New Delhi: Chandigarh youngster Himal Gusian pulled up an upset victory over the Hungarian Grandmaster Hoang Thanah Trang in the third round of the 10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament played here at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Monday. The event is turning out to be a tough one for the foreign Grandmasters as three of them have tasted defeat in the last two rounds.
Earlier in the second round, Maharashtra youngster Pratik Patil and Chinese lad Bai Jinshi opened the casualty list of the tournament by upsetting eighth seed Ukranian Grandmaster Mikhailo Oleksienko and Russian Grandmaster Evegeny Gleizerov respectively.
Playing white side of McCutcheon variation in Classical line of French defence, Himal gained upper hand in the middle game and uprooted the defence of his fancied rival in 86 moves. In another important match of the day, International Master Ramnath Bhuvanesh held top seed Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda to a creditable draw. Playing black side of Scheveningen variation of Sicilian Defence, Chanda pressed hard for a decisive result with his double bishop combination against bishop and knight but Bhuvanesh stood firm to deny him full point and singed the peace treaty after 67 moves.
However, former National champion Abhijit Kutne continued to make merry at the expense of Jharkhand youngster Abhishek Das and Praveen Thipsay overcame G B Joshi in their third round encounters. But other Indian Grandmasters in fray, Deepan Chakkaravarthy, Neelotpal Das and Laxman were failed to get a decisive results in their favour and split the point against S L Narayananan, Shardul Gagare and Anurag Mhamal respectively in the third round encounters.
Earlier in the second round, seasoned campaigner Ravi Hegde held second seed Belarus Grandamster Aleksej Aleksandrov while Sameer Kathmale achieved a creditable draw against third seed Ukrainian Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyan. N Surendran and Sidhant Mohapatra also produced the same results against their fancied rivals fourth seed Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin of Russia and Grandmaster Henrik Danielsen of Iceland respectively.
Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :
Round-3 :- IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (2.5) drew with GM Sandipan Chanda (2.5); IM Rahul Sangma (2) lost to Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (3); GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (3) beat Ankit R Rajpara (2); Abhishek Das (2) lost to GM Abhijit Kunte (3); IM Lanka Ravi (2.5) drew with GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (2.5); GM Richard Bitoon of Philippines (3) beat IM Konguvel P (2); IM Praveen Kumar C (2.5) drew with IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (2.5); GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (3) beat FM Rajesh VAV (2); Bitan Banerjee (3) beat IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (2); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (2.5) drew with Narayanan S L (2.5); Saravana Krishnan P (2) lost to IM Lalith Babu M R (3); IM Shyam Nikil (2.5) drew with Mu Ke of China (2.5); Kunal M (2) lost to GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (3); FM Prasenjit Datta (2) lost to IM Ashwin Jayaram (3); GM Neelotpal Das (2.5) drew with FM Shardul Gagare (2.5); Praveen Kumar RA (2) lost to IM Thej Kumar M S (3); IM Vaibhav Suri (3) beat Hemant Sharma (2); Himal Gusain (3) beat GM Hoang Thanh Trang of Hungary (2); GM Praveen Thipsay (3) beat G B Joshi (2); GM Laxman R R (2.5) drew with Anurag Mhamal (2.5).
Round- 2 :- GM Sandipan Chanda beat WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty; IM Hegde Ravi Gopal drew with GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus; GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine drew with Sameer Kathmale; Surendran N drew with GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia; GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia beat IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu; Soumya Thakurta lost to Oliver Barbosa of Philippines; GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia lost to Bai Jinshi of China; Pratik Patil beat GM Oleksienko Mikhailo of Ukraine; GM Abhijit Kunte beat Abhishek Kelkar; Sidhant Mohapatra drew with Henrik Danielsen of Iceland; GM Mark Paragua of Philippines beat Akash PC Iyer; Chandika Divyasree lost to Richard Bitoon of Philippines; IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi beat Badrilal Nepali of Nepal; FM Vinoth Kumar M lost to GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines; IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazkhstan beat Debashish Dutta; Vikramaditya Sahu lost to GM Deepan Chakkravarthy; IM Lalith Babu M R beat Jitendra Kumar Choudhary; Nandhidhaa P V lost to IM Shyam Nikil; GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan beat Santanu Borpatra Gohain; Saumil Padhya beat Ma Qun of China.
By Indian Sports News Network
