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| The 38th National B is nearing
its climax and Tejas Bakre (Elo 2358) who is in a tremendous form continued
his feast by disposing off Neelotpal Das (Elo 2410) in 33 moves to race
ahead with nine points. Tejas playing the black pieces once again
adopted the Queen's Indian defence against Das's Queen Pawn Opening.
Tejas got two hanging pawns in the centre but managed to take the sting
out of Das's white coloured Bishop on 'h3' which remained a spectator for
the rest of the game . Das got a lone passer on the b file which offered
him some counterplay but Bakre penetrated heavily on the 'e' file
with his Rook . Das resigned in view of unavoidable mate on 'g1'.
With just three rounds to go Bakre who is looking unstoppable
is a hot contender for the title.
On the second board , Lanka Ravi (Elo 2371) crushed second seed Sandipan Chanda (Elo 2446) in 31 moves of the French defence taking his tally to eight points . Lanka Ravi playing with the black pieces attacked fiercely on the Queen side placing his pawns on 'a5' 'b5' 'c5' 'd5' ! and won a pawn on the 14th move. Chanda faced some tough problems stopping Lanka's "a" passed pawn and resigned as the position offered nothing for him. Sriram Jha (Elo 2409) coming back to his form defeated Gurpreet Pal Singh (Elo 2306) in the Sicilian Paulsen. But all eyes were on the wonder kid Saptarshi Roy who yesterday brilliantly defeated Sudhakar Babu . Today it was Atanu Lahiri's turn as Roy pounced on a blunder by Lahiri in time pressure and won the game taking his score to eight points. Lahiri adds " I was winning but choose the wrong continuation trying to mate him. " G.B.Prakash (Elo 2429) won against Roktim Bandyopadhyay (Elo 2308) on the fifth board , while V.Koshy and Vishal Sareen agreed to draw on the sixth board. |
| WHITE | BLACK | RESULT |
| Neelotpal Das (7.5) | Bakre Tejas (8) | 0-1 |
| Sandipan Chanda (7) | Ravi Lanka (7) | 0-1 |
| Gurpreet Pal Singh | Sriram Jha | 0-1 |
| Roy Choudhary Saptarshi | Atanu Lahiri | 1-0 |
| Roktim B. (6.5) | G.B.Prakash (6.5) | 0-1 |
| V. Koshy | Sareen Vishal | 1/2 - 1/2 |
| K. Murugan | Ebenezer Joseph | 1-0 |
| Konguvel P. | Arvind C.J. | 1/2 - 1/2 |
| Gokhale C.S. | R. Preetham Sharma | 1/2 - 1/2 |
| Shankar Roy | Beenish Bhatia | 1-0 |
| Wajih Nasir | N. Sanjay | 0-1 |
| Shantaram K. | Sekhar Sahu | 1-0 |
| Das Arghyadip | Anup Deshmukh | 1/2 - 1/2 |
| T.S. Ravi (6) | G.B. Joshi (6) | 1-0 |
| Satyapragyan S. | Saurabh Khedekar | 1-0 |
| White : Neelotpal Das Black : Tejas Bakre |
| 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. e3 Bb7 5. Bd3 d5 6. 0-0 Be7 7. b3 0-0 8. Bb2 c5 9. Nbd2 Nbd7 10. Qe2 Ne4 11. Rfd1 Rc8 12. Rac1 Rc7 13. dc bc 14. cd ed 15. Nf1 Qc8 16. Ng3 Ng3 17. hg Bf6 18. Bf5 Bb2 19. Qb2 g6 20. Bh3 Re8 21. Qa3 Re7 22. Rd2 h5 23. Rdc2 f5 24. Nd4 a6 25. b4 c4 26. b5 Nc5 27. b6 Rcd7 28. f3 Re8 29. Rc3 Rde7 30. e4 Ne6 31. Ne6 Qe6 32. ef Qb6 33. Kh2 Re1 0-1 |
| White : Sandipan Chanda Black : Lanka Ravi |
| 1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3 Qe2 Nf6 4 Nf3 Be7 5 g3 b5 6 Nbd2 c5 7. Bg2 Nc6 8. 0-0 0-0 9.Re1 a5 10. e3 Nd7 11. Nf1 a4 12. a3 b4 13. h4 ba 14. ba Nde5 15. Ne5 Ne5 16. c4 Nc6 17. Qa2 Nd4 18. ed Rb8 19. Bf4 Rb3 20. de Be6 21. Qd2 Bd5 22. Bd5 Qd5 23. Nh2 Bf6 24. Rab1 Ra3 25. Qa5 Rb3 26. Rbc1 Ne6 27. Be4 Ra8 28. Qd2 h5 29. Red1 Rb2 30. Rc2 Rc2 31. Qc2 a3 0-1 |