Sport - Chess   

Three IMs shocked as 34 share lead

By Rakesh Rao

K. Ramu (right), who defeated Dinesh Sharma, pores over the board in their second round encounter in the Piloo Modi Open chess tournament in Lucknow on Saturday. — Photo: R.V. Moorthy

LUCKNOW SEPT. 20. Three International Masters — S. Satyapragyan, Dinesh Sharma and T. S. Ravi — crashed to defeats in the second round leaving 34 leaders on the second day of the 24th Pilloo Mody international rating chess tournament at the Moti Mahal hall here on Saturday.

Satyapragyan threw away a comfortable position to lose to Swaraj Palit and Dinesh Sharma allowed too many liberties to K. Ramu in the middle game and resigned when faced with an inevitable checkmate.

Ravi, inching towards a comfortable victory after gaining a rook for a bishop against Mithilesh Srivastava, lost his rook due to an oversight and with it, the match. S. Poobesh Anand was the other IM who failed to post his second straight victory after being held by Rajkamal Singh.

Meanwhile the seeding for the tournament had to revised with the withdrawal of third seed, Woman Grandmaster S. Vijayalakshmi and with her, top seed Sriram Jha. Last night, Vijayalakshmi had to rush to Chennai after learning that her father had suffered a mild stroke. Her good friend Jha chose to be her escort till Delhi.

As a result, R.B. Ramesh heads the list of seeds. After yesterday's slow start, Ramesh was in his elements and easily won against Rohan Shandilya. Later in the evening, the scheduled third round was cancelled due to electricity failure at the venue.

The results:

Second round: Rohan Shandilya (1) lost to R.B. Ramesh (2); Swaraj Palit (2) bt S. Satyapragyan (1); N. Sudhakar Babu (2) bt Dilip Das (1); K. Ramu (2) bt Dinesh Sharma (1); Prathamesh Mokal (2) bt Shiv Hari (1); Mithilesh K. Srivastava (2) bt T.S. Ravi (1); S. S. Dave (1) lost to Preetham Sharma (2); Anup Deshmukh (2) bt Ashish P. Thatte (1); Varugeese Koshy (2) bt Swati Mohota (1); Rajkamal Singh (1.5) drew with S. Poobesh Anand (1.5); R. R. Laxman (2) bt Nimchand Chouhan (1); H. Venkatesh (1) lost to P. Konguvel (2); Nisha Mohota (2) bt Ketki Kulkarni (1); Mohammad Tariq Umar Khan (1) lost to R. Balasubramanium (2); G. Balaji (2) bt Mayank Pandey (1); Arif Ali (1) lost to Valay Parikh (2); Gurpreet Pal Singh (2) bt Niladri S. Bhattacharya (1); Vikrant H. Chole (1) lost to Yogesh Gore (2); Abhijeet Gupta (2) bt Harkamal Singh (1); Raghuram Balaji (1) lost to Vivek Kumar Shukla (2); P. D. S. Girinath (2) bt Sajal Basak (1); Arindam Mukherjee (2) bt Himanshu Kumar (1); Hemant Sharma (1) lost to S. K. Rathore (2); Amardeep S. Bartakke (2) bt W. A. Khan (1); Junaid Ahmed (1) lost to Ravi Kumar (2); Rishi Pal Singh (1.5) drew with Zameer Ahmad Khan (1.5); S.K. Khasim (1) drew with Diwakar Prasad Singh (1.5); Pradip Ghosh (2) bt Suman Basu (1).

First round: Shankar Mazumdar lost to Sriram Jha; R.B. Ramesh bt Swapnil S. Dhopade; Sahaj Grover lost to S. Vijayalakshmi; S. Satyapragyan bt Mahesh Bhatnagar; P. Lakshmi Sahithi lost to Sudhakar Babu; Dinesh Kumar Sharma bt B. Adithya; Sandipan Chatterjee lost to Prathmesh Mokal; T. S. Ravi bt Lakash Gupta; Neeraj Khera drew with Neeraj Mishra; R. Preetham Sharma bt A. Chaitnaya; Abhimanyu Singhal lost to Anup Deshmukh; Himanshu Sharma drew with Abhimanyu Poddar; Abhinav Verma lost to Varugeese Koshy; S. Poobesh Anand bt Abhishek Singh; Aditya Vikram Ahuja lost to R. R. Laxman; P. Konguvel bt Aman Chahal; Amitabh Ghoshal lost to Nisha Mohota; R. Balasubramanium bt Anand Singh; Anil Verma lost to G. Balaji; Valay Parikh bt Ankan Meda; Ankit Khattar lost to Gurpreet Pal Singh; Yogesh Gore bt Ansar Ali; Anurag Dubey lost to Abhijit Gupta; Vivek Shukla bt Anushruti; Arnab Kumar Mishra lost to P. D. S. Girinath; Vedant Goswami drew with Atul Pati Tripathi; B. K. Sinha lost to Arindam Mukherjee; S.K. Rathore bt B.P. Rawani; Basant Singh lost to Amardeep Bartakke; Ravi Kumar bt Bhavya Khattar; Bibaswon Das lost to Rishipal Singh.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Sport

News: Front Page | National | Southern States | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary |

Stories in this Section

Cricket

• A mountain to climb for Rest
  
  Tennis
  
• India pays the price for Paes' absence
• Australia, Spain in lead
  
  Hockey
  
• Asia Cup begins today
  
  Football
  
• Iran beats India TFA Blue, enters final
  
  Athletics
  
• Anil, Aruna claim bronze as China dominates opening day
  
  Badminton
  
• Vijeta clinches title
  
  Chess
  
• Three IMs shocked as 34 share lead
  
  Squash
  
• Sandeep, Vikas in final
  
  Swimming
  
• Shikha sinks 100m backstroke National mark
  
  Table Tennis
  
• Raman starts campaign in style
  
  

Copyright © 2003, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu