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It's Deep Sengupta's day

By S. Sabanayakan

Photo: Sushanta Patronobish

India's Deep Sengupta (left) planning his next move against GM Alexander Fominyh of Russia during their ninth round game in the Tata International Open chess tournament at Jamshedpur on Saturday.

JAMSHEDPUR OCT. 18. Uzbek Grandmasters, Saidali Iuldachev and Marat Dzhumaev, joined Indian GM Dibyendu Barua at the top with 7.5 points each at the end of the ninth round of the Tata International Open chess tournament at the J.R.D. Tata Sports Complex here on Saturday.

Commonwealth champion Barua drew both his top board games in the eighth and ninth rounds and allowed the Uzbeks to catch up with him. With two more rounds to go, the championship race has hotted up.

The day witnessed two major shocks in the eighth round. Former World under-12 champion Deep Sengupta (2308), darling of the local crowd, surprised an indisposed top seed Dmitry Svetushkin of Moldova and later drew with another GM, Alexander Fominyh of Russia, to enhance his hopes of getting a second IM norm. He now needs a draw against a GM with 2500 Elo points or more or one point from two IMs to get his IM norm in the next two rounds.

Sengupta adopted the French Defence against GM Dmitry Svetushkin of Moldova and the game transposed from French Advance to an irregular line. The top seed sacrificed a pawn in the opening for initiative. He refused to get back the pawn when Sengupta returned it. This would have led to a dead drawn position. Under time pressure, Svetushkin made some tactical errors and allowed the initiative to swing to the black side. Sengupta managed to mount a kingside attack and mated the white in 32 moves.

The results (Indians unless stated):

Ninth round: Surya Shekhar Ganguly (7) drew with Dibyendu Barua (7.5); Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) (7.5) bt Sergei Ovsejevitsch (Ukr) (6.5); Deep Sengupta (7) drew with Alexander Fominyh (Rus) (7); Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) (7.5) bt V. Saravanan (6.5); M. Srinivasa Rao (6.5) drew with Niaz Murshed (Ban) (6.5); P. Harikrishna (7) bt Anup Deshmukh (6); Tahir Vakhidov (Uzb) (7) bt Manish Kumar (6); Abhijit Kunte (6.5) bt K. Ratnakaran (6); Atanu Lahiri (5.5) lost to R.B. Ramesh (6.5); Somak Palit (5.5) lost to Sundararajan Kidambi (6.5); Amitpal Singh (6) drew with Rahul Shetty (6); M.R. Venkatesh (5.5) lost to Swati Ghate (6.5); P.D.S. Girinath (6) drew with Suvrajit Saha (6); T.S. Ravi (6.5) bt Arghyadip Das (5.5); Saifuddin (Ban) (5.5) lost to Arindam Mukherjee (6.5); Syed Anwar Shazuli (6) drew with P. Konguvel (6); Varugeese Koshy (6) drew with Himanshu Sharma (6); Jayant Gokhale (6) drew with Ketan Boricha (6); R. Balasubramaniun (6.5) bt Hari O.M. Sharma (5.5); Gurpreetpal Singh (6) drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (6); Kh. Aminul Islam (Ban) (5.5) lost to Valay Parikh (6.5); Laltu Chatterjee (5.5) lost to Dmitry Svetushkin (Mol) (6); K. Visweswaran (6) bt Ebenezer Joseph (5); J. Malleswara Rao (6) bt E.P. Nirmal (5); Sijit Sinha (5.5) drew with Rishipal Singh (5.5); Debayan Majumdar (5.5) drew with S. Arun Prasad (5.5); O.T. Anil Kumar (6) bt Vipul Subhashi (5); G. Balaji (5.5) drew with Monoj K. Panigrahi (5.5); R. Preetham Sharma (6) bt Debasis Chakrabarty (5); Rahul Sangma (5) lost to Zia-ur-Rahman Ban) (6); S.P. Sethuraman (5) lost to Sourabh Khdrdekar (6); S. Poobesh Anand (5.5) bt Biswajit Chatterjee (5).

Eighth round: Barua (7) drew with Fominyh (6.5); Ovsejevitsch (6.5) drew with Dzhumaev (6.5); Murshed (6) drew with Harikrishna (6); Ramesh (5.5) lost to Ganguly (6.5); Ratnakaran (6) drew with Vakhidov (6); Parikh (5.5) lost to Iuldachev (6.5); Svetushkin (5) lost to Sengupta (6.5); Rahman (5) lost to Srinivasa Rao (6); Kidambi (5.5) drew with G. Singh (5.5); Roy Chowdhury (5.5) drew with Girinath (5.5); A. Das (5.5) drew with Venkatesh (5.5); R. Shetty (5.5) drew with A. Mukherjee (5.5); Saravanan (6) bt R.P. Sharma (5); M. Kumar (6) bt Visweswaran (5); Amitpal (5.5) drew with Koshy (5.5); Boricha (5.5) drew with Balasubramaniun (5.5); A. Deshmukh (6) bt R. Sangma (5); Chakrabarty (5) lost to T.S. Ravi (5.5); Kunte (5.5) bt Natarajan (4.5); S. Saha (5.5) bt Vinod Bhagwat (4.5); L. Chatterjee (5.5) bt Poobesh Anand (4.5); Konguvel (5.5) bt Samsonkin Artem (Blr) (4.5); H. Sharma (5.5) bt T.J. Suresh Kumar (4.5); Hari Sharma (5.5) bt R.R. Laxman (4.5); Kiran Panditrao (4.5) lost to Aminul Islam (5.5); A. Lahiri (5.5) bt Joydev Saha (4.5); Puneet Jaiswal (4.5) lost to S. Palit (5.5); S. Ghate (5.5) bt R.P. Senthil Kumar (4.5); S.A. Prasad (5) drew with J.M. Rao (5); Vinoth Kumar (4.5) lost to Saifuddin (5.5).

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