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Chess
By Rakesh Rao
L. Iswarya Shobana and IM R.B. Ramesh have a post match analysis of their drawn encounter in the Saharanpur International chess tournament at Saharanpur on Saturday. Looking on is IM S. Poobesh Anand.
One false move from Ramesh cost him a possible victory and gave a relatively unknown L. Iswarya Shobana her moment of fame. Iswarya made a mockery of the ratings and held the eighth-seeded International Master, for what was the biggest result of her budding career, in the second round of the Saharanpur International chess tournament at the Hotel Maharani here on Saturday. On the opening day when most seeded players, headed by Moldova's GM Dmitry Svetushkin scored two straight victories, the second round setback to Ramesh was the surprise of the evening. Later, another IM P. Konguvel, seeded 27, also suffered a similar fate at the hands of Yashpal Arora. After gaining an advantageous position from the opening lines of Sicilian Rossolimo, Ramesh gifted away a pawn on the 28th turn and lost the initiative. After the exchange of queens, Ramesh had a knight and six pawns while Iswarya was left with a bishop and seven pawns. All credit is due to Iswarya, whose rating of 2086 is 354 Elo points lesses than Ramesh's, for playing accurately on a crowded board despite facing pressure from the clock. At this stage, Ramesh offered a draw, which Iswarya accepted. Considering that this event, with 478 participants, will be played over just nine rounds, Ramesh, who came here after winning three successive titles, has an uphill task from now on to catch up with the front-runners. Earlier, in the opening round, where the rated players faced unrated rivals, the only surprise result was the defeat of 17th seed Nassir Wajih. The Railway champion went down to Birendra Kumar Upadhyay. The experienced M.B. Muralidharan also failed to get off to a winning start. Digesh Malla held the 28th seed. In fact, WGM Nisha Mohota was extremely lucky to beat Dinesh Kumar Pandey. Dinesh, who played brilliantly for the better part of their marathon battle, overlooked a fine combination which could have helped him cripple Nisha's pawn-structure. Later, in sudden-death, Dinesh made an illegal move and soon claimed a `draw' from the arbiter but in vein. Together, these errors of judgement from Dinesh saw four minutes getting added to Nisha's time. Eventually, Dinesh lost on time after getting into a clearly inferior position. On the organisational front, the opening day's proceedings went off rather well. The field of 478 includes four GMs, 16 IMs, one WGM from a total of 195 rated players. The matches are held in three halls of a centrally located hotel besides another huge hall in another hotel. Indeed, it is a monumental task ahead of the inexperienced organisers here. The results: Second round: Inacio Rodrigues (1) lost to Dmitri Sevetushkin (2); Tahir Vakhidov (2) bt Dharmeshwar Pegu (1); Mahatabuddin Ahmad (1) lost to Alexander Fominyh (2); Saidali Iuldashev (2) bt Jatinder Kapoor (1); Nimchand Chauhan (1) lost to Koneru Humpy (2); Neelotpal Das (2) bt Vikrant Chole (1); Arif Ali (1) lost to Sriram Jha (2); R.B. Ramesh (1.5) drew with L. Iswarya Shobana (1.5); M. Vinoth Kumar (1) lost to S. Satyapragyan (2); Saptarshi Roy Choudhary (2) bt Mayank Pandey (1); Sanjit Dutta (1) lost to N. Sudhakar Babu (2); B.S. Shivanandan (2) bt C.L. Sharma (1); M. Natarajan (1) lost to M.R. Venkatesh (2); Suvrajit Saha (2) bt S.V.C. Chakravarthi (1); Niladri Bhattacharya (1) lost to Prathamesh Mokal (2); T.S. Ravi (2) bt Harkamal Sandhu (1); Neeraj Mishra (2) bt Sajal Basak (1); Junaid Ahmad (1) lost to K. Ratnakaran (2); Anup Deshmukh (2) bt Mahesh Bhintade (1); V. Hari Balu (1) lost to Himanshu Sharma (2); Varugeese Koshy (2) bt Parag Hunny (1); Priyaratnam (1) lost to Poobesh Anand (2); Atanu Lahiri (2) bt Rajesh Kumar (1); Afroja Khanam Babli (1) lost to Pankaj Joshi (2); Islam Khan Aminul (2) bt Sumit Grover; Yashpal Arora (1.5) drew with P. Konguvel (1.5); Sagar Shah (1) lost to Nisha Mohota (1); R. Balasubramanium (2) bt Prashant Kumar (1); R.S. Rawat (1) lost to O.T. Anil Kumar (2); Saurabh Kherdekar (2) bt B. Shashikant (1). First round: Svetushkin bt Ashustosh Saini; Ashutosh Shukla lost to Tair Vakhidov; Alexander Fominyh bt Atul Dahale; Avinash Sharma lost to Iuldachev; Humpy bt Avinash Sethi; B.B.L. Srivastava lost to Neetotpal; Jha bt B.K. Sinha; B.P. Rawani lost to Ramesh; Satyapragyan bt B.S. Asthana; Badrinath Raghav lost to Saptarshi Roy Choudhary; Babu bt Bahadur Singh; Balman Gurung lost to Shivanandan; Venkatesh bt Beenu Pandey; Bhagwat Prasad Sharma lost to Saha; Mokal bt Bharat Gurung; Bibaswon Das lost to T.S. Ravi; Nassir Wajih lost to Birendra Kumar Upadhyay; Bishwabijaya Ghimire lost to Neeraj Mishra; Ratnakaran bt Bonu Ravi Kumar; C. Jyothirmayee lost to Deshmukh; Himanshu Sharma w/o C. Paramvir Kumar; Chinmay Kulkarni lost to Koshy; Poobesh Anand bt D.P. Chimpa; Debashish Das lost to Lahiri; Pankaj Joshi bt Dev Nath Teli; Deven Pillai lost to Islam Khan; Digesh Shankar Malla drew with M.B. Muralidharan; Nisha bt Dinesh Kumar Pandey; Dipak Rai lost to R. Balasubramanium.
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