Ivana, Bhakti score impressive wins

NT NETWORK
Posted on 2008-09-17
PANAJI- Double world u-8 girls champion and Dempo Goodwill brand ambassador Ivana Furtado bounced back with a win on Tuesday, after her hard fought defeat to Asian junior runner-up Woman International Master Padmini Rout, in the second round of Monginis 46th National ‘B’ chess championships at Damodar Saunsthan, Zambaulim.
Ivana, who is also a Woman Candidate Master (WCM) showed good attacking skills to notch up a win in round 2. Another Goan star Bhakti Kulkarni, a Woman Fide Master and Monginis Brand Ambassador with an ELO of 2166, demolished Ram Gupta (ELO 1943) of New Delhi from the black side of the French Defense in just 29 moves to register her second consecutive win of the championships.
World under-9 bronze medallist Anirudh Bhat (unrated) of Margao held DK Chopra (ELO 2007) of CRSB in a long endgame arising out of the Pirc Defence. The other bright star on the Goan horizon was none other than Asian U-11 Gold medallist Cyrus Perreira (ELO 1873) who held former U-18 world champion Ramaswamy Aarthie (ELO 2265) of Indian Airlines to a draw in 47 moves of a Queen’s Gambit Declined variation.
Other unrated Goans to score draws were Parikshit Phaldesai and Snehil Shetty.
Thus, there was all-round jubilation in the Goan camp at the end of the second round on Tuesday. On the top boards, there was havoc as the first Grandmaster to lose was none other than Deepan Chakkravarthy (ELO 2464) of PSPB. He lost to unfancied Aniruddha Deshpande (ELO 2148) of Maharashtra in just 42 moves of the Sicilian Defense.
Meanwhile, unrated Alfredo Menezes used the Ruy Lopez opening to beat Krishna Udupa (ELO 2024) in 41 moves. Dr Carvalho’s other unrated student Mohinish Naik beat Khalil Ahmed (ELO 1913) of Assam in 56 moves of a Queen’s Gambit Declined Opening. This increases the prospects of both these youngsters gaining their international rating from just this championship alone as there are still 11 more rounds to play. Other Goan results - Anurag Mhamal (ELO 2113) lost to IM Suvrajit Saha (ELO 2367); Arvind Mhamal (unrated) lost to Gajendra Singh (ELO 2159);Sampada Barve (ELO 1634) gained a walkover from Sunil Rangarajan (ELO 2155);Riya Sawant (ELO 1407) lost to Ajit Kumar Verma (ELO 2010);Vasanth Naik (ELO 1969) drew with R T Huttenini (unrated);Niraj Saripalli (ELO 1952) beat unrated Inderjeet Kaushal;Anil Raje (unrated) lost to Jitendria Vel S (ELO 1864).