The 2nd DCA Open: Matta Vinay Kumar in sole lead

8 years ago

New Delhi (14 Oct 17) :- Andhra Bank’s Matta Vinay Kumar defeated International Master Himal Gusain of Chandigarh in the seventh round to take sole with 6.5 in the ongoing 2nd DCA Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament at Navakaar Banquets, Hotel Caspia here on Saturday.

A pack of thirteen players including Grandmaster RR Laxman and second seed International Master Arghyadip Das are closely following the leader with a drift of half-point.

Playing white side of Taimanov variation of Sicilian defence, Vinay Kumar had shown tactical end game skills with his queen against Rook and Bishop to overcome his top seed rival in 57 moves. In other important seventh round battles, second seed Arghyadip Das of Railways signed the peace treaty with team mate Rahul Sangma while Abhishek Kelkar and Grandmaster RR Laxman settled for half point against Shailesh Dravid and Aronyak Ghosh respectively.

In a surprising result of the day, Y Saranya of Tamilnadu held Grandmaster GM MR Venkatesh to a creditable draw.

The penultimate round is in progress at the time of report.

Pairings/Results

Round 8 on 2017/10/14 at 1530 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	IM	Das Arghyadip	2434	6	1 – 0	6½	FM	Matta Vinay Kumar	2288	12
2	15	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	2185	6	½ – ½	6	IM	Abhishek Kelkar	2403	4
3	5		Saravana Krishnan P.	2396	6	0 – 1	6	IM	Sangma Rahul	2311	10
4	28		Barath Kalyan M	2002	6	0 – 1	6	GM	Laxman R.R.	2392	6
5	7	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	2353	6	½ – ½	6		Deepak Katiyar	2106	20
6	11		Shailesh Dravid	2292	6	½ – ½	6	IM	Hemant Sharma (del)	2342	8
7	9	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2326	6	1 – 0	6		Gajendra Singh	1971	36
8	1	IM	Gusain Himal	2454	5½	1 – 0	5½		Saranya Y	1939	49
9	3	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2418	5½	1 – 0	5½		Ashutosh Kumar	1869	74
10	43		Arka Sengupta	1954	5½	½ – ½	5½		Joshi Govind Ballabh	2163	16
11	47		Joy Lazar M.A.	1946	5½	½ – ½	5½	FM	Ramakrishna J.	2126	18
12	27		Deepthamsh Reddy. M	2019	5½	0 – 1	5½		Mushini Ajay	1690	138
13	53		Ganguly Ritabroto	1930	5½	½ – ½	5½		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1984	32
14	37		Arun Rathi	1970	5½	0 – 1	5½		Subramanian R M	1851	80
15	55		Alok Sinha	1924	5½	1 – 0	5½		Raghav Srivathsav V	1967	38