Seven share lead; Meghna stuns Kunte – All India Chess Federation

Meghana C.H

Report by I.A Gopakumaran Sudhakaran

Top three boards in the third round ended without decisive results paved the way for fifth seed Grandmaster Vishnu Prasanna and sixth seed Debashis Das along with five others to share the lead with a perfect score in the Commonwealth Chess Championship which is progress at Leela Ambience Convention Hotel.

Playing with black pieces in Ruy Lopez game, Deep Sengupta settled with half point against former national champion International Master G Akash while Grandmaster Deepen Chakkravarthy and national champion Grandmaster Lalith Babu were forced to split the point against Sammed Shete and International Master Ratnakaran respectively. Debashis Das maintained his clean sheet after beating Koustav Chatterjee while Vishnu Prasanna outwitted Niranjan Navalgund.

In a major upset of the day, Meghna CH stunned former national champion Abhijit Kunte. Playing white side of Kann variation of Sicilian defence game, Meghna used her minor pieces to good effect in the middle game to register a memorable win in 38 moves.

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In other important encounters, newly crowned national under-13 champion Aaryan Varshney held Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade. Sambit Panda and Arpita Mukherjee made their second consecutive draw against Grandmasters as they held Thejkumar and Sundarajan Kidambi.

Pairings/Results

Round 3 on 2018/06/28 at 15:00 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Typ	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Typ	Rtg	No.
1	20	IM	Akash G		2391	2	½ – ½	2	GM	Sengupta Deep		2565	1
2	22		Sammed Jaykumar Shete		2375	2	½ – ½	2	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.		2531	3
3	4	GM	Lalith Babu M R		2529	2	½ – ½	2	IM	Rathnakaran K.		2386	21
4	35		Navalgund Niranjan		2282	2	0 – 1	2	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V		2525	5
5	6	GM	Debashis Das		2522	2	1 – 0	2		Koustav Chatterjee		2365	23
6	41		Aaryan Varshney		2210	2	½ – ½	2	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade		2495	7
7	10	IM	Karthik Venkataraman		2475	2	1 – 0	2	IM	Kobese Watu		2349	26
8	12	IM	Karthikeyan P.		2456	2	½ – ½	2	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann		2285	32
9	43		Moksh Amit Doshi		2203	2	½ – ½	2	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh		2441	13
10	14	IM	Nitin S.		2441	2	1 – 0	2	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv		2270	36
11	16	GM	Laxman R.R.		2438	2	1 – 0	2	FM	Thilakarathne G M H		2188	45
12	18	GM	Thipsay Praveen M		2405	2	1 – 0	2	WFM	Lakshmi C		1954	80
13	79	WFM	Meghna C H		1955	2	1 – 0	1½	GM	Kunte Abhijit		2494	9
14	2	GM	Vaibhav Suri		2556	1½	1 – 0	1½		Nayak Rajesh		2195	44
15	8	GM	Thejkumar M. S.		2495	1½	½ – ½	1½		Panda Sambit		2187	46
16	55		Mahitosh Dey		2115	1½	0 – 1	1½	IM	Visakh N R		2467	11
17	57		Mohite Ranveer		2089	1½	0 – 1	1½	GM	Bakre Tejas		2439	15
18	60	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee		2076	1½	½ – ½	1½	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi		2425	17
19	24		Sankalp Gupta		2365	1½	1 – 0	1½	WFM	Divya Deshmukh		2139	52
20	27	IM	Siva Mahadevan		2346	1½	0 – 1	1½	AGM	Jubin Jimmy		2113	56