Srinath upsets Kazakh GM Anuar

Bhubaneswar, June 9: 

Five players shared the lead with four points each after the completion of fourth round of the 1 st SCS International Open GM Chess Tournament at hotel Swosti Plaza here on Tuesday.

The leaders included two foreign Grandmasters (Igor Kurnosov, Georgy Timoshenko) and three Indian International Masters (Narayanan Srinath, MR Lalith Babu, SP Sethuraman). Narayanan Srinath caused an upset by defeating Kazakhstan Grandmaster Anuar Ismagabetov, but top seed Sergei Tiviakov (Netherlands) bounced back to joint second place with win over IM Subhrajit Saha (India).

Host Orissa players experienced mixed luck with overnight joint leader IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu going down to MR Lalith Babu. But youngsters Debasish Das and Anwesh Upadhyaya posted creditable draws against Ukraine Grandmasters Yuriy Kuzubov and Alexander Zubarev.

Biswajit Nayak kept the Orissa flag flying with a thumping win over IM Vishal Sareen. He now leads the home campaign with 3.5 points.

RESULTS (Round 4):

Top 25 boards: Igor Kurnosov (Rus, 4) bt Saptarshi Roy (Ind, 3), Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr, 4) bt Minhazudin Ahmed (Ban, 3), Narayanan Srinath (Ind, 4) bt Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz, 2.5), Sergey Vokarev (Rus, 3.5) drew with Shyam Nikil P (Ind, 3.5), B Adhiban (Ind, 3.5) drew with GA Stany (Ind, 3.5), Sekhar Sahu (Ind, Ori, 3) lost to MR Lalith Babu (Ind, 4), SP Sethuraman(Ind, 4) bt ML Abhilash Reddy, BS Shivananda (Ind, 3.5) drew with K Rathnakaran (Ind, 3.5), Anup Deshmukh (Ind, 3.5) drew with Himanshu Sharma (Ind, 3.5), Suvrajit Saha (Ind, 2.5) lost to Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 3.5),  Debasish Das (Ind, Ori, 3) drew with Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr, 3), Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr, 3) drew with N Sudhakar Babu (Ind, 3), Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus, 3.5) bt P Maheswaran (Ind, 2.5), Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 3) drew with Atanu Lahiri (Ind, 3), Alexander Zubarev (Ukr, 3) drew with Anwesh Upadhyaya (Ind, Ori, 3), Shashikant Kutwal (Ind, 3) drew with Roman Ovetchkin (Rus, 3), Enamul Hossain (Ban, 3.5) bt DP Singh (Ind, 2.5), Soumya Ranjan Mishra (Ind, Ori, 2.5) lost to Yaroslav Zinchenko (Ukr, 3.5), Andrey Rychagov (Rus, 3.5) bt Rahul Sangma (Ind, 2.5), RR Laxman (Ind, 3) drew with Bitan Banerjee (Ind, 3), Neelotpal Das (Ind, 3) drew with J Ramakrishna (Ind, 3), Samutowe Amon (Zam, 3) drew with GB Joshi (Ind, 3), Deep Sengupta (Ind, 3.5) bt Daklia Shreyansh Jain (Ind, 2.5), Sriram Jha (Ind, 3) drew with R Ramnath Bhuvanesh (Ind, 3), Akash Thakur (Ind, 3) drew with Tejas Bakre (Ind, 3).

Other Orissa results (Round 4): Biswajit Nayak (3.5) bt Vishal Sareen (Ind, 2.5), Manoj Panigrahi (3) drew with M Shyam Sundar (3), Swayangsu Satyapragyan (3) bt Atul Dahale (Ind, 2), Rajendra Sahu (3) bt P Saravana Krishnan (Ind, 2), Mohammad Ashraf (3) bt Krishan Soni (2), Swayams Mishra (3) bt Aditya Chakraborty (Ind, 2), Kiran Manisha Mohanty (3) bt Rajesh Kumar Sharma (Ind, 2), Padmini Rout (2.5) bt Ranjan Mohanty (Ind, Ori, 1.5), Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (2.5) bt V Varun (Ind, 2.5), Rabindra Kumar Ojha (2.5) bt Sahaj Grover (Ind, 1.5), Pabitra Mohan Mohanty (2.5) drew with Niranjan Navalgund (Ind, 2.5), Sidhant Mohapatra (2) lost to Hemant Sharma (Ind, 3).

Orissa teenager Anwesh Upadhyaya (L) plays Ukraine Grandmaster Alexander Zubarev in the fourth round of the SCS International Open GM Chess Tournament in Bhubaneswar on June 9, 2009.

Ukranian WGM Natalia Zdebskaja concentrates on her game in the fourth round of the GM Chess Tournament on June 9, 2009.