Sambit holds Vaibhav – All India Chess Federation

Odisha youngster Sambit Panda held second seed and local favourite Vaibhav Suri in the second round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship now underway at Leela Ambience Convention Hotel on Wednesday.

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In other upsets of the day, Kerala lad Jubin Jimmy held Grandmaster Thej Kumar and former national champion to draw.

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Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte forced to sign the peace treaty with Ranveer Mohite while Grandmaster S Kidambai and International Master Visakh NR satisfied with half point with Priyanka K and Arpita Mukherjee respectively.

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Meanwhile top seed Deep Sengupta beat Shantanu Bhambure and Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy defeated Sakshi Chitlange without much struggle. National champion Lalith Babu MR outwitted Baivab Mishra.

25 players are maintaining the perfect score at the end of round two.

Pairings/Results

Round 2 on 2018/06/27 at 15:00 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Typ	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Typ	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Sengupta Deep		2565	1	1 – 0	1		Bhambure Shantanu		2183	47
2	46		Panda Sambit		2187	1	½ – ½	1	GM	Vaibhav Suri		2556	2
3	3	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.		2531	1	1 – 0	1	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi		2162	49
4	50		Baivab Mishra		2156	1	0 – 1	1	GM	Lalith Babu M R		2529	4
5	5	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V		2525	1	1 – 0	1	CM	Magana Ben		2153	51
6	54	FM	Singh Arvinder Preet		2129	1	0 – 1	1	GM	Debashis Das		2522	6
7	7	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade		2495	1	1 – 0	1		Alahakoon Isuru		2133	53
8	56	AGM	Jubin Jimmy		2113	1	½ – ½	1	GM	Thejkumar M. S.		2495	8
9	9	GM	Kunte Abhijit		2494	1	½ – ½	1		Mohite Ranveer		2089	57
10	58		Arpan Das (Jr)		2079	1	0 – 1	1	IM	Karthik Venkataraman		2475	10
11	11	IM	Visakh N R		2467	1	½ – ½	1	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee		2076	60
12	59		Joshi Govind Ballabh		2078	1	0 – 1	1	IM	Karthikeyan P.		2456	12
13	13	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh		2441	1	1 – 0	1		Bala Kannamma P		2063	62
14	61		Sreeshwan Maralakshikari		2064	1	0 – 1	1	IM	Nitin S.		2441	14
15	63	WIM	Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe		2061	1	0 – 1	1	GM	Laxman R.R.		2438	16
16	17	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi		2425	1	½ – ½	1		Priyanka K		2052	64
17	65	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty		2044	1	0 – 1	1	GM	Thipsay Praveen M		2405	18
18	67		Ghosh Samriddhaa		2034	1	0 – 1	1	IM	Akash G		2391	20
19	21	IM	Rathnakaran K.		2386	1	1 – 0	1	FM	Venkata Krishna Karthik K		2020	68
20	69	WCM	Jain Nityata		2015	1	0 – 1	1		Sammed Jaykumar Shete		2375	22