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Deepan held, but retains lead

Sports Reporter

HYDERABAD: Former Asian junior champion Deepan Chakravarthy frittered away a winning advantage against Russian GM Alexander Fominyh in the seventh round to settle for a draw but still continued to be the sole leader with 6.5 points even as five others shared the second spot with six points each in the ONGC Cup International Grandmasters chess tournament at Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy indoor stadium here on Thursday.

In Catalan Opening, it looked as if Fominyh had an early advantage, but Deepan soon won a pawn and ensured that the game slipped into a rook and pawn ending. Just when things brightened for a Deepan win, the Indian player faltered by playing a2 instead of the Ra2, which only denied him a victory for after that, the final position was a theoretical draw.

Upset of the day

P. Konguvel scored the major upset of the day when he defeated GM Susanto Megaranto of Indonesia in Sicilian Dragon to remain in contention for his second GM-norm.

The results: Alexander Fominyh (6) drew with Deepan Chakravarthy (6.5); M.R. Lalit Babu (5) lost to Povel Kotsur (6); Susanto Megaranto (5) lost to P. Konguvel (6); D.V. Prasad (5.5) drew with S. Kidambi (5.5); Reefat Bin Sattar (6) bt G.B. Prakash (5); K. Ramu (5) lost to Enamul Hossain (6); R.B. Ramesh (5) drew with S. Arun Prasad (5.5); S.S. Ganguly (5.5) drew with Vishal Sareen (4.5); Abhijit Kunte (5) drew with M.S. Thej Kumar (5); P.D.S. Girinath (4.5) lost to Pravin Thipsay (5.5); G.N. Gopal (4.5) lost to Niaz Morshed (5.5); Somak Palit (5) drew with Himanshu Sharma (5); K. Ratnakaran (5.5) bt M. Srinivasa Rao (4.5); S. Satyapragyan (5.5) bt M. Shyam Sunder (4.5); Atanu Lahiri (5.5) bt Vikramaditya Kamble (4.5); G.B. Joshi (5) drew with D.P. Singh (5); Abhishek Das (4.5) lost to Deep Sengupta (5.5); Zia-ur-Rehman (5) bt Vedant Goswami (4.5); Neelotpal Das (4.5) drew with N. Sudhakar Babu (4.5); Dibyendu Barua (5) bt Gurpreet Pal Singh (4); S.Meenakshi (4.5) drew with Sriram Jha (4.5); Swathi Ghate (5) bt R.R. Laxman (4); Suvrajit Saha (4) lost to J. Ramakrishna (5); C. Praveen Kumar (4.5) drew with Roktim Bandyopadhya (4.5); S.C. Sahu (5) bt N. Sanjay (4); B. Ramanababu (4) lost to Dronavalli Harika (5); S. Vijayalakshmi (4.5) bt Swati Mohota (3.5); Amitpal Singh (3.5) lost to P. Lakshmi Sahiti (4.5); Aarthie Ramaswamy (4.5) bt Arvinder Preet Singh (3.5).

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