Gurgaon: Three players including top seed Ukrainian Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn, who beat Tillayev Ulugbek of Uzbekistan share the lead with perfect score after fifth round matches of the ongoing 2nd Gurgaon International Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Suncity School on Saturday.
Playing with black pieces in Ruy Lopez game Martyn outwitted his Uzbek rival in 47 moves while second seed Filipino Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa and Indian hope Sahaj Grover giving company to the top seed at top of point table after defeating International Masters Shyam Nikil and S Nitin respectively in the fifth round encounters.
Playing white side of Modern Benoni game, Sahaj exchanged his rook for minor piece in the middle game to gain advantage in the centre and maintained the positional advantage throughout the game and secured full points after 70 moves.
In surprising results of the day, Women Fide Master Sarvinoz Kurbonboeva got better off seasoned Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan while Grandmasters John Paul Gomez of Philippines and Eldar Gasanov of Ukraine forced to split the point against talented Indian youngsters Visakh N R and Sameer Kathmale respectively in the fifth round battles.
Earlier in the fourth round, International Master S Nitin defeated Georgian Grandmaster Tornike Sanikidze while Anirudha Deshpande shocked Ukrainian Grandmaster Valeriy Neverov.
In the sixth round, top seed Martyn takes on second seed Barbosa while Grover paired against Russian Grandmaster Alexander Evdokimov, who beat Vikramjit Singh in fifth round.
Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-
Round - 5 :- Tillyaev Ulugbek of UZB (4) lost to GM Kravstiv Martyn of UKR (5); GM Oliver Barbosa of PHI (5) beat IM Shyam Nikil P (4); GM Sahaj Grover (5) beat IM Nitin S (4); Vikramjit Singh (3.5) lost to GM Evdokimov Alexander of RUS (4.5); GM John Paul Gomez (4) drew with Visakh N R (4); GM Eldar Gasanov (4) drew with Kathmale Sameer (4); IM Swayams Mishra (4) drew with Krishna CRG (4); IM Narayanan Srinath (4.5) beat IM Himal Gusain (3.5); IM Rajesh VAV (4) drew with FM Akmal Faizulaev of UZB (4); IM Prasanna Rao (4.5) beat Aniruddha Deshpande (3.5); IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni (4.5) beat Ravi Teja S (3.5); GM Merab Gagunashvili of GEO (4) beat Abhishek A (3.5); GM Tornike Sanikidze of GEO (4) beat WIM Ivana Maria Furtado (3); WFM Sarvinoz Kurbonboeva of UZB (4) beat GM Marat Dzhumaev of UZB (3); Kayastha Madan Krishan of NEP (3) lost to GM Arun Prasad S (4); Lakshmi Narayanan M V (3.5) drew with GM Sundararjan Kidambi (3.5); Virender Singh Negi (3) lost to IM Satyapragyan S (4); Aradhya Garg (3) lost to GM Raset Ziatdinov of USA (4); Kunal M (4) beat Yogesh Gautam (3); Md Shariff Hossain of BAN (3) lost to IM Karthikeyan P (4).
Round - 4 :- GM Kravtsiv Martyn beat Kunal M; GM Raset Ziatdinov lost to GM Oliver Barbosa; GM Alexander Evdokimov drew with IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni; Sameer Kathmale drew with GM Gomez John Paul of PHI ; IM Nitin S beat GM Tornike Sanikidze of GEO ; IM Shivananda B S lost to GM Sahaj Grover; Visakh N R drew with GM Eldar Gasnov; Himal Gusain drew with IM Swayams Mishra; IM Shyam Nikil beat Pradeep Kumar R A; IM S Satyapragyan lost to Tillyaev Ulugbek; CRG Krishna drew with IM Prasanna Rao; Ravi Teja drew with Vikramjit Singh; Aniruddha Deshpande beat GM Valeriy Neverov; Joydeep Dutta lost to IM Narayanan Srinath; Matta Vinay Kumar lost to Rajesh VAV; Abhishek A beat Vignehs N R; Karthikeyan P drew with Chinmay Kulkarni; Anilkumar O T given w/o to Akaml Faizulaev; Marat Dzhumaev beat Ram S Krishnan; Polavarapu Ramakrishna lost to GM Merab Gagunashvili.
