Tej holds Sushrata to a draw; Gavisiddaiah stunned

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Bangalore, May 17: National 'A' and former State champion Tej Kumar (FIDE rating 2324) survived opening blues and settled for a draw with 22nd seed Susharata Reddy in the third round of the Malleswaram Association 2nd Karnataka State Chess Championship held under the aegis of United Karnataka Chess Association here at MA premises on Wednesday.

In the game that was transposed from Center Counter to Sicilian Defence - Morra Gambit, Shushrata (1981) called the shots with sharp variations. However, seasoned campaigner Tej Kumar held on his nerves to manage a draw in 59 moves.

In the major upset of the day, R Nagesh (1797) of Kumarans school stunned 12th seeded Gavisiddaiah (2078) of BEST Engineering College. Gavisiddaiah, who started off with a rarely played style-Evans Gambit, entered dubious opening line to hand over the game in a platter to Nagesh.

In the other games, Top seed Sanjay N (2339) had sailed into fourth round with a comfortable victory over Raghuraman, while second seed Shivanandan (2320) saw off the stiff fight from Prakash Rao.
State Women Chess champion Shruti K outwitted 6th seed Peter Valdos to join top seed Sanjay N and 13 others in the lead with 3 points.

In yet another game, Karnataka State Blitz Champion P P Parchura held on the former State Champion Vijeyendra to a creditable draw.

Results (Third Round):

Sanjay N (3) bt Raghuraman (2); Shivanandan (3) bt Prakash Rao (2); Sushrata Reddy (2.5) drew with Tej Kumar (2.5); Sriram Sarja (3) bt Raju M (2); Sanjay Sindhia (2) lost to Aravinda Shastri (3); Petros Valden (2) lost to Shruti K (3); Parchura (2.5) drew with Vijendra (2.5); Deepak Payeng (2.5) drew with Venkatasubramani (2.5); Manjunath (3) bt Gahan M B (2); Manasa K (3) bt Sunil Shetty (2); Suraj M (2.5) drew with Balkishen (2.5); Gavisiddaiah (2) lost to R Nagesh (3); Girish Koushik (3) bt L Vivekananda (2); Bhagwat S M (2) lost to Stany G A (3); Anil Shetty (3) bt Upendra K (2); Shrikant Ramdas (2) lost to Goutam J K (3); Yashas (3) bt Priyanka (2); Sudhish (2.5) drew with Vishwas Saralaya (2.5); Srinivas J (3) bt Niranjan Navalgund (2); Sunil Kulkarni (3) bt Bhargav Ram (2).


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