World`s second
youngest Grandmaster ever Parimarjan Negi scored a hard
fought victory over higher rated Vadim Milov of Switzerland to
raise his hopes of a place in the second round of the World
Chess Cup here.
|Last Updated: Nov 22, 2009, 10:11 AM IST|Source: Bureau
Khanty Mansiysk: World`s second
youngest Grandmaster ever Parimarjan Negi scored a hard
fought victory over higher rated Vadim Milov of Switzerland to
raise his hopes of a place in the second round of the World
Chess Cup here.
It turned out to be an excellent day for the Indians last
night as none lost while National Champion Surya Shekhar
Ganguly and his Kolkata citymate Sandipan Chanda scored fine
victories over Anton Filippov of Uzbekistan and Mikhail
Kobalia of Russia respectively.
On the flip side, top rated Indian Krishnan Sasikiran
spoiled his chances with a draw against Holland`s Erwin L`Ami.
International master Sriram Jha and Grandmaster Abhijit
Kunte, who held stars like Alexander Grichuk of Russia and
Alexei Shirov of Spain to creditable draws, were more than
impressive in the tournament.
Last year`s World Junior champion Abhijeet Gupta also
played out a draw with a higher rated Nikita Vitiugov of
Russia.
However, the day belonged to Parimarjan who faced the
Berlin defense, an opening he was not quite prepared as it was
not a part of Milov`s repertoire earlier.
Showing signs of his growing positional acumen, the Delhi
lad seized the initiative in a queen less middle game typical
of the opening and never gave any chances to Milov.
Sandipan faced the Slav defense of Kobalia and sacrificed
a pawn for positional compensation early in the opening. But
his Russian opponent failed to work out an effective counter
play and was slowly outmaneuvered.
"He made some mistakes in the middle game making my task
easy," Sandipan said after the game.
Ganguly, meanwhile, is getting big edge over his
opponents, thanks to his newly built repertoire around the
queen pawn with white pieces.
The Asian champion, who is also known as a second to
Viswanathan Anand, used his expertise against the nimzo Indian
defense to cause an early dent in black`s position and
squeezed out Filippov`s defensive resources in quick time.
But Sriram had to work for to earn the draw against
Grischuk out of a queen pawn opening where the former played
white.
Grischuk kept pressing in an equal position for a long
time and Jha had to wriggle out with a timely pawn sacrifice
leading to a drawn endgame.
Abhijeet Kunte had it easy against Shirov, who played the
Queen`s gambit while Abhijeet Gupta only got a slight edge
that petered in to a draw against Vitiugov.
Results of Indians after Round one: Krishnan Sasikiran
drew with Erwin L`Ami (Ned), Parimarjan Negi beat Vadim Milov
(Sui), Surya Shekhar Ganguly beat Anton Filippov (Uzb),
Sandipan Chanda beat Mikhail Kobalia (Rus), Sriram Jha drew
with Alexander Grischuk (Rus), Abhijit Kunte drew with Alexei
Shirov (Esp), Abhijeet Gupta drew with Nikita Vitiugov (Rus).
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