Sandipan continues to lead
By Prof. Rathinam Ananthram
Inspite of a draw against the Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem, Sandipan Chanda maintained his half a point lead over ten other players at the end of the fifth round of the 4th Kolkata GM Open tournament, organized by Alekhine Chess Club at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata today. He remains unbeaten and has made four wins and one draw at the half way through stage of the ten round event.
Four boards among the top ten were decisive today. In a Reti opening employed by Magesh Chandran of Tamil Nadu, his opponent Gadir Guseinov of Azerbaijan had to lose exchange on 25th move. Magesh’s powerful moves gained him a rook also on the 32nd move. Four moves later, Gadir resigned, when he was about to be checkmated. World under 16 champion B. Adhiban of Tamil Nadu handled the French defence played by Vadim Malakhatko of Belgium very well. He grabbed the black bishop forcing an exchange of queens on the 39th move. In the end game, Adhiban had a knight and two pawns against four pawns to his opponent. Vadim resigned after 54 moves.
In another French defence, which produced a fruitful result, Parimarjan Negi of Delhi sacrificed his bishop on the 14th move to drag Deep Sengupta’s queen away from the line of defence. Three moves later, Deep gave up the fight. The GM norm aspirant R.R. Laxman of Tamil Nadu enhanced his norm chances by demolishing Jan Markos of Slovakia in a Nimzo Indian game lasting 37 moves. Former national champion P. Konguvel scalped the world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta in an exciting game. WGM Nisha Mohota of West Bengal defeated the out of form Neelotpal Das, also hailing from the same state. Himanshu Sharma of Haryana had the distinction of splitting the point with the top seed Mamedyarov Shakhriyar of Azerbaijan, ranked 21 in the world.
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Round 5 top boards results:
|
Bo. |
|
Name |
FED |
Rtg |
Pts. |
Result |
Pts. |
|
Name |
FED |
Rtg |
|
1 |
GM |
Sandipan Chanda |
IND |
2611 |
4.5 |
drew |
4 |
GM |
Le Quang Liem |
VIE |
2602 |
|
2 |
GM |
Hossain Enamul |
BAN |
2516 |
4 |
drew |
4 |
GM |
Safarli Eltaj |
AZE |
2587 |
|
3 |
GM |
Short Nigel D |
ENG |
2706 |
4 |
drew |
3.5 |
GM |
Postny Evgeny |
ISR |
2651 |
|
4 |
GM |
P Magesh Chandran |
IND |
2532 |
4 |
beat |
3 |
GM |
Guseinov Gadir |
AZE |
2667 |
|
5 |
GM |
Aleksandrov Aleksej |
BLR |
2639 |
3.5 |
drew |
3.5 |
GM |
Deepan Chakkravarthy |
IND |
2524 |
|
6 |
GM |
Sundararajan Kidambi |
IND |
2516 |
3.5 |
drew |
3.5 |
GM |
Ganguly Surya Shekhar |
IND |
2634 |
|
7 |
GM |
Laznicka Viktor |
CZE |
2634 |
4 |
beat |
3 |
GM |
Khusnutdinov Rustam |
KAZ |
2506 |
|
8 |
GM |
Negi Parimarjan |
IND |
2615 |
4 |
beat |
3 |
IM |
Sengupta Deep |
IND |
2494 |
|
9 |
GM |
Kunte Abhijit |
IND |
2515 |
3.5 |
drew |
3.5 |
GM |
Mchedlishvili Mikheil |
GEO |
2613 |
|
10 |
IM |
Adhiban B |
IND |
2490 |
4 |
beat |
3 |
GM |
Malakhatko Vadim |
BEL |
2569 |
|
11 |
GM |
Markos Jan |
SVK |
2565 |
3 |
lost to |
4 |
IM |
Laxman R R |
IND |
2486 |
|
12 |
IM |
Satyapragyan Swayangsu |
IND |
2439 |
3.5 |
drew |
3.5 |
GM |
Gagunashvili Merab |
GEO |
2564 |
|
13 |
GM |
Rahman Ziaur |
BAN |
2554 |
4 |
beat |
3 |
FM |
Grover Sahaj |
IND |
2288 |
|
14 |
GM |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
AZE |
2721 |
3 |
drew |
3 |
IM |
Himanshu Sharma |
IND |
2471 |
|
15 |
GM |
Kostenko Petr |
KAZ |
2491 |
2½ |
lost to |
3.5 |
GM |
Ni Hua |
CHN |
2692 |
|
16 |
GM |
Mamedov Rauf |
AZE |
2626 |
3.5 |
beat |
2½ |
GM |
Bakre Tejas |
IND |
2465 |
Rank after Round 6
Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 IND GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2611 5,0 24,0 21,5 17,5
2 VIE GM Le Quang Liem VIE 2602 5,0 22,0 19,5 16,5
3 CZE GM Laznicka Viktor CZE 2634 5,0 17,5 16,0 14,0
4 AZE GM Safarli Eltaj AZE 2587 4,5 23,5 20,5 17,0
5 ENG GM Short Nigel D ENG 2706 4,5 23,0 20,0 17,0
6 IND GM Panchanathan Magesh Chandran IND 2532 4,5 22,5 20,5 17,5
7 IND GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2634 4,5 21,5 19,5 16,0
8 IND IM Adhiban B IND 2490 4,5 20,5 18,5 15,5
9 IND GM Negi Parimarjan IND 2615 4,5 20,0 17,5 15,0
10 GEO GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 2613 4,5 19,5 18,0 15,0
11 UZB GM Filippov Anton UZB 2595 4,5 15,0 14,0 11,5
12 BAN GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2554 4,0 22,5 20,5 18,0
13 GEO GM Gagunashvili Merab GEO 2564 4,0 22,0 19,5 16,0
14 KAZ GM Khusnutdinov Rustam KAZ 2506 4,0 22,0 19,0 16,0
15 AZE GM Mamedov Rauf AZE 2626 4,0 21,5 18,5 15,0
16 IND IM Laxman R R IND 2486 4,0 21,0 19,5 16,5
17 BLR GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2639 4,0 21,0 19,0 16,0
18 AZE GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2721 4,0 21,0 18,5 15,5
19 BAN GM Hossain Enamul BAN 2516 4,0 20,5 19,0 16,0
20 SVK GM Markos Jan SVK 2565 4,0 20,0 17,5 14,5
21 IND IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND 2439 4,0 19,5 17,5 15,0
22 IND GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J IND 2524 4,0 19,5 17,5 14,5
23 IND FM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2423 4,0 19,0 17,5 15,0
24 IND FM Grover Sahaj IND 2288 4,0 19,0 17,0 14,5
25 ISR GM Postny Evgeny ISR 2651 4,0 19,0 16,5 14,0
26 IND IM Sengupta Deep IND 2494 4,0 19,0 16,5 13,5
27 IND GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal IND 2598 4,0 18,5 16,0 13,5
28 CHN GM Ni Hua CHN 2692 4,0 18,5 16,0 13,0
29 IND GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 2516 4,0 18,0 16,5 14,5
30 IND FM Shyam Nikil P IND 2410 4,0 17,0 16,5 14,0
Source:-Chess Results.com
Sandipan in three-way lead at Kolkata Open.
PTI 6 September 2009, 09:19pm IST
KOLKATA: British GM Nigel Short managed to draw a hard-fought battle against overnight leader GM Sandipan Chanda in the sixth round of the fourthKolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament at Gorky Sadan on Sunday.
Playing the off-beat Nimzowitsch defence, Short managed to get equality very quickly in the opening but Sandipan attacked relentlessly.
After playing some defensive manoeuvres, Short engaged himself in counter play but eventually both players eventually agreed to split the point in a position, which apparently favoured the local lad slightly.
The draw saw Sandipan lose his sole overnight lead as GM Viktor Laznicka of Czech Republic and Le Quang Liem of Vietnam joined the Indian on the pole position.
Laznicka played an attacking game with the black pieces against GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh to join the leaderboard.
He took some risks and was rewarded for his persistence in a game that lasted 54 moves.
Liem outskilled GM Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh in 42 moves to become the third player on the leaderboard.
The Bangladeshi played the Kings Indian defence and lost a pawn on the queenside.
His game deteriorated after a few more moves and he gave up the fight in a hopeless position.
As many as eight players are in the second spot – half a point behind the trio.
These include Indian GMs Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Parimarjan Negi, Magesh Chandran Panchanathan and IM B Adhiban.
Surya won his game against GM Abhijit Kunte to come back into the reckoning for the top spot.
World Under-16 champion Adhiban continued to impress as he held the higher-ranked GM Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan in 26 moves of a Sicilian defence game.
Continuing his excellent run, FM Sahaj Grover accounted for Super GM Gadir Guseinov of Azerbaijan.
Other youngsters who impressed were world U-14 champion Vidit Gujrathi who drew his game against another Super GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus.
Local boy Sayantan Das, who is world U-12 champion, outwitted Somak Palit, while Shyam Nikhil drew against GM G N Gopal.
Source:-TIMES OF INDIA,Dated 6th September 2009