Vaibhav Suri and Diptayan Ghosh shocks Grandmasters

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New Delhi (17 Jan 12) :-  Intense battles on the top boards produced exciting results on the day as city based International Master Vaibhav Suri shocked fifth seed Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin on the top board while West Bengal youngster Diptayan Ghosh accounted for Grandmaster Richard Bitoon of Philippines in the fourth round of the ongoing 10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here on Tuesday.

Playing black side of English opening, promising Indian youngster Suri made crucial tactical moves towards the end to register his fourth win in the tournament after 50 moves while Diptayan shown his end game supremacy to overcome Bitoon Richard in 57 moves arrived out of open Catalan variation.  Six players including Suri, Ghosh and International Master Ashwin Jayaram, who beat Puneet Jaiswal in the fourth round battle, are leading the point table with perfect scores.

In other important fourth round encounters, Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte signed the peace treaty with Zeng Chongsheng of China while Praveen Thipsay suffered his first defeat in the tournament by the hands of Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa of Philippines.  Top seed Sandipan Chanda made short work of Chinese lad Bai Jinshi but second seed Belarusian Grandmaster Aleksej Alexksandrov satisfied with half point against Indian International Master B S Shivananda. In a surprising result in the fourth round, Shailendra Bajpai outwitted International Master Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan.

The fifth round of this eleven round Swiss System tournament is now under progress at the time of report and Delhi Chess Association felicitated Indian Grandmasters K Sasikiran and Koneru Humpy in a befitting ceremony before the start of fifth round matches.

Game :

GM Deviatkin Andrei of Russia v/s IM Vaibhav Suri of India

 1.c4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.g3 0-0 6.Bg2 b6 7.0-0 Bb7 8.e3 Nbd7 9.Nc3 c5 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.Rfd1 Qc7 12.Rdc1 Qb8 13.d3 Rfd8 14.Rc2 Qa8 15.cxd5 Nxd5 16.Nxd5 Bxd5 17.e4 Bb7 18.h4 Qb8 19.h5 Bf6 20.Bc1 Qd6 21.Bf4 e5 22.Bc1 Nf8 23.Bb2 Ne6 24.Ba3 Ba6 25.Qe1 Qb8 26.Bf1 g6 27.b4 Nd4 28.Nxd4 cxd4 29.Rxc8 Bxc8 30.b5 gxh5 31.Rc1 Bd7 32.Qd1 h4 33.gxh4 Kh8 34.Qf3 Rg8+ 35.Kh2 Qd8 36.Bh3 Bxh3 37.Kxh3 Bxh4 38.Qf5 Bg5 39.Rc6 Qe8 40.Rc7 Qxb5 41.Qf3 Qb1 42.Bc1 Bf4 43.a4 Qa2 44.Bxf4 Qe6+ 45.Kh2 Qf6 46.Kh1 exf4 47.Qh3 Qg5 48.Rc1 f3 49.Rb1 Rg6 50.Qc8+ Kg7 0-1

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-

Round-4 :- GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (3) lost to IM Vaibhav Suri (4); GM Praveen Thipsay (3) lost to GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (4); GM Abhijit Kunte (3.5) drew with Zeng Chongsheng of China (3.5); FM Diptayan Ghosh (4) beat GM Bitoon Richard of Philippines (3); Sekar B (3) lost to GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (4); IM Lalith Babu M R (3.5) drew with Bitan Banerjee (3.5); GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (4) beat Himal Gusain (3); IM Ashwin Jayaram (4) beat Jaiswal Puneet (3); IM Thejkumar M S(3.5) drew with Shreyans K Shah (3.5); GM Sandipan Chanda (3.5) beat Bai Jinshi of China (3); IM Shivananda B S (3) drew with GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus (3); GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine (3) drew with IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (3); IM Girinath PDS (3) drew with GM Henrik Danielsen of Iceland (3); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (3.5) beat IM Praveen Kumar C (2.5); IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (3) drew with Ravi Lanka  (3); Mu Ke of China (3) drew with GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (3); Narayanan S L (3) drew with IM Shyam Nikil P (3); Chinmay Kulkarni (2.5) lost to GM Neelotpal Das (3.5); FM Sharudl Gagare (3) drew with GM Laxman R R (3); IM Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan (2.5) lost to Shailendra K Bajpai (3.5)