New Delhi: Filipino Grandmaster Mark Paragua defeated Indian International Master Debashis Das in the ninth round to join countrymen Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul to share the lead with seven and half points in the ongoing 10th Parsvnath International Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Saturday.
Playing with white pieces in Semi-Slav variation, Paragua showed sheer attacking game with three continues piece sacrifices in the middle of game to garner full point against his Indian rival in 36 moves.
Kolkata based Diptayan Ghosh achieved his first International Master norm after signing the peace with World Under-12 Gold medalist Karthikeyan Murali in the ninth round while Zeng Chongsheng of China lost his ninth round encounter against Indian International Master Lalith Babu but secured his International Master norm during the process.
In other important ninth round matches, overnight joint leaders Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul settled for half point against Russian Grandmaster Evgeny Gleizerov and International Master Shyam Nikil respectively to maintain their pole position in the point table. In a major upset in the ninth round, playing with black pieces in Najdorf variation of Sicilian defence game, Delhi youngster Hemant Sharma shocked Uzbek Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev .
Eleven players including International Master Rathnkaran K, who held higher seeded Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin of Russia in the ninth round, are closely following the three leaders with a drift of half point.
Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-
Round-9 :- GM Barbosa Oliver of Philippines (7.5) drew with GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (7); IM Shyam Nikil (7) drew with GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (7.5); IM Rathnakaran K (7) drew with GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (7); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (7.5) beat IM Debashis Das (6.5); GM Abhijit Kunte (6.5) drew with IM Swapnil Dhopade (6.5); IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (6) lost to IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (7); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (7) beat IM Himanshu Sharma (6); Zeng Chongsheng of China (6) lost to IM Lalith Babu MR (7); Ma Qun of China (7) beat IM Karthikeyan P (6); IM Ashwin Jayaram (6) lost to IM Nitin S (7); IM Vishnu Prasanna (7) beat IM Thej Kumar MS (6); IM Vaibhav Suri (7) beat IM Konguvel P (6); IM Shivananda B S (6) lost to IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (6.5); IM Girinath PDS (5.5) lost to GM Sandipan Chanda (6.5); GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine (6.5) beat Ankit R Rajpara (5.5); IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (6) drew with GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (6); GM Mikhailo Oleksienko of Ukraine (6.5) beat FM Rajesh VAV (5.5); GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (5.5) lost to Hemant Sharma (6.5); GM Neelotpal Das (6.5) beat Joshi G B (5.5); IM Koshy Vargueese (6.5) beat IM Vakhidov Jahongir of Uzbekistan (5.5); Saravana Krishnan P (6) drew with IM Ravichandran Siddharath (6); IM Saptarshi Roy (6.5) beat Shailendra Bajpai (5.5); FM Diptayan Ghosh (6) drew with Karthikeyan Murali (6); Prince Bajaj (6) drew with IM Murali Krishnan B T (6); GM Henrik Danielsen of Iceland (6) beat Chandika Divyasree (5.5).
