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BAKRE DRAWS WITH ANDRIASIAN, IN JOINT LEAD
Times of India
Aug 5 2010
KAVALA: Grandmaster Tejas Bakre remained in joint lead after settling
for a quick draw with former world junior champion Zaven Andriasian
of Armenia in the sixth round of the Kavala International open chess
tournament.
Bakre took his tally to five points out of a possible six and now
leads the field with Andriasian, Andrey Rychagov of Russia and Adam
Tukhaev of Ukraine who defeated compatriot Vladislav Borovikov in
the sixth round.
Vishnu Prasanna, who is yet to get the International Master
title, continued his dream run in the tournament and defeated Lela
Javakhishvili of Georgia. The victory put the Indian back on track
for his maiden Grandmaster norm for which he maximum needs two points
out of the next three rounds.
2008 world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta remained in the hunt for top
honours after drawing with American Robert Hess. Playing white, Robert
showed no intentions of a full-bloodied game and proposed a draw early
that was accepted by Abhijeet after some thought. Abhijeet now shares
the fifth spot along with five other Grandmasters including Robert.
14-year old International Master Sahaj Grover almost went out of
reckoning for his second GM norm after losing to third seed Eduardas
Rozentalis of Lithuania.
Playing the white side of a Pirc defense, Grover had his illustrious
opponent guessing for moves in the queen less middle game when he
came up with a speculative sacrifice but as the dust subsided, it was
only an equal endgame that was reached. Further inaccuracies by Grover
proved costly and he was gradually grinded in a long drawn affair.
Vishnu Prasanna has played a very tough opposition and he was unfazed
by another one in Lela who had incidentally lost the first round
against another Indian - Karma Pandya here.
Playing white, Vishnu kept things under control for the major part
of the game and his patience paid off eventually as Lela faltered.
International Master D Harika played out a draw with Yuri Yakovich of
Russia in a tense English opening game. Harika sacrificed a pawn in
the middle game to initiate a king side attack but Yakovich remained
on guard to force the draw.
Tania Sachdev won a fine game against Michelakos Panagiotis of Greece
while Soumya Swaminathan played out a draw with Bernal Moro Luis
Javier of Spain.
From: A. Papazian
Times of India
Aug 5 2010
KAVALA: Grandmaster Tejas Bakre remained in joint lead after settling
for a quick draw with former world junior champion Zaven Andriasian
of Armenia in the sixth round of the Kavala International open chess
tournament.
Bakre took his tally to five points out of a possible six and now
leads the field with Andriasian, Andrey Rychagov of Russia and Adam
Tukhaev of Ukraine who defeated compatriot Vladislav Borovikov in
the sixth round.
Vishnu Prasanna, who is yet to get the International Master
title, continued his dream run in the tournament and defeated Lela
Javakhishvili of Georgia. The victory put the Indian back on track
for his maiden Grandmaster norm for which he maximum needs two points
out of the next three rounds.
2008 world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta remained in the hunt for top
honours after drawing with American Robert Hess. Playing white, Robert
showed no intentions of a full-bloodied game and proposed a draw early
that was accepted by Abhijeet after some thought. Abhijeet now shares
the fifth spot along with five other Grandmasters including Robert.
14-year old International Master Sahaj Grover almost went out of
reckoning for his second GM norm after losing to third seed Eduardas
Rozentalis of Lithuania.
Playing the white side of a Pirc defense, Grover had his illustrious
opponent guessing for moves in the queen less middle game when he
came up with a speculative sacrifice but as the dust subsided, it was
only an equal endgame that was reached. Further inaccuracies by Grover
proved costly and he was gradually grinded in a long drawn affair.
Vishnu Prasanna has played a very tough opposition and he was unfazed
by another one in Lela who had incidentally lost the first round
against another Indian - Karma Pandya here.
Playing white, Vishnu kept things under control for the major part
of the game and his patience paid off eventually as Lela faltered.
International Master D Harika played out a draw with Yuri Yakovich of
Russia in a tense English opening game. Harika sacrificed a pawn in
the middle game to initiate a king side attack but Yakovich remained
on guard to force the draw.
Tania Sachdev won a fine game against Michelakos Panagiotis of Greece
while Soumya Swaminathan played out a draw with Bernal Moro Luis
Javier of Spain.
From: A. Papazian