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Chole holds Humpy

By Our Chess Correspondent

CHENNAI, JAN. 22. Grandmaster Koneru Humpy was held to a draw by unknown Vikrant Chole in the opening round of the 1st Orient Flying School International Open chess tournament at Hotel President here on Thursday.

Except a few minor upsets, favourites in general had an easy time in the first round. Former National champion D.V. Prasad of Indian Oil who is looking for his final Grandmaster norm here received a setback when he was held to a draw by Himanshu Kumar.

Chennai's Grandmaster R.B. Ramesh of Indian Oil defeated R.R. Vasudevan of Canara Bank when the latter overlooked a pawn fork leading to a disastrous pin on the 40th move. The visiting Grandmasters had fluent victories.

Top results (round one, India unless stated): Pavel Smirnov (Rus) bt P. Priya, R. Ganesh Bhat lost to Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr), Alexandre Fominyh (Rus) bt C.N. Vaidya, C.R.G. Krishna lost to Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb), Shukhrat Safin (Uzb) bt N.V.S. Rama Raju, Rani Hamid (Ban) lost to Tahir Vakhidov (Uzb), R.B. Ramesh bt. R.R. Vasudevan, Zakia Sultana (Ban) lost to Marat Dzhumayev (Uzb), Koneru Humpy drew with Vikrant Chole, R.V. Venkatakrishnan lost to Ziaur Rahman (Ban), Sergei Iskusnyh (Rus) bt H. Venkatesh, N. Vinuthna lost to Neelotpal Das, S. Kidambi bt L.V. Shivakumar, M. Srikanth Sharma lost to G.B. Prakash, R. Balasubramaniam bt A.L. Palaniappan, M.R. Sangeetha lost to Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary, M. Lodhi (Pak) bt R. Srinivasan, Himanshu Kumar drew with D.V. Prasad, M.R. Venkatesh bt Matta Vinay Kumar. K. Vedadri lost to K. Murugan, S.R. Radha bt Suvrajit Saha, M. Shyam Sundar drew with Arghyadip Das, S. Arun Melville bt Nikhilesh Kumar, Madhu Kiran drew with Anupama Gokhale, Kesavananda Krishna drew with Pankaj Prem.

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