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 Top seed British Grandmaster Nigel Short (7.5 points) is the latest Commonwealth Chess Champion. The former World Championship challenger easily accounted for teenaged Grandmaster P Harikrishna (6) in the ninth and final round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship
organized by Venus Chess Academy and sponsored by ONGC, Union Bank of India, GTL, Bharat Petroleum and MTNL, at Hotel Mirador here yesterday.
Indian hopes for the gold were dashed when Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay (6.5) was beaten by the Russian Grandmaster Smirnov Pavel (7.5) who
claimed the International Open Trophy on better tie-break over Nigel Short. Grandmaster Koneru Humpy (6) of India won the Commonwealth Women Championship ahead of the Subbaraman sisters Vijayalakshmi (6) and Meenakshi (5.5).
Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay, seeded 16th had held his own against all the top players till yesterday. However, succumbed to the guiles of third seeded Grandmaster Smirnov Pavel in Spanish Opening. Thipsay sacrificed a piece for two pawns but could not find enough compensation and had to resign the game in the end. Thipsay had to be satisfied with a Bronze.
Grandmaster Niaz Murshed (7) of Bangladesh shocked Russian Grandmaster Sergey Iskusnyh (6) to clinch the silver medal. " My start was disappointing and so it is a pleasant surprise," said Niaz who came to Mumbai for the championship with his family.
Grandmaster Short had said on the eve of the last round that the Sunday crowd will witness a terrible game from
him as he hates to play in the morning. However, he proved himself wrong by producing a brilliant endgame against P Harikrishna. It was a Rubeinstein variation of French
Defense in which Nigel's pieces entered Hari's castle to drag the White King out of the castle.
Indians sweep
Norm board
Dronavalli Harika and S Meenakshi
became India's latest Woman Grandmasters, completing their final WGM
Norms. 13-year-old Harika did one up on Humpy becoming India's
youngest WGM.
National Junior Champion M R Venkatesh of BPCL, made his third
IM Norm
and completed his International Master title holding GM Sandipan
Chanda to a draw in the crucial final round. Venkatesh with two IM Norms to his credit, both from National "A" Championship in
the last two occasions, becomes India's latest International Master.
Also completing IM title was the Bengal youngster Saptarshi Roy
Chowdhury, while 14 year old Abhijeet Gupta and Chennai lad R R Laxman
made their second IM Norms.
Kerala's best bet, K Ratnakaran of Railways, impressed scoring his
maiden International Master Norm.
Final placings:
Men: 1. Pavel Smirnov (Rus), 2. Nigel Short (Eng), 3. Marat Dzhumaev
(Uzb)
Women: 1. Koneru Humpy, 2. S. Vijayalakshmi, 3. S. Meenakshi.
Commonwealth medallists
Men: Gold - Nigel Short, Silver - Niaz Murshed, Bronze - Pravin
Thipsay
Women: Gold - Koneru Humpy, Silver - S. Vijayalakshmi, Bronze
- S. Meenakshi.
Under-20: Boys: 1. P. Hari Krishna, 2. Poobesh Anand, 3. M. R.
Venkatesh
Under-20: Girls: 1. Lakshmi Praneetha, 2. Siti Zulaikha 3. Y. Prathiba.
Under-18: Boys: 1 Deep Sengupta, 2 G. N. Gopal, 3 Somak Palit
Under-18: Girls: 1.D. Harika, 2. P. Priya, 3. Nabeela Farheen
Under-16: Boys: 1.Abhijeet Gupta,
2. D. Sai Srinivas, 3. Aswin Jayaram
Under-16: Girls: 1.
Dhyani Dave, 2. Saba Aziz Mhate, 3. J. Rajasurya
Under-14: Boys: 1.Aditya Udeshi,
2.Parimarjan Negi, 3. B. Aditya
Under-14: Girls: 1.
Pon. N. Krithika, 2. Ramya Krishna, 3.Kajri Choksi
Under-12: Boys: 1.K. Priyadarshan,
2. Y. Sandeep, 3. S. Sai Krishna
Under-12: Girls: 1.
Devangi Patankar, 2. G. Madanasri, 3. Rucha Pujari
Under-10: Boys: 1.N
Srinath, 2. Fenil Shah, 3. K. Harsh
Under-10: Girls: 1.
Tejaswini Reddy, 2. Chandanapriya, 3. J. Ramyasri
Best unrated :
Shabier Bhawoodien (RSA).
Round 9 Results
1 GM SMIRNOV PAVEL ( 6½) - GM THIPSAY, PRAVEEN ( 6½) 3- 16 1-0
2 GM NIGEL SHORT ( 6½) - GM HARIKRISHNA,P(18)( 6 ) 1- 4 1-0
3 IM RAVI LANKA ( 6 ) - GM DZHUMAEV MARAT ( 6 ) 18- 14 0-1
4 GM NIAZ MURSHED ( 6 ) - GM ISKUSNYH SERGEY ( 6 ) 24- 17 1-0
5 GM SASIKIRAN, KRISHN( 5½) - FM GUPTA ABHIJEET ( 5½) 2- 29 1-0
6 GM FOMINYH ALEXANDER( 5½) - GM KUNTE, ABHIJIT ( 5½) 5- 12 ½-½
7 VENKATESH M.R.(20) ( 5½) - GM SANDIPAN, CHANDA ( 5½) 30- 10 ½-½
8 IM VAKHIDOV TAHIR ( 5½) - IM VIJAYALAKSHMI, S*( 5½) 11- 22 ½-½
9 IM POOBESH ANAND S ( 5½) - IM SUNDARARAJAN, KID( 5½) 41- 23 ½-½
10 RATHNAKARAN K ( 5½) - GM IULDACHEV SAIDALI( 5 ) 63- 6 ½-½
11 IM RAVI THANDALAM S ( 5 ) - GM STUART CONQUEST ( 5 ) 44- 7 ½-½
12 GM RAMESH, R.B. ( 5 ) - PALIT SOMAK (18) ( 5 ) 13- 46 1-0
13 IM BABU N SUDHAKAR ( 5 ) - GM KONERU, HUMPY(18)( 5 ) 51- 15 0-1
14 IM BAKRE, TEJAS ( 5 ) - Wm MEENAKASHI S.* ( 5 ) 21- 57 ½-½
15 ROY CHOWDHURY S. ( 5 ) - IM LAHIRI ATANU ( 5 ) 26- 58 ½-½
16 LAXMAN R.R. ( 5 ) - IM LODHI,MAHMOOD ( 5 ) 53- 27 0-1
17 SENGUPTA DEEP(16) ( 5 ) - IM KOSHY VARUGEESE ( 5 ) 45- 34 1-0
18 SAREEN VISHAL ( 5 ) - IM TILAK SHARAD S ( 5 ) 37- 62 ½-½
19 GOPAL G.N.(16) ( 5 ) - SINGH GURPREETPAL ( 5 ) 76- 42 ½-½
20 GM GANGULY, SURYA SH( 4½) - YOGESH GORE ( 5 ) 8- 71 1-0
21 GM SAFIN SHUKHRAT ( 4½) - Wg MOHOTA NISHA* ( 4½) 9- 52 ½-½
22 Wm SWATHI GHATE* ( 4½) - IM NEELOTPAL DAS ( 4½) 66- 19 ½-½
23 IM FELDMAN VLADIMIR ( 4½) - IM MICHELAKIS, GEOR( 4½) 60- 25 0-1
24 SHARMA VIKAS ( 4½) - IM PRASAD DEVAKI V ( 4½) 83- 28 0-1
25 GOKHALE JAYANT S ( 4½) - IM DEEPAN CHAK J (18( 4½) 64- 31 ½-½
26 IM SHETTY RAHUL ( 4½) - Wg AARTHIE RAMASWAMY( 4½) 32- 69 ½-½
27 HIMANSHU SHARMA ( 4½) - FM SINGH RISHIPAL S ( 4½) 33- 67 ½-½
28 IM SHARMA DINESH K ( 4½) - BALAJI G ( 4½) 35- 72 0-1
29 LIM YEE WENG ( 4½) - IM GOKHALE CHANDRASH( 4½) 61- 36 ½-½
30 IM KONGUVEL PONNUSWA( 4½) - SAI SRINIVAS D.(14) ( 4½) 40- 73 ½-½
31 IM BEREZINA IRINA* ( 4½) - IM GLUCKMAN DAVID ( 4½) 68- 43 ½-½
32 IM HEGDE RAVI GOPAL ( 4½) - FM SHABIER BHAWOODIE( 4½) 47-140 1-0
33 IM SAHU SEKHAR CHAND( 4½) - IM PRATHAMESH SUNIL ( 4½) 70- 48 ½-½
34 IM DESHMUKH ANUP ( 4½) - PRYADHARSHAN K (12) ( 4½) 49-113 1-0
35 UDESHI ADITYA (12) ( 4½) - SIVANANDAN V.S. ( 4½) 134- 50 1-0
36 IM SRIRAM JHA ( 4 ) - COLEMAN JAMES ( 4 ) 20- 86 1-0
37 IM SATYAPRAGYAN ( 4 ) - NAMBIAR VIVEK ( 4 ) 38- 89 1-0
38 NEGI V.S. ( 4 ) - GIRINATH P.D.S. ( 4 ) 87- 39 0-1
39 Wm HARIKA DRONA (14)( 4 ) - NEGI PARIMARJAN(12) ( 4 ) 55- 94 ½-½
40 SAPTARSHI ROY(18) ( 4 ) - PON N KRITHIKA (12)*( 4 ) 56-127 1-0
41 MEERA SAI* ( 4 ) - VISWESWARAN K. ( 4 ) 91- 59 1-0
42 J RAMAKRISHNA* ( 4 ) - LAKSHMI PRANEETHA K(( 4 ) 65-133 0-1
43 GOGTE YOSHODHAN(18) ( 4 ) - Wm THIPSAY BAGYASHRE( 4 ) 92- 77 0-1
44 SITI, ZULAIKHA(16)* ( 4 ) - MISHRA SOUMYA RANJAN( 4 ) 93- 79 0-1
45 M.K.A. RUSSELL ( 4 ) - KRISHNA C.R.G.(14) ( 4 ) 80-102 1-0
46 Wm ANUPAMA GOKHALE* ( 4 ) - DAVE DHYANI (14)* ( 4 ) 81-136 1-0
47 ADITHYA B (14) ( 4 ) - FM JOSHI S.G. ( 4 ) 115- 82 0-1
48 SINHA ABHAY KUMAR(18( 4 ) - SRINIVASA RAO M ( 3½) 128- 54 0-1
49 FM NIKHILESH KUMAR (( 3½) - PRIYA P (18)* ( 3½) 74- 99 ½-½
50 VINUTHNA N.(18)* ( 3½) - CHOKSHI MANTHAN J ( 3½) 104- 75 0-1
51 ROY JEAN NOEL PHILIP( 3½) - YASH AGARWAL (18) ( 3½) 84-105 1-0
52 NEELAKANTAN NARAYANA( 3½) - RAMYA KRISHNA I.(14)( 3½) 88-132 1-0
53 SABA AZIZ MHATE (14)( 3½) - SAI KRISHNA S (12) ( 3½) 111- 90 ½-½
54 ABHISHEK KELKAR (12)( 3½) - ASWIN JAYARAM (14) ( 3½) 122- 95 0-1
55 SANDEEP Y (12) ( 3½) - BARILENG GAEALAFSHWE( 3½) 98-142 ½-½
56 SRINATH N (10) ( 3½) - FM AVARI VIRAF ( 3 ) 124-100 ½-½
57 Wm PRATIBHA Y (20)* ( 3 ) - RAJADHARSHINI M (16)( 3 ) 78-116 1-0
58 VIJAYARAGHAVAN Tvr(1( 3 ) - Wm LAUBSCHER ANZEL* ( 3 ) 120- 85 1-0
59 NISHANTH S (14) ( 3 ) - VAIDYA C.N.(18) ( 3 ) 129-101 1-0
60 SYED NABEELA FARHEEN( 3 ) - PRASANNA RAO (10) ( 3 ) 107-121 1-0
61 RAKESH RANJAN ( 3 ) - TEJDEEP ADABALA (14)( 3 ) 108-125 ½-½
62 HIMANSHU KUMAR(18) ( 3 ) - DEVANGAI PATANKAR (1( 3 ) 109-137 ½-½
63 RAVI TEJA S.(12) ( 3 ) - GROWER SAHAJ (10) ( 3 ) 110-135 1-0
64 ANJANAA N.SOWJANYA(1( 3 ) - RAVI ABHISHEK (14) ( 3 ) 130-112 0-1
65 CHOKASI KAJRI (14)* ( 2½) - TEJASWINI REDDY (10)( 2½) 126- 96 ½-½
66 GUPTE MEGHAN (14) ( 2½) - KAMLI AMOGH (14) ( 2½) 97-123 1-0
67 VENKATESH H ( 2½) - FENIL SHAH (10) ( 2½) 103-131 0-1
68 MANDAR RODE (12) ( 2½) - CHARUDATTA JADHAV ( 2½) 106-143 ½-½
69 ANKIT R RAJAPARA (10( 2½) - JITESH SHAH ( 2½) 114-147 0-1
70 CHANDANAPRIYA R(10)*( 2½) - MADANASRI GUNDALA (1( 2½) 117-138 ½-½
71 D.M.P. MAHESHIKA (16( 2½) - RAJASURYA J (16)* ( 2½) 144-119 0-1
72 HARSH KARNATI (10) ( 2½) - JARBANA RAMYASRI (10( 2 ) 145-146 1-0
73 ASHWIN UTTURKAR (16)( 2 ) - RUCHA PUJARI (10)* ( 2 ) 141-150 ½-½
74 NDAWANA MOSENYA ( 2 ) - MOHANAPRIYA J (10)* ( 1½) 149-139 1-0
75 SIDDHALI SHETYE (12)( 1½) - SAI K. GHATE (14)* ( 1½) 152-151 0-1
76 Wf BOIKHUTSO MUDONGO( 1½) - M.BHAWOODIEN ( 0 ) 118-148 1-0
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