Sports & Allied News
JAMMU, Dec 17:
Defeating the overnight leader, GM Vaibhav Suri of PSPB, young GM Aravindh Chithambaram today returned the top spot sharing the position with another young guy, IM Stany with 8.5 points at the end of 11th round in the National Senior Open Chess Championship underway here today.
Aravindh, who was trailing behind Vaibhav and Stany yesterday at third spot, was brilliant in his moves to be beat a better player. However, Stany could bring in a draw to remain in the lead. Five other players, GM Karthikeyan Murali, GM Vaibhav Suri, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy, GM Bakre Tejas and IM Krishna were at the third spot with 8.0 points each.
Brilliant Stany has been awarded the GM norm considering his brilliant show against higher rated opponents. He was among five players, who have been awarded the norms after tenth round. They are GA Stany (GM norm), Srijit Paul, Navalgund Niranjan, Ritviz Parab, Harshvardhan, all IM norms.
Chairman of the organising secretary and president of the AJKCA, Atul Kumar Gupta congratulated all the players who achieved Norms in the ongoing event. Meanwhile, as per the organisers, the final shall be played tomorrow followed by the valedictory function and the first position holder shall get Rs.5 Lacs prize money. In the meantime, Soham kamotra of J &K was leading among the host state with 5.5 points.
The Results: GM Aravindh Chithmbaram of Tamil Nadu beat GM Vaibhav Suri of PSPB; GM Deepan Chakkravarthy of RSPB drew IM Stany of AAI; IM Krishna of RSPB drew GM Bakre Tejas of Air India; GM Swapnil S Dhopade of RSPB lost to GM Karthikeyan Murali of PSPB; IM Vignesh of Tamil Nadu drew GM Sengupta Deep of PSPB; GM Chanda Sandipan of West Bengal drew IM Nitin of RSPB; IM Akash of Tamil Nadu drew GM Vishnu Prasanna of Tamil Nadu; GM Anurag Mhamal of Goa drew IM Shyaamnikhil of RSPB; Srijit Paul of west Bengal drew GM Neelotpal Das of PSPB; IM Rathnakaran of RSPB lost to GM Venkatesh of PSPB; GM Karthik Venkataraman beat Raahul of Tamil Nadu; IM Girinath of RSPB drew IM Rajesh of Tamil Nadu; Prasanna of Tamil Nadu lost to GM Pravin Thipsay of Maharashtra; Harshavardhan of Tamilnadu drew IM Viani Antonio Dcunha of Karnataka; IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu of Air India beat Sankalp Gupta of Maharashtra; IM Sharma Dinesh of LIC drew GM Gupta Abhijeet of PSPB; FM Nitish Belurkar of Goa lost to GM Sundararajan Kidambi of Tamil Nadu; FM Wagh Suyog of Maharashtra drew IM Swayams Mishra of Air India; FM Navalgund Niranjan of Karnataka beat GM Laxman of RSPB; IM Gusain Himal of RSPB beat IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy of PSPB.
