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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

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Indradeep stuns Arghyadip Das

KOLKATA: Unfancied Indradeep Giri caused the day's major upset beating third seed and National `A' player Arghyadip Das of Railways on the opening day of Karvy the Interpolis chess championship at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here on Tuesday.

The top seed, IM Abhijit Gupta of Rajasthan, was held to a draw by Bengal sub-junior champion Debaditya Sinha Biswas. Debaditya, in fact, was in a better position in the end game but was hard pressed for time and drew the game.

Former World under-12 champion, Deep Sengupta, too, survived a scare against Debayan Majumdar and was lucky to win from an inferior position. In all 253 players are in fray in this one hour rapid chess meet which is divided into two sections — premier and junior sections. The championship for aspiring Grandmasters is being organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy

in association with AllSport Management.

In the under-16 section where 220 players are participating, all the seeded players won their respective games with ease and have two points to their credit.

Earlier, the championship was inaugurated by Subhas Chakraborty, Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs. — Special Correspondent

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