Maghami back to sole lead; Deep Sengupta shocks Turov
BY Gopakumar, International Arbiter

New Delhi (20 Jan 2010) :- Third seed Iranian Grandmaster Maghami Ehsan Ghaem with eight points back in sole lead after defeating overnight joint leader Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan in the ninth round of ongoing 8th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament at Modern School here on Wednesday. Playing white side of Sicilian Defence, Dzhumaev pressed hard for a win but eventually miscalculated a sacrifice to hand over full point to his Iranian counterpart. Other overnight joint leader Russian International Master Nikolay Tolstikh signed the peace treaty against Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh after 35 moves.

Young Indian International Master Deep Sengupta pulled off the biggest upset of the day at the expense of fourth seed Russian Grandmaster Maxim Turov after 56 moves in Caro-Kann Defence. Sengupta along with second seed Slovenian Grandmaster Lenic Luka, Kazakh Grandmaster Pavel Kotsur and Tolstikh are occupies the second spot with seven and half points. Lenic and Kotsur overcame Indian International Masters Sapatarshi Roy Chowdhury and Lalith Babu respectively in the ninth round game. In another surprising result, International Master Arghyadip Das held Ukrainian Grandmaster Martyn Kravtsiv to a creditable draw.

Meanwhile, Swayams Mishra and Aniruddha Deshpande narrowly missed a nine game International Master norm as they lost their ninth round encounter against Grandmaster Arun Prasad and Russian Grandmaster Dmitry Kryakvin respectively.


Important Results (Indians otherwise stated)

Round-9 :- GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (7) lost to Maghami Ehsan Ghaem of Iran (8); GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh (7) drew with IM Nikolay Tolstikh of Russia (7.5); GM Lenic Luka of Slovenia (7.5) beat IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (6.5); IM Deep Sengupta (7.5) beat GM Maxim Turov of Russia (6.5); IM MR Lalith Babu (6.5) lost to GM Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan (7.5); IM Arghyadip Das (7) drew with GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine (7); IM Richard Bitoon of Philippines (7) drew with IM Saptarshi Roy (7); GM Le Quang Liem of Vietnam (7) beat B S Shivananda (6); GM Dmitry Kryakvin of Russia (7) beat Anriuddha Deshpande (6); IM P Karthikeyan (7) beat IM Sahaj Grover (6); GM Andrey Gutov of Russia (7) beat R Arun Karthik (6); IM Oliver Dimakiling of Philippines (6) lost to IM Ravi Gopal Hegde (7); IM PDS Girinath (6.5) drew with IM Swapnil D Dhopade (6.5); IM N Sudhakar Babu (6) lost to IM P Konguvel (7); Swayams Mishra (5.5) lost to GM Arun Prasad (6.5).

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