Round 9

Once again Stany proved his strength over the board. Playing white side Former state Champion opted Tromposky variation. Aravind Shastri had slight edge on the middle game but Stany had double Bishop advantage over Bishop and Knight of Shastri. Finally long played game ended in favor of Stany. Shastri resigned on 56 moves and made Stany the sole leader. Tomorrow in the final round of Karnatak State FIDE Rated Chess Championship Stany will play white side with Vijay Keerthi of Mysore to decide the Championship.

Vijay Keerthi of Mysore playing white side with Sachin PS of Shimoga. Sachin opted Sicilian defense and played equally till 22^nd move and got his piece traped in the 23^rd move. Vijay Keerthi dominated this used his extra piece to win the game in 33 moves

Aniket Pawashe of Belgaum and Antonio Viani of Mangalore played in third board and draw the game in 42 move.

In fifth board Gahan MG of Mangalore played with Sameer Gotane. Sameer opted Owens defense. In the earlier game he played with Vijaykeerthi of Mysore and lost the game. He had all the chance of getting draw with him. This result made him upset and could not concentrate with Gahan and lost in early stage.

Forth board played between Sriram Sarja of Thirthalli and Akshay Bharadwaj of Bangalore. Sriram played Kings Indian opening and both played theoretical line. On 17^th move Sriram gave a pawn for better command over the board. Sriram continued his superiority and made Bhishop d4 move. Akshay over looked this good move and lost in 30 moves.

Tomorrow is the last and final round of Karnataka State FIDE Rated Chess Championship. Mr S Murugan, Superitendent of Police, Shimoga will be the Chief guest for Valedictory function to be held at Seminar Hall, PES Institute of Technology and Management, Sagar Road, Shimoga.

Important results after round 9

Bo.	Name	IRtg	Pts	Result	Pts	Name	IRtg
1	Arvind Shastry	2275	7	lost to	8½	Stany G A	2250
2	Vijay Keerthi K	2199	8	bt	6½	Sachin P S	1854
3	Pawashe Aniket R	2039	7	drew with	7	Antonio Viani D'cunha	2095
4	Sriram Sarja	2256	7	bt	6	Bharadwaj Akshay	1903
5	Gahan M G	2161	7	bt	6	Sameer Ghotane	1894
6	Vijendra Y G	2098	7	bt	6	Benadikar Shashank D	1878
7	Karthik H S	1878	6	lost to	7	Yashas D	2068
8	Kedar Umesh Vaze	1901	6½	drew with	6½	Gautam J K	2016
9	Nisha N Patkar	1789	6	lost to	7	Panindra T S	1996
10	Deshik K J	1767	6	lost to	7	Shruthi K	1979
11	Rakshith R Umesh	1546	6½	drew with	6½	Sushrutha Reddy	1920
12	Abhijit Devaraj	0	6½	drew with	6½	P.V.Srinivas,	1911
13	Shivashankar B C	0	6½	drew with	6	Shripad K V	1972
14	Upendra K	1969	6	drew with	6	Shreeshan S	1826
15	Ganesh Kumar	1836	5½	lost to	6½	Pavan P	1901
16	Sridhar R	1874	6½	bt	5½	Muralidhara G K	1800
17	Augustin A	1797	6	drew with	6	Kishan Gangolli	1839
18	Arjun U Prabhu	1929	6	bt	5½	Bhagwat S M	1743
19	Raviprakash S M	2028	6	bt	5	Brahmaiah V.J	0
20	Hariharan Subramony	1927	6	bt	5	Baligar Dr Vishwanath	0