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Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championship 2010 - Round Six |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 18:33 |
New Delhi (13 May 2010): Second seed and leader of Indian hopes Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi along with his fellow city mate Grandmaster Sriram Jha and Russian Grandmaster Pavel Maletin share the lead with five and half points after sixth round matches in the Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championship here at Clarks Inn, Pacific Mall on today. Opting to play Ruy Lopez opening with white pieces, Negi outwitted his rival Uzbek Grandmaster Saidali Iuldachev in 37 moves. Playing safe with black pieces, Jha settled for an eighteen move draw against Maletin Pavel by three fold repetition.
Meanwhile continuing his fine show in the championship, young Tamilnadu International Master K Priyadharshan held top seed Russian Grandmaster Alexey Dreev to a creditable draw. Playing with white pieces in advanced variation of Caro-Kan defence Priyadharshan forced his fancied rival to settle for half point in 47 moves. Earlier in the fourth and fifth rounds, Priyadharshan beat Grandmaster Pablo Lafuente of Argentina and Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan.
 GM Alexey Dreev
In other sixth round encounters, Asian Chess Championship bronze medal winner Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta signed peace treaty with his Ukrainian counterpart Martyn Kravtsiv while Abhijit Kunte and B Adhiban satisfied with half point against S Nitin and Stany G A respectively. Grandmaster Ruslan Pogorelov of Ukraine finds it difficult to handle the Indian youngsters as he succumbed to another defeat in the tourney from the hands of Tamilnadu teenager J Saranya.
Negi will take on Jha while Maletin paired against top seed Dreev in the crucial seventh round match tomorrow.
Important Results (Indians unless otherwise stated):
Round 6:
GM Pavel Maletin of Russia (5.5) drew with GM Sriram Jha (5.5); IM K Priyadharshan (5) drew with GM Alexey Dreev of Russia (5); GM Parimarjan Negi (5.5) beat GM Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan (4.5); GM Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine (5) drew with GM Abhijeet Gupta (5); GM Dmitry Kokarev of Russia (5) beat IM P Konguvel (4.5); GM Anton Kovalyov (5) beat IM N Srinath (4); BS Shivananda (4) lost to GM Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan (5); GM Dmitry Bocharov of Russia (5) beat IM Suvrajit Saha (4); FM S Nitin (4.5) drew with GM Abhijit Kunte (4.5); IM B Adhiban (4.5) drew with Standy GA (4.5); IM Lalith Babu MR (5) beat FM Djakhangir Agaragimov of Azerbaijan (4); Ramnath Bhuvanesh (4.5) drew with IM D Harika (4.5); FM Abu Sufian Shakil of Bangladesh (4) lost to GM Tejas Bakre (5); IM Anup Deshmukh (4) lost to GM Laxman RR (5); Gurpreet Pal Singh (4.5) drew with IM Ashwin Jayaram (4.5).
Round 5:
GM Alexey Dreev drew with GM Martyn Kravtsiv; GM Sriram Jha beat GM Dmitry Bocharov; IM D Harika lost to GM Pavel Maletin; IM Srinath N lost to GM Parimarjan Negi; GM Tejas Bakre drew with GM Dmitry Kokarev; GM Eltaj Safarli drew with IM Venkatesh MR; GM Abhijeet Gupta beat Anwesh Upadhyaya; IM P Konguvel beat GM Rustam Khusnutdinov; GM Saidali Iuldachev beat Swayams Mishra; BS Shivananda drew with IM B Adhiban; GM Marat Dzhumaev Marat lost to IM K Priyadharshan; FM Nitin S drew with IM Lalith Babu MR ; GM Abhijit Kunte beat FM Shyam Nikil; FM De Villiers Charles lost to GM Anton Kovalyov; Prasenjit Datta drew with GM Enamul Hossain.
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