Three GMs suffer upsets, 11 others survive scare

Bhubaneswar, June 8:

In a day of upsets, three Grandmasters suffered defeats and 11 others survived scares in the second and third rounds of the 1st SCS International Open GM Tournament being played at Swosti Plaza here on Monday.
International Master Anup Deshmukh (India) outwitted Kazakhstan Grandmaster Rustam Khusnutdinov in the third round to share the lead share the lead with 17 others with three points.
Earlier in the second round, 14-year-old West Bengal boy Prantik Roy stunned Russia GM Alexander Fominyh, while Indian GM J Deepan Chakkravarthy was outplayed by compatriot Anurag Jaiswal.
Top seed Sergei Tiviakov (Holland), Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukraine), Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukraine), Roman Ovetchkin (Russia), Yaroslav Zinchenko (Ukraine) and Andrey Rychagov (Russia) are the six Grandmasters who were held to draws in the second round by Indian youngsters Sayantan Das, Sahaj Grover, Padmini Rout, OT Anilkumar, Utkal Ranjan Sahoo and GV Sai Krishna respectively.
Five Grandmasters, who were forced to split point In the third round included E Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus), Abjijeet Gupta (Ind), Alexander Zubareb (Ukr), Enamul Hossain (Ban), Neelotpal Das (Ind).
RESULTS (Round 3):
Top 25 boards: Igor Kurnosov (Rus, 3) bt Kamble Vikramaditya (Ind, 2), N Sudhakar Babu (Ind, 2.5) drew with Evgeny E Vorobiov (Rus, 2.5), P Maheswaran (Ind, 2.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 2.5), Atanu Lahiri (Ind, 2.5) drew with Alexander Zubarev (Ukr, 2.5), Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr, 3) bt Md Taibur Rahamn (Ban, 2), Rahul Sangma (Ind, 2.5) drew with Enamul Hossain (Ban, 2.5), Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz, 2.5) drew with Rahul Shetty (Ind, 2.5), Sergey Vokarev (Rus, 3) bt Ram S Krishnan (Ind, 2), DP Singh (Ind, 2.5) drew with RR Laxman (Ind, 2.5), Bitan Banerjee (Ind, 2.5) drew with Neelotpal Das (Ind, 2.5), Anup Deshmukh (Ind, 3) bt Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz, 2), J Ramakrishna (Ind, 2.5) drew with Simutowe Amon (Zam, 2.5), Syed Mahfuzur Rahman (Ban, 2) lost to B Adhiban (Ind, 3), MR Lalith Babu (Ind, 3) bt V Vishnu Prasanna (Ind, 2), GB Joshi (Ind, 2.5) drew with Deep Sengupta (Ind, 2.5), Daklia Shreyansh Jain (Ind, 2.5) drew with Sriram Jha (Ind, 2.5), Mohammed Abdul Malek (Ban, 2) lost to SP Sethuraman (Ind, 3), R Bhuvanesh Ramnath (Ind, 2.5) drew with MR Venkatesh (Ind, 2.5), K Rathnakaran (Ind, 3) bt Gurpreet Pal Singh (Ind, 2), Sagar Shah (Ind, 2.5) drew with Arghyadip Das (Ind, 2.5), M Shyam Sundar (Ind, 2.5) drew with Debraj Chatterjee (Ind, 2.5), GA Stany (Ind, 3) bt MS Thejkumar (Ind, 2), Sekhar Chandra Sahu (Ind, Ori, 3) PDS Girinath (Ind, 2), Himanshu Sharma (Ind, 3) bt Pabitra Mohan Mohanty (Ind, Ori, 2), Saptarshi Roy (Ind, 3) bt Mohammad Ali (Ban, 2).
Other Orissa results: Debasish Das (2.5) bt Devangi Patnakar (Ind, 1.5), Biswajeet Nayak (2.5) drew with Sashikanth Kutwal (Ind, 2.5), Anwesh Upadhyaya (2.5) bt Dilip Das (Ind, 1.5), Manoj Panigrahi (2.5) drew with V Saravanan (Ind, 2.5), Soumya Ranjan Mishra (2.5) bt Rabindra Kumar Ojha (Ind, Ori, 1.5), Swayangsu Satyapragyan (2) drew with Santhu Mondol (Ind, 2), Rajendra Kumar Sahu (2) drew with DV Prasad (Ind, 2), Swayams Mishra (2) bt Santosh Das (Ind, Ori, 1), Sidhant Mohapatra (2) drew with Joydeep Dutta (Ind, 2), Kiran Manisha Mohanty (2) bt SV Srinath (Ind, 1), Manas Parida (2) bt Rajesh Kumar (Ind, 1), Krishan Soni (2) bt Aparajita Gochhikar (Ind, Ori, 1).
RESULTS (Round 2):
Top 25 boards: Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 1.5) drew with Sayantan Das (Ind, 1.5), Igor Kurnosov (Rus, 2) bt T Purushothaman (Ind, 1), Sahaj Grover (Ind, 1.5) drew with Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr, 1.5), Padmini Rout (Ind, Ori, 1.5) drew with Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr, 1.5), Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus, 2) bt Sohel Chowdhury (Ban, 1), Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 2) bt Mehdi Hasan (Ban, 1), Alexander Zubarev (Ukr, 2) bt Swayams Mishra (Ind, Ori, 1), Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr, 2) bt Syed Nasir Ali (Ind, 1), OT Anilkumar (Ind, 1.5) drew with Roman Ovetchkin (Rus, 1.5), Enamul Hossain (Ban, 2) bt Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ind, Ori, 1), Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (Ind, Ori, 1.5) drew with Yaroslav Zinchenko (Ukr, 1.5), GV Sai Krishna (Ind, 1.5) drew with Andrey Rychagov (Rus, 1.5), Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz) bt Mahtabuddin Ahmed (Ban, 1), Sergey Vokarev (Rus, 2) bt Rajib Dhar (Ind, 1), R R Laxman (Ind, 2) bt Sai Meera (Ind, 1), Neelotpal Das (Ind, 2) bt LV Shivkumar (Ind, 1), Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz, 2) bt Javed Mohammad (Ban, 1), Amon Simutowe (Zam, 2) bt Krishan Soni (Ind, Ori, 1), Prantik Roy (Ind, 2) bt Alexander Fominyh (Rus, 1), B Adhiban (Ind, 2) bt Emam Hasan Mohammad (Ban, 1), Anurag Jaiswal (Ind, 2) bt Deepan Chakkravarthy (Ind, 1), MR Lalith Babu (Ind, 2) bt Atul Dahale (Ind, 1), Deep Sengupta (Ind, 2) bt VS Negi (Ind, 1), Aarthie Ramaswamy (Ind, 1.5) drew with Serikbay Temirbayev (Kaz, 1.5), Sriram Jha (Ind, 1.5) bt N Aravind Subramanian (Ind, 1).
Other important Orissa results: Subhransu Mohan Satpathy (1) lost to SP Sethuraman (Ind, 2), Swayangsu Satyapragyan (1.5) drew with Dilip Das (Ind, 1.5), Debasis Chakrabarty (1) lost to M Shyam Sundar (Ind, 2), KD Pillai (1) lost to BS Shivananda (Ind, 2), Manas Parida (1) lost to P Nikil Shyam (Ind, 2), Debashis Das (1.5) drew with Prince Bajaj (Ind, 1.5), GC Mohapatra (1) lost to Shashikant Kutwal (Ind, 2), Soumya Ranjan Mishra (1.5) drew with Sidhant Mohapatra (1.5), Anwesh Upadhyaya (1.5) drew with M Deepthamsh Reddy (Ind, 1.5), Biswajit Nayak (2) bt Vinay Kumar Matta (Ind, 1), Rajendra Kumar Sahu (1.5) drew with Meenakshi Subbaraman (Ind, 1.5), Soumya Ranjan Das (1) lost to Syed Mahfuzur Rahman (Ban, 2), Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand (1) lost to V Vishnu Prasanna (Ind, 2), Kamlesh Gupta (1) lost to Daklia Shreyansh Jain (Ind, 2), Prasanna Kumar Nayak (1) lost to Gurpreet Pal Singh (Ind, 2), Sekhar Chandra Sahu (2) bt (w/o)  Keshav Charan Sahu (Ind, Ori, 1), Shibashish Mahapatra (1) lost to Debaraj Chatterjee (Ind, 2), Pabitra Mohan Mohanty (2) bt Bijay Kumar Dash (1), Srinath Bhoi (1) lost to VAV Rajesh (Ind, 2), Manoj Kumar Panigrahi (2) bt Vishal Mohanty (Ind, Ori, 1), Binod Kumar Sahoo (0.5) lost to Niaz Murshed (Ban, 1), Chinmay Routray (0) lost to Himal Gusain (Ind, 1), Shyam Sundar Sharma (0) lost to Srivaths Akash (Ind, 1), Ayush Acharya (0) lost to Ajmera Atishay (Ind, 1), Sribinda Rout (0.5) drew with Zakia Sultana (Ban, 0.5), Smaraki Mohanty (0) lost to Pratik Patil (Ind, 1). Abhilash Kabi (0) lost to Sayan Bose (Ind, 1), Akankhya Kabi (0) lost to Sanjay Date (Ind, 1), Anant Narayan Mishra (0) lost to Suman Suwal (Ind, 1).


 


Sayantas Das of WB , the u12 World Champion held
 GM Sergei Tiviakov to a draw in the 2nd round

     

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