Chennai, August 19: Reefat Bin Sattar of Bangladesh broke away from his trail of disappointments with a crushing victory over Alexander Fominyh in the sixth round of the Pentamedia Grandmaster chess tournament. It happened to be the Russian's first defeat in India. Krishnan Sasikiran (India) and Evgeny Vladimirov meant business with another effortless win over Sandipan Chanda (India) and Abhijit Kunte at Kelambakkam, here on Saturday. Sasi is leading with five points while Vladimirov has 4.5 points. India's GM norm aspirant Devaki Prasad had to blame himself for his predicament on Saturday. After outplaying Uzbek Saidali Yuldachev in the Ruy Lopez (d4 variation), he went for a unnecessary knight sacrifice when he had a simple win in hand. He missed a queen check at d2 which allowed a perpetual check for Yuldachev. Prasad saw a lot of variations and played well. However, he had to pay the price for getting too excited. He faces a near impossible task of getting six out of six for the GM norm. He missed a winwith Prakash. Had a below par performance against Barua and should thank his stars for today's draw. Sattar comes good: Reefat finally came good while Fominyh, who had wriggled out of hopeless positons in the Sicilian Taimanov before, never got a chance and was defeated fair and square. Reefat got a tremendous hold in the position after 16 c5. And, with Fominyh's pieces struggling to come to life, Reefat thrusted his pawns, initiating a kingside attack. The Russian could only watch as Reefat's pawn came to h7 from f2. His two bishops on d3 and d4 were waiting to explode. Fominyh charged up his queen on the h file, anticipating some defence. Sattar ended the game with a finesse (30 Rf6). Sasikiran showed better understanding than Sandipan Chanda by accepting rook for two pieces in the 20th move from the Scotch opening. The ending was reached with Chanda having bishop and knight while Sasikiran had an active rook with a few extra pawns. Results (Round six): Sandipan Chanda (Ind) 1.5 lost to Sasikiran (Ind) 5, Vladimirov (Kaz) 4.5 bt Abhijit Kunte (Ind) 3, Ghaem Maghami Ehsan (Irn) 2 drew with Harikrishna (Ind) 3.5, Reefat Bin Sattar (Ban) 2 bt Fominyh (Rus) 2.5, Ganguly (Ind) 2 drew with Prakash (Ind) 3.5, Prasad (Ind) 2 drew Yuldachev (Kaz) 2, Barua (Ind) 2.5 bye. Aravind stops SaheliCHENNAI: CJ Aravind (Loyala College, Chennai) halted the dream run of WFM Saheli Dhar Barua (Eastern Railways) to emerge sole leader with 6.5 points at the end of the seventh round of the ONGC FIDE rated open chess tournament here.Opening with the queen pawn, Aravind sprang a surprise inthe 15th move by offering his queen for Saheli's rook in the dutch defence. This solid sacrifice put black's king run for the life and Arvind forcefully took Barua's king into mating net, forcing her to resign on the 21st move.Barua was on the second spot with six points, followed by G Rohit (Andhra Pradesh) with 5.5 points.Tomorrow and the day after will be two rest days for this 13 round swiss event.Important Results (Round seven): CJ Arvind (6.5) bt Saheli Dhar Barua (6), E Joseph (5) drew with N Sudhakar Babu (5), RR Laxman (5) drew with Poobesh Anand (5), K Gopala Krishnan (5) drew with KV Shantaram (5), R Balasubramani (4) lost to G Rohit (5.5), R Siddarth (5) bt K Gunasekar (4),P Umesh (4) lost to J Ramakrishna (5), S Nabeela (4) lost to Ram Krishnan (5), Devandra Kumar (4.5) drew with P Priya (4.5), M Simeera (4.5) bt George Daniel (3.5), R Janakiraman (4) drew with AH Haque (4), P Rajesh (4) drew with R Navaneethan (4), Kambar Ali (4) drew with S Bharath (4), Naveen Khanna (4.5) bt V Kameswaran (3.5), S Sujatha (4.5) bt Shyam Krishnan (3.5),H Nilavoli (4.5) bt S Annequa (3.5).N Sanjay emerges championMARGAO: N Sanjay of Karnataka continued his unbeaten record when he defeated Vishal Sareen of LIC (Delhi) to emerge champion with 8.5 points at the end of the final round (9th round) of AN Naik Memorial International Rating Chess tournament here.Soughaijam Vikramjit Singh, who beat Roktim Bandyopadhyay, finished second with 7.5 points.International Master AB Vaidya, who drew with Anup Deshmuk, was tied equally on both score points as well as progressive points. As a result, draw of lot had to be introduced and Vaidya won to finish fourth behind C S Gokhale of Indian Airlines.
