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Three upsets mark day's proceedings

By S. Sabanayakan

— Photo: Sushanta Patronobish

Arindam Mukherjee (left), who played probably the game of his life when he defeated GM Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan in 50 moves, in the Tata International Open chess tournament at Jamshedpur on Tuesday.

JAMSHEDPUR OCT. 14. Three major upsets marked the second day of the Tata International Open chess tournament at the J.R.D. Tata Sports Complex here on Tuesday. Indian Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly was shocked by Pritam Singh in the second round in the morning, while compatriot Arindam Mukherjee surprised another GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan. As the day drew to a close, Vinod Bhagwat stunned GM Abhijeet Kunte, the last two upsets coming in the third round.

Mukherjee, a 25-year-old Eastern Railway employee, produced a career best performance with a stunning play in Dutch defence. Dzhumaev's opening against an opponent, who had predetermined to attack from the word go, did not have the needed surprise.

Having gained advantage in the opening gambit itself, Mukherjee repulsed the Uzbek's attempts to reach equality. When Mukherjee won the first of two pawns in the 28th move after Dzhumaev miscalculated in the late middle game, he had no other option but to resign in the 50th after losing the second pawn.

Kunte, who was held to a draw in the morning by Laltu Chatterjee, had the ignominy of facing defeat at the hands of Vinod Bhagwat in the third round. The Indian GM lost in 39 moves in a Nimzo Indian Defence game. Bhagwat had a good day by holding top seed Dmitry Svetushkin in the morning.

The results (Indians unless stated): third round: P. Hari Krishna (3) bt Swati Ghate (2); S. Arun Prasad (2.5) drew with Tahir Vakhidov (Uzb) (2.5); Dibyendu Barua (3) bt Valey Parikh (2); O.T. Anil Kumar (2) lost to Saidali Iuldashev (Uzb) (3); Alexander Fominyh (Rus) (3) bt Manish Kumar (2); Abu Sufin Shakin (Ban) (2) lost to Zia-ur Rahman (Ban) (3); Sergei Ovsejevitsch (Ukr) (3) bt Y. Syed Anwar Shazuli (2); Arindam Mukherjee (3) bt Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) (2); R.B. Ramesh (2.5) drew with Sourabh Kherdekar (2.5); Niaz Murshed (Ban) (3) bt Ravi Kumar (2); Rahul Sangma (2.5) drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (2.5); M.R. Venkatesh (3) bt Ketan Boricha (2); Jayant Gohkale (2) lost to Suvrajit Saha (3); Vishal Sareen (3) bt Mehdi Hasan (Ban) (2); C. Natarajan (2.5) drew with V. Saravanan (2.5); D.P. Singh (2) lost to P. Konguvel (3); Varugeese Koshy (3) bt K.V. Shantharam (2); Pradip Ghosh (2.5) drew with Himanshu Sharma (2.5); Amit Kr. Midda (2.5) drew with Anup M. Deshmukh (2.5); R.R. Laxman (2.5) drew with Pritam Singh (2.5); Kh. Aminul Islam (Ban) (2.5) drew with Abhishek Das (2.5); P.D.S. Girinath (3) bt Sujit Kumar Sinha (2); R. Muralidharan (2.5) drew with S. Rishipal Singh (2.5); T.S. Ravi (2) drew with Souvik Chakraborty (2.5); Vedant Goswami (1.5) lost to Dmitry Svetushkin (Mol) (2.5); Vinod Bhagwat (1.5) bt Abhijeet Kunte (2.5); Laltu Chatterjee (2) drew with Sundararajan Kidambi (2); S. Poobesh Anand (2.5) bt Santosh K. Sinha (1.5); Neeraj Mishra (2.5) bt Tanmay Pattanayak (1.5); M. Srinivas Rao (2.5) bt P. Praveen Prasad (1.5); Gurpreet Pal Singh (2) drew with Rajendra Sahoo (2); Atanu Lahiri (2.5) bt T. Purushothaman (1.5); Pranjal Das (2) drew with Arghyadip Das (2); Saifuddin (Ban) (2.5) bt Ashwin Jayaram (1.5); Rakesh Ranjan (1.5) drew with K. Visweswaran (1.5); R. Balasubramanium (2) bt Saket Kumar (1); K. Rathnakaran (1.5) drew with Aminul Islam (Ban) (1.5); Deep Sengupta (2) bt G. Srinivas (1).

Second round: Svetushkin (1.5) drew with Bhagwat (1.5); T.J. Suresh Kumar (1) lost to Hari Krishna (2); Kunte (1.5) drew with Laltu Chatterjee (1.5); Pritam Singh (2) bt Ganguly (1); Vakhidov (2) bt Vivek Nambiar (1); Hari Sharma (1) lost to Barua (2); Luldashev (2) bt Virender Singh Negi (1); Samsonkin Artem (Blr) (1) lost to Fominyh (Rus) (2); Zia-ur Rahman (Ban) (2) bt Soumya Ranjan Mishra (1); K. Ramu (1) lost to Ovsejevitsch (2); Dzhumaev (2) bt Vipal Subhashi (1); Manoj Kumar Panigrahi (1) lost to Ramesh (2); Debashish Chakraborty (1) lost to Murshed (2); Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (2) bt T.R. Shanmuganathan (1); E.P. Nirmal (1) lost to Venkatesh (2); Suvrajit Saha (2) bt Joydev Saha (1); Rahul Shetty (1.5) drew with Pranjal Das (1.5); J. Malleswara Rao (1) lost to Sareen (2); Saravanan (2) bt Kiran Pandit Rao (1); Konguvel (2) bt Rohan V. Shandilya (1); P. Praveen Prasad (1.5) drew with Neeraj Mishra (1.5); Sushil Kumar Sinha (1) lost to Varugeese Koshy (2); Himanshu Sharma (2) bt Punit Jaiswal (1); Anup Deshmukh (2) bt Devraj Chatterjee (Ban) (1); Tanmay Pattanayak (1.5) drew with M. Srinivasa Rao (1.5); R.R. Laxman (2) bt M.R. Sangeetha (1); Kh. Aminul Islam (Ban) (2) bt Biswajeet Chatterjee (1); Rajendra Sahoo (1.5) drew with Atanu Lahiri (1.5); Md. Hafizul Islam (Ban) (1) lost to P.D.S. Girinath (2); S. Rishipal Singh (2) bt Dushyant Das (1).

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