Lalithbabu and Sasikiran Shared lead – Adhiban upsets Parimarjan negi

Lalithbabu and Sasikiran Shared lead – Adhiban upsets Parimarjan negi

Bhavarlal and Kantabai Jain 51^st National Premier Chess Championship is being held at Jain Hills, Jalgaon from 16^th to 30^th December 2013.The 14 players 13 rounds round-robin event attracts a prize money of Rs.10 lakhs. Top 6 players from this tournament will form Indian team for the year 2014 for international Open events.

In the 4^th round of the event, GM debashish das of Orissa scored his 1^st victoyr by winning against K. Rathnakaran of railways. In benoni defence playing with white debashish won the game after 41 moves.

2^nd Seed GM K. Sasikiran of ONGC won against IM Stany from AAI in sicilan najdorf variation Sai won the pawn on 31^st move and converted it to a full point after 49 moves Sasi moves into lead with 3.5 points after 4 games.

IM Ashwin jayaram scored his first victory against IM akshat Khamparia with black pieces, in a closed Queen pawn opening Ashwin outplayed akshat to win the game after 41 moves.

GM B. Adhibaan of IOC created a major upset of the day be defeating Parimarjan negi of BPCL. In Sicilian schevenengean opening playing with white negi misplayed the opening and lost a pawn in the middlegame, adhiban played very well to convert the material advantage into a win. With this win Adhiban moves to joint second position with 3 points.

G Aakash held GM deepan Chakravarthy of TN to a draw, deepan played ruylopez open variation, but missed a tactic in the middlegame to loose a pawn, deepan tried all his tricks to draw the game after 34 moves.

On the top board GM lalithbabu of IOC and GM Vishun prasanna agreed to a draw after 60 moves struggle.

IM Shyam Nikhil and IM Thejkumar played a long game. Thejkumar employed his pet caro-cann defence against shyam and Draw the game after 65 moves.

	4th round results

	Name		Res.		Name
IM	Debashis Das	2	beat	IM	Rathnakaran K.	0.5
IM	Shyam Nikil P.	1	drew with	IM	Thejkumar M. S.	2.5
GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	1	drew with	GM	Lalith Babu M.R.	3.5
GM	Negi Parimarjan	2	lost to	GM	Adhiban B.	3
IM	G. Akash	1	drew with	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2.5
IM	Stany G.A.	2	lost to	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	3.5
IM	Akshat Khamparia	2	lost to	IM	Ashwin Jayaram	2.5

	5th round pairing

	Name		Res.		Name
IM	Ashwin Jayaram		–	IM	Debashis Das
GM	Sasikiran Krishnan		–	IM	Akshat Khamparia
GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.		–	IM	Stany G.A.
GM	Adhiban B.		–	IM	G. Akash
GM	Lalith Babu M.R.		–	GM	Negi Parimarjan
IM	Thejkumar M. S.		–	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V
IM	Rathnakaran K.		–	IM	Shyam Nikil P.