Ramana shocks Kongvel

JANUARY 11: J Venkatarama (ICF, Chennai) maintained his winning spree by upsetting top seed IM P Konguvel in the sixth round of the 4th GT...

JANUARY 11: J Venkatarama (ICF, Chennai) maintained his winning spree by upsetting top seed IM P Konguvel in the sixth round of the 4th GTB all-India FIDE rated chess tournament, being held at the Arya Vysya Sangam here on Monday. There were as many as four upsets on the sixth day.

Ramana (6) was in full form today. He opted for Sicilian Najdor defence. Playing a well-controlled game, the former champion went for a new knight move. Konguvel in a battle for the d5 square played a hasty b4 move and lost control over the game as his opponent grabbed a few pawns to put him under pressure. On the 52nd move Konguvel was left with no other option but to resign.

In the other interesting match of the day, A Shankar of Southern Railway scored a fine win over IM Mishra of Tata Steel of India in a Catalan Defence.

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Commonwealth champion Atanu Lahiri, who has had a bad run so far, succumbed to S Mari Arul, while IM-elect Jayant Gokhale was stunned by AS Baratakka.

Fourth seed SK Rathore lost to Dilip Pagay, while PDS Girinath defeated K Chakravarthy.

Results: P Konguvel 4.5 ;lost to J Venkataramana 6; V Koshy 5.5 bt Muralidharan 4.5; NK Mishra 4.5 lost to A Sankar 5.5; SC Subramanian 5 drew with Vishal Sareen 5; TS Ravi 4.5 lost to TB Muralikrishna 5.5; Amardip S Bartakke 5.5 bt Jayant Gokhale 4.5; Ravi Kumar 5 drew with SS Sopman 5; A Mari Arul 5 bt Atanu Lahiri 4; SK Rathore 4 lost to Dilip Pagay 5; KN Gopal 4 lost to Tejas Bakre 5; Rahul G Shetty 5 bt Beenish Bhatia 4; PDS Girinath 5 bt K Chakravarthy 4; Manoj Kumar Panigrahi 5 bt M Srinivas Rao 4; Nisha Mohota 4.5 drew with R Bandyopadhyay and RS Gupta 4.5 drew with KV Shantaram.

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