Shirish Patil leads in National 'B' blind chess tourney

Deepikaglobal.com, India
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Shirish Patil leads in National 'B' blind chess tourney

Mumbai, Oct 25 (UNI) Maharashtra's Shirish Patil beat Ashwin Macwana of Gujarat 
to take the sole lead after seven rounds with 6.5 points at the national B 
chess championhships for the blind, organised by the All India Chess Federation 
for the Blind at the Andheri Sports Complex here today.

Shrish Patil started with the queen pawn opening, to which Ashwin mixed up the 
move order and ended up losing in 44 moves.

The 11-year-old prodigy Darpan Inani from Gujarat (5) had to fight a lot to 
earn a draw with Satara's Amit Deshpande, who turned out to be a surprise 
package. To Amit's king pawn opening, Darpan opted to answer with Sicilian 
defence. Both played a positional game and drew after 35 moves.

Amit Deshpande and Atul Kakde from Satara have made it to the top without any 
kind of coaching. Both the boys from Satara are partially blind have learnt the 
nuances of chess all by themselves.

On table number 2 Sarbeshwar Sahu from Orissa (5) forced a draw with Asian 
champion Gaurav Gadodia (5). Similarly Shaibu T of Kerela (4.5) added half a 
point to his tally after a draw with Rajesh Rajput of Gujarat (4.5).

The tournament is being played in the Swiss league format of 9 rounds, with 2 
rounds being played each day. The last round will start tomorrow at 9 am and 
the top ten players will be selected for the national A championships. 

More than 100 players from 16 states have gathered here to test their skills 
and gain qualification for the national A tournaments which will give them 
entry to Team India.

The top 10 players from here will qualify for the National A tournament 
scheduled for Dec/Jan. Here, they will fight it out with the current top 4 
players of the country. A women's team will also be selected from the National 
B tournament.


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