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Chess
By Rakesh Rao
NEW DELHI, MARCH 16. The growing strength of the middle-rung of the country's chess players stood magnified as four Indians made their International Master norms in a single round. On a day when Kazakhstan's Serik Temirbaev joined teammate Pavel Kostur and Uzbekistan's Saidali Iuldachev in the lead with 7.5 points, the ninth round of the Parsvnath International chess tournament proved a perfect one for those on the threshold of getting of an IM norm. Overnight leaders Kotsur and Iuldachev drew inside an hour with Uzbek Shukrat Safin and R.B. Ramesh before Temirbaev posted a 58-move victory over an ambitious R.R. Laxman, the man who made his final IM norm on Monday. On Tuesday, it was the turn of WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy, R. Balasubramanium, C. Praveen Kumar and Bangladesh's Mohammad Javed to gain their norms. This morning, they all required a draw for their IM norms and got it from single-digit moves. More praiseworthy was Ahmedabad-based Manthan Chokshi's work enroute to his maiden IM norm. Chokshi, who took a two-year break from chess to complete his MBA, needed to beat IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra, and that too, with black pieces for the norm. As it turned out, Mishra blundered away a knight while attempting to choke Chokshi in a checkmating net. Once, Chokshi extricated himself from the pressure situation, the extra piece saw him win in 58 moves.
The results (ninth round): Pavel Kotsur (Kaz) (7.5) drew with Shukhrat Safin (Uzb) (7); Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) (7.5) drew with R.B. Ramesh (7) R.R. Laxman (6.5) lost to Serik Temirbaev (Kaz) (7.5); C.S. Gokhale (7) drew with R. Balasubramaniam (7); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (7) bt D.V. Prasad (6.5); Deepan Chakkravarthy (6) lost to Dibyendu Barua (7); Sandipan Chanda (6.5) drew with S. Satyapragyan (6.5); P. Konguvel (6) lost to Koneru Humpy (7); Sriram Jha (7) bt T.S. Ravi (6); C. Praveen Kumar (6.5) drew with Tejas Bakre (6.5); Aminul Islam (Ban) (6.5) drew with M.R. Venkatesh (6.5); Somak Palit (5.5) lost to Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr) (6.5); Neelotpal Das (6) drew with Anup Deshmukh (6); Arghyadip Das (6.5) bt Nurlan Ibraev (Kaz) (5.5); Abdulla-Al Rakib (Ban) (6) drew with G. B. Joshi (6); Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (6) drew with Mohammad Javed (Ban) (6); Abhijeet Gupta (6) drew with Pradeep Ghosh (6); N. Sudhakar Babu (6) drew with V. Saravanan (6); Aarthie Ramaswamy (6) drew with Dinesh Kumar Sharma (6); Amit Kumar Medda (6) drew with Gurpreet Pal Singh (6); Neeraj Kumar Mishra (5.5) lost to Manthan Chokshi (6.5); K. Ratnakaran (5.5) lost to Suvrajit Saha (6.5); Laisram Imocha (6) bt Enamul Hossain (Ban) (5); P. Phoobalan (5) lost to Rahul Shetty (6); Himanshu Sharma (6) bt Vedant Goswami (5); Varugeese Koshy (6) bt C. S. Unni (5); Roktim Banyopadhyay (5.5) drew with D. Ravishankar (5.5); Deep Sengupta (6) bt Puneet Jaiswal (5); Kiran Panditrao (5.5) drew with M. B. Muralidharan (5.5); Shirish Kumar (5) lost to M. Srinivasa Rao (6).
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