Sayantan, Saptarshi and Bhuiyan share top spot

CALCUTTA, JULY 25. The overnight leader and sixth-seed, Yashpal Singh Sonwani of Madhya Pradesh blundered in a drawn position before losing against fifth seeded Sayantan Dutta of Bengal in the top board of the sixth round of XIII The Telegraph schools' chess tournament at the Gorky Sadan here on Tuesday.

This paved the way for defending champion and top Saptarshi Roy of Bengal along with Sayantan Dutta and ninth placed Gulam Mustafa Bhuiyan of Bangladesh regain the top spot with 5.5 points each. All the three won their respective boards today.

Roy beat Yambem Dhanbir Singh of Assam in 27 moves while unseeded Nilabh Upadhyay of Bengal held second seeded Deep Sengupta of Bihar to a draw. Sengupta playing his second successive draw today fell to the second spot.

Another rated player, seventh ranked Rohan Vijay Shandilya of Bihar, agreed to a draw after 26 moves against Tanmoy Pattanayak of Bengal. Same was the fate of 10th placed Somak Palit who drew against former national under-10 champion Rahul Sangma of Bihar.

The results (top board): Yashpal Singh Sonwani (MP) 5 lost to Sayantan Dutta (Ben) 5.5; Saptarshi Roy (Ben) 5.5 bt Yambem Dhanbir Singh (Asm) 4.5; Deep Sengupta (Bih) 5 drew with Nilabh Upadhyay (Ben) 5; Paramita Ghosh (Ben) 4.5 lost to Gulam Mustafa Bhuiyan (Bangla) 5.5; Somak Palit (Ben) 5 drew with Rahul Sangma (Bih) 5; Pratik Sengupta (Bih) 5 bt Saurav Bose (Ben) 4; Tanmoy Pattanayak (Ben) 4.5 drew with Rohan Vijay Shandilya (Bih) 4.5; Santu Mondal (Ben) 4.5 drew with Syed Rownak Ehsan (Bangla) 4.5; Mufidul Islam Khan (Ben) 4 lost to Rajiv Dhar (Ben) 5; Dhruba Manna (Ben) 4.5 drew with Joydeep Dutta (Ben) 4.5; Arindam Das (Ben) 4 lost to Sashank Singh (Asm) 5; Abhijit Kar (Ben) 4 lost to Mary Ann Gomes (Ben) 5; L. Mahesh Singh (Mani) 3.5 lost to Sayan Sarkar (Ben) 5; Sanjoy Banerjee (Ben) 3.5 lost to Ejaz Hussain (Bangla) 4.5.

- Our Sports Reporter

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