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| Venkatesh
Champion, youngsters to the fore |
Day
One |
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SPIC
sponsored M
R Venkatesh of Wesley High School, Chennai lifted the Lakshmi General
Finance Trophy, by securing 8.0 points out of a possible nine, in the
6th Annual Lakshmi General Finance Open Rapid Chess Championship organized
by CAPA Chess Academy at Sree Alamelu Manga Kalyana Mandapam,
Chennai. In
the final round game Venkatesh settled for a quick draw with R
Preetham Sharma of Loyola College, Chennai. Venkatesh took
home LGF Trophy plus a cash prize of Rs 2,500/- and it comes as a
whiff of fresh air that the old warhorses were given a run for the
money. For it was youngsters to the fore all the way and that the
average age of the top ten finishers would be Under 23 bodes well for
Indian chess.
In deed the title achievement of Venkatesh was a laudable one considering the strength of the tournament with three International Masters. He remained undefeated with 8.0 points Preetham Sharma who beat Ram S.Krishnan (Loyola), his collegiate, in the penultimate round took the second place with 7.5 points and pocked Rs.1500/-. Giant killing performance of Ram
S Krishnan in the do-or-die final round against IM V.Saravanan fetched him the third prize of Rs.800/-. Both
C Natarajan (ICF) and A Shankar (Rlys), who beat IM Konguvel and IM Saravanan respectively yesterday, could not sustain their winning momentum. In all the tournament witnessed high quality chess in the quick version of the game.
Even experienced players with the tags of International Masters were not spared.
Mr Sam
Sridharan, Manager - Operations, M/s Lakshmi General Finance Limited,
gave away the Prizes. |
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Final
Placings
|
Rank |
Player |
Institution |
Points |
|
1 |
M
R Venakatesh |
Wesley
High
School |
8.0 |
|
2 |
R
Preetham Sharma |
Loyola |
7.5 |
|
3-9 |
Ram
S Krishnan |
Loyola |
7.0 |
|
3-9 |
R
Balasubramanian |
ICF |
7.0 |
|
3-9 |
R
R Laxman |
Anna
Engg. |
7.0 |
|
3-9 |
C
Natarajan |
ICF |
7.0 |
|
3-9 |
A
Sankar |
Southern
Railway |
7.0 |
|
3-9 |
P
Konguvel |
ONGC |
7.0 |
|
3-9 |
M
Vinoth Kumar |
|
7.0 |
|
10-11 |
S
S Kidambi |
PSBB |
6.5 |
|
10-11 |
K
Gunasekaran |
ICF |
6.5 |
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Day
One |
| Venkatesh
leads, Gopalakrishnan holds Kidambi |
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Junior
star M R Venkatesh of of Wesley High School, Chennai lead the strong
pack with 5.0 points at the end of the 5th round in the
sixth annual Lakshmi General Finance Open Rapid Chess Tournament organized
by Capa Chess Academy at Sree Alamelu Manga Kalyana Mandapam, Chennai.
The tournament attracted 124 entries with 23 FIDE Rated players
including 3 International Masters – V Saravanan, Sundararajan
Kidambi and Ponnuswamy Konguvel.
The
tournament went without any fire works till third round.
But in fourth round C Natarajan (ICF) stopped the winning spree
of former National Champion IM Konguvel with white pieces.
He not only managed to capture a pawn initially, but also a
bishop and eventually a full point.
In the top two boards the top seed IM V Saravanan and IM
Sundarajan Kidambi (playing after a long gap due his school final
examinations) were held to a draw by Syed Anwar Sazhuli (ICF) and K
Gopalakrishnan (Indian Bank) respectively.
But
in the fifth round it was a hammer blow to IM Saravanan when he missed
a simple win with two queens. Crestfallen Saravanan overlooked one
move mate due severe time pressure and threw away a point to A Sankar
(Southern Railway). At the
end of the fifth round, three players – R Balasubramaniam (ICF), A
Sankar (ICF) and Ram S Krishnan - with 4.5 points are following the
leader and a group of 14 other players are in the third spot with 4.0
points apiece.
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Results
Round 5
|
White |
Pts |
Result |
Black |
Pts |
|
M
R Venkatesh |
5.0 |
1-0 |
C
Natarajan |
4.0 |
|
Ram
S Krishnan |
4.5 |
0.5-0.5 |
R
Balasubramanian |
4.5 |
|
V
Saravanan |
3.5 |
0-1 |
A
Sankar |
4.5 |
|
R
Preetham Sharma |
4.0 |
0.5-0.5 |
S
R Kidambi |
4.0 |
|
K
Gopalakrishnan |
4.0 |
0.5-0.5 |
Syed
anwar Shahzuli |
4.0 |
|
Y
Prathiba |
3.5 |
0-1 |
P
Konguvel |
4.0 |
|
R
R Laxman |
4.0 |
1-0 |
S
Banupriya |
3.0 |
|
S
Harini |
3.0 |
0-1 |
K
Gunasekaran |
4.0 |
|
R
S Prasanna |
4.0 |
1-0 |
M
Vijay Anand |
3.0 |
|
B
Nandagopal |
4.0 |
1-0 |
G
Srikanth |
3.0 |
|
Navaneethakrishnan |
4.0 |
1-0 |
K
N Ranga |
3.0 |
|
Jeran |
3.0 |
0-1 |
M
Vinoth Kumar |
4.0 |
|
T
B Sundar |
3.0 |
0-1 |
P
Rajesh |
4.0 |
|
C Natarajan - IM P
Konguvel
1.d4 Nf6, 2. Nf3 g6, 3. Bg5 Bg7, 4. Nbd2 c5, 5. e3 d6, 6. c3 0-0, 7 Be2 b6, 8.0-0 Nbd7 9.a4 Bb7, 10.Re1 h6, 11.Bh4 g5, 12.Bg3 Rc8, 13. Bf1 Nh5, 14. e4 Ng3, 15.hg3 Nf6, 16. d5 Qc7, 17. Qb3 Rce8, 18. Bb5 Rd8, 19. Bd3 Ng4 20. Nc4 Bc8 21. a5, b5, 22 Qb5 Bd7, 23. Qb3 Rb8, 24. Qc2 Bb5, 25. Re2 Bc4, 26. Bc4 Ne5, 27. Ne5 Be5, 28. Qd2 Qd7, 29. f4 Bf6, 30. e5 de5, 31. fe5 Bg7, 32. e6 Qd6, 33. cb7 Kh8, 34. Rf1 Qb3, 35. Re3 Rb2 36. Rg3 Rd2, 37. Re3 Bf6, 38. Re6, Bc3, 39. Re7 Rd4, 40. Bb5 Rd5 41. Be8 Kg7, 42. Ra7 Bd4, 43. Kh1 c4, 44. Rc7 c3, 45. Rd1 g4 46. g3 Rc5 47. Rc5 Bc5 48. a6 Be3 49. Rd3 c2, 50. Rc3
1-0
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Sundararajan
Kidambi – K Gopalakrishnan
1.d4
Nf6, 2. c4 e6, 3. Nc3 Bb4, 4. e3 c5, 5. Bd3 Nc6, 6. Ne2 cd4, 7. cd4
d5, 8.cd5 Nd5, 9.0-0 0-0, 10.Bc2 Bd6, 11. Qd3 g6, 12. Bb3 Nc3, 13. bc3
Qh4, 14. g3, Qh5, 15. Nf4 Bf4, 16. Bf4 e5, 17. de5 Nd5, 18. Be5 Qe5,
19. Rfe1 Qf6, 20. Qd4 Qd4, 21. cd4 Bf5, 22. Re7 b6, 23. Rc1 Rad8 24.
Rcc7, Rd4, 25. Bf7+ Kg7, 26. Bb3+ Kf6, 27. Ra7, h5 28. Reb7 0.5-0.5
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K
Murali Mohan
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