Gurgaon International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament
Press release, Gurgaon (27 Jan 09) – Gurgaon International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament heading for an exciting finish here at Suncity World School as after the penultimate round four players, namely Areshchenko, Kuzubov, Neelotpal and Laxman are sharing the top spot with 7.5 points.
At the top board, displaying a solid tactical game R R Laxman signed the peace treaty against top seed Ukrainian Grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko in 21 moves while another Ukrainian grandmaster in the fray second seed Yuriy Kuzubov defeated Indian International Master Deep Sengupta in 54 moves. Grandmaster Neelotpal Das kept his chances alive in this Rs. 10 lakh prize money event as he over powered Uzbek grandmaster Saidali Iuldachev in the ninth round encounter.
Continuing his fine form in the tournament, talented youngster Anwesh Upadhyaya held Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin to a creditable draw while in a major upset of the day Mehar Chinna Reddy outwitted highly rated Uzbek Grandmaster Safin Shukhrat and B S Shivananda defeated Indian Grandmaster Magesh Chandran in the penultimate round and achieved an International Master Norm during the process. Giant killer of the tournament, former National Under-17 champion Saravana Krishanan defeated state mate C Praveen Kumar in the ninth round and achieved an International Master norm.
Interesting ninth round encounter between Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte and PDS Girinath in progress at the time of this report.
Important Results of Round 9 (Indians otherwise stated):
IM RR Laxman (7.5) drew with GM Alexander Areshchenko of Ukraine (7.5); GM Yuriy Kuzubov (7.5) beat IM Deep Sengupta (6.5) ; GM Neelotpal Das (7.5) beat GM Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan (6.5) ; GM Mihail Ulibin of Russia (7) drew with Anwesh Upadhyaya (7) ; GM Nurlan Ibrayev of Kazakhstan (6.5) drew with GM Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine (6.5) ; GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (7) beat IM Arghyadip Das (6) ; IM PDS Girinath () v GM Abhijit Kunte () ; GM Anuar Ismagambetov of Kazakhstan (7) beat FM Djuraev Sokhib of Tajikistan (6) ; IM Himanshu Sharma (6.5) drew with IM B T Murali Krishnan (6.5) ; GM Niaz Murshed of Bangladesh (6.5) drew with IM N Srinath (6.5) ; T U Navin Kanna (7) beat IM Shyam Sundar (6) ; Sashikant Kutwal (6.5) drew with IM S P Sethuraman (6.5) ; Mehar Chinna Reddy (7) beat GM Safin Shukhrat of Uzbekistan (5.5) ; B S Shivananda (6.5) beat GM P Magesh Chandran (5.5) ; M R Lalith Babu (6.5) beat FM Esenov Annaberdi of Turkmenistan (5.5) ; Rahul Sangma (6) drew with IM P Konguvel (6) ; WGM Soumya Swaminathan (5.5) lost to GM Praveen Thipsay (6.5) ; IM K Rathnakaran (6.5) beat IM Boris Arkhangelsky of Russia (5.5) ; M S Thejkumar (6) drew with P Maheswaran (6) ; IM Saptarshi Roy (6) drew with Sagar Shah (6)
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