Bagayatkar, who has four points to his credit, played with black pieces and started defensively and developed positional advantage. He quickly forced an exchange of major pieces and won the game in a king and pawn ending.Patil took control of the game against the Spaniard with some consistent middle game and went on to win in 42 moves.In the next round Bagayatkar, who has a chance of figuring among the prize winners if he wins the next two rounds, plays eleventh-seeded Spaniard Mas while Patil is drawn against fourth-seed Draguici of Spain.Bhat will cross swords against Diez of Poland while the fourth Indian in the fray, Charudatta Jadhav, who lost to Berenguer of Germany in the seventh round, will take on Huerga of Spain.Meanwhile, third-seeded Yatsishin of Ukraine, who has six points from seven rounds, is the sole leader after he subdued Gunajew of Poland easily.Top seed Larduct and second seed Tamayo (both from Cuba) and fifth-seeded Suder of Poland are in the joint second position with 5.5 points apiece.In the joint third position with five points each are Lindenmair, Dobierzin and Pohlers (all three from Germany), Gunajew of Poland and Qadiri of Iran.Results of the Indians in the seventh round: Madan Bagayatkar (Ind) bt Debowska (Pol), Charudatta Jadhav (Ind) lost to Berenguer (Ger), Vilesh Bhat (Ind) drew with Martins (Braz), Shirish Patil bt Sola (Spa).Calcutta boys supreme in school chess CALCUTTA: City boys SK Shahid Ahmed and Somak Palit emerged champions in the Standard Chartered school chess tournament held in Dhaka recently.While Ahmed maintained an all-win record and culled seven points to win the title in Group B category - for students upto class five - Palit cornered glory in Group A - for students of class VI to X - picking up eight points out of a possible nine.In Group A, Palani Aravindan of Tamil Nadu finished third, while another city boy Joydeep Dutta got the fourth spot, according to an Alekhine Chess Club release here. Chess-GM internationalHYDERABAD: India's teenage Grandmaster K Sasikiran along with Abhijit Kunte leads the Indian challenge in the Wipro International Grand Masters Chess Championship beginning here from Saturday.In all eight Grandmasters, whose Fide rating points is over 2500 points, along with seven International Masters and two International Women Masters would be taking part in the 15-day long chanmpionship.Sasikiran who got his GM title recently is having 2578 Fide points while Abhijit is having 2556 points.GM Evegeny Valdimirov of Kazakstan with 2598 points heads the list of participants as the winner would carry home a purse of Rs five lakh.India's upcoming IM P Harikrishna of Wipro with 2500 points alongwith Surya Shekar Ganguly 2498, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran 2481, Sandipan Chanda 2446, veteran DV Prasad 2431, IWM S Vijayalakshmi 2379 and Aarthie Ramaswamy of Wipro 2319 are vying for the title.List of participants: Evegency Vladimirov (Kazhakstan 2598 points), Alexander Fominyh (Russia 2594 points), K Sasikiran (India 2578 points), Abhijit Kunte (India 2556 points), Leonid Yurtaev (Kirgyzstan 2552 points), Sergey Lonov (Russia 2541 points), Maxim Sorokin (Argentina 2541) (all GMs), P Harikrishna (India 2500 points), Surya Shekar Ganguly (India 2498 points), Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iran 2481 points), Sandipan Chanda (India 2446 points), DV Prasad (India 2431 points), S Vijayalakshmi (India 2379 points) Aarthie Ramaswamy (India 2319 points) (all IWM's).
