Dreev among leaders @ SCS Grandmaster Open, Bhubaneswar

The first double round day saw few upsets, with top seed Grandmaster Alexei Dreev coasting to his third straight win in the 2nd SCS International Grandmaster Chess tournament, at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar. Sharing the lead with Dreev at 3/3 were GMs Neelotpal Das, Deepan Chakkravarthy, Maxim Turov (Chennai Open 2010 winner), Alexandrov, Sergei Kasparov, Kovalyov, Dzhumaev and IMs Situru Nathanel, Vikramaditya Kamble, Rahul Sangma, M R Venkatesh and Ponnuswamy Konguvel.

Former Asian Junior Champion Pandian Karthikeyan went through a painful defeat in the hands of Grandmaster Maxim Turov of Russia. In a drawish rook versus rook and bishop ending, Karthikeyan misplayed the ending and found himself facing the inevitable mate and resigned after 88 moves.

Earlier in the morning round, Akshat Khamparia and Bitan Banerjee held their GM opponents- Alexander Fier (Brazil), Evgeny Vorobiov (Russia) – to creditable draws. Following suit were local star Kiran Manisha Mohanty and World Junior Champion Sowmya Swaminathan, as the duo came up with fighting draws against GMs Thomas Luther (Germany) and Simonian Hrair (Armenia) respectively.

Delhi based Rahul Sangma was the first to derail a Grandmaster in the afternoon round. Rahul handled the middle game efficiently against the Bangladesh GM Enamul Hossain and gained an exchange closer to the fourth hour of play. Converting the advantage with accuracy, Rahul sewed up the game in 64 moves.

Pairings :
http://chess-results.com/tnr34348.aspx?art=2&rd=4&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000

LIVE Games :
http://www.monroi.com/watch/?tnm_id=1385

Alexei Dreev – B T Muralikrishnan
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.e3 Be7 7.Qc2 Nbd7 8.Bd3 O-O 9.Nf3 Re8 10.h3 Nf8 11.Bf4 Bd6 12.Bxd6 Qxd6 13.O-O-O a5 14.Kb1 Be6 15.Rc1 Re7 16.Na4 N6d7 17.g4 Rc8 18.Rhg1 Rce8 19.h4 Nf6 20.g5 N6d7 21.h5 Rc8 22.Nc5 b6 23.Ba6 Rc7 24.Nb7 Rxb7 25.Bxb7 Nb8 26.Bxc6 Rc7 27.Ne5 Nxc6 28.Nxc6 Rc8 29.e4 Qd7 30.exd5 1-0

Rahul Sangma – Enamul Hossain
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.Nf3 e5 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.h3 c6 8.a4 b6 9.Be3 a6 10.Ng5 Bb7 11.f4 h6 12.Nxf7 Rxf7 13.Bxf7 Kxf7 14.fxe5 dxe5 15.dxe5 Nxe5 16.Qh5 Ng6 17.e5 c5 18.Rad1 Qe8 19.exf6 Bxf6 20.Nd5 Rd8 21.Bc1 Qe4 22.Nf4 Rxd1 23.Rxd1 Bd4 24.Kh1 Qxc2 25.Re1 Be4 26.Qg4 Bf5 27.Qf3 Nxf4 28.Bxf4 Kg8 29.Be5 Kh7 30.Qf4 Bxe5 31.Qxe5 Bg6 32.Qc3 Qxa4 33.Re7 Qd1 34.Kh2 Qd6 35.Qe5 Qxe5 36.Rxe5 c4 37.Re6 b5 38.Rxa6 b4 39.Ra4 c3 40.Rxb4 cxb2 41.Rxb2 Be4 42.Kg3 Kg6 43.Kf4 Bd3 44.Rb6 Kf7 45.h4 Bc2 46.Ke5 Bd3 47.Rb2 Ke7 48.Rf2 Bg6 49.Ra2 Bd3 50.Ra3 Bc2 51.Rf3 Bb1 52.Rb3 Bh7 53.Rb7 Kf8 54.Ke6 Bg8 55.Kd7 Bh7 56.Kd8 Be4 57.Rb2 Kf7 58.g3 Kf6 59.Ke8 Kf5 60.Rf2 Ke6 61.Kf8 g6 62.Kg7 h5 63.Re2 Kf5 64.Rxe4 1-0

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