Adhiban crushes the Top seed Sergei

B. Adhiban, the under 16 world champion caused the major upset of the tournament, crushing the top seeded European champion Sergei Tiviakov in the ninth and penultimate round of the 1st SCS International Open GM Chess tournament at Swosti Plaza, Bhubaneswar, today. With 7.5 points, second seeded Igor Kurnosov of Russia continued to maintain his half point lead over Adhiban, Abhijeet Gupta of PSPB, M.S. Thej Kuamr of Karnataka and seven other foreign grandmasters.

Adhiban was well prepared to the rarely played Steinitz variation of Ruy Lopez game by Tiviakov and sacrificed his bishop on the 12th move, based on theoretical lines. Two move later, Adhiban made another stunning knight sacrifice, going for an all out attack. Again on move 22, Adhiban exchanged his rook for a knight foreseeing a checkmate or pawn promotion to a queen. Tiviakov surrendered after three more moves.

Igor Kurnosov had a formal 14 move draw with the Ukraine GM Zinchenko Yaroslav on the top board in a Sicilian defence game adopted by the former. Similarly Ismagambetov Anuar of Kazakhstan agreed for a quick 12 move draw with world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta of PSPB. In an equal rook and pawn endings, Thejkumar had better preparation to defeat the Russian GM Vokarev Sergey. K. Rathnakaran of Railways lost his GM norm chances by losing to Russian grandmaster Rychagov Andrey.

 

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