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Grandmasters Chess: Surya Sekhar Ganguly wins title

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Kolkata: City-based Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly emerged as the eventual winner with 7.5 points, in the battle of nerves on the final day of the 2nd LIC International Grandmasters Chess Tournament here on Tuesday.

With three players – Nigel Short of England and Lu Shanlei of China apart from Ganguly – vying for the top honours at 6.5 points, it was expected that the overnight leaders would play energetically and go for a win at the ICCR.

Much to the local chess connoisseurs delight, Ganguly opened up the kingside in a Sicilian defence and his two bishops ensured an attack which fetched him a pawn after which it was a matter of technique for the Indian grandmaster.

For his triumphant efforts, Ganguly was richer by Rs.2 lakhs.

Four players – Short, Lu, Deep Sengupta and Sandipan Chanda – tied for the second place with seven points apiece. However, Short took the second place on better Buchole tie breaking points and was awaded Rs.1.6 lakh prize money.

Lu finished one run down the ladder, to win Rs.1.3 lakh ,while Sengupta and Chanda had to be content with the with the fourth and fifth positions respectively. Sengupta pocketed Rs.80,000 and Chanda got Rs.50,000.

On the top board, the Short-lu duel was a quiet affair, with both players content to manoeuvre their pieces in a Catalan set up. With neither side getting any breakthrough, a peace treaty was signed on the 41st move where both had a rook and knight and four pawns left on the board.

WGM Swati Ghate was declared as the best women of the tournament as she scored five points.

ATOP BOARD RESULTS:

AGM Nigel Short (ENG) 7 drew GM Lu Shanglei (CHN) 7,

GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly (IND) 7.5 btA GM Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo (CUB) 6

AIM Wang Chen (CHN) 6.5A drew GM G.N. Gopal (IND) 6.5

AIM K. Ratnakaran (IND) 6 lost to GM Sandipan Chanda (IND) 7,

GM Deep Sengupta (IND) 7 bt GM Kirill Stupak (BLR) 6,

IM Lin Chen (CHN) 5.5 lost to GM Dimitry Kokarev (RUS) 6.5,

GM Quesada Perez Yuniesky (CUB) 6.5 bt GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (IND) 5.5,

GM M.R. Lalith Babu (IND) 6 drew GM R.R. Laxman (IND) 6,

GM Neelotpal Das (IND) 5.5 drew GM Pavel Kotsur (KAZ) 5.5,

S. Satyaspragyan (IND) 5 lost to GM Vladislav Kovalev (BLR) 6,

IM Sayantan Das (IND) 5.5 drew Thomas Oral (CZE) 5.5

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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia

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The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.

Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.

Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”

Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.

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