Thipsay causes a big flutter

By S. Sabanayakan

KOLKATA, AUG. 9. Veteran Indian Grandmaster Praveen Thipsay, Syrian International Master Imad Hakki and International Master from Bangladesh, Reefat Bin Sattar, scored major upsets in the opening round of the 3rd Asian Individual men's chess championship at the Gorky Sadan here on Thursday.

Thipsay found the going smooth on Board No. 4 to annihilate fourth-seed Pavel Kostur of Kazakhstan in 25 moves. The Bangla IM Sattar outplayed Grandmaster Dao Thien Hai of Vietnam in 34 moves. Hakki defeated Filipino GM Villamayor Buenavent. Top-seed Jun Xu, playing on the top board, had Surya Sekhar Ganguly of India putting up little resistance to win a positional battle in 55 moves in a Queens Gambit Accepted.

The results (first round): Jun Xu (Chi) 1 bt Surya Sekhar Ganguly (Ind) 0; Isaev Jamshed (Tjk) 0.5 drew with Peng Xiaomin (Chi) 0.5; Evgeny Vladimirov (Kaz) 1 beat Niaz Murshed (Ban) 0; Praveen Thipsay (Ind) 1 bt Kostur Pavel (Kaz) 0; Utut Adianto (Ina) 0.5 drew with Egin Vladimir (Uzb) 0.5; Hoang Thanh Trang (Vie) 0.5 drew with Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind) 0.5; Murtas Kazhzaleyen (Kza) 0 lost to Mark Paragua (Phi) 1; Reefat Bin Sattar (Ban) 1 bt Dao Thien Hai (Vie) 0; Darmen Sadvakasov (Kaz) drew with Devaki V. Prasad (Ind) 0.5; Imad Hakki (Syr) 1 bt Villamayor Buenavent (Phi) 0; Wenjin We (Chi) 0.5 drew with Sandipan Chanda (Ind) 0.5; Nadera Barlo (Phi) 1 beat Zili Wang (Chi) 0; Chong Liang (Chi) 1 bt Amir Mallahi ((Iri) 0; Fernie Donguines (Phi) 0.5 drew with Abhjit Kunte (Ind) 0.5; Leonid Yrtaev (Kgz) 0.5 drew with Mahmood Lodhi (Pak) 0.5; Anvar Nazarov (Tjk) 0.5 drew with Eugene Torre (Phi) 0.5; Magai Vladimir (Kgz) 0.5 drew with Chito Garma (Phi) 0.5; Elshan Moradiabadi (Iri) 1 beat Antonio Rogellio Jr (Phi) 0; Nyugen An Dung (Vie) 1 beat Liu Dede (Ina) 0; Sriram Jha (Ind) 0.5 drew with Safin Shukhrat (Uzb) 0.5; P. Harikrishna (Ind) 0.5 drew with AbdullaAl-Rakib (Ban) 0.5; Lanka Ravi (Ind) 0 lost to Yu Shaoteng (Chi) 1; Liang Jingrong (Chi) 0.5 drew with P. Konguvel (Ind) 0.5; Aleksandar Wohl (Aus) 0 lost to Eshan Ghaem Maghami (Iri) 1; Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) 0 lost to Enamul Hossain (Ban) 1; Salaua Izmukhambetov (Kaz) 0 lost to Dibyendu Barua (Ind) 1; Marat Dhhumaev (Uzb) 0 lost to Mahjoob Morteza (Iri) 1; Moshen Ghorbani (Iri ) 0 lost to Alexio Barsov (Uzb) 1; Petr Kostenko (Kaz) 0.5 drew with Rolando Nolte (Phi) 0.5; Ronald Dableo (Phi) 0 lost to Li wengliang 1; Mohamad Al-Modiakhi (Qat) 1 beat Mohamad N. Al-Sayed (Qat) 0; Arash Roghani (Iri) 0 lost to Zhang Penxiang (Chi) 1; Orazly Annageldyev (Tkm) 1 beat Neeraj Kumar Mishra (Ind) 0; Abu Sufian Sakil (Ban) 0 lost to Tahir Vakhidov (Uzb) 1; Ziaur Rahman (Ban) 1 beat Milan turpanov (Kgz) 0; Taibur Rahman (Ban) 0.5 drew with Sergy Zagrebelny (Uzb) 0.5; Wang Yue (Chi) 1 beat S. Rahman (Ban) 0.

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