Hyderabad: Four players including top rated Indian player Grandmaster Vidit Santosh Gujarathi share the lead with perfect score after third round matches of the ongoing 2nd Hyderabad International Grandmasters Chess Tournament sponsored by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd, Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Andhra Bank, Petronet LNG Ltd and Airports Authority of India here at Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium, Yousufguda on Wednesday.
Playing white side of King’s Indian defence game, Vidit shown great tactical skills in the rook and pawn end game to secure full points after 52 moves against Serbian Grandmaster Sinisa Drazic while Grandmaster Vladislav Borovikov of Ukraine, Grandmaster Azer Mirzoev of Azerbaijan and International Master Mikhail Mozharov of Russia giving company to Vidit at top of point table after defeating International Master Bahruz Razayev of Azerbaijan, Prince Bajaj and YVK Chakkaravarthy respectively in the third round.
Meanwhile the dream run of Andhra youngster Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad continued as he held Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy to a creditable draw in the third round encounter. In the earlier rounds, he shocked Grandmaster Vishnu Prasanna and held Grandmaster Neelotpal Das.
In the other important matches in the third round, Grandmaster Lalith Babu signed the peace treaty with International Master Swayams Mishra while International Master Shyam Nikil held top seed Ivan Popov of Russia.
Vidit takes on Mirzoev and Vladislav paired against Mozharov in the fourth round which is now underway at the time report.
Category ‘A’ Important Results (Round-3) (Indian’s otherwise specified) :-
GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (3) beat GM Sinisa Drazic of SRB (2); IM Swayams Mishra (2.5) drew with GM Lalith Babu M R (2.5); GM Vladislav Borovikov of UKR (3) beat IM Bahruz Rzayev of AZE (2); GM Merab Gagunashvili of GEO (2.5) drew with IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (2.5); IM Praveen Kumar C (2.5) drew with GM Greenfeld Alon of ISR (2.5); GM Arun Prasad S (2.5) drew with IM Ravichandran Siddharth (2.5); CM Prince Bajaj (2) lost to GM Azer Mirzoev of AZE (3); IM Mikhail Mozharov of RUS (3) beat YVK Chakravarthi (2); GM Ivan Popov of RUS (2) drew with IM Shyam Nikil (2); IM Rolando Nolte of PHI (1.5) lost to GM Levan Pantsulaia of GEO (2.5); IM Himanshu Sharma (1.5) lost to GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan of ARM (2.5); GM Raset Ziatdinov of USA (1.5) lost to GM Tornike Sanikidze of GEO (2.5); GM Sethuraman S P (2.5) beat IM Karthikeyan P (1.5); GM Levon Babujian of ARM (2) drew with IM P Konguvel (2); FM Aravindh Chithambaram (2) drew with GM Vasily Papin of RUS (2); Aniruddha Deshpande (2) drew with GM Valeriy Neverov of UKR (2); GM Hovik Hayrapetyan of ARM (2) drew with Ravi Teja S (2); IM Swapnil Dhopade (2.5) beat Kumaran B (1.5); IM Shardul Gagare (2.5) beat Pratik Patil (1.5); Vikramjit Singh (1.5) lost to GM Neelotpal Das (2.5); Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (2) drew with GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (1.5); GM Deep Sengupta (1.5) drew with Ram S Krishnan (1.5); Sameer Kathmale (1.5) drew with GM Marat Dzhumaev of UZB (1.5); IM Jacek Stopa of POL (2) beat Niranjan Navalgund (1); CM Abhimanyu Puranik (2) beat GM Vishnu Prasanna (2).
