10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament

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Barbosa and Gomez maintain joint lead on a day of peace treaties

New Delhi (20 Jan 12) :-  Most of the top board battles in the eighth round ended without decisive results and which helped overnight joint leaders Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul to maintain their joint lead with seven points after settling for half points against Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin of Russia and Mark Paragua of Philippines respectively in the ongoing 10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Friday.

A marathon 93 move battle on the top board battle between Deviatkin and Barbosa had its own twist and turn throughout the match as both players tried hard for a decisive result but at the end settled for the truce.  Meanwhile top seed Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda got a major setback to his title hopes as he lost his eighth round match against Shyam Nikil. Playing with white pieces in King’s Indian Attack game, Chanda made crucial mistakes in the middle game to hand over full point to his International Master rival in 50 moves.  This is the only match that ended with a decisive result in the top ten boards. This crucial victory enabled Shyam Nikil to occupy the joint second spot with six and half points. Grandmasters Deviatkin, Mark Paragua and Evgeny Gleizerov along with Indian International Masters Rathnakaran and Debashis Das are giving company to Shyam Nikil at second spot.

In the eighth round encounters, International Master Rathnakaran satisfied with half point against Debashis Das while Gleizerov signed the peace treaty with former national champion Abhijit Kunte by repetition moves.

In the ninth round tomorrow, Barbosa takes on Gleizerov while Gomez paired with Shyam Nikil.  Three more rounds remaining in this Rs. 15 lakh prize money tournament.

Game :

GM Deviatkin Andrei v/s GM Oliver  Barbosa

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 Nbd7 7.Nxc4 Nb6 8.Ne5 a5 9.Bg5 g6 10.f3 Bg7 11.e4 Be6 12.Be3 0-0 13.Be2 Qd6 14.Nd3 Nfd7 15.e5 Qc7 16.0-0 Rfd8 17.f4 f5 18.Qc2 Nd5 19.Bf2 Nb4 20.Nxb4 axb4 21.Nb1 Bd5 22.Nd2 e6 23.Bd3 Bf8 24.Nc4 Nb6 25.b3 Bxc4 26.bxc4 Ra5 27.Rfd1 Kh8 28.c5 Nd5 29.g3 Nc3 30.Rdc1 b6 31.cxb6 Qxb6 32.Qb3 Nd5 33.Qc4 Rc8 34.Bc2 c5 35.Bb3 Rc7 36.Qd3 Nc3 37.dxc5 Qb8 38.Bxe6 Bxc5 39.Bxc5 Raxc5 40.Re1 b3 41.Bxb3 Qxb3 42.Qd8+ Qg8 43.Qf6+ Rg7 44.e6 Rc6 45.a5 Ne4 46.Qd4 Rd6 47.Qb2 Rxe6 48.a6 h5 49.a7 Re8 50.Ra6 Kh7 51.Rea1 Ra8 52.Qd4 Qc8 53.Qd5 Qc5+ 54.Qxc5 Nxc5 55.R6a3 Rb7 56.Kg2 Kg7 57.Kh3 Kh6 58.Kh4 Ne4 59.Ra6 Rb2 60.R1a2 Rb7 61.R2a5 Nd2 62.Ra2 Nf3+ 63.Kh3 Kg7 64.R2a3 Nd4 65.R3a4 Nb3 66.Ra3 h4 67.g4 Nc5 68.R6a5 Rb3+ 69.Rxb3 Nxb3 70.Rb5 Nd2 71.Rb7+ Kf6 72.Kxh4 Ne4 73.g5+ Ke6 74.Kh3 Nd6 75.Rg7 Kd5 76.Kg3 Nb5 77.Rxg6 Rxa7 78.Rf6 Nd4 79.g6 Ke4 80.Rd6 Ra3+ 81.Kh4 Nf3+ 82.Kh5 Ra2 83.g7 Rg2 84.Kh6 Kxf4 85.h4 Nxh4 86.Kh7 Ke5 87.Ra6 f4 88.Ra5+ Ke4 89.Ra4+ Ke3 90.g8Q Rxg8 91.Kxg8 f3 92.Rxh4 f2 ½-½

GM Sandipan,Chanda v/s IM Shyam,Nikil P

1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.Qe2 Be7 4.Nf3 c5 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 Nc6 7.0-0 h6 8.Re1 0-0 9.e5 Ne8 10.Nbd2 f5 11.exf6 Bxf6 12.c4 g5 13.Nb3 Ng7 14.h3 b6 15.Bd2 a5 16.a4 Ra7 17.Bc3 Raf7 18.Rf1 Bb7 19.Rae1 Qd7 20.Bxf6 Rxf6 21.Nbd2 Nf5 22.Ne5 Nxe5 23.Qxe5 Qf7 24.cxd5 Bxd5 25.Ne4 Bxe4 26.Rxe4 Nd4 27.f4 Qd7 28.Re3 Qg7 29.Kh2 gxf4 30.gxf4 Rg6 31.Qxg7+ Rxg7 32.Be4 Rf6 33.h4 h5 34.Bg2 Rg4 35.Bh3 Rgxf4 36.Rxf4 Rxf4 37.Kg3 Rf6 38.Re5 Rf3+ 39.Kg2 Rxd3 40.Rxh5 Rb3 41.Rg5+ Kh7 42.Re5 Rxb2+ 43.Kg3 Rb3+ 44.Kg4 Rb4 45.Bg2 Kg6 46.h5+ Kf6 47.Re4 Nf5 48.Bh1 c4 49.Rf4 c3 50.Be4 0-1

 Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-8 :-  GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (6.5) drew with GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (7); GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (7) drew with Mark Paragua of Philippines (6.5); IM Debashis Das (6.5) drew with IM Rathnakaran K (6.5); GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (6.5) drew with GM Abhijit Kunte (6); GM Sandipan Chanda (5.5) lost to IM Shyam Nikil P (6.5); IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (6) drew with Ma Qun of China (6); IM Thej Kumar (6) drew with GM Deepan Chakkaravarthy (6); IM Lalith Babu M R (6) drew with IM Vaibhav Suri (6); IM Karthikeyan P (6) drew with GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (5.5); GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (5.5) drew with FM Diptayan Ghosh (5.5); IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (5.5) drew with IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (5.5); Abhishek Das (5) lost to IM Ashwin Jayaram (6); FM Rajesh VAV (5.5) drew with GM Neelotpal Das (5.5); IM Swapnil Dhopade (6) beat Narayanan S L (5); IM Konguvel P (6) beat GM Laxman R R (5); IM Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan (5.5) drew with Saravana Krishnan P (5.5); Vikramjit Singh (5) lost to IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (6); IM Himanshu Sharma (6) beat Himal Gusain (5); Shardul Gagare (5) lost to Zeng Chongsheng of China(6); IM Nitin S (6) beat Mugil Jayavel (5); Akshat Chandra (5) lost to IM Vishnu Prasanna V (6); Joy Antony (5) lost to IM Shivananda B S (6); Shreyans K Shah (5) lost to GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine (5.5)

Danielsen of Iceland (6) beat Chandika Divyasree (5.5).