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New Delhi: Indian junior champion Kumar Gaurav caused a major upset defeating Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh in the first round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship here at the Leela Convention center.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: Indian junior champion Kumar Gaurav caused a major upset defeating Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh in the first round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship here at the Leela Convention center.<\/p>\n
Up against an English opening, Gaurav was in a much worse position against his experienced opponent in the middle game and grabbed his chance as Rahman blundered in a tactical skirmish. The Bihar-boy won a rook for a minor piece in the bargain and did not give another chance.<\/p>\n
It was a day of upsets in the opener wherein young players benefitted. The other Grandmaster to go down was Enamul Hossain, also from Bangladesh who went down to Rohit Vassan.<\/p>\n
Grandmaster Sahaj Grover survived some anxious moments before he was held to a draw by Naitik Mehta while veteran Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay also had to sign peace with Manish Anto Cristiano.<\/p>\n
Saksham Rautela also caused an upset as International Master Tania Sachdev failed to find any breakthrough and had to split the point.<\/p>\n
At the top of the tables, defending champion Abhijeet Gupta started on a positive note with a clean victory over talented Divya Deshmukh.<\/p>\n
Third seed Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri accounted for DMGS Dassanayake from Sri Lanka while National Women\u2019s champion Padmini Rout had it easy against Chirag Saroha.<\/p>\n
The Rs. 10 Lakh prize money championship was earlier inaugurated by Sh. Vijay Goel, Hon\u2019ble Minister for Youth Affairs and sports in a glittering ceremony. AICF Secretary Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, FIDE Vice President Mr. D V Sundar along with Jt. Commissioner of Police Madhup Tiwari and Group Captain J Rajendra, Indian Air Force graced the occasion.<\/p>\n
This is the first time that the Championships have been split in 15 different categories. Apart from the open, there are under-8, 10,12,14,16,18 and 20 categories for boys and girls separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Indian junior champion Kumar Gaurav caused a major upset defeating Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh in the first round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship here at the Leela Convention center.<\/p>\n
Up against an English opening, Gaurav was in a much worse position against his experienced opponent in the middle game and grabbed his chance as Rahman blundered in a tactical skirmish. The Bihar-boy won a rook for a minor piece in the bargain and did not give another chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1350,18063,466,22377,22378],"class_list":["post-35074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-chess","tag-commonwealth-chess-championship","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-kumar-gaurav","tag-ziaur-rahman"],"yoast_head":"\n