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Chess
By Rakesh Rao
Soumya Ranjan Mishra (left) pondering a move during his upset victory over top-seeded GM Svetushkin Dmitri in the fourth round of the Saharanpur International chess tournament at Saharanpur on Sunday. — Photo: R.V. Moorthy
The top three seeds — Moldova's Dmitry Svetushkin, Uzbekistan's Tahir Vakhidov and Russian veteran Alexander Fominyh — learnt it the hard way after being subjected to varying degrees of embarrassment on the second day of the Saharanpur International chess tournament here on Sunday. After a day packed with plenty of thrills and unexpected outcomes, nine players, including Uzbek GM Saidali Iuldashev and Koneru Humpy, maintained their all-win record after four rounds. The leading Indians to lose today were Sriram Jha, M.R. Venkatesh and Atanu Lahiri. R. B. Ramesh drew his second successive match with white, this time to unrated V. Rammohan Reddy. Other IMs like S. Satyapragyan, Prathamesh Mokal, T.S. Ravi, N. Sudhakar Babu, Neeraj Mishra, Poobesh Anand along with Woman Grandmaster Nisha Mohota were held. L. Iswarya Shobana, who held Ramesh on Saturday, continued to play well and reached three points. However, everything else was pushed to the background after what the top three overseas seeds had to go through this Sunday. Svetushkin, with a rating of 2571, truly had an off day. Little-known Moti Ram held him on the top board in the third round before the 2001 Cusat Open champion Soumya Ranjan Mishra inflicted a crushing defeat in 40 moves of Pirc Defence. Playing white, Soumya Ranjan, whose rating is a modest 2169, capitalised on Svetushkin's surprisingly passive play,gained a rook for bishop and nailed him at the stroke of the first time-control. This Bhubaneshwar-based junior had beaten Nisha Mohota last week at Lucknow. Earlier, R. Balasubramanium had made Fominyh leave the playing hall in a huff. The 31-year-old from the Integral Coach Factory, Chennai, came up with a brilliant rook-sacrifice for a minor piece. Soon, an exasperated Fominyh gave up his queen, only to delay the inevitable. This was Balasubramanium's first victory over a Grandmaster. Previously, Balasubramanium's best was a draw against British GM Daniel King at Kolkata in 1994. This afternoon, Bihar's junior Sudhir Kumar Sinha experienced the moment of his career after holding Vakhidov, whose rating is 322 points more. Sinha, playing white matched the double-GM norm holder Vakhidov in the Centre-counter game all the way to the ending involving a bishop and three pawns each. He came under some time-pressure but played precisely to deny the Uzbek IM any liberties. Later Sinha drew with Suman Basu. The results: Fourth round: R. Balasubramanium (4) bt Alexander Fominyh (3); Saidali Iuldashev (4) bt O.T. Anil Kumar (3); Saurabh Kherdekar (3) lost to Koneru Humpy (4); Neelotpal Das (4) bt P.D.S. Girinath (3). Valay Parikh (4) bt Sriram Jha (3); Somak Palit (3.5) drew with S. Satyapragyan (3.5); Saptarshi Roy Choudhury (3.5) drew with Arghyadip Das (3.5); B.S. Shivanandan (3.5) drew with Ravi Kumar (3.5); Laisaram Imocha (4) bt M.R. Venkatesh (3). Survajit Saha (4) bt Adbul Malek (3); D. Sai Srinivas (3.5) drew with Prathamesh Mokal (3.5); T.S. Ravi (3.5) drew with Diwakar Prasad Singh (3.5); Shashikant Kutwal (3.5) drew with K. Ratnakaran (3.5); Anup Deshmukh (4) bt Arjun Tiwari (3). G.N. Gopal (3.5) drew with Himanshu Sharma (3.5); Varugeese Koshy (4) bt Aminul Islam (3); Abhishek Das (3.5) drew with Nisha Mohota (3.5); Tahir Vakhidov (3.5) bt M. Parmashivam (3); Soumya Ranjan Mishra (3.5) bt Dmitry Svetushkin (2.5). Swaraj Palit (2.5) lost to N. Sudhakar Babu (3.5); Neeraj Mishra (3.5) bt Sukhpal Singh Kalsi (2.5); K. Ramu (2.5) lost to Poobesh Anand (3.5); Karun Duggal (3.5) bt Pankaj Joshi (2.5); Aminul Islam (3) drew with Shantanu Lahiri (3); R. Muralidharan (2.5) lost to P. Konguvel (3.5). M.B. Muralidharan (3.5) bt Dushyant Das (2.5); Anurag Jaiswal (2.5) lost to M.R. Khan (3.5); Saifuddin (2.5) lost to Sujit Kumar Sinha (3.5); Rakesh Ranjan (3.5) bt Santosh Kumar Sinha (2.5); S.K. Rathore (3) drew with L. Iswarya Shobana (3). Third round: Svetushkin drew with Moti Ram; Sudhir Kumar Sinha drew with Tahir Vakhidov; Fominyh bt T. Abhay; Amith Pal Singh lost to Iuldashev; Humpy bt Mohammd Javed; Jayant Katdare lost to Neelotpal; Jha bt Brijesh Agarwal; Satyapragyan bt Y.P. Srivastava. Manish Joshi lost to Satparshi Roy Choudhary; Babu drew with Soumya Ranjan Mishra; N. Jyoti Lal lost to Shivanandan; Venkatesh bt K. Chakravarthi; T.R. Shanmuganathan lost to Saha; Mokal bt Tejdeep Adabala; Nirav Y. Rajasuba lost to T.S. Ravi. Keshav Shreshtha drew with Neeraj Mishra; Ratnakaran bt Gajendra Chauhan; Deoraj Chatterjee lost to Deshmukh; Himanshu Sharma bt Joydeep Dutta; Rohan Shandilya lost to Koshy; Poobesh Anand drew with Swaraj Palit; Aminul Islam bt Lahiri. Pankaj Joshi drew with K. Ramu; Sukhpal Singh Kalsi drew with Aminul Islam Khan; Nisha Mohota bt Tanmoy Patnayak; Navin Hegde lost to R. Balasubramanium; O.T. Anil Kumar bt Dilip Panjwani; Saumitra Mujumdar lost to Saurabh Kherdekar; M.R. Khan drew with Shantanu Lahiri; M. Parmashivam bt G. Balaji.
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