B Adhiban wins National B chess
Second seed, world U-16 boys champion B Adhiban of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board won a battle of nerves to clinch his back-to-back National B Chess Championship title here today.
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Kolkata: Second seed, world U-16 boys
champion B Adhiban of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board won a
battle of nerves to clinch his back-to-back National B Chess
Championship title here today.
Overnight leaders -- WGM Mary Ann Gomes of Bengal and
Adhiban -- locking horns with each other, required to win the
final round to emerge champion at the Town Hall and Adhiban
did not falter when it mattered most.
Adhiban clinched the title with 10.5 points when Mary
Ann`s French defence proved insufficient to hold him.
Mary Ann (9.5) lost a pawn on the kingside on the 26th
move and finally the game as Abhiban`s pieces penetrated her
weakened back rank.
Adhiban thus became richer by Rs 60,000 while Mary Ann
had to settle for fourth place.
Himanshu Sharma of Haryana drew with Saptarshi
Roychowdhury of Railways to finish second with 9.5 points.
After two successive defeats, Deep Sengupta survived a
scare in the final round and drew from an inferior position
against M S Thejkumar to be placed third with 9.5 points.
Thejkumar finished fifth despite ending on 9.5 points as
he had a lower Buchholz tie-break score.
Asian junior champion woman IM Padmini Rout became the
first woman from Orissa to qualify for the men`s National A by
finishing ninth.
Rout drew with Swapnil Dhopade of Maharashtra to finish
ninth as the higher Buchholz System score enabled her a top-10
finish.
Bureau Report
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