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Turov leads 7/8, Rathnakaran stuns
Vokarev
BY
R.R.Vasudevan, FIDE Arbiter
Second seeded Russian Grand Master Maxim
Turov maintained his lead with seven
points after a draw against Grandmaster
Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belaurs in the
eighth round of the of the 2nd SCS
International Open GM Chess Tournament
at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar.
Aleksandrov along with GMs Martyn
Kravtsiv (Ukraine), Pavel Maletin
(Russia) shared the second spot with 6.5
points each. Eighteen players, including
eight Indians occupied the third
position with six points each.
It appeared to be a day of peace, as the
top five boards ended without result.
But not for the Indian International
Master K Rathnakara. Playing a
spectacular middle game, the Indian IM
stunnded GM Sergey Vokarev (Russia) in a
French game that lasted 24 moves.
Rathnakaran began with a knight
sacrifice on the 16th move with Nxd4. An
unsuspecting Vokarev, walked into
further trouble, as he gave back the
knight leaving the king unguarded.
The Indian came up with a stunning queen
sacrifice 20...Qh3 that undid the
Russian Grandmaster, who gave up four
moves later.
13-year-old Vaibhav Suri (5.5) continued
his giant-killing run defeating veteran
Indian GM Dibyendu Barua (4.5). With
this win, Suri secured an IM norm.
According to Chief Arbiter
V.Ravichandran, a victory over
Bangladesh GM Enamul Hossain in the
ninth round on Friday would earn Suri
his maiden GM Norm.
Also confirmed was the IM norm for
Hungarian WGM Ticia Gara,(5.5) who,
however, lost her marathon eighth game
against Russian GM Evgeny Vorobiov.
Local star WIM Padmini Rout would get
her first WGM Norm if she scores over
experienced Hungarian GM Zoltan Varga in
the next round.
GM Sergey Vokarev - IM K Rathnakaran
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.c3
c5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4 f6 9.exf6
Nxf6 10.O-O Bd6 11.Nf3 Qc7 12.Bg5 O-O
13.Nc3 a6 14.Bh4 Nh5 15.Re1 g6 16.Bg5
Nxd4 17.Nxd4 Bxh2 18.Kh1 Rxf2 19.Nxd5
Qg3 20.Ne3 Qh3 21.Bf4 Rxg2 22.Bf5 gxf5
23.Nxg2 Bg3 24.Kg1 Nxf4 0-1
Top board results (Round 8):
Maxim Turov (Rus,7) drew with Aleksej
Aleksandrov (Blr,6.5), Martyn Kravtsiv
(Ukr,6.5) drew with Alexey Dreev
(Rus,6), Sergey Kasparov (Brl,6) drew
with Anton Kovalyov (Arg,6), B Adhiban
(Ind,6) drew with Dmitry Bocharov
(Rus,6), Pablo Lafuente (Arg,6) drew
with Hera Imre Jr (Hun,6), Pavel Maletin
(Rus,6.5) bt Attila Czebe (Hun,5.5),
Simonian Hrair (Arm,6) drew with Gevorg
Harutjunyan (Arm,6), Evgeny Voroviov
(Rus,6) bt Ticia Gara (Hun,5.5), Dmitry
Kokarev (Rus,6) bt Ivan Farago (Hun,5),
Alexandr Fier (Bra,5) lost to P Konguvel
(Ind, 6), Ashwin Jayaram (Ind,5.5) drew
with Thomas Luther (Ger,5.5),
Sundararajan Kidambi (Ind,5.5) drew with
Neelotpal Das (Ind,5.5), P Karthikeyan
(Ind,6) bt Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb,5),
Sriram Jha (Ind,6) bt Prathamesh Mokal
(Ind,5), K Rathnakaran (Ind,6) bt Sergey
Vokarev (Rus,5), MR Lalith Babu (Ind,6)
bt Atanu Lahiri (Ind,5), Deepan
Chakkravarthy (Ind,6) bt Suvrajit Saha
(Ind,5), Arjun Tiwari (Ind,6) bt
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ind,5), Rustam
Khusnutdinov (Kaz,5) drew with S Nitin
(Ind,5), Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz,5.5) bt
Rahul Sangma (Ind,4.5), Enamul Hossain
(Ban,5.5) bt Tirto (Ina,4.5), Ramnath
Bhuvanesh (Ind,5.5) bt Marat Dzhumaev
(Uzb,4.5), Vaibhav Suri (Ind,5.5) bt
Dibyendu Barua (Ind,4.5), Zoltan Varga
(Hun,5) drew with Bitan Banerjee
(Ind,5).
Published on
28th May, 2010
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