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Deepan, Poobesh and Siddarth share lead

By Manuel Aaron

Chennai Jan. 6. International Master Deepan Chakravarthi, S. Poobesh Anand (Loyola College, Chennai) and R. Siddarth of Velammal School shared the lead with four points each when the fourth round of Chess Mate's Dr Mahalingam Sathabishekam FIDE-rated Open chess tournament concluded here on Monday at the Hall of Chess in Nehru Stadium. Five more rounds remain in this 9-round Swiss system tournament for 187 players and a prize fund of Rs 51,000.

On the top board, Deepan Chakravarthi was surprised by the 26th move of the Railway's veteran A. Sankar who offered an unacceptable rook with the black pieces. However, Deepan kept his cool and slowly built up a decisive counter-attack on the black king. When he sacrificed a knight on the 30th move, black was already lost. The game lasted 34 moves.

Poobesh Anand's game against T.J. Suresh Kumar (36 moves) was completely tactical with Poobesh always offering some material or the other to Suresh who was playing the white pieces. A nice interception tactic finally won a rook for bishop and the game on the 36th turn.

The top results (round 4): J. Deepan Chakravarthi 4 bt A. Sankar 3; R. Siddharth 4 bt K. Rathanakaran (Ker) 3; V. Saravanan 3.5 drew with Y. Anwar Shazuli 3.5; T.J. Suresh Kumar 3 lost to S. Poobesh Anand 4; C. Natarajan 3.5 drew with B.T. Murali Krishnan 3.5; R. Bala Subramanian 3.5 bt J. Venkata Ramana 3; E.P. Nirmal 3 drew with Sudhakar Babu 3; K. Visweswaran 3.5 bt S. Paul Arokia Raj 2.5; Aswin Jayaram 3 drew with S. Mari Arul 3; S. Raghuraman 2.5 lost to K. Gunasekaran 3.5; D.P. Singh 3 (Jharkand) drew with P. Jaya Kumar (Del) 3; S.C. Subramaniam 2.5 lost to Adway Chowdhuri (WB) 3.5; Anirban Guha Roy (WB) 3 drew with R. Rajesh 3; N. Surendran 2.5 lost to V. Hariharan 3.5; K. Gopala Krishnan 3 drew with R. Uttam Sharma 3; G. Dinesh Kumar 3 drew with V. Hari Balu 3; R.R. Laxman 3 bt Shravan Kumar Talwar 2.5; J. Vineetha Wijesuriya (Sri) 2 lost to M.R. Venkatesh 3; V. Ravichandran 3 bt S.K. Abdul Azeez 2; B. Adhiban 2.5 drew with K.V. Shantharam 2.5; M. Intykhapalam 3 bt M.M. Anand Raj 2; C.R. Arun Hariharan 2.5 drew with K. Chakravarthi 2.5; Sai Meera Ravi 3 bt Arumugam Suresh Kumar 2; V. Ashwin 2 lost to P. Rajesh 3;Vinoth Kumar 3 bt R. Ashwath 2; T.U. Navin Kanna 3 bt Dyal K. Ravi Aditya 2; S. Ravi Chandran 3 bt G. Hari Ram 2; P. Saravana Krishnan 3 bt S.P. Sethu Raman 2; M. Ilaya Bharathi 2.5 drew with R.R. Vasudevan 2.5; M. Priyadarshini 3 bt Shaik Sydulu 2; M. Joel Modestus 2 lost to Sridhar 3; D. Krishna Doss 2 lost to J. Saravana Kumar 3; S. Venkat Sundaram 3 bt P. Siva Shankari 2; T. Srither 2 lost to R. Ananth 3; Tarun Murali 2 lost to T. Purushothaman 3; M.Vijay Anand 2.5 drew with Sridharan Ramanthan 2.5; Sanjib Ghosh (WB) 3 bt V.G. Srinivasan 2; T. Chandran 3 bt Sunil. S Shetty (Kar) 2; K.Vachas Pathi 2.5 drew with G. Bala Chandar 2.5; A.R. Vijaya Raghavan 2 lost to R.K. Ranjith 3; P. Karthikeyan 3 bt Tondapu Venkatakrishna 2; C.J. Aravind 2.5 bt Manoj V. Telse 1.5; N. Janani Priya 1.5 lost to Saket Kumar (Bhr) 2.5; K.C. Krishna Prasad 1.5 lost to H. Nilavoli 2.5; P. Ramesh 1.5 lost to R. Navaneetha Krishnan 2.5; P.L. Sivakami 2.5 bt Tejasvi Vijayaraghavan 1.5; S. Santhosh 1.5 lost to K.K. Lochan 2.5; A. Thirumalaisami 2.5 bt R. Ajay Vikram 1.5; N. Venkat Raman 2 drew D. Alex 2; N. Venkatesan 2.5 bt Anil S. Shetty 1.5; T.V.R. Vijaya Raghavan (AP) 2.5 bt S. Anup Kumar 1.5; R. Vishnu Menon (Ker) 1.5 lost to Arun Karthik 2.5; R.K. Athavan (Sri Lanka) 2.5 bt P.S. Vaidyanathan 1.5.

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