Abhijeet Gupta back in joint lead at Delhi International Open Chess tournament
New Delhi Mar 28 PTI Defending champion Abhijeet Gupta defeated Irans Poormosavi Seyed Kian in the penultimate round to take a joint lead in the 19th Delhi International open chess tournament here on Monday With his sixth victory in a row following a disastrous start Gupta reached 75 points to join overnight leaders Arjun Erigaisi D Gukesh and Harsha Bharthakoti while S P Sethuraman accounted for Pavel Ponkratov of Russia to match these four on points Poormosavi Seyed Kian meanwhile became the first player in the tournament to score an International Master norm The other norm aspirant is Neelash Saha who needs a victory in the final round to make a Grandmaster norm At the top of the table Erigaisi Arjun played out an effortless draw as black against Gukesh out of a Sicilian Najdorf where the pieces changed hands right from the early middle game The players soon reached an endgame where neither side had chances Bharthakoti drew with Saha who played white while Sethuraman was at his best in outwitting Ponkratov For Gupta it was a good day in the office The champion of the last edition in 2020 won a pawn in the Bishop and pawns endgame The technicalities were never a problem and Gupta wrapped the issue in 45 moves Important Results Round 9 Indians otherwise stated – D Gukesh 75 drew with Erigaisi Arjun 75 Neelash Saha 7 drew with Harsha Bharathakoti 75 Poormosavi Seyed Kian of Iran 65 lost to Abhijeet Gupta 75 Pavel Ponkratov of Russia 6 lost to S P Sethuraman 75 M R Lalith Babu 7 beat Abdisalimov Abdimalik of Uzbekistan 6 N R Visakh 6 lost to Himal Gusain 7 P Iniyan 65 drew with Viani Antonio Dcunha 65 Saptarshi Roy 6 lost to Karthik Venkataraman 7 Mirzoev Azer of Azerbaijan 65 drew with Divya Deshmukh 65 P Karthikeyan 6 lost to Tahbaz Arash of Iran 7 Nigmatov Ortik of Uzebkistan 7 beat Borgaonkar Akshay 6 Rohith Krishna S 65 drew with N Vignesh 65 Aradhya Garg 65 drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy 6 Delgado Ramirez Neuris of Praguay 65 beat Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan of Sri Lanka 55 Utsab Chatterjee 65 beat Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran 55 PTI APA BS BS
New Delhi Mar 28 PTI Defending champion Abhijeet Gupta defeated Irans Poormosavi Seyed Kian in the penultimate round to take a joint lead in the 19th Delhi International open chess tournament here on Monday With his sixth victory in a row following a disastrous start Gupta reached 75 points to join overnight leaders Arjun Erigaisi D Gukesh and Harsha Bharthakoti while S P Sethuraman accounted for Pavel Ponkratov of Russia to match these four on points Poormosavi Seyed Kian meanwhile became the first player in the tournament to score an International Master norm The other norm aspirant is Neelash Saha who needs a victory in the final round to make a Grandmaster norm At the top of the table Erigaisi Arjun played out an effortless draw as black against Gukesh out of a Sicilian Najdorf where the pieces changed hands right from the early middle game The players soon reached an endgame where neither side had chances Bharthakoti drew with Saha who played white while Sethuraman was at his best in outwitting Ponkratov For Gupta it was a good day in the office The champion of the last edition in 2020 won a pawn in the Bishop and pawns endgame The technicalities were never a problem and Gupta wrapped the issue in 45 moves Important Results Round 9 Indians otherwise stated – D Gukesh 75 drew with Erigaisi Arjun 75 Neelash Saha 7 drew with Harsha Bharathakoti 75 Poormosavi Seyed Kian of Iran 65 lost to Abhijeet Gupta 75 Pavel Ponkratov of Russia 6 lost to S P Sethuraman 75 M R Lalith Babu 7 beat Abdisalimov Abdimalik of Uzbekistan 6 N R Visakh 6 lost to Himal Gusain 7 P Iniyan 65 drew with Viani Antonio Dcunha 65 Saptarshi Roy 6 lost to Karthik Venkataraman 7 Mirzoev Azer of Azerbaijan 65 drew with Divya Deshmukh 65 P Karthikeyan 6 lost to Tahbaz Arash of Iran 7 Nigmatov Ortik of Uzebkistan 7 beat Borgaonkar Akshay 6 Rohith Krishna S 65 drew with N Vignesh 65 Aradhya Garg 65 drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy 6 Delgado Ramirez Neuris of Praguay 65 beat Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan of Sri Lanka 55 Utsab Chatterjee 65 beat Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran 55 PTI APA BS BS
