Vinod, Tejas cause upsets
NEW DELHI, April 6, 2010
Two lesser-known Indian players, Vinod Bhagwat and Tejas Ravichandran, played way above their modest ratings to cause big upsets in the opening round of the $45,000 Dubai Open chess tournament at Dubai on Monday.
Vinod, rated 2214, held top seeded Armenian Grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian (2675) and Tejas (2165) stunned ninth seeded Russian GM Sergey Volkov (2612) on a highly productive first round for the Indians.
Sixteen Indians, including GMs Parimarjan Negi, Abhijeet Gupta, S. Arun Prasad and R. R. Laxman, won their games. However, the only blemish was the surprise loss of International Master M. R. Venkatesh after facing UAE’s Abdulrahman Al Yafee.
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Man, those are some serious upsets.
Wow 2100 player beating a 2600 player is serious upset.