Date:26/01/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/26/stories/2007012600942300.htm

Sport - Chess

Ramesh stuns Vadim Milov

NEW DELHI: Grandmaster R.B. Ramesh stunned third seed Vadim Milov in the second round of the Gibtelecom Masters chess tournament at Gibraltar on Wednesday.

Ramesh's 44-move victory was the second big surprise of the event after Irina Krush had upstaged second seed Vladimir Akopian in the first round.

Besides Ramesh's triumph, the other encouraging result came from S. Vijayalakshmi who drew with Russain GM Pavel Tregubov.

In the first round, Tania Sachdev had proved equal to Ukranian GM Yuriy Kuzubov. Eleven Indians are in the fray in this annual event.

The results (involving Indians): Second round: R.B. Ramesh (2) bt Vadim Milov (Sui, 1); S. Vijayalakshmi (1.5) drew with Pavel Tregubov (Rus, 1.5); N. Srinath (1) lost to Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2); Ian Rogers (Aus, 2) bt Deep Sengupta (1); Vladimir Akopian (Arm, 2) bt Aarthie Ramaswamy (1); Robert Wade (Eng, 1) lost to Sandipan Chanda (1.5); Carlos Vinas Guerrero (Esp, 1.5) drew with D. Harika (0.5); Keith Ruxton (Sco, 1.5) bt Tania Sachdev (0.5); Andrew Dunn (Eng, 1) drew with S. Meenakshi (0.5); Nisha Mohota (1) bt Adrian Joseph (Eng, 0.5); Mikael Helin (Swe, 1) bt Prasanna Rao (0).

First round: D. Harika lost to Victor Korchnoi (Sui); Sandipan Chanda drew with Simon Ansell (Eng); Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr) drew with Tania Sachdev; S. Meenakshi lost to Fabiano Caruana (Ita); David Eggleston (Eng) lost to R.B. Ramesh; Nana Dzagnidze (Geo) bt Nisha Mohota; Zoltan Revesz (Hun) lost to S. Vijayalakshmi; Prasanna Rao lost to Kateryna Lahno (Ukr); Nikola Hocevar (Slo) lost to N. Srinath; Aarthie Ramaswamy bt Dale Sharp (USA); Deep Sengupta bt Enrique Osuna Vega (Esp).