Gusian stuns Trang; Chanda held

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New Delhi (16 Jan 12) :-  Chandigarh youngster Himal Gusian stunned Hungarian Grandmaster Hoang Thanah Trang in the third round of the 10^th Parsvnath International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here on Monday.  The foreign Grandmasters are now feeling the heat in the Delhi’s winter as many as three of them have tasted defeat in the last two rounds. Earlier in the second round, Maharashtra youngster Pratik Patil and Chinese lad Bai Jinshi opened the casualty list of the tournament by upsetting eighth seed Ukranian Grandmaster Mikhailo Oleksienko and Russian Grandmaster Evegeny Gleizerov respectively.

Playing white side of McCutcheon variation in Classical line of French defence, Himal gained upper hand in the middle game and uprooted the defence of his fancied rival in 86 moves.  In another important match of the day, International Master Ramnath Bhuvanesh held top seed Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda to a creditable draw. Playing black side of Scheveningen variation of Sicilian Defence, Chanda pressed hard for a decisive result with his double bishop combination against bishop and knight but Bhuvanesh stood firm to deny him full point and singed the peace treaty after 67 moves.

However, former National champion Abhijit Kutne continued to make merry at the expense of Jharkhand youngster Abhishek Das and Praveen Thipsay overcame G B Joshi in their third round encounters. But other Indian Grandmasters in fray, Deepan Chakkaravarthy, Neelotpal Das and Laxman were failed to get a decisive results in their favour and split the point against S L Narayananan, Shardul Gagare and Anurag Mhamal respectively in the third round encounters. 

Earlier in the second round, seasoned campaigner Ravi Hegde held second seed Belarus Grandamster Aleksej Aleksandrov while Sameer Kathmale achieved a creditable draw against third seed Ukrainian Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyan. N Surendran and Sidhant Mohapatra also produced the same results against their fancied rivals fourth seed Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin of Russia and Grandmaster Henrik Danielsen of Iceland respectively.  

Game :-

Himal,Gusain of India v/s GM Hoang Thanh,Trang of Hungary

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4 5.Nge2 dxe4 6.a3 Be7 7.Bxf6 gxf6 8.Nxe4 b6 9.g4 Rg8 10.Bg2 c6 11.h3 Qc7 12.Qd3 h5 13.Qf3 Nd7 14.N4g3 hxg4 15.Qxc6 Qxc6 16.Bxc6 Rb8 17.hxg4 Rxg4 18.Rh8+ Bf8 19.0-0-0 Bb7 20.Rxf8+ Kxf8 21.Bxd7 Ke7 22.Bb5 Rh8 23.d5 Rd8 24.dxe6 Rxd1+ 25.Kxd1 fxe6 26.Kd2 f5 27.Ke3 Kf6 28.Bd3 Rh4 29.f4 Bc8 30.Ng1 Rg4 31.N3e2 e5 32.fxe5+ Kxe5 33.Nf3+ Kf6 34.Nf4 Bb7 35.Bc4 Be4 36.Bd3 Bxf3 37.Kxf3 Rg1 38.Nd5+ Ke5 39.Ne7 Ra1 40.Nxf5 Rb1 41.b3 Ra1 42.a4 a5 43.Ke2 Kd5 44.Kd2 Kc5 45.Kc3 Rh1 46.Ne3 Rh3 47.Nf5 Rh2 48.Nd4 Rh6 49.Ne2 Rh4 50.Kd2 Rh2 51.Ke3 Rh4 52.Nf4 Rg4 53.Be2 Rg3+ 54.Ke4 Rg8 55.Nd3+ Kd6 56.Kd4 Rg2 57.Ke3 Rh2 58.c3 Rh1 59.Nf4 Rb1 60.Bc4 Rg1 61.b4 Rg3+ 62.Kd4 Rg4 63.Ke4 Rg3 64.Nd5 Kc6 65.Kd4 Rg4+ 66.Kd3 Rh4 67.Ne7+ Kd7 68.Nf5 Rg4 69.Bb5+ Kc7 70.Nd4 Rh4 71.Kc4 Rh5 72.Be8 Re5 73.Nb5+ Kd8 74.bxa5 Rxe8 75.axb6 Kd7 76.Kd5 Rh8 77.b7 Rb8 78.c4 Rxb7 79.c5 Kd8 80.Kc6 Rh7 81.Kb6 Rh1 82.c6 Ra1 83.Kb7 Rc1 84.a5 Rc5 85.Kb6 Rc1 86.a6 1-0

Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :- 

Round-3 :- IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (2.5) drew with GM Sandipan Chanda (2.5); IM Rahul Sangma (2) lost to Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (3); GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (3) beat Ankit R Rajpara (2); Abhishek Das (2) lost to GM Abhijit Kunte (3); IM Lanka Ravi (2.5) drew with GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (2.5); GM Richard Bitoon of Philippines (3) beat IM Konguvel P (2); IM Praveen Kumar C (2.5) drew with IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (2.5); GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (3) beat FM Rajesh VAV (2); Bitan Banerjee (3) beat IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (2); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (2.5) drew with Narayanan S L (2.5); Saravana Krishnan P (2) lost to IM Lalith Babu M R (3); IM Shyam Nikil (2.5) drew with Mu Ke of China (2.5); Kunal M (2) lost to GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (3); FM Prasenjit Datta (2) lost to IM Ashwin Jayaram (3); GM Neelotpal Das (2.5) drew with FM Shardul Gagare (2.5); Praveen Kumar RA (2) lost to IM Thej Kumar M S (3); IM Vaibhav Suri (3) beat Hemant Sharma (2); Himal Gusain (3) beat GM Hoang Thanh Trang of Hungary (2); GM Praveen Thipsay (3) beat G B Joshi (2); GM Laxman R R (2.5) drew with Anurag Mhamal (2.5).

Round- 2 :-  GM Sandipan Chanda beat WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty; IM Hegde Ravi Gopal drew with GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus; GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine drew with Sameer Kathmale; Surendran N drew with GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia; GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia beat IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu; Soumya Thakurta lost to Oliver Barbosa of Philippines; GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia lost to Bai Jinshi of China; Pratik Patil beat GM Oleksienko Mikhailo of Ukraine; GM Abhijit Kunte beat Abhishek Kelkar; Sidhant Mohapatra drew with Henrik Danielsen of Iceland; GM Mark Paragua of Philippines beat Akash PC Iyer; Chandika Divyasree lost to Richard Bitoon of Philippines; IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi beat Badrilal Nepali of Nepal; FM Vinoth Kumar M lost to GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines; IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazkhstan beat Debashish Dutta; Vikramaditya Sahu lost to GM Deepan Chakkravarthy; IM Lalith Babu M R beat Jitendra Kumar Choudhary; Nandhidhaa P V lost to IM Shyam Nikil; GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan beat Santanu Borpatra Gohain; Saumil Padhya beat Ma Qun of China.