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Dhara Gupta opens with a stunning win over Kamble

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NEW DELHI: Delhi-girl Dhara Gupta is fast reinforcing the impressionof being a ‘first-round wonder’.

Dhara provided the biggest upset of the opening round of Rs. 10-lakh Parsvnath International Open chess tournament when she brought down IM Vikramaditya Kamble here on Sunday. Last month, Dhara had hit the headlines by beating seasoned IM Anup Deshmukh in the first round of Commonwealth championship here.

Against Kamble, in English opening, Dhara accepted a sacrificed pawn but later played poorly to lose two pawns. In a tricky endgame position, Dhara played accurately and forced Kamble to resign in 65 moves.

Decisive results

On a day when the top 17 boards produced expected victories for the seeds, 18th seed Turkmenistan’s Grandmaster Sapar Batyrov, rated 2471, dropped half-a-point to unknown Johnharry Perreira, rated 1899.

Recently-crowned Asian junior boys’ champion P. Karthikeyan also failed to get off to a winning start and surprisingly drew with lowly-rated J.M. Baisakh. Unrated S. Adirathna Kumar also came up with a memorable performance by holding former National player, IM Ravi Hegde.

Former National ‘A’ player G. B. Joshi escaped a possible defeat at the hands of unrated youngster Y. Narayana Aswartha and drew.

The results (Indians unless stated): First round: Sumant Subramanium lost to Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iri); Surya Shekhar Ganguly Ganguly bt Chiraranjan Bhuyan; Rishi Tharianilost to Igor Kurnosov (Rus); Abhijit Kunte bt S.K. Sharma; Sanjib Ghosh lost to Elizbar Ubilava (Esp); Yuri Solodovnichenko (Ukr) bt Samunder Kumar; Pratik Patil lost to Dzhumaev; Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) bt Rajesh Kumar Nath; Deepak Kumar lost to Nguyen Anh Dung (Vie); Enamul Hossain (Ban) bt D.S. Shashank; Rajan Chhetri lost to Morteza Mahjoob (Iri); Abhijeet Gupta bt Priyanka Kumari; Sanjay Chhabra lost to Shukhrat Safin (Uzb); Ziaur Rahman (Ban) bt A. Sudarshan; Jaydeep Sharma lost to Aswin Jayaram.

R.B. Ramesh bt S. Kaushik; Manjunath Jain lost to Pravin Thipsay; Sapar Batyrov (Tkm) drew with Johnharry Perreira; Vaibhav Khanna lost to Sriram Jha; Venkatesh bt Ram Gupta;Dinesh Gupta lost to Shojat Ghane (Iri); S. Kidambi bt Vigneshwaran; Kiranpal Singh lost to R.R. Laxman; K. Ratnakaran bt Ambesh; BiswajitNaik lost to P.D.S. Girinath; S. Arun Prasad bt Annat Dole (RSA); V.M. Rajeev lost to Tania Sachdev; Saptarshi Roy received a walk over from Aditya Gupta.

Nirbhay Nanda lost to Morteza Darbar (Iri); Akshayrak Kore bt Malabika Singh; Nitin lost to Himanshu Sharma; P. Konguvel bt Aminismail Khadri; Dhara Gupta bt Vikramaditya Kamble.

M.S. Thejkumar bt Karma Pandya; Uttam Raj Thapa (Nep) lost to V.Saravanan; Roktim Bandyopadhyay bt Kuldeep Kashyap.

Tarun Mathur lost to Zhanibek Amanov (Kaz); Ram S. Krishan bt Akshat Aggarwal; K. Durgesh lost to G.B. Prakash; Vishnu Prasanna bt Amrendra Kumar.

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