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Pune lad Atharv Godbole Held 2nd Seed for Draw
The 4th Mayor Cup
International Chess Tournament 2011, organized
by Venus Chess Academy and hosted by Goregaon
Sports Club and Co- Sponsored by LIC, saw a good
response of 280 players taking
part in the tournament, out of which 15 are GMs
and 30 IMs and 4 WGMs. The
Tournament was inaugurated by Mr.Vinod Poddar,
Chairman Indoor Sports of Goregaon Sports Club.
Mr Ratan Poddar, IM Shekhar Sahu Vice- president
AICF and Mr. R M Dongre, Treasurer AICF and
organizing Secretary were present on the dias.
On the first table playing with
white pieces Aleksey Aleksandrov (ELO 2618)
against Madhurima Shekhar (ELO 1906) opted for
Queens Gambit Declined exchange variation main
line. On the 21st move Madhurima captured the
Knight of Aleksey which exposed her king to
direct attack making her loose the game on 23rd move.
On the 2nd board Pune lad Atharv
Godbole (ELO 1894) surprised everyone by drawing
against the 2nd seed GM Kravtsiv
Martyn (ELO 2583). The game which started in the
Ruy Lopez went for closed variation. On 23rd move
Martyn played g6 which created a serious
problems to him which made his position worse
and gave a clear advantage to white. Thus seeing
a losing position Martyn offered a draw which
was quickly accepted by Atharv.
On the third board GM Deviatkin
Andrei (ELO 2580) played a long game against
local player Vishwesh Kocherekar (ELO 1882).
Vishwesh opted for French defense which was
replied by irregular move by Andrei. In the end
game with opposite colour Bishop the experience
of Andrei counted and he won the game in 48
moves.
On the 4th board GM Deep Sengupta (ELO 2572)
checkmated BMC player Ganesh Solkar (ELO 1880)
in 32 moves, in the French defense game.
The results of top 10 tables are as follows
|
Bo.
|
|
Name
|
Rtg
|
Pts.
|
Result
|
Pts.
|
|
Name
|
Rtg
|
|
1
|
GM
|
Aleksandrov Aleksej
|
2618
|
1
|
Beat
|
0
|
|
Madhurima Shekhar
|
1906
|
|
2
|
|
Godbole Atharva
|
1894
|
1/2
|
drew
|
1/2
|
GM
|
Kravtsiv Martyn
|
2583
|
|
3
|
GM
|
Deviatkin Andrei
|
2580
|
1
|
Beat
|
0
|
|
Vishvesh Kochrekar
|
1882
|
|
4
|
|
Solkar G D
|
1880
|
0
|
Lost to
|
1
|
GM
|
Sengupta Deep
|
2572
|
|
5
|
GM
|
Chadaev Nikolai
|
2564
|
1
|
Beat
|
0
|
|
Menhajul Hoda
|
1879
|
|
6
|
|
Satkar Chirag
|
1878
|
0
|
Lost to
|
1
|
GM
|
Kotanjian Tigran
|
2546
|
|
7
|
GM
|
Heberla Bartlomiej
|
2539
|
1
|
Beat
|
0
|
|
Dave Shiv Shankar
|
1873
|
|
8
|
|
Shetye Siddhali
|
1872
|
0
|
Lost to
|
1
|
GM
|
Sethuraman S P
|
2529
|
|
9
|
GM
|
Kunte Abhijit
|
2528
|
1
|
Beat
|
0
|
|
Maharjan Bijay
|
1858
|
|
10
|
|
Raj Parakh
|
1844
|
0
|
Lost to
|
1
|
GM
|
Rahman Ziaur
|
2528
|
