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Chess
By Arvind Aaron
Odds-on-favourite, the reigning British Champion R.B. Ramesh of Indian Oil, Chennai won a long 51-move minor piece ending to beat Arvind Subramanian. "It's at least three years since I last played a tournament in Chennai,'' said Ramesh who recently won a match 3-1 in South Africa. Asked if he was risking his rating by playing in Chennai, Ramesh agreed but said, "there is no use worrying now after agreeing to play.'' If we (IMs) five get to play each other the risk of having a low rating average will be minimised said Ramesh who is engaged to marry Chennai's Woman Grand Master Aarthie Ramaswamy this August. Ramesh played flawless chess and never underestimated his young opponent. He won a pawn on the 37th turn and converted that advantage into a full point soon. Second seed, International Master Sundararajan Kidambi registered a crisp 26-move win over Chennai kid Asha Meera with the black pieces when he peeled open the castled white structure to win a rook. Grandmaster elect G.B. Prakash of Indian Bank played a long game but was sure of the verdict, beating R. Ashwin with the white pieces in 40 moves. The other two international masters, Deepan Chakravarthi and V. Saravanan of Bharat Petroleum also had a easy outing winning in 22 and 36 well made moves. A few mild upsets were recorded in board ten and below. Tenth seed, C.J. Arvind of Chennai, a prolific winner of many state events was held to a draw by P.R. Dinesh Kumar and thirteenth seed P. Phoobalam went down to K. Ganesan. Except for these it was a cakewalk for the higher seeded players. This is the third edition of the Adyar Times sponsored FIDE-rated tournament organised by the Tamil Nadu Chess Association. Adyar Times is a South Chennai neighbourhood free circulation weekly newspaper. Two rounds are slated for Sunday, Wednesday and other days will see one round. The event has attracted 54 rated players out of the 126 total entries. The contest which aims at increasing India's rated players from the 1194 level reached in the April 2003 list concludes with the ninth and final round on May 23. The first prize is Rs. 15,000 along with a trophy and the total prize fund is Rs. 50,000. Important results (first round): R.B. Ramesh bt Arvind Subramanian, A. Asha Meera lost to Sundararajan Kidambi, G.B. Prakash bt R. Ashwin, G. Athithan lost to Deepan Chakravarthi, V. Saravanan bt S. Avinash, V. Bhalakumar lost to S. Poobesh Anand, K. Visweswaran bt R. Bharat, I. Deepak Kumar lost to R. Balasubramaniam, R.R. Laxman bt S.M. Diksit, P.R. Dinesh Kumar drew with C.J. Arvind, J. Ramakrishna bt Eshwanth Dev Kumar, M.M. Eugene lost to Syed Anwar Shazuli, P. Phoobalan lost to K. Ganesan, R. Gomathy lost to A.L. Kasi, J. Venkatramana bt B. Gopalakrishnan, N. Gowthaman lost to K.V. Shantharam, K. Gopalakrishnan bt R.B. Harshvardhan, M. Hridhay lost to G. Dinesh Kumar, E.P. Nirmal bt M.J. Jaffar Ali, M. Joel Modestus lost to P. Rajesh, P. Priya bt M.M. Justine, M.V.G. Kannan drew with L.V. Siva Kumar, Aswin Jayaram lost to D. Krishnadoss, Lalitha Ragavendran lost to Dwarak Krishnan, C. Delphin bt P.Lokesh, G. Madhu Kiran lost to H. Nilavoli.
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