Barua falls to quot;blitzquot;

GRONINGEN The Netherlands, December 11: Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua of India was ousted from the Fide World Championship after going down to GM Zbynek Hracek of the Czech Republic in the deadlock-ending five minute quot;blitzquot; game.

Barua committed a serious opening error with black pieces and lost the blitz game tamely after drawing his match and subsequent two rapid games to set up the blitz’ in this newly introduced knockout affair by the world chess body.

The 31-year-old Barua, who had played out a tame draw in the first game of the two-game match, adopted his favourite Petroff Defence and equalised easily in the second game. After the exchange of queens and all minor pieces, the players agreed to split the point and the match ended 1-1.