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Iran defeats India Blues

V.V. Subrahmanyam

Morteza Mahjoob outwitted Deepan Chakravarthy
India Blues’s Neelotpal Das drew his game

VISAKHAPATNAM: The joy of the Indian Blues team, which held India Reds in the first round on Thursday, was short-lived as fifth seed Iran recorded a 3-1 win over them in the men’s second round of the Vizag Steel-Asian team chess championship here on Friday.

The first result on the fourth board was a drawn encounter between IM Morteza Darban and IM Gogineni Rohit in Sicilian Opening.

Then Morteza Mahjoob outwitted former Asian junior champion and India Blues captain J. Deepan Chakravarthy in a Catalan Advanced Variation.

Once he played a dubious e4 on the 10th move, Deepan was under pressure and after missing some moves immediately after the opening, he never really recovered.

Then S. Arun Prasadwas a disappointing loser against Shojaat Ghane in the Catalan Opening.

The only consolation for India Blues was Neelotpal Das’s draw with Ehsan Ghaem Maghami in the last result on this table.

China’s clean sweep

Meanwhile, the Chinese men made a clean sweep against Afghanistan, which had unrated players in its rank.

Yue Wang led from the front with a 33-move win over Farazi Khaiber in the Kings Indian set-up.

The results:

Round-robin league: Men: Afghanistan lost to China 0-4 (Farazi Khaiber lost to Wang Yue; Sharify Aziz lost to Bu Ziangzhi; Anit Tahah lost to Jun Zhao; Habibullah Fedaee lost to Zhou Jianchao).

India Reds bt Sri Lanka 4-0 (S.S. Ganguly bt G.M.C.M. Rajapakshe; Abhijit Kunte bt M.K.A. Russell; G.N. Gopal bt G.C. Anuruddha; Abjhijeet Gupta bt Nishendra Herath).

Iran bt India Blues 3-1 (Ehsan Ghaem Maghami drew with Neelotpal Das; Morteza Mahjoob bt J. Deepan Chakravarthy; Morteza Darban drew with Gogineni Rohit; Shojaat Ghane bt S. Arun Prasad).

Uzbekistan lost to Vietnam 1-3 (Timur Gareev drew with Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son; Anton Filippov lost to Liem Le Quang; Saidali Iuldachev lost to Anh Dung Ngyuyen; Marat Dzhumaev drew with Hai Thien Dao).

Women: Sri Lanka lost to Vietnam 0-3 (B.G.D. Umesha lost to Tu Thanh Le; S.A. Ranasinghe lost to Thanh An Nguyen Thi; G.K. Herath lost to Kim Thien Le Kieu).

Indian Greens lost to India Blues 1-2 (Ch. Sahajasri lost to Swathi Ghate; N.L.V. Anusha lost to Baisakhi Das; Kanuri Tejaswi bt Amrutha Mokal).

China bt Iran 2.5-0.5 (Xue Zhao bt Atousa Pourkashiyan; Qian Huang drew with Shadi Paridar; Shen Yang bt Shayesteh Ghader Pour).

India Reds bt Uzbekistan 3-0 (Dronavalli Harika bt O. Sabirova; Tania Sachdev bt Nafisa Muminova; Aarthie Ramaswamy bt Iroda Khamrakulova).

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