Mugdha’s Vienna gambit goes awry

MUMBAI, JULY 27: Two players shared the lead at the end of the third round of the play-off league in the Entrant's Division chess tournam...

MUMBAI, JULY 27: Two players shared the lead at the end of the third round of the play-off league in the Entrant’s Division chess tournament organised by the Bombay Chess Association at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Canteen yesterday. Aditya Vora of Don Bosco School, Matunga, and Arun Subramaniam of Pendharkar College, Dombivli, scored their third consecutive win, over Mugdha Variyar and Milind Ketkar respectively, to lead with three points.

Vishal Shah, a fifth standard student of St Joseph, Malad, defeated overnight leader Harshvardhan Ambardekar, a third-year student of Pendharkar College. Vishal now shares the second spot with Prasanna Iyer of Bhagubhai Polytechnic, Wesley Falcao of Carmalites, Vasai and Ganesh Pednekar.

On the top board, Mugdha, playing white, adopted her pet Vienna Gambit against Aditya. In an equal position, Mugdha lost one pawn and immediately made exchanges on F-5 square with wrong pieces leaving her king and bishop on b2 square unguarded. To save a checkmate, she was forced to loseher bishop. She resigned on the 23rd move.

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Mugdha Variyar (2) lost to Aditya Vora (3); S Arun (3) bt Milind Ketkar (2); Vishal Shah (2.5) bt Ambardekar (2); Prasanna Iyer (2.5) bt A Leann (1.5); Anil Arora (1.5) lost Wesley Falcao (2.5); Ganesh Pednekar (2.5) bt Vijay Sherla (1.5); Manoj Tawade (2) bt Jeevan Wagh (1); Akshay Bhor (1) lost to Y Gogte (2); Milind Phadnis (2) bt Dhiraj Gohil (1); Vishal Sadani (1) lost Nitin Pednekar (2); Sachin Sale (2) bt Amol Golam (1); A Tikku (1) lost to Ketki Kulkarni (2); Niraj Dube (2) bt Ivel D’Souza (1); Allen Mathew (0.5) lost to R Kulkarni (1.5).

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