Date:13/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/13/stories/2008041355081600.htm

Sport

Vaibhav holds Sudhakar Babu

NEW DELHI: Rising talent Vaibhav Suri pulled off a big surprise by holding former National ‘B’ champion International Master N. Sudhakar Babu in the second round of the All-India Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee international rating chess tournament here on Saturday.

Another local schoolboy Prince Bajaj drew with Rahul Sangma as six fancied players had to settle for draws against lowly rivals on the first 13 boards.

The results:

Second round: Vikas Sinha (1) lost to Sriram Jha (2); Himanshu Sharma (2) bt Alka Das (1); Abhinandan Vohra (1) lost to S. Satyapragyan (2); Roktim Bandyopadhyay (2) bt Govind Kumar (1); Alok Kumar Gupta (1) lost to Saptarshi Roy (2); P. Konguvel (2) bt Mithilesh Srivastava (1); Chandrasish Majumdar (1.5) drew with Somak Palit (1.5); Sudhakar Babu (1.5) drew with Vaibhav Suri (1.5); Hemant Kumar Singh (1.5) drew with Swapnil Dhopade (1.5); B.S. Shivanandan (2) bt Sandeep Singh (1); Prince Bajaj (1.5) drew with Rahul Sangma (1.5); Arjun Tiwari (1.5) drew with Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (1.5); Bharat Patel (1.5) drew with Prasenjit Dutta (1.5); Rahul Shetty (2) bt Amardeep Tiwari (1).

First round: Jha bt Raj Kumar; Harshal Shahi lost to Himanshu; Satyapragyan bt Kunal Das; Pritesh Mehta lost to Bandyopadhyay; Saptarshi bt Rabbani Basha; Jotish Roy lost to Konguvel; Manan Chandok lost to Sudhakar Babu; Dhopade bt M. Anshuman; Arunima Kalra lost to Shivanandan; Sangma bt Prachet Sharma; J. Gautam lost to Arjun Tiwari; Prasenjit bt Pavit Singh; A.K. Gupta lost to Shetty; Ram Prakash bt Aakash; Aamna Munjal lost to Atanu Lahiri; D. P. Singh bt Aashay Pinkesh Mehta. — Special Correspondent.