Tirupathi: Talented Tamilnadu youngster G Akash stunned top seed and defending champion Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Railways in the fifth round to take the joint lead along with third seed Debashis Das of Orissa in the 50th National Challengers Chess Championship here on Monday.
Playing with white pieces in Taimanov variation of Sicilian defence, Akash controlled the game from the opening itself and garnered full point against his top seed rival after 45 moves while Debashis Das outwitted overnight joint leader Saptarshi Roy of Railways to maintain his perfect score in 58 moves arrived out of Dutch defence game.
Four players including CRG Krishna of Andhra Pradesh, who defeated Utakal Ranjan Sahoo of Orissa in a marathon fifth round match is sharing the second spot with a drift of half point from the leaders. International Master B T Murali Krishna of Railways, Fide Master Diptayan Ghosh of West Bengal and Sohan Phadke of Maharashtra giving company to Krishna in the second spot after defeating Praveen Prasad of Andhra Pradesh, Anurag Mhamal of Goa and International Master Ramnath Bhuvanesh of Tamilnadu respectively in the fifth round encounters.
The sixth round matches of the thirteen round system championship are now underway at the time of report.
Important Results
Round-5 :- IM Debashis Das of Orissa (5) beat IM Saptarshi Roy of Railways (4); G Akash of Tamilnadu (5) beat IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Railways (3.5); IM Swayams Mishra of Orissa (4) drew with Ram S Krishnan of Tamilnadu (4); Anurag Mhamal of Goa (3.5) lost to FM Diptayan Ghosh of West Bengal (4.5); IM Dinesh Sharma of LIC (4) drew with Arun Karthik R of Tamilnadu (4); IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh of Tamilnadu (3.5) lost to Sohan Phadke of Maharashtra (4.5); Praveen Prasad P of Andhra Pradesh (3.5) lost to IM Murali Krishnan B T of Railways (4.5); Krishna CRG of Andhra Pradesh (4.5) beat Utkal Ranjan Sahoo of Orissa (3.5); IM Chandrashekhar Gokhale of Air India (4) drew with Shashikant Kutwal of Maharashtra (4); IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury of Railways (4) beat Nimmy A G of Kerala (4); IM Suvrajit Saha of Railways (3) lost to Rajib Dhar of Assam (4); Vikas Sharma of Punjab (3) lost to FM Rajesh VAV of Tamilnadu (4); Santu Mondal of West Bengal (3.5) drew with Sanjay N of Karnataka (3.5); IM Praveen Kumar C of Railways (4) beat Abhilash Reddy M L of Andhra Pradesh (3); Akash Thakur of Railways (3) lost to Atul Dahale of Maharashtra (4); Sagar Shah of Maharashtra (3.5) drew with Pritam Singh of Jharkhand (3.5); Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (3.5) drew with IM Sudhakar Babu of Indian Bank (3.5); Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (3.5) drew with Syed Anwar Shazuli of Railways (3.5); Kapil Lohana of Maharashtra (3.5) drew with Arvind Shastry of Karnataka (3.5); FM Sayantan Das of West Bengal (4) beat Rishi Sardana of Delhi (3); Brajesh Agarwal of LIC (3) lost to IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam of Railways (4); Chakravarthi YVK of Andhra Pradesh (4) beat Rahul Shetty of Air India (3); Sumit Grover of J&K (3.5) drew with Joshi G B of Air India (3.5); Vikramjit Singh of Railways (4) beat B C Tripaty of Jharkhand (3); Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad of Andhra Pradesh (3) lost to WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty of Orissa (4).
