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  Six foreign GMs, 4 Indian IMs share lead
10 Jun 2009
 

Six foreign Grandmasters and four Indian International Masters shared the lead with 4.5 points each after the completion of fifth round of the 1st SCS International Open GM Chess Tournament at hotel Swosti Plaza in Bhubaneswar today. Top seed GM Sergei Tiviakov (Netherlands) joined the leaders with a fluent win over IM Srinath Narayanan. Evgeny Vorobiov, Sergey Vokarev (both Russia) and Enamul Hossain (Bangladesh) are three other Grandmasters who also registered wins in the fifth round. Among Indian IMs, Deep Sengupta and K Rathnakaran secured full points to join the bunch of joint leaders. IMs MR Lalith Babu, SP Sethuraman also booked their places among the leaders with creditable draws against Grandmasters Igor Kurnosov (Russia) and Georgy Timoshenko (Ukraine) respectively.

 

Among Orissa players, IM Swayangsu Satyapragyan, Rajendra Kumar Sahu and Anwesh Upadhyaya advanced to the joint second place with victories over Nassir Wajih, Md Taibur Rahman and Mohammad Ashraf respectively. Orissa’s Woman International Master (WIM) Padmini Rout, however, suffered an upset when she was beaten by her junior state opponent Sunyasakta Satpathy. Overnight Orissa leader Biswajit Nayak also suffered defeat at the hands of K Rathnakaran. RESULTS (Round 5): Top 25 boards: MR Lalith Babu (Ind, 4.5) drew with Igor Kurnosov (Rus, 4.5), SP Sethuranam (Ind, 4.5) drew with Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr, 4.5), Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 4.5) bt Narayanan Srinath (Ind, 4), K Priyadharshan (Ind, 3.5) lost to Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus, 4.5), Himanshu Sharma (Ind, 3.5) lost to Enamul Hossain (Ban, 4.5), Yaroslav Zinchenko (Ukr, 4) drew with BS Shivananda (Ind, 4), Somak Palit (Ind, 4) drew with Andrey Rychagov (Rus, 4), Anup Deshmukh (Ind, 3.5) lost to Sergey Vokarev (Rus, 4.5), Shyam Nikil P (Ind, 4) drew with B Adhiban (Ind, 4), GA Stany (Ind, 3.5) lost to Deep Sengupta (Ind, 4.5), K Rathnakaran (Ind, 4.5) bt Biswajit Nayak (Ind, Ori, 3.5), Bitan Banerjee (Ind, 3.5) drew with Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr, 3.5), J Ramakrishna (Ind, 3) lost to Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 4), Syed Mahfuzur Rahamn (Ban, 3) lost to Alexander Zubarev (Ukr, 4), Roman Ovetchkin (Rus, 4) bt Akash Thakur (Ind, 3), Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz, 3.5) drew with V Vishnu Prasanna (Ind, 3.5), GB Joshi (Ind, 3.5) drew with RR Laxman (Ind, 3.5), Mohammed Abdul Malek (Ban, 3.5) drew with Neelotpal Das (Ind, 3.5), Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz, 4) bt Rahul Shetty (Ind, 3), R Bhuvanesh Ramnath (Ind, 3) lost to Amon Simutowe (Zim, 4), Alexander Fominyn (Rus, 3.5) drew with Sagar Saha (Ind, 3.5), Deepan Chakkravarthy (Ind, 3.5) drew with Gurpreet Pal Singh (Ind, 3.5), Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ind, 4) bt Debraj Chatterjee (Ind, 3), Serikbay Temirbayev (Kaz, 4) bt Manoj Kumar Panigrahi (Ind, Ori, 3). Other Orissa results: Sekhar Chandra Sahu (3) lost to Sriram Jha (Ind, 4), Swayangsu Satyapragyan (4) bt Nassir Wajih (Ind, 3), Swayams Mishra (3) lost to PDS Girinath (Ind, 4), Debasish Das (3.5) drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy (Ind, 3.5), Kiran Manisha Mohanty (3) lost to Shashikant Kutwal (Ind, 4), Rajendra Kumar Sahu (4) bt Md Taibur Rahman (Ban, 3), Anwesh Upadhyaya (4) bt Mohammad Ashraf (Ind, Ori, 3), Soumya Ranjan Mishra (3.5) bt Niranjan Navalgund (Ind, 2.5), Pabitra Mohan Mohanty (3.5) bt Prince Bajaj (Ind, 2.5), GC Mohapatra (2.5) lost to Sayantan Das (Ind, 3.5), Padmini Rout (2.5) lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy (Ind, Ori, 3.5), Rabindra Kumar Ojha (2.5) lost to OT Anilkumar (Ind, 3.5), Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (3.5) bt Sumit Kumar (Ind, 2.5), Rakesh Kumar Nayak (3) bt Manas Parida (Ind, Ori, 2), Subhranshu Mohan Satpathy (3) bt ASM Avadhanulu (Ind, 2), Sidhant Mohapatra (3) bt Akankhya Kabi (Ind, Ori, 2). Photo caption: Top: Orissa girls Sunyasakta Satpathy in a happy mood after defeating WIM Padmini Rout today. Bottaom: Orissa WIM Padmini Rout faces state junior opponent Sunyasakta Satpathy in the fifth round in Bhubaneswar today.
 
   
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