Karnataka State Open Championship 2009, Round 7

Stany and Aniket are in Joint Lead

After seven round of Karnataka State FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2009, Stany G A of Shimoga and Aniket Pawashe of Belgaum are in joint lead. Followed by Arvind Shastri, Vijaykeerthi, Sameer Gotane, P V Srinivas respectively with six points.

Former National A Player and Former State Champion Aravind Shastri playing white side opted Queens Indian Variation. In the opening aniket had better position. He maintained the better position till the end game, but the experienced top seed player, arvind shastri stopped the winning race. The game ended with draw at 44 move.

In second board Gahan MG of Mangalore played with Stany GA of Shimoga. Stany Played the irregular opening and in the middle game Gahan blundered move. Stany took the advantage and won the game ended in 24 move.

K Vijaya Keerthi of mysore played white with Akshay Bharadwaj in third board. Vijay Keerthi Played regular line of Sicilian for Askhay’s reply. Higher seeded Vijay Keerthi won the game in 30 moves

Sameer Ghotane of Belgaum playing from white side defeated the former state champion Vijayendra Y G of Mysore in the fourth board.Vijayendra played the Pirc defence and in the 17^th move sameer sacrificed a piece to show his superiority and forced Vijayendra to resign the game. The game completed in 28 moves.

Panindra T S of Tumkur played English opening with Sachin P S of Shimoga. Sachine played for a draw. Panindra had better position but could not convert to win. The Game ended in draw at 32 moves

Important results after round 7

Bo.	Name	IRtg	Pts	Result	Pts	Name	IRtg
1	Arvind Shastry	2275	6	Drew with	6½	Pawashe Aniket R	2039
2	Gahan M G	2161	5½	lost to	6½	Stany G A	2250
3	Vijay Keerthi K	2199	6	bt	5	Bharadwaj Akshay	1903
4	Sameer Ghotane	1894	6	bt	5	Vijendra Y G	2098
5	Panindra T S	1996	5½	Drew with	5½	Sachin P S	1854
6	Ganesh Kumar	1836	5½	Drew with	5½	Shruthi K	1979
7	Sydney Lewis	0	5	lost to	6	P.V.Srinivas,	1911
8	Antonio Viani D'cunha	2095	5½	bt	5	Nisha N Patkar	1789
9	Sriram Sarja	2256	5½	bt	4½	Pavan P	1901
10	Yashas D	2068	5½	bt	4½	Kishan Gangolli	1839
11	Santoshkashyap H G	2014	5½	bt	4½	Augustin A	1797
12	Shripad K V	1972	5½	bt	4½	Keerthan Prabhu	1667
13	Vivekananda L	1787	5	Drew with	5	Sushrutha Reddy	1920
14	Kedar Umesh Vaze	1901	5½	bt	4½	Shreyas Ram D N	1622
15	Raviprakash S M	2028	5	bt	4½	Muralidhara G K	1800
16	Aravind Acharya N	0	4	lost to	5	Gautam J K	2016
17	Arjun U Prabhu	1929	5	bt	4	Aravinda B R	0
18	Balappa	0	4	lost to	5	Hariharan Subramony	1927
19	Hanumantha R	1898	4	lost to	5	Mohan K S	0
20	Nagakiran S	0	4	lost to	5	Benadikar Shashank D	1878