on Sunday.

Deep’s 35-move victory with black pieces raised his tally to seven points and put him half a point clear of England’s C.B. Gawain Jones who defeated Australia’s Xie George Wendi.

In the final round, Deep plays white against compatriot Deepan Chakkravarthy and needs a draw to take the title even in case of a tie. Jones faces Sriram Jha.

The results (involving Indians):

Eighth round: Darryl Johansen (Aus, 5.5) lost to Deep Sengupta (7); Neelotpal Das (5.5) drew with Sriram Jha (5.5); Abhijit Kunte (5.5) drew with David Smerdon (Aus, 5.5); Deepan Chakkravarthy (6) bt Mas Hafizulhelmi (Mas, 5); Eesha Karavade (5) drew with S. Satyapragyan (5); Gary Lane (Aus, 4.5) lost to K. Ratnakaran (5.5); Akshayraj Kore (5.5) bt Andrew Bird (Aus, 4.5); Kruttika Nadig (5) bt Nisha Mohota (4.5); Brett Tindell (Aus, 4.5) drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (4.5); Swati Ghate (5) bt Eugene Schon (Aus, 4); Pon Krithika (4.5) drew with Geoffery Saw (Aus, 4.5); Justin Tan (Aus, 4) drew with Amruta Mokal (4).

Seventh round: Deep drew with Xie George Wendi (Aus); Ratnakaran lost to C.B. Gawain Jones (Eng); Jha bt Eesha; Kore lost to Darryl Johansen (Aus); Neelotpal bt Kruttika; Tomek Rej (Aus) lost to Kunte; Eugene Schon (Aus) lost to Deepan; Satyapragyan bt Gene Nakauchi (Aus); Gareth Oliver (Aus) drew with Swati; Nisha bt Justin Tan (Aus); Chowdhury bt Jason Chan (Aus); Bobby Cheng (Aus) lost to Krithika; Amruta bt Emma Guo (Aus).

Source: http://www.hindu.com

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