Date:13/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/13/stories/2008051354831800.htm

Sport - Chess

Purushothaman shocks Ubilava

MUMBAI: T. Purushothaman stunned the fourth-seeded Elizbar Ubilava in the third round, within hours of V. S. Negi holding top seed Michael Krasenkow of Poland in the second round, of the Mayor’s Cup International Open chess tournament at the Goregaon Sports Complex here on Monday.

Important results (Indians unless stated):

Third round: Debashis Das (2) lost to K. Humpy (3); Barlomiej Macieja (Pol, 3) bt Akshat Khamparia (2); T. Purushothaman (3) bt Elizbar Ubilava (Esp, 2); Merab Gagunashvili(Geo, 3) bt Arun Karthik (2); Praveen Kumar (2.5) drew with Abhijit Kunte (2.5); Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban, 3) bt Soumyaranjan Mishra (2); Pankaj Joshi (2) lost to Ziaur Rahman (Ban, 3); Anton Filipov (Uzb, 2.5) drew with Mehar Chinna Reddy (2.5); G. B. Joshi (2.5) drew with Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb, 2.5); R. R. Laxman (3) bt V. A. V. Rajesh (2); Reefat Bin Sattar (Ban, 3) bt Anup Deshmukh (2); R. B. Ramesh (3) bt Mari Arul (2); Tejas Bakre (3) bt Ravi Hegde (2);

Second round: V. S. Negi drew with Michal Krasenkow (Pol); Humpy bt Niladri Bhattacharya; Rajendra Shreshtha (Nep) lost to Macieja; Ubilava bt M. Paramasivam; Ashish Thatte lost to Gagunashvili; Kunte bt Abhishek Kelkar; V. Raghavendra lost to Al-Rakib; Rehman bt C. N. Vaidya; Antonio Viani D’Cunha lost to Filipov; Iuldachev bt Anurag Mhamal.