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Krishna Doss outwits Gopalakrishnan

CHENNAI, JULY 16. Favourites had a smooth opening round in the fourth Adyar Times Millennium FIDE-rating open chess tournament which got underway here on Friday. Among the favourites, International Master Poobesh Anand was the most impressive when he checkmated Girish Koushik with the black pieces in just 22 moves.

FIDE Master K. V. Shantharam of Indian Bank had to struggle before winning his game while Bankmate K. Gopalakrishnan was the highest seed to lose in the opening round, beaten by D. Krishna Doss.

Other winners included M. B. Muralidharan and O. T. Anil Kumar of Kerala and FM Joerg Schwalfenberg of Germany. Teenaged National junior champion and top seed M. R. Venkatesh of Bharat Petroleum won two pieces for a rook early in the game to wrap up the game in 44 moves with the black pieces against S. Elango.

The results (first round): S. Elango lost to M. R. Venkatesh, R. R. Laxman bt G. Siddaiah, G. Koushik lost to Poobesh Anand, N. Sudhakar Babu bt K. Gopinath, U. Gowrichander lost to Joerg Schwalfenberg,

M. B. Muralidharan bt R. B. Harshavardharn, M. Jagadambal

lost to C. Praveen Kumar, R. Siddarth bt Jamal Fayaz, R. Janakiraman lost to Ram S. Krishnan, V. Hariharan bt K. V. Jawalamukhi, S. Jeevanandam lost to G. Dinesh Kumar, O. T. Anil Kumar bt R. Kameswaran, J. Karthik lost to K. V. Shantharam, Sai Meera Ravi bt R. Karthik, M. Khushbu lost to

S. P. Sethuraman, M. Kunal bt G. Kotteswaran, D. Krishna Doss bt K. Gopalakrishnan, V. Hari Balu bt B. Krishna Sai.

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