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DAS CONTINUES WINNING RUN

By Manthan Chokshi in Jamshedpur

Laltu holds Konguvel, Venkatesh defeats Suvrajit Saha, Mitrakanth loses to Shantaram, Swati Ghate shocks T.S.Ravi

Neelotpal Das (Elo 2410) continued his winning run in the 38th National B Chess Championship by defeating second seed Sandipan Chanda (Elo 2446) keeping a clean slate so far - 6/6. Playing with the white pieces, Das adopted the King's Indian Attack and a complicated middlegame arose. Das who was in full flow today sacrificed a exchange for Chanda's g7 Bishop thus weakening black's kingside. Das attacked furiously to win in just 31 moves. Das however said that Sandipan could have adopted a more stubborn defence.

Closely following Das is sixth seed Atanu Lahiri (Elo 2385) on 5.5 points with a hard fought win over R. Balasubramaniam (Elo 2276) in the Queen Pawn opening. An unclear ending was reached with Lahiri (White) having Queen-Knight and Black having Queen-Bishop with three pawns each . Lahiri who is in excellent form converted the ending to win in 48 moves.

On the third board K.Murugan (Elo 2377) and Tejas Bakre (Elo 2358) played it safe in the Slav defence to draw in 14 moves . G.B.Prakash (Elo 2429) defeated Sekhar Sahu (Elo 2319) in the Caro Kann . Konguvel (Elo 2377) was held to a draw by Laltu Chatterjee (Elo 2262) and Sudhakar Babu (Elo 2365) took his tally to five points by defeating Saurabh Khedekar (Elo 2264).

T O P 1 5 B O A R D R E S U L T S ( Round 6 )

WHITE BLACK RESULT

Neelotpal Das (5) Sandipan Chanda (4.5) 1-0

Atanu Lahiri (4.5) R. Bala Subramaniam (4.5) 1-0

K. Murugan Bakre Tejas 1/2 - 1/2

S.C. Sahu (4.5) G. B. Prakash (4) 0-1

Laltu Chatterjee (4) Konguvel P. (4) 1/2 - 1/2

Sudhakar Babu Saurabh Khedekar 1-0

Venkatesh M. R. Suvrajit Saha 1-0

S. Kumar Shankar Roy 1/2 - 1/2

Negi V.S. Sanjay N. 1/2 - 1/2

Gurpreet Pal Singh R. P. Sharma 1-0

Amit Medda Vishal Sareen 0-1

Kamble V. (3.5) Sriram Jha (3.5) 0-1

Swati Ghate Ravi T.S. 1-0

Koshy V. Ravi Kumar 1/2-1/2

Satyapragyan S S. Kutwal 1-0

WHITE	BLACK	RESULT

Neelotpal Das (5)	Sandipan Chanda (4.5)	1-0
Atanu Lahiri (4.5)	R. Bala Subramaniam (4.5)	1-0
K. Murugan	Bakre Tejas	1/2 - 1/2
S.C. Sahu (4.5)	G. B. Prakash (4)	0-1
Laltu Chatterjee (4)	Konguvel P. (4)	1/2 - 1/2
Sudhakar Babu	Saurabh Khedekar	1-0
Venkatesh M. R.	Suvrajit Saha	1-0
S. Kumar	Shankar Roy	1/2 - 1/2
Negi V.S.	Sanjay N.	1/2 - 1/2
Gurpreet Pal Singh	R. P. Sharma	1-0
Amit Medda	Vishal Sareen	0-1
Kamble V. (3.5)	Sriram Jha (3.5)	0-1
Swati Ghate	Ravi T.S.	1-0
Koshy V.	Ravi Kumar	1/2-1/2
Satyapragyan S	S. Kutwal	1-0

White : Neelotpal Das Black : Sandipan Chanda

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d3 Nc6 4. g3 Nge7 5. Bg2 g6 6. 0-0 Bg7 7. Re1 d6 8. c3 0-0 9. Nbd2 e5 10. a3 h6 11. b4 Be6 12. Bb2 Qd7 13. Nb3 b6 14. Nbd2 Rac8 15. Bc1 f5 16. b5 Na5 17. d4 fe 18. Re4 Bf5 19. de fe 20. Ne5 Be5 21. Re5 Bb1 22. Qb1 c4 23. Qe1 Rce8 24. a4 Nf5 25. Bd5 Kg7 26. Ba3 Rh8 27. Be6 Qc7 28. Nf3 Nd6 29. Rd5 Nf1 30. Qe4 Nb3 31. Nh4 Rh7 32. Rd7 1-0

White : Atanu Lahiri Black : R. Balasubramaniam

1.d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cd ed 5. Bg5 c6 6. c3 Be7 7. Bd3 Nbd7 8. Qc2 Nf8 9. Nf3 h6 10. Bh4 Ne6 11. 0-0 0-0 12. Ne5 Nd7 13. Be7 Qe7 14. f4 Ne5 15. de Nc5 16.Rac1 Nd3 17. Qd3 f6 18. ef Qf6 19.e4 de 20. Qe4 Bf5 21. Qb4 a5 22. Qc5 b5 23. a3 Rad8 24. Red1 Bg4 25. f3 Bf4 26.h3 Bf4 27. Rd1 Rd1 28. Nd1 Be4 29. Qf2 Qd6 30. Nc3 Bf4 31. Qe3 b4 32. ab ab 33. Ne2 c5 34. Ng3 Bc2 35. Kh2 c4 36. Ne2 Qd3 37. Qe5 Qe4 38. Qb8 Ke7 39. Ng3 Qe7 40. Qb5 Bd3 41. b3 Qf7 42. f5 Qc7 43. bc Qc4 44. Qd7 Qb5 45. Qe7 Bf4 46. Nh5 Qh8 47. Kh1 Qh8 48. Qf7. 1-0

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