Dear all,
Greetings!
Below, kindly find the press release for Day 7 of the GCA’s 1st GM Open
Chess Tournament. Kindly consider and publish the same in your esteemed
daily.
Goa’s Ritviz Parab and Fide Master Nitish Belurkar continued their
impressive run at the Goa Chess Association’s 1st Goa International Open
Tournament, at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium, Taleigao,
on Friday.
Ritviz beat International Master Vardan Nagpal to move on to 6.5 points
while Nittish displayed sound technique to hold Grandmaster Himanshu
Sharma to a draw, after stealing points from two International Masters
in the earlier rounds. Ritviz Parab started with E4 —King pawn and the
opponent opted for french defence in exchange variation. At the end he
had an advantage of double bishop versus double knight, keeping them
locked till the end of the game. Ritviz will play GM Tukhaev Adam of
Ukraine in the last round.
Nitish started with King pawn Fianchentto against GM Himanshu. The
opponent had disadvantage of separate pawn on the same file, which
Nitish exploited to earn a draw. Nitish is on 6 points and will play GM
Bernadskiy Vitaliy of Ukraine in the final round.
Best,
Carol Mascarenhas
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Ritviz beats IM, FM Nitish holds GM
IM Karthik stuns GM Neverov Valeriy
PANJIM: Goa’s Ritviz Parab and Fide Master Nitish Belurkar continued
their impressive run at the Goa Chess Association’s 1st Goa
International Open Tournament, at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor
Stadium, Taleigao, on Friday.
Ritviz beat International Master Vardan Nagpal to move on to 6.5 points
while Nittish displayed sound technique to hold Grandmaster Himanshu
Sharma to a draw, after stealing points from two International Masters
in the earlier rounds.
On the top boards, International Master Karthik Venkatraman of India
created an upset on second board when he defeated Grandmaster Neverov
Valeriy of Ukraine to move on to 7.5 points and join the leaders GM
Idani Pouya of Iran, GM Babujian Levon of Armenia and GM Kasparov
Sergey of Belarus.
Karthik started with queen’s bishop opening London System and in the end
the knight and queen combination of Karthik was strong enough to create
a plus position leading to a stunning win for the Indian IM.
Ritviz Parab started with E4 —King pawn and the opponent opted for
french defence in exchange variation. At the end he had an advantage of
double bishop versus double knight, keeping them locked till the end of
the game. Ritviz will play GM Tukhaev Adam of Ukraine in the last round.
Nitish started with King pawn Fianchentto against GM Himanshu. The
opponent had disadvantage of separate pawn on the same file, which
Nitish exploited to earn a draw. Nitish is on 6 points and will play GM
Bernadskiy Vitaliy of Ukraine in the final round.
Fide Master Ameya Audi suffered a shock defeat against Vikramjit Singh
of Railways. He stays on 5.5 points. Meanwhile, Niraj Saripalli defeated
CM Arfan Bagus of Indonesia to move on to 5.5 points. Umang Kaisary and
Tanvi Hadkonkar also drew their respective games to be on 4.5 points .
Gunjal Chopdekar won to increase her points to 3.5 points
Another shocking result was the draw of GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J
against Rahul V. Rahul began with a Queen’s Indian Defence and though
Deepan was pawn up it was not enough to convert into a win.
On the first board, Idani began with queen pawn Catalan opening and the
match went on equal footing which lasted for 108 minutes. Idani had a
pawn advantage but couldn't make the best as it ended in a draw.
On the final day, Karthik will play top seed GM Idani while Babujian
Levon will play and GM Kasparov Sergey.
