Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and Air India leading after round four
Gurgaon (23 Feb 10): Top seed Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and second seed Air India share the lead with 8 match points after fourth round matches in the ongoing National Club Open Team Championship at DAV Public School here on today. Petroleum beat Railway Sports Promotion Board A team 3 -1 while Air India got better off Kerala in the fourth round encounters.
For Petroleum, Grandmaster Arun Prasad and Deepan Chakkravarthy produced favourable results on second and fourth table against Grandmaster R R Laxman and International Master K Rathnakaran. While their top ranked player Sasikiran and Grandmaster S Kidambi settled for half points against International Masters Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury and MS Thejkumar respectively.
Meanwhile Air India convincingly defeated Kerala with a margin of 3.5 – 0.5. The only bright spot for Kerala from this match was the performance of lowly rated Salil Kumar, who held International Master Rahul Shetty to a creditable draw. In another fourth round matches, Railway Sports Promotion Board B team defeated Delhi 3.5 – 0.5 while host Haryana lost to LIC 1.5 – 2.5. But M C Tanwar brought cheers to home crowd with his individual performance as he outwitted International Master Atanu Lahiri on second board.
Shri. TK Sharma IAS inaugurating the championship by making first move against Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran
In the Women’s category Dibeyandu Barua Chess Academy started their campaign in a winning note as they beat Tamilnadu 3 – 1. LIC also won their first round match against Bihar 2.5 – 1.5.
Earlier the fourth round matches were inaugurated by Sh. Dharam Bir, MLA from Sohna and Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Panchayat Developments. He inaugurated the 4th Round by lighting the lamp and played the opening move with Grandmaster Parmarjan Negi.
Results Round 4 (Open ):
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board beat Railway Sports Promotion Board “A” 3 – 1
Kerala lost to Air India 0.5 – 3.5
Delhi lost to Railway Sports Promotion Board “B” 0.5 – 3.5
Life Insurance Corporation of India beat Haryana “A” 2.5 – 1.5
Bihar “A” lost to Tamilnadu 0.5 – 3.5
West Bengal beat Tata Consultancy Services 3 – 1
Budhibal Kreeda Trust lost to Punjab 0 – 4
Uttarpradesh beat Bihar “B” 3.5 – 0.5
Services Sports Control Board beat HBTI 4 – 0
All India Chess Federation for Blind lost to Himachal Pradesh 1 – 3
Kamaksha HP lost to Madhya Kshetra Shatranj Sangh “B” 1 – 3
Haryana “B” lost to Madhya Kshetra Shatranj Sangh “A” 1 – 3
Results Round 1 (Women):
Life Insurance Corporation of India beat Bihar 2.5 – 1.5
Dibeyandu Barua Chess Academy beat Tamilnadu 3 – 1
