Russian grandmaster escapes with a draw

AICF Office 10 years ago

Russian grandmaster escapes with a draw
By Thirukalathy

Ram.S.Krishnan of BSNL had a 29 move draw with Russian GM GrachevBoris in the second round of Sakthi Group sponsored 8th Chennai open Grand Masters open chess tournament for Dr.N.Mahalingam Trophy, organized by Tamilnadu state chess association held at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium,Chennai today.

Ram.S.Krishnan opened his game with English opening then converted into grunfeld.On 20th move he cleverly captured a pawn of Boris. Having doubled pawn structure, less by one pawn and only one minute on his clock the Russian GM Boris immediately accepted the draw offered by Ram.S.Krishnan.

Some Important results of Round 2:

Bo.		Name	FED	Pts	Res.	Pts		Name	FED
1		Ram S. Krishnan	IND	1.5	Drew with	1.5	GM	Grachev Boris	RUS
2	GM	Popov Ivan	RUS	2	beat	1		Shreyansh Daklia	IND
3	GM	Demchenko Anton	RUS	2	Beat	1		Phoobalan P.	IND
4	IM	Hegde Ravi Gopal	IND	1	Lost to	2	GM	Solodovnichenko Yuri	UKR
5	GM	Sivuk Vitaly	UKR	2	Beat	1		Sekar B	IND
6		Hirthickkesh Pr	IND	1	Lost to	2	GM	Mozharov Mikhail	RUS
7	IM	Ramnathan Balasubramaniam	IND	1	Lost to	2	GM	Tukhaev Adam	UKR
8	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	UKR	2	beat	1		Surendran N	IND
9	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	1	Lost to	2	GM	Gabrielian Artur	RUS
10	GM	Ernst Sipke	NED	2	beat	1		Vignesh B	IND
11	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	1	Lost to	2	GM	Neverov Valeriy	UKR