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New Delhi: Grandmaster and former champion Abhijeet Gupta remained on course for regaining the crown after a crushing victory against defending champion Deep Sengupta in the seventh round of the Commonwealth Chess championship that concluded here.<\/p>\n
With his seventh victory in a row, Abhijeet also crossed a personal landmark as the former world junior champion could not recall the last time he had won first seven games in an International event.<\/p>\n
The victory means Gupta increased his lead to a full points as the nearest contenders for the crown are now on six points. Grandmasters Abhijit Kunte, Deepan Chakkravarthy and International Masters Arghyadip Das and S Ravi Teja are all sharing the second spot with six points apiece.<\/p>\n
The day belonged to Gupta once again he won in just over two hours, outplaying Sengupta right from the opening. For the records it was a sharp Botwinnik variation that Sengupta employed as black but got in to early troubles as his king got stuck.<\/p>\n
The middle game was easy for Gupta who just had to divert his forces against centralised black king and the finale came through a picturesque piece sacrifice that ripped apart black’s position. The end came soon after as the attack was irresistible.<\/p>\n
Ravi Teja recorded the biggest upset of the day defeating Sahaj Grover in a game where fortunes favoured the former. It was a Queen pawn game wherein Grover equalised comfortably as black and spurned down Ravi Teja’s draw offer in a balanced endgame. However, soon after, Grover missed a small tactical stroke that led to a pawn less endgame wherein Ravi Teja excelled.<\/p>\n
Abhijit Kunte accounted for N Sanjay and the former national champion showed his brilliance with white pieces. Chakkravarthy too played a finely crafted game to beat Himanshu Sharma.<\/p>\n
Among the Women, Padmini Rout remained on course for gold medal after she was held to a draw by C R GKrishna. With 5.5 points in her kitty, Padmini enjoys a half point lead over other women players.<\/p>\n
Important results round 7 (Indians otherwise stated):<\/p>\n <\/strong> GM Abhijeet Gupta (7) beat GM Deep Sengupta (5.5); IM Ravi Teja S (6) beat GM Sahaj Grover (5); GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh (5.5) drew with GM Sriram Jha (5.5); GM Deepan Chakkaravarthy (6) beat IM Himanshu Sharma (5); Abhijit Kunte (6) beat Sanjay N (5); Vignesh Nr (5.5) drew with IM Narayanan S L (5.5); IM Arghyadip Das (6) beat Praneeth Surya (5); IM Krishna CRG (5.5) drew with Padmini Rout (5.5); IM Akash G (5.5) drew with IM Rathnakaran K (5.5); Himal Gusain (4.5) lost to Lalith Babu M R (5.5); GM Aravindh Chithambaram (5.5) beat IM Nisha Mohota (4.5); Hemant Sharma (5) drew with GM Ankit Rajpara (5); WGM Bhakti Kulkarni (4.5) lost to IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh (5.5); IM Van Den Heever Donovan of South Africa (5) drew with GM Laxman R R (5); Sekar B (5) drew with IM Akshat Khamparaia (5); Siva Mahadevan (5.50 beat GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (4.5); Athul Krishna S (4.5) lost to IM Nitin S (5.5); Sai Agni Jeevitesh (4) lost to GM Karthikeyan Murali (5); Matta Vinay Kumar (4) lost to GM Niaz Murshed of Bangladesh (5); IM Saptarshi Roy (4.5) drew with Abhishek Das (4.5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With his seventh victory in a row, Abhijeet also crossed a personal landmark as the former world junior champion could not recall the last time he had won first seven games in an International event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Delhi: Grandmaster and former champion Abhijeet Gupta remained on course for regaining the crown after a crushing victory against defending champion Deep Sengupta in the seventh round of the Commonwealth Chess championship that concluded here.<\/p>\n