Nitin beats Vishnu Prasanna to snatch lead – All India Chess Federation

New Delhi (29 Jun 18):- International Master S Nitin continued his fine form and put it across Grandmaster Vishnu Prasanna to snatch the sole lead on four points after the end of fourth round matches of Commonwealth Chess Championship here at the Leela Ambience Convention Hotel on Friday.

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Playing with black pieces in a Sicilian defence game, Nitin exerted pressure on queen side of his grandmaster rival with his dark square bishop to secure advantage in the middle game to garner full point after 42 moves on top board while all other overnight leaders signed the peace treaty to occupy the joint second spot with a drift of half point from the leader.

Debashis Das drew with compatriot RR Laxman while Meghna CH produced another outstanding performance to hold IM Karthik Venkataraman, who recently won the Odisha Open. Veteran Grandmaster Praveen Thipsay and top seed Deep Sengupta shook hand after 43 moves signalling a drawn result.

In the upsets of the day, national sub-junior champion Sankalp Gupta defeated Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy while seasoned campaigner GB Joshi stunned Grandmaster Thej Kumar. Continuing her impressive run in the event, West Bengal teenager Arpita Mukherjee held International Master Tania Sachdev.

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Pairings/Results

Round 4 on 2018/06/29 at 15:00 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Typ	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Typ	Rtg	No.
1	5	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V		2525	3	0 – 1	3	IM	Nitin S.		2441	14
2	16	GM	Laxman R.R.		2438	3	½ – ½	3	GM	Debashis Das		2522	6
3	79	WFM	Meghna C H		1955	3	½ – ½	3	IM	Karthik Venkataraman		2475	10
4	1	GM	Sengupta Deep		2565	2½	½ – ½	3	GM	Thipsay Praveen M		2405	18
5	28	CM	Kushagra Mohan		2307	2½	0 – 1	2½	GM	Vaibhav Suri		2556	2
6	3	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.		2531	2½	0 – 1	2½		Sankalp Gupta		2365	24
7	30		Wagh Suyog		2289	2½	½ – ½	2½	GM	Lalith Babu M R		2529	4
8	7	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade		2495	2½	½ – ½	2½		Sammed Jaykumar Shete		2375	22
9	11	IM	Visakh N R		2467	2½	1 – 0	2½	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.		2283	33
10	38		Dixit Nikhil		2252	2½	½ – ½	2½	IM	Karthikeyan P.		2456	12
11	13	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh		2441	2½	1 – 0	2½		Aaryan Varshney		2210	41
12	15	GM	Bakre Tejas		2439	2½	1 – 0	2½		Moksh Amit Doshi		2203	43
13	32	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann		2285	2½	0 – 1	2½	IM	Akash G		2391	20
14	21	IM	Rathnakaran K.		2386	2½	1 – 0	2½		Arun Rathi		1973	74
15	56	AGM	Jubin Jimmy		2113	2½	0 – 1	2	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi		2425	17
16	59		Joshi Govind Ballabh		2078	2	1 – 0	2	GM	Thejkumar M. S.		2495	8
17	19	IM	Tania Sachdev		2393	2	½ – ½	2	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee		2076	60
18	23		Koustav Chatterjee		2365	2	0 – 1	2		Bala Kannamma P		2063	62
19	26	IM	Kobese Watu		2349	2	1 – 0	2	FM	Venkata Krishna Karthik K		2020	68
20	61		Sreeshwan Maralakshikari		2064	2	1 – 0	2	FM	Klaasen Calvin John		2301	29