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Seven Indians get norms
By R.Anantharam, International
Arbiter and Media Incharge
Russian grandmaster Maxim Turov enhanced his lead by a full
point over IM M.R. Lalith Babu of A.P., Vikramaditya Kamble of
Railways, Rinat Jumabayev of Kazakhstan and Ziaur Rahman of
Bangladsh in the LIC & ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010
International chess tournament organized by Sports Promotion
Foundation today. At the end of the ninth round, Maxim has
scored 8.5 points, an amazing run in such a kind of tournament.
The notable feature of the ninth round is that R. Siddharth of
Tamil Nadu achieved his maiden GM norm and six other Indians –
P. Shyam Nikil of Tamil Nadu, Anwesh Upadyaya and Swayams Mishra
of Orissa, Vaibhav Suri of Delhi and Fenil Shah and Ankit
Rajpara of Gujarat secured IM norms.
Maxim played a solid game again using his favourite Caro Kann
defence against Marat Dzhimaev of Uzbekistan. His pawn capture
using the rook on two consecutive moves (33 and 34) sealed the
game in his favour. The hitherto unbeaten Anwesh Upadyaya met
his waterloo at the hands of Rinat. Rinat controlled the e- file
with his rook and his e4 move paved way for a checkmate or queen
loss with Bh3, a move later.
In an exchange down position Manik Mikulas of Slovekia had a
plenty of compensation in the form three extra Pawns against
Ziaur Rahman. But, he had to give up his knight to prevent
Ziaur’s centre pawn reaching the eighth rank. With two rooks
acting in tandem, Ziaur snatched the game away from Manik in 64
moves.
In an absorbing game between Lalith Babu and Shyam Nikil, there
were attacks and counter attacks. In the process, Shyam lost the
exchange, losing his queen for a rook and bishop. He fought
valiantly but Lalith Babu kept the pressure on to gain a point
on the 33rd move. The Sicilian defence played by the top seed
Eshan Ghaem Maghami against Asian Junior champion Ashwin Jayaram
went against Maghami. After exchanging all the pieces, Ashwin
had a pawn at the end and with his king ahead, it was not a
problem for him to win.
Vikramaditya Kamble felled another grandmaster S. Arun Prasad in
a semi Slav defence, launching a heavy attack on the king side.
Siddharth quelled the challenge of GM Martyn Kravysiv of Ukraine
in an aggressive game comprising 53 moves. The win earned him
his maiden GM norm. Another GM victim is the national Blitz
champion R.R. Laxman of ICF at the hands of Somak Palit of
Railways.
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on February 01st , 2010
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