Rd 6 - Chennai Super Kings 5th International GM chess tournament 2013

Tuesday, 22 January 2013 10:34

Uzbek GM Kayumov Dmitry playing N R Vignesh

Lu Shanglei stuns Aleksandrov, Kumaran holds two Grandmasters

Chinese Grandmaster Lu Shanglei shared the lead with 5.5 points after the sixth round in the Chennai Super Kings 5th International Grandmaster chess tournament 2013 at Media Hall, Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Sharing the lead with Lu Shanglei were GMs Teske Henrik (Germany) and M R Lalith Babu (India). Further half a point down at 5.0 points were GMs Aleksej Aleksandrov (Belarus), Adhiban Baskaran (India), Czebe Attila (Hungary) among others.

Earlier, the morning session saw both the top seeds going down to lower rated GMs. Chinese Grandmaster Lu Shanglei scored over top seed GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus, while the second seed GM Deviatkin Andrei (Russia) lost to GM Teske Henrik (Germany), when he slipped from an apparently equal position.

14-year-old Chennai lad B Kumaran, a 9th Standard student of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Adyar, Chennai was impressive as he held two Grandmasters to draw on a double round day. Playing with black pieces Kumaran drew with GM Niaz Murshed (Bangladesh) in the morning session and held GM Ziatdinov Raset of USA to a draw in the evening session. Kumaran has played two IMs and two GMs in the last four rounds securing a 3/4 score. Having missed his IM Norm narrowly in the recently concluded Commonwealth championship, in-form Kumaran is bound to make up this event as his show.

In another upset, 15-year-old Chennai lad N R Vignesh scored over experienced Uzbek Grandmaster Kayumov Dmitry in a Sicilian game that lasted 37 moves. Showing understanding ahead of his age, Vignesh handled the middle game with elan and marched to win in a rook and pawn end game.

GM Shanglei Lu - GM Aleksej Aleksandrov

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 Nc6 5.h3 a6 6.Nge2 d6 7.d3 Bd7 8.a3 h6 9.g4 Nh7 10.Ng3 Ng5 11.Nd5 Ne6 12.b4 Ba7 13.Be3 b5 14.a4 bxa4 15.Rxa4 Ne7 16.Ra2 Ng6 17.Nf5 O-O 18.Qa1 Bxe3 19.fxe3 c6 20.Nc3 Nh4 21.O-O Nc7 22.Qe1 Nxg2 23.Kxg2 g6 24.Nxd6 Bxg4 25.hxg4 Qxd6 26.Qh4 Kg7 27.Na4 g5 28.Qg3 Rab8 29.c3 f6 30.d4 Qe7 31.Nc5 Rbe8 32.Raf2 exd4 33.cxd4 Ne6 34.e5 fxe5 35.Qxe5 Kg8 36.Qxe6 1-0

GM Kayumov Dmitry D - N R Vignesh

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Re1 Be6 10.Bf3 Nbd7 11.a4 Rc8 12.a5 Qc7 13.Be3 Qc6 14.Qd2 Rfd8 15.Rec1 Nc5 16.Nd5 Bxd5 17.exd5 Nxb3 18.cxb3 Qb5 19.Bb6 Re8 20.b4 e4 21.Be2 Qxd5 22.Qxd5 Nxd5 23.b5 Nf4 24.Rxc8 Nxe2 25.Kf1 Rxc8 26.bxa6 bxa6 27.Kxe2 Rc2 28.Kf1 Rxb2 29.Rc1 f5 30.Rc7 Bf6 31.Ra7 d5 32.g3 d4 33.Rd7 d3 34.Rd5 Rb1 35.Kg2 Bg5 36.Be3 Bxe3 37.fxe3 Re1 0-1

IM Prasanna Rao Raghuram - GM Dzhumaev Marat

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ngf3 g6 8.h4 h6 9.Bc2 b5 10.a3 a5 11.Nf1 Ba6 12.Ne3 cxd4 13.cxd4 b4 14.Ng4 Qb6 15.Ba4 Rc8 16.Bd2 Kd8 17.Rh3 Qb7 18.h5 g5 19.Bxg5 hxg5 20.Nxg5 bxa3 21.bxa3 Nb6 22.Rb1 Rg8 23.Nxf7 Qxf7 24.Rxb6 Nb4 25.axb4 Bxb4 26.Rxb4 axb4 27.h6 Qf4 28.Ne3 Rc3 29.h7 Rh8 30.Bc2 b3 31.Qa1 Rxc2 32.Nxc2 bxc2 33.Qa5 Kd7 34.Qa4 Ke7 35.Qxc2 Bc4 36.Qb2 Qe4 37.Re3 Qxg2 38.Qb7 Kf8 39.Qc8 Ke7 40.Qc7 Ke8 41.Qc6 Kd8 42.Qd6 Kc8 43.Qxe6 Kc7 44.Qd6 Kb7 45.Qd7 Kb8 46.Qd6 Kb7 47.Qd7 1/2-1/2

Round 5 Results (Indians unless specified)

Lu Shanglei (Chn) 5 bt AleksandroV Aleksej (Blr) 4, Deviatkin Andrei (Rus) 4 lost to Teske Henrik (Ger) 5,Prasanna Raghuram Rao 4.5 drew with Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) 4.5, C Praveen Kumar 4 drew with B Adhiban 4, M R Lalith Babu 4.5 bt S L Narayanan 3.5, Wan Yunguo (Chn) 4.5 bt Padmini Rout 3.5, Niaz Murshed (Ban) 4 drew with B Kumaran 4, P Shyam Nikil 4 drew with Swapnil S Dhopade 4, R Vaishali 3.5 lost to Kuderinov Kirill (Kaz) 4.5, N R Visakh 3 lost to Czebe Attila (Hun) 4, Kayumov Dmitry (Uzb) 3 lost to N R Vignesh 4

Round 6 Results (Indians unless specified)

Teske Henrik (Ger) 5.5 drew with Lu Shanglei (Chn) 5.5, Czebe Attila (Hun) 5 bt C Praveen Kumar 4, G B Prakash 4.5 drew with Niaz Murshed (Ban) 4.5, R Ashwath 4.5 drew with Karthikeyan Murali 4.5, N R Vignesh 4.5 drew with R Ramnath Bhuvanesh 4.5, Matta Vinay Kumar 4.5 drew with P Phoobalan 4.5, B Adhiban 5 bt Jayakumar Adarsh (USA) 4, Ziatdinov Raset (USA) 4.5 drew with B Kumaran 4.5, B S Shivananda 4 drew with Sidhant Mohapatra 4, K S Raghunandan 3 lost to Ziaur Rahman (Ban) 4, Kuderinov Kirill (Kaz) 4.5 lost to M R Lalith Babu 5.5, Aleksandrov Aleksej (Blr) 5 bt Prasanna Raghuram Rao 4.5, B T Murali Krishnan 4.5 drew with Deviatkin Andrei (Rus) 4.5

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