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ATANU HALTS NEELOTPAL'S WINNING SPREE

By Manthan Chokshi in Jamshedpur

A. Das holds Shankar Roy (Elo 2326), C.J.Arvind draws with Jayant Gokhale, Koshy (Elo 2381) held to draw by S.Gupta

Atanu Lahiri (Elo 2385) displayed some classic Chess to outplay sole leader Neelotpal Das (Elo 2410) in the seventh round of the 38th National B Chess Championship and emerged sole leader with 6.5 points. Das countered Atanu's Queen Pawn opening with the Nimzo Indian Defence, Karpov System. Atanu took the initiative by some solid positional play having the isolated d-pawn. He posted his Knight on d6 square which hampered Das's development. Das sacrificed an exchange for the Knight but Atanu worked out the win comfortably in 37 moves.

On the second board , G.B.Prakash (Elo 2429) could not convert his exchange into a won endgame against Gurpreet Pal Singh (Elo 2306). Gurpreet adopted the King's Indian defence and the game lasted for almost seven hours. Vishal Sareen (Elo 2303) and K. Murugan (Elo 2377) played safe and split points in 14 moves on the third board. K.V.Shantaram (Elo 2233) and Sudhakar Babu (Elo 2365) also agreed to a tame draw in ten moves.

On the fifth board Tejas Bakre ( Elo 2358) defeated M.R.Venkatesh (Elo 2246) in the Sicilian Sveshnikov in 53 moves to take his tally to six points.

T O P 1 5 B O A R D R E S U L T S ( Round 7 )

WHITE BLACK RESULT

Atanu Lahiri (5.5) Neelotpal Das (6) 1-0

Prakash G.B. (5) Singh Gurpreet Pal 1/2 - 1/2

Sareen Vishal K. Murugan 1/2 - 1/2

Shantaram K. V. Sudhakar Babu 1/2 -1/2

Bakre Tejas M. R. Venkatesh 1-0

Sandipan Chanda (4.5) Thejkumar M. S. (4.5) 1-0

Sriram Jha Laltu Chatterjee 1-0

S. A. Shazuli Satyapragyan 0-1

Konguvel P. Swati Ghate 1-0

Ravi Lanka Surinder Kumar 1-0

Shankar Roy A. Das 1/2 - 1/2

Sanjay N J. Ramkrishna 1-0

Arvind C. J. Jayant Gokhale 1/2 -1/2

Neelkanthan Pankaj Joshi 1/2 - 1/2

Balasubramaniam Negi V.S. 1-0

WHITE	BLACK	RESULT

Atanu Lahiri (5.5)	Neelotpal Das (6)	1-0
Prakash G.B. (5)	Singh Gurpreet Pal	1/2 - 1/2
Sareen Vishal	K. Murugan	1/2 - 1/2
Shantaram K. V.	Sudhakar Babu	1/2 -1/2
Bakre Tejas	M. R. Venkatesh	1-0
Sandipan Chanda (4.5)	Thejkumar M. S. (4.5)	1-0
Sriram Jha	Laltu Chatterjee	1-0
S. A. Shazuli	Satyapragyan	0-1
Konguvel P.	Swati Ghate	1-0
Ravi Lanka	Surinder Kumar	1-0
Shankar Roy	A. Das	1/2 - 1/2
Sanjay N	J. Ramkrishna	1-0
Arvind C. J.	Jayant Gokhale	1/2 -1/2
Neelkanthan	Pankaj Joshi	1/2 - 1/2
Balasubramaniam	Negi V.S.	1-0

White : Atanu Lahiri Black : Neelotpal Das

1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 0-0 5. Nf3 d5 6. Bd3 c5 7. 0-0 cd 8. ed dc 9. Bc4 b6 10. Bg5 Bb7 11. Re1 Nbd7 12. Rc1 Rc8 13. Qb3 Be7 14. Bf6 Bf6 15. Nb5 Ra8 16. Ne5 Be5 17. de5 Nc5 18. Qe3 a5 19.Red1 Qe7 20. Rd6 Rac8 21. b3 Rc6 22. a3 Rd8 23. Rd8 Qd8 24. Nd6 Rd6 25. ed Qd6 26. Be2 g6 27. Bf3 Bf3 28. Qf3 Qd2 29. Rd1 Qc2 30. h4 Qb3 31 Qb3 Nb3 32. Rd8 Kg7 33. Rb8 e5 34. Rb6 Nd4 35. Ra6 Nb3 36. Kf1 Kf8 37. Ra7 1-0

Anup Deshmukh played a brilliant sacrificial game against Dipanjan Das by bringing his King to g5 square! Here is the romantic game similar to the 14th Century style for Chess lovers:

White : Anup Deshmukh Black : Dipanjan Das

1.d4 d5 2. c4 dc 3. e3 c5 4. Bc4 cd 5. Nf3 Qc7 6. Qb3 e6 7. ed Nf6 8. 0-0 Nc6 9. Nc3 a6 10. Bd3 Be7 11. a3 0-0 12. Bg5 Rd8 13. Be3 Bd7 14.Rac1 Be8 15. h3 Rac8 16.Rfd1 Qb8 17.Qa2 h6 18. b4 Bd6 19. Qd2 Ne7 20. Ne4 Ne4 21. Be4 Bc6 22. Rc6 bc 23. Bh6 gh 24. Qh6 Bf4 25. Bh7 Kh8 26.Qh4 Ng8 27. Ne5 Be5 28. Bg6 Kg7 29. Qh7 Kf6 30. Qf7 Kg5 31. Bc2 1-0.

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