Humpy capitalises on Elena blunder

Yu Ting of China is following Humpy with 4 points in the girls section while Pendalya Harikrishna, Sunderajan Kidambi and Said Rakhimbekov Kazakistan are following Bakre in the boy8217;s section with 4 points each.

Against Humpy in a game of Caro-Kann Defence Pano-Botvinnik Variation, Elena got good positions on 20th move when she played Qh38242; for Humpy8217;s passive play.

Under time trouble Humpy blundered a threatened Knight on d58242; and played Rh58242; on the 36th move. Elena captured the kinght with cd5. But Humpy drew home as her opponent repeated a move three times. Humpy took objection on this ploy by her opponent and claimed for a draw which was agreed by the Chief arbitor.

Unrated Ting played excellently to beat Tania Sachdev in a marathon game that lasted for 85 moves.

In a game of Sicilian Dragon Classical Variation, Tania played Qb6 on the 22nd move and lost the exchange on the 25th. Later, Ting got control on the e8217; file and increased pressure on Tania who got a pawn on 35th move. In rook versus bishop and pawn ending, Ting played a Rbl on the 47th but Tania failed to capitalised and played Bd6 instead of a6. Ting won the game in 85 moves.

Coming to the boys8217; section, in the top table game between Tejas Bakre and S Satyapragyan of Sicilian Defence Scheveningen Variation, the latter played with a faulty plan with Rg8 on the 14th move and g5 on the 15th keeping his king in the centre. Bakre capatilised on this by sacrificing his knight on 17th move. He sacrifised an exchange on 18th move and in return got back the piece on 20th move and with three pawns to an exchange.

Bakre forced the exchange of Queens on the 24th. Later, he simply pushed the passed h8217; pawn and got a queen on 36th move. Satyapragyan left with no option but to resigned on 39th move.

On the second board, the P Harikrishna-Surya Sekher Ganguly duel of Grunfeld Defence, saw Harikrishna getting pass d8217; pawn on the 13th move. On the 21st, he sacrificed a pawn and got an advantage. He sacrificed another on the 35th move and increased pressure with pawn on d7. On 37th move, he got a piece with a threat of queening d8217; pawn. Later Harikrishna won the game in 51 moves.

Results Round V:

Boys8217;:

Tejas Bakre 4.5 bt S Satyapragyan 5, P Harikrishna 4 bt SS Ganguly 3, Valaly Parikh 3 lost to S Kidambi 4, Said Rakhimbekov 4 bt Al Sayed M 3, Ghaem Maghami 3.5 bt Mark Paragua 2.5, Filipov Anton 2.5 drew CJ Anand 3, Neelotpal Das 3 bt P Mahaesh Chndra 2, Enamul Hossain 3 bt Mathew Sonter 2, John Paul Gomez 2.5 drew Vikramditya Kamble 2.5, Syed Hassan 3 bt Taher Mulla 1.5, Arjun Tiwari 1.5 lost to Du Shan 2.5, Akshayraj Kore 2 bt M Satyajit 1.5, Athukorala PM 1 lost to Prathmesh Mokal 2, Annaberdiev Mellies 2 bt Himanshu Kumar 0.5, Soumyaranjan Mishra got a bye.

Girls: Levushikina Elena 3.5 drew Koneru Humpy 4.5, Tania Sachdev 3 lost to Yu Ting 4, Nisha Mohota 2.5 lost to S Meenakshi 3.5, Aarthie Ramaswami 3 bt JE Kavita 2, Swati Ghate 2.5 drew Chau Ngoc Giao 2, Madina Duisenova 2.5 bt Anupama Konara 1.5, Feroza Haque 0.5 drew Beverly Mendoza 2, Pazha Sivakame 1 lost to Y Prathiba 2.

Game of the Day

Tejas Bakre White S Satyapragyan Black

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qb6 5. Nb3 Nf6 6. Nc3 e6 7. Bd3 a6 8. 0-0 Qc7 9. f4 d6 10. Qf3 b5 11. Be3 Bb7 12. Rae1 Be7 13. Qh3 h6 14. a3 Rg8 15. Nd4 g5 16. fxg5 hxg5 17. Nxe6 fxe6 18. Rxf6 Bxf6 19. Qxe6 Ne7 20. Qxf6 0-0-0 21. Bxg5 Rde8 22. Qe6 Kb8 23. Bxe7 Qxe7 24. Qe7 Rxe7 25. Rf1 Kc7 26. g3 Bc6 27. Rf4 Rg5 28. Kg2 Rc5 29. h4 a5 30. Nd5 Bxd5 31. exd5 Rxd5 32. g4 Kd7 33. h5 Ke6 34. h6 Rf7 35. h7 Rxf4 36. h8=Q Rxg4 37. Kf3 Rgg5 38. Qe8 Kf6 39. Qd8 Kf7 40. Qxa5 1-0.