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International Chess tournament: 87 players lead at the end of day-2

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July 17, 2011
Mangalore, July 17: Eighty Seven players are leading with two points at the end of second round in the Indian Overseas Bank 5th Mangalore FIDE Rated Open chess tournament being held at Radhakrishna Temple, Mangalore.

On the first board Top seeded GM RR Laxman of ICF had to split the point with low ELO rated Pramanik Projjwal of Karnataka in 39 moves. Facing the Larsen opening, Laxman set to score quickly gained some advantage from opening.

In middle game transition lost control and had to settle for a draw. Augustin of Karnataka offered some resistance before bowing to GM Thipsay on the on the3rd board. Sarbajit Adhikari of West Bengal surprised IM Rathnakaran of SRly by holding him to a draw on the 10th board.

Former under 7 National Champion Harshal Shahi of delhi scored an upset win over IM Praveen Kumar in 46 moves. IPS Rajashekara of Karnataka , posted in Nagaland opened his account with a fluent victory against Ashwath Govind of Mangalore , and M R Vasudeva , Director Airport Authority of India, Mangalore lost to Pawan Bhat . The 3rd round started at 3.00 pm today and in progress.

vasudeva

Pramanik


Important Results of Round 2

Bo.

Name

Title

Club

Pts

Res.

Pts

Title

Name

Club

1

Pramanik Projjwal

KAR

1½

drew with

1½

GM

Laxman R R

ICF

2

Thejkumar M S

IM

SWRly

2

beat

1

Biswas Gopal Chandra

WB

3

Augustin A

KAR

1

lost to

2

GM

Thipsay Praveen M

MAH

4

Stany G A

KAR

2

beat

1

Gavi Siddayya

KAR

5

Venu Madhav N

AP

1

lost to

2

IM

Anwesh Upadhyaya

ORI

6

Himanshu Sharma

IM

HAR

2

beat

1

Malla Nooka Raju

AP

7

Soumya Banerjee

WB

1

lost to

2

IM

Ramnath Bhuvanesh R

TN

8

Sriram Jha

GM

DEL

2

beat

1

Santhosh David

KER

9

Srivastav J P

Delhi

1

lost to

2

IM

Swapnil S Dhopade

MAH

10

Rathnakaran K

IM

KER

1½

drew with

1½

Sarbajit Adhikari

WB

11

Srikanth P

AP

1

lost to

2

IM

Konguvel Ponnuswamy

TN

12

Shyam Nikil P

IM

TN

2

beat

1

Arjun U Prabhu

KAR

13

Karthik V Ap

AP

1

lost to

2

IM

Shivananda B S

KAR

14

Saptarshi Roy

IM

Rly

2

beat

1

Godbole Atharva

MAH

15

Singh Soram Rahul

Asm

1

lost to

2

IM

Karthikeyan P

TN

16

Nitin S

IM

TN

2

beat

1

Kaustuv Kundu

WB

17

Ganesan K

Tn

1

lost to

2

IM

Suvrajit Saha

WB

18

Sangma Rahul

IM

DEL

2

beat

1

Shreeshan S

KAR

19

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