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Ankit Rajpara upsets Saidali
By R.Anantharam, International
Arbiter and Media Incharge
Ankit Rajpara of Maharashtra
shocked grandmaster Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan to be among
the leaders with 3 points at the end of the third round of the
LIC and ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010 chess tournament
organized by Sports Promotion Foundation here today.
Twenty three players including second seeded Maxim Turov of
Russia, Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan, Manik Mikulas of Slovekia,
Ankit Rajapara, Anup Deshmukh of Maharashtra, Saptarshi Roy
Choudhury and B.T. Muralikrishnan of Railways and P. Shyam Nikil
of Tamil Nadu have scored a centum score.
Ankit chose the exchange variation of Ruy Lopez opening and
positioned his pieces well. In the end game, he had a good
active knight against bad bishop of Saidali to post a fluent
win.
Adopting Nimzo Indian defence, Udeshi Aditya attacked Maxim’s
king side, but the latter defended well to maintain parity. He
slowly developed his pieces and gained the exchange. As game
went by, Maxim maximized the pressure with his queen and rook
and set to win a piece, when Aditya resign
Maxim Turov of Russia playing
against Aditya Udeshi of Maharashtra
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on January 26th , 2010
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