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T.S. Ravi shocks Vijayalakshmi

By Our Sports Reporter

VIJAYAWADA, JUNE 20. T.S. Ravi of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board shocked India's first WGM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi of Indian Airlines, while B.S. Shivanandan of Karnataka upset IM Lanka Ravi (PSPB) in the fourth round games of the 42nd National `B' chess championship being held at Chenupati Ramakotiah Indoor Stadium here on Sunday.

In Nimzo Indian Defence, Vijayalakshmi, by her own confession, played a casual move — preferred castling. This saw her soon slip into a minus position. Later, a tricky variation developed which also saw her pawn down in knight ending. And, to the delight of her rival, Vijayalakshmi resigned after 55 moves.

The contest between Ravi and Shivanandan, which began with Grunfeld Defence, looked to be a keen tussle. Though Ravi soon gained a clear edge with clever manouevre of his pieces in the middle-game, he blundered a piece (knight) in the end-game which proved costly.

The results (fifth round): Sriram Jha (4.5) drew with R.B. Ramesh (4.5); Dinesh Kumar Sharma (4.5) drew with M.R. Venkatesh (4.5); G.B. Prakash (4) lost to Dronavalli Harika (5); G.N. Gopal (5) bt Abhijit Gupta (4); Lanka Ravi (3.5) lost to B.S. Shivanandan (5); S. Vijayalakshmi (3.5) lost to T.S. Ravi (4); P. Konguvel (4.5) lost to S. Arun Prasad (4); Saptarushiroy Choudhary (4.5) bt J. Deepan Chakravarthy (3); K. Visweswaran (4) drew with S. Poobesh Anand (3.5); Prathamesh Mokal (4) drew with Arjun D. Tiwari (3.5); Akash Thakur (4) drew with P.D.S. Girinath (3.5); Roktim Bandopadhyay (4) drew with Kiran Panditrao (3.5); M. Vinoth Kumar (3.5) lost to Neeraj Kumar Mishra (4); T. Abhay (3.5) drew with S. Kidambi (3.5); D. Sai Srinivas (3) lost to Himanshu Sharma (4): V. Koshy (3.5) drew with Pramod Kumar Singh (3.5); C. Praveen Kumar (3) lost to V. Saravanan (4): Somak Palit (3.5) drew with Amardeep Bartakke (3.5); Tanya Sachdev (3) lost to Rahul Shetty (4); K. Ramu (3) lost to Saptharushi Roy (4); Vikram Aditya Kamble (4) bt K.V. Shantaram (3); D. Ravi Shankar (3.5) drew with Satyapragyan (3.5); Arghyadip Das (4) bt K. Vijay Keerthi (3); Vinod Sharma (4) bt K. Ratnakaran (3); Aravind Sastry (3.5) drew with Anand Kumar Awadhiya (3.5); Nassir Wajih (3.5) drew with Ravi Kumar (3.5); K.S. Srikar (3) lost to Sharad Tilak (4); Nirav Rajasuba (3) lost to G.B. Joshi (4); Suvrajit Saha (4) bt Kruthika Nadig (3); G. Rohit (4) bt Y. Kalyan Kumar (3); Ajay Pandey (3.5) drew with R.K. Mishra (3.5); Rishipal Singh (4) bt R. Arun Karthik (3); V. Hari Balu (3) lost to Amitpal Singh (4); Arindom Mukherjee (4) bt Byo Makesh Nayak (3); O.T. Anil Kumar (4) bt N.S. Bhattacharya (3); Y. Sandeep (3) lost to Ram S. Krishnan (3); K. Vedadari (3) lost to M. Srinvasa Rao (4); Vishal Sareen (3) drew with Parimarjan Negi (2.5).

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