In 6th round of Tetrasoft GM Tournament Hari Madhavan of Tamilnadu Upset Pavel Smirnov of Russia

Hyderabad, August 24, 2019: On sixth board 2nd seed GM Smirnov Pavel of Russia lost against Hari Madhavan N B of Tamil Nadu - India. After seventh round picture is becoming clearer. In race of becoming champion of this event the main contenders are limited GM Tukhaev Adam, GM Mosadeghpour Masoud and IM Triapishko Alexandr scored 6 points each became leader of contingent. They are closely followed by 8 players. At the end of 6th round IM Khusenkhojaev Muhammad of Tajikishtan and GM Tukhaev Adam of Ukraine took Joint lead scoring 5½ points each. They are closely followed by seven players. On 1st board, GM Tukhaev Adam of Ukraine opened game with Queen’s pawn moving to d4. The opponent IM Triapishko Alexandr of Russia replied with Nf6. The game converted in Kings Indian defence. They played Yugoslav Variation of KID. The game ended in draw after three times appearing same pictorial position on move number thirteen. On 2nd board, IM Triapishko Alexandr of Russia opened game with Nf3. The opponent IM Rathnakaran K. of South Railway – India replied with g6. The game followed Modern defence and the variation is Geller’s system. The game continued till 31st move but position remained equal and both agreed for a draw. On 3rd board, GM Karthikeyan P. of ICF opened game with d4. The opponent GM Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran replied with d5. The opening of game later converted into Pseudo-Catalan opening. Karthikeyan accepted loss at 55th move. On 4th board, GM Laxman R R of ICF – India opened game with d4. The opponent Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri of Andhra Pradesh – India replied with e6. The game followed Horwitz defence. The game continued till 61st move but no improvement in position which remained equal and both decided to take draw. On 5th board, top seed of event GM Savchenko Boris of Russia played Kings pawn to e4. The opponent Pranav V of Tamil Nadu - India replied with c5 converting from centre open game to Sicilian defence. The later game played in Chelyabinsk variation. In 53rd move Savchenko checkmated Pranav. On 6th board, GM Smirnov Pavel of Russia opened game with d4. Hari Madhavan N B of Tamil Nadu - India replied with d5. The game within few moves converted in Stolz variation of Semi Slav defence. Hari defeated 2nd seed Pavel in 64th move. On 7th board, GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo of Chile opened game with d4. The opponent Karthik Sai Ch of Telangana – India replied with d5. This is called Queens pawn game. In 2nd move White played c4 offering to go for gambit. The black refused to take playing c6. Thus, opening converted into Queens Gambit Declined and followed Bogoljubov variation. In 60th move Karthik accepted loss. Following are the important results after 7th round. On 1st board, IM Khusenkhojaev Muhammad of Tajikishtan having ELO Rating ( 2442 ) scored 6 points Drew With GM Tukhaev Adam of Ukraine having ELO Rating ( 2541 ) scored 6 points On 2nd board, IM Triapishko Alexandr of Russia having ELO Rating ( 2519 ) scored 5.5 points Drew With IM Rathnakaran K. of S Rly having ELO Rating ( 2337 ) scored 5.5 points On 3rd board, GM Karthikeyan P. of ICF having ELO Rating ( 2422 ) scored 5 points Lost to GM Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran having ELO Rating ( 2509 ) scored 6 points On 4th board, GM Laxman R.R. of ICF having ELO Rating ( 2426 ) scored 5.5 points Drew With Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri of Andhra Pradesh - India having ELO Rating ( 2299 ) scored 5.5 points On 5th board, GM Savchenko Boris of Russia having ELO Rating ( 2576 ) scored 5.5 points Won With Pranav V of Tamil Nadu - India having ELO Rating ( 2316 ) scored 5 points On 6th board, GM Smirnov Pavel of Russia having ELO Rating ( 2574 ) scored 4.5 points Lost to Hari Madhavan N B of Tamil Nadu - India having ELO Rating ( 2231 ) scored 5.5 points On 7th board, GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo of Chile having ELO Rating ( 2496 ) scored 5.5 points Won With Karthik Sai Ch of Telangana - India having ELO Rating ( 1872 ) scored 4.5 points On 8th board, Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal - India having ELO Rating ( 2295 ) scored 5 points Drew With IM Muthaiah Al of Tamil Nadu - India having ELO Rating ( 2384 ) scored 5 points On 9th board, Sahoo Utkal Ranjan of Odisha - India having ELO Rating ( 2278 ) scored 5.5 points Won With IM Raja Rithvik R of Telangana - India having ELO Rating ( 2364 ) scored 4.5 points On 10th board, Bhambure Shantanu of Maharashtra - India having ELO Rating ( 2288 ) scored 5 points Won With Patil Pratik of Maharashtra - India having ELO Rating ( 2216 ) scored 4.5 points On 11th board, FM Aaryan Varshney of Delhi - India having ELO Rating ( 2272 ) scored 4.5 points Drew With Kavinda Akila of Srilanka having ELO Rating ( 2024 ) scored 4.5 points On 12th board, CM Kushagra Mohan of Telangana - India having ELO Rating ( 2252 ) scored 5 points Won With Gias Uddin Ahmed of Bangladesh having ELO Rating ( 1961 ) scored 4 points On 13th board, Aditya Varun Gampa of Telangana - India having ELO Rating ( 1999 ) scored 4 points Lost to Varun V of Andhra Pradesh - India having ELO Rating ( 2251 ) scored 5 points On 14th board, Nayak Rajesh of Odisha - India having ELO Rating ( 2250 ) scored 4 points Lost to Raju J.K. of Telangana - India having ELO Rating ( 1999 ) scored 5 points On 15th board, FM Ramakrishna J. of Andhra Bank having ELO Rating ( 2155 ) scored 4 points Lost to Mohamed Anees M of Tamil Nadu - India having ELO Rating ( 1910 ) scored 5 points On 16th board, Ayushh Ravikumar of Tamil Nadu - India having ELO Rating ( 1907 ) scored 4.5 points Drew With Pimpalkhare Vedant of Maharashtra - India having ELO Rating ( 2123 ) scored 4.5 points On 17th board, FM De Silva L M S T of Srilanka having ELO Rating ( 1984 ) scored 4 points Lost to Dahale Atul of Maharashtra - India having ELO Rating ( 2064 ) scored 5 points On 18th board, GM Ziatdinov Raset of USA having ELO Rating ( 2228 ) scored 4.5 points Won With Vishwanath Prasad of Telangana _ India having ELO Rating ( 1819 ) scored 4 points On 19th board, Sammed Jaykumar Shete of Maharashtra - India having ELO Rating ( 2416 ) scored 4.5 points Won With Saypuri Srithan of Telangana - India having ELO Rating ( 1891 ) scored 3.5 points On 20th board, Baivab Mishra of Odisha - India having ELO Rating ( 2215 ) scored 4.5 points Won With Ambarish Sharma of West Bengal - India having ELO Rating ( 1868 ) scored 3.5 points Total 3 foreign players are leading tournament with 6 points after 7 rounds.