10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament

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Barbosa and Gomez maintains lead; Das stuns Aleksandrov

New Delhi (19 Jan 12) :-  Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul signed the peace treaty in their top board battle to maintain their joint lead with six and half points in the ongoing 10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Thursday.

Meanwhile there is no stopping for the upset galore in this edition as World Under-18 bronze medalist, Deabashis Das shocked second seed Grandmaster Aleksandrov of Belarus. Playing with black pieces in Semi-Slav variation, Das took his opponent’s queen for rook and bishop in 32 move and used his queen and knight combination to good effect in the middle game.  Facing the defeat, Belarusian Grandmaster shook the hands of his Indian opponent signaling a win for the Orissa youngster.  

Five players including Debashis Das and International Master K Rathnakaran, who held top seed Sandipan Chanda in the seventh round encounter are sharing the second spot with six points.  Russian Grandmasters Andrei Deviatkin, Evgeny Gleizerov and Filipino Grandmaster Mark Paragua are the other players giving company to the Indian International Masters at second spot.   In the seventh round, Deviatkin beat Uzbek Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev while Gleizerov and Paragua got better off Ashwin Jayaram and Zeng Chongsheng of China respectively.

Seasoned campaigner G B Joshi and young lad Akshat Chandra brought cheers to the home crowd as Joshi held third seed Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine to a creditable draw while Akshat stunned International Master Rahul Sangma of railways.   

Game :

GM Aleksandrov,Aleksej of Belarus v/s IM Debashis,Das of India

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 h6 8.Rg1 e5 9.h4 e4 10.Nd2 g5 11.hxg5 hxg5 12.Be2 Nf8 13.b3 Be6 14.Bb2 Rh2 15.f3 exf3 16.Nxf3 Rh3 17.Nxg5 Rxe3 18.0-0-0 Bf4 19.Nxe6 Rxc3+ 20.Nxf4 Rxc2+ 21.Kxc2 Qd6 22.Rgf1 0-0-0 23.Bd3 dxc4 24.bxc4 Kb8 25.g5 Ng4 26.Bc1 Qxd4 27.Rfe1 Qc5 28.g6 Nxg6 29.Nxg6 fxg6 30.Bf4+ Ka8 31.Bf1 Qf5+ 32.Kb3 Rc8 33.Rd4 g5 34.Bg3 Nf2 35.Bg2 Nd3 36.Rd1 Nc5+ 37.Kb2 a6 38.R1d2 Ne6 39.Re4 Nf4 40.Bxf4 gxf4 41.Bf3 Qf6+ 42.Kb3 Ka7 0-1

 IM Rathnakaran K of India v/s GM Sandipan Chanda of India

 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Nxc6 dxc6 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.f3 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 Nd7 11.Be3 b6 12.a4 a5 13.Be2 Kc7 14.Kf2 Ba6 15.Rhd1 Rhd8 16.Rab1 e5 17.f4 Nc5 18.Bxc5 bxc5 19.Rxd8 Rxd8 20.fxe5 Re8 21.Ke3 Rxe5 22.Rf1 Re7 23.h3 h6 24.Kd3 Bc8 25.Bg4 Bxg4 26.hxg4 f6 27.Ke3 Re8 28.Rb1 Re5 29.Rh1 Re8 30.Rb1 Rd8 31.Ke2 Rh8 32.Ke3 Re8 33.Kf4 Re5 ½-½

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-7 :-  GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (6.5) drew with GM Gomez John Paul (6.5); IM Rathnakaran K (6) drew with GM Sandipan Chanda (5.5); GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (5) lost to GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (6); IM Ashwin Jayaram (5) lost to GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (6); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (6) beat Zeng Chongsheng of China (5); GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus (4.5) lost to IM Debashis Das (6); IM Saptarshi Roy (4.5) lost to GM Abhijit Kunte (5.5); FM Diptayan Ghosh (5) drew with IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (5); Chinmay Kulkarni (4.5) lost to IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (5.5); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (5.5) beat IM Murali Krishnan B T (4.5); Kunal M (4.5) lost to IM Lalith Babu M R (5.5); IM Shyam Nikil P (5.5) beat IM Girinath PDS (4.5); Ma Qun of China (5.5) beat Ankit R Rajpara (4.5); GM Neelotpal Das (5) drew with IM Konguvel P (5); Bitan Banerjee (4.5) lost to IM Thej Kumar M S (5.5); IM Vaibhav Suri (5.5) beat Soumya Thakurta (4.5); GM Laxman R R (5) drew with FM Rajesh VAV (5); Shreyans K Shah (5) drew with IM Himanshu Sharma (5); Bai Jinshi of China (4.5) lost to IM Karthikeyan P (5.5); GM Mikhail Ulibin (5) beat Hemant Sharma (4.5).