Maxim Turov of Russia increased his chances to clinch the title

Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 February 2010 22:27 Written by Bhuvana Wednesday, 03 February 2010 11:45

Maxim Turov of Russia increased his chances to clinch the title in the Chennai Open 2010 international chess tournament, sponsored by LIC & ONGC and organized by Sports Promotion Foundation, Chennai. In the tenth and penultimate round today, he had a safe 41 move draw against Vikramaditya Kamble of Railways. Maxim is on 9 points and closely on his heels are former national champion M.R. Lalith Babu of A.P. and Bangladesh GM Ziaur Rahman on 8.5 points. Lalith Babu had a well deserved victory over GM Dmitry Ktyakvin of Russia. Maxim has been pitted against Ziaur and Lalith Babu crosses swords with the Filippino IM Richard Bitoon. A pyrotechnic display is expected on the top board, as Ziaur also has chances to win the title, if he beats Maxim.

Barring the first board, the other top boards went into full distance, as players fought for supremacy.

Dmitry sacrificed his knight by playing Nh4 on the 17^th move, to open the castled king side against Lalith Babu. Thogh there were less pices on the board, the game became complicated and Lalith managed to maintain the upper hand. After exchanging the queens, Lalith grabbed another knight on the 67^th move forcing a win. With this win, Lalith also earned his second GM norm.

Ziaur Rahman sacrificed his knight for two pawns against Rinat Jhumabyev to get an attacking position. Though Rinat was a piece up, Ziaur's queen and rook combined beautifully to grab Rinat's rook. Immediately Rinat surrendered. This is the first loss to Rinat in this tournament.

Asian Junior champion Ashwin Jayaram also had a convincing victory over GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan in a Pirc defence game, with an onslaught right from the start. He faces Siddharth tomorrow and interestingly there are three Indian IMs and untitled Siddharth among the eight players on the top four boards of the final round. Former Commonwealth champion RB. Ramesh of Tamil Nadu made an exchange sacrifice to create a passer pawn on the 27^th move against former under 25 national champion B.T. Muralikrishnan of Railways. When he realized that there was no compensation later, he gave up the fight.

Some important results

Bo.		Name	FED	Pts	Res.		Name	FED	Pts
1	IM	Kamble Vikramaditya	IND	8	drew with	GM	Turov Maxim	RUS	9
2	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	KAZ	7½	lost to	GM	Rahman Ziaur	BAN	8.5
3	GM	Kryakvin Dmitry	RUS	7	lost to	IM	Lalith Babu M R	IND	8.5
4	IM	Ashwin Jayaram	IND	8	beat	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	UZB	7
5	IM	Satyapragyan Swayangsu	IND	7	lost to		Siddharth R	IND	8
6	IM	Bitoon Richard	PHI	8	beat		Palit Somak	IND	7
7		Anwesh Upadhyaya	IND	7.5	drew with	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	PHI	7.5
8	IM	Karthikeyan P	IND	6½	lost to	GM	Kotsur Pavel	KAZ	7.5
9	IM	Rathnakaran K	IND	6½	lost to	GM	Zubarev Alexander	UKR	7.5
10		Shivananda B S	IND	6½	lost to	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	IND	7.5
11	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J	IND	7	drew with		Stany G A	IND	7
12	IM	Murali Krishnan B T	IND	7.5	beat	GM	Ramesh R B	IND	6½
13	FM	Shyam Nikil P	IND	6½	lost to	IM	Vijayalakshmi S	IND	7.5
14		Fenil Shah	IND	7.5	beat	GM	Gutov Andrey	RUS	6½
15	GM	Manik Mikulas	SVK	7.5	beat		Vaibhav Suri	IND	6½
16	IM	Venkatesh M R	IND	7	drew with		Swayams Mishra	IND	7
17	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	IND	7.5	beat	WIM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	6½
18	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	7	beat		Navalgund Niranjan	IND	6½
19	GM	Arun Prasad S	IND	7	beat	FM	Rajesh V A V	IND	6
20	GM	Kravtsiv Martyn	UKR	7	beat		Bitan Banerjee	IND	6
21	WGM	Mohota Nisha	IND	6.5	drew with	GM	Iuldachev Saidali	UZB	6.5
22	GM	Laxman R R	IND	7	beat		Ankit R Rajpara	IND	6
23		Udeshi Aditya	IND	6	lost to	GM	Barua Dibyendu	IND	7
24	IM	Himanshu Sharma	IND	6	lost to	IM	Koshy Varugeese	IND	7
25		Saravana Krishnan P	IND	6	lost to	IM	Thejkumar M S	IND	7
26		Syed Anwar Shazuli	IND	6	lost to		Swapnil S Dhopade	IND	7
27	FM	Visweswaran K	IND	6	lost to		Praveen Kumar C	IND	7
28	FM	Vinoth Kumar M	IND	6	lost to	IM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi	IND	7
29		Nimmy A G	IND	6	lost to	IM	Saptarshi Roy	IND	7
30	FM	Ramakrishna J	IND	6	lost to	IM	Prakash G B	IND	7
31	IM	Girinath P D S	IND	6.5	drew with		Joshi G B	IND	6.5
32	WIM	Muminova Nafisa	UZB	6	lost to		Abhishek Kelkar	IND	7
33	IM	Suvrajit Saha	IND	6.5	drew with	FM	Sai Krishna G V	IND	6.5
34		Kulkarni Chinmay	IND	7	beat		Natarajan C	IND	6
35		Suresh Kumar T J	IND	6	lost to		Thakur Akash	IND	7
36		Ramnath Bhuvanesh R	IND	6.5	beat		Ganesh Bhat R	IND	6
37	IM	Shyam Sundar M	IND	6.5	beat		Manikandaswamy S	IND	5½
38		Dhar Rajib	IND	5½	lost to	IM	Priyadharshan K	IND	6.5
39	WGM	Meenakshi Subbaraman	IND	6.5	beat		Ocantos Manuel	LUX	5½
40	IM	Babu N Sudhakar	IND	6.5	beat		Dinesh Kumar G	IND	5½
41	CM	Prince Bajaj	IND	6	drew with		Phoobalan P	IND	6
42	IM	Singh D P	IND	6.5	beat	CM	Bhagwat Vinod	IND	5½
43		Ganesh Babu S	IND	6.5	beat	IM	Lim Yee-Weng	MAS	5½
44	FM	Mishra Soumyaranjan	IND	5½	lost to		Srikanth Ajay	IND	6.5
45		G Akash	IND	5½	lost to		Ram S Krishnan	IND	6.5
46	IM	R Balasubramaniam	IND	6.5	beat		Kaushik S	IND	5½
47	IM	Deshmukh Anup	IND	6.5	beat		Dahale Atul	IND	5½
48		Swaraj Palit	IND	5½	lost to		Navin Kanna T U	IND	6.5
49	IM	Shetty Rahul	IND	5½	lost to		Rathod Gopal Ashok	IND	6.5
50		Amrutha Mokal	IND	5½	lost to		Jaiswal Puneet	IND	6.5
51		Santanu Borpatra	IND	5½	lost to		Mehar Chinna ReddyCh	IND	6.5
52		Nath Rupankar	IND	6	drew with	WFM	Saranya J	IND	6
53		Anurag Mhamal	IND	6.5	beat		Paramasivam M	IND	5½
54		Hariharan Venkatachalam	IND	6.5	beat		Narayanan K	IND	5½
55	FM	Shantharam K V	IND	6.5	beat		Antonio Viani D'cunha	IND	5½
56		Jitendria Vels	IND	5½	lost to	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	IND	6.5
57		Swaroop M	IND	5½	lost to		Phadke Sohan	IND	6.5
58		Michelle Catherina P	IND	5½	lost to		Krishna C R G	IND	6.5
59	WIM	Dhar-Barua Saheli	IND	5½	lost to		Anuprita Patil	IND	6.5
60		Vikram Saralaya	IND	6.5	beat		Sidhant Mohapatra	IND	5½

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