Bartakke joins leaders

KOLHAPUR, July 15: Amardeep Bartakke definitely believes that perseverance is the key to success. Experimenting with a variation which ba...

KOLHAPUR, July 15: Amardeep Bartakke definitely believes that perseverance is the key to success. Experimenting with a variation which backfired a few months back in Mumbai against IM P Konguvel, the top seed did well to adopt the same variation against G Balaji (Mumbai), and forced his opponent to resign.

The win thus helped Amardeep join strong contender Pallavi Shah and PG Date of Mumbai at the top with 4.5 points each after the fifth round in the Maharashtra State Chess Selection tournament organised by Kolhapur District Chess Association (KDCA) at Hind Co-op Society Hall, here today.

On the top-board Amardeep, with an Elo rating of 2230, did well to force a win after sharing points with Pallavi, on Tuesday in a duel which lasted 75 moves.

Fifth round results: Amardeep Bartakke 4.5 (Sat) bt G Balaji 3.5 (Mum); Udayan Bapat 3.5 (Pun) lost to Pallavi Shah 4.5 (Kol); PG Date 4.5 (Mum) bt Rashmin Pulekar 3.5 (Mum); Ketan Boricha 4 (Mum) drew with Prathamesh Mokal 3 (Pun); Ketan Khaire 4 (Pun) btSushant Banerji 3 (Mum); Rajesh Sapkal 3 (Pun) lost to Sashikant Kutwal 4 (Pun); Prasad Deshmukh 4 (Mum) bt Pranav Akolkar 3 (Pun); Dinesh Bhandarkar 3.5 (Mum) drew with Omkar Patwardhan 3.5 (San); Pandurang Mokote 3 (Kol) lost to Vinod Bhagwat 4 (Nas).

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