Five in lead after Ambedkar’s shock win

Top seed Manoj Tawade lost to Ambedkar in 39 moves. He handled the black side of the Dragon Variation in a closed Sicilian Defence and lost one pawn and exchange on 32nd move. When white queen and rook threatened to land in black’s territory in front of a broken castle, Tawade resigned on the 39th move.

Results (second round play-off)

H Ambardker (2) bt Manoj Tawade (1), Aditya Vora (2) bt Sachin Sale (1), Wesley Falcao (1.5) drew Vishal Shah (1.5), Jeevan Wagh (1) lost to Arun Subra (2), Vijay Sherla (1.5) drew Anil Arora (1.5), Mugdha Variyar (2) bt JikkuAbraham (1), Milind Ketkar (2) bt Niraj Dube (1), Ivel D’Souza (0) lost to Prasanna Iyer (1.5), Yashodhan Gogte (1) dre Milind Phadnis (1), Rohit Kulkarni (0.5) lost to G Pednekar (1.5), Leean Almeida (1.5) bt Sujit U (0), Pannikar (0) w/o Dhiraj Gohil (1), Aditya Bhatt (0) lost to Vishal Sodani (1), Anoop S (0.5) drew Allen Mathew (0.5), Ketki K (1) bt Prachi Kushte (0), N Pednekar (1) bt Kirit Shah (0), Amol Golam (1) bt Sahaj Goyal (0), Keshav Bhat (0) lost to Akshay Bhor (0).

Terwadkar stuns Saxena

Parag Terwadkar of New Bombay High School shocked former Maharashtra No 2 Vaibhav Saxena of Fr Agnel (Vashi) in the Inter-school chess tournament organised by the Indian Council of Chess Studies at Daate Mangal Karyalaya, Dombivli.

Sagar Masurekar (Fr Agnel) beat S Srinivas (Model English) in a Sicilian game. He blundered a pawn on the 20th move and lost in 32 moves. Vinaykumar (Abhinav) suffered a setback against Yogesh Athale (Adarsh English).

In Group A (KG-standard 4), Nitesh Bhat(Manjunath), Nimidev (Atomic Energy), Anish Menon (Model), Meghan Gupte (South Indian), Salim Ali and Utkarsh Gupta (bot Fr Agnel) lead the table with three points. Rohil Bhat, Yogesh Athale, Vrushali and Vaishali Kulkarni (both S K Patil) lead in Group B with three points. Terwadkar, Sagar Sadavarte (both New Bombay) and Sagar Masurekar (Fr Agnel) are joint leaders in Group C with three each.

Rizvi SC in quarters

Rizvi Sports Club defeated Colaba Young Stars 1-0 in the pre-quarterfinals of the second Monsoon Football for Brotherhood tournament on Saturday.

Results (pre-quarterfinals): Milan A bt Bombay YMCA 1-0, Bank of Baroda bt Sea View (via tie-breaker) 3-1, Madanpura bt Milan B (tie-breaker) 7-6, Companeros bt New India Assurance 1-0, Bandra Packers bt Tipu Sultan (tie-breaker) 6-5, Rizvi Sports Club bt Colaba Young Stars 1-0.

PSEB top

Punjab State Electricity Board topped in the Inter-State Electricity Boards bridge tournament at Nashik today.

Grid Corporation (Orissa)and Damodar Valley Corporation were second and third respectively.

Team suspended

Mumbai Schools Sports Association disciplinary committee decided to suspend St Joseph’s High School (Juhu) under-16 Division II football team for one match and declared their coach Anthony Arambour persona-non-grata for one season.

In a match against St Francis D’Assisi, the team walked out against a referee decision and D’Assisi is awarded three points.