National Premier 01: Lalith Babu and Deepan Start with Wins

Patna: GM Himanshu Sharma and IM S. Nitin had a below-par outing as GM Deepan Chakkravarthy and GM Lalith Babu MR defeated them in Patna today.

Fourth seed Lalith Babu gave no chance to Nitin who had to defend sorrowfully with black. It was a one-way traffic in a way with White having all the fun.

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While Lalith already had a very comfortable position after 11 moves, the second result of the day was topsy-turvy.

GM Deepan had a clear pressure over sixth seed GM Himanshu Sharma.But there was a sudden drop of intensity in Deepan’s performance and Himanshu had a chance to hold with a sharp continuation.

Black could’ve saved the game at one point if he had played 28…Rc7 instead of …Kb2. Even then he had a chance to hold by sacrificing a bishop but Himanshu never played it, perhaps due to time pressure.

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Unheralded newcomer Sammed Shete had a pleasant position as well with the white pieces, with better pawn structure. But maybe, he had to be a bit more confident in his abilities and play a move like h4. Instead, he took on c4, allowing Black (GM Debashis Das) to equalize easily.

Round 1 on 2017/10/28 at 01:00 PM
Bo.	No.	Rtg		Name	Result		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	2392	GM	Laxman R.R.	½ – ½	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2516	14
2	2	2503	GM	Kunte Abhijit	½ – ½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2578	13
3	3	2573	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	½ – ½	IM	Das Arghyadip	2434	12
4	4	2310		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	½ – ½	GM	Debashis Das	2494	11
5	5	2477	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	1 – 0	GM	Himanshu Sharma	2510	10
6	6	2568	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	½ – ½	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2422	9
7	7	2525	GM	Lalith Babu M R	1 – 0	IM	Nitin S.	2415	8
Round 2 on 2017/10/29 at 10:00 AM
Bo.	No.	Rtg		Name	Result		Name	Rtg	No.
1	14	2516	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade		IM	Nitin S.	2415	8
2	9	2422	IM	Shyaamnikhil P		GM	Lalith Babu M R	2525	7
3	10	2510	GM	Himanshu Sharma		GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	2568	6
4	11	2494	GM	Debashis Das		GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2477	5
5	12	2434	IM	Das Arghyadip			Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2310	4
6	13	2578	GM	Karthikeyan Murali		GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2573	3
7	1	2392	GM	Laxman R.R.		GM	Kunte Abhijit	2503	2