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9th HDBank International Open Round 7: Bogdanovich maintains lead, Divya beats a GM

by Shahid Ahmed - 11/03/2019

GM Stanislav Bogdanovich maintains half point lead by beating the defending champion GM Sandro Mareco after the former trapped his opponent's Queen at the center of the board. Wang Hao went for Keres Attack against Dutch GM Loek Van Wely and managed to win the Rook-Knight endgame when Van Wely mistimed the Knight exchange. Iturrizaga made his third consecutive draw, this time against the hometown favorite Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son in just 16 moves. Among Indians, WIM Divya Deshmukh had a great day when she defeated GM Tu Hoang Thong. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Bogdanovich remains unstoppable, Divya's dominant show

From neighbors to opponents: Little did they know that they will face each other in the penultimate round | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The Ukrainian GM Bogdanovich was in a winning mood was shown with a choice of his unusual opening and then going for an attacking play. His opponent GM Sandro Mareco of Argentina was surprised to have found his Queen trapped at the center of the board on move no. 34

It is definitely difficult to fathom that a Queen got trapped at the center of the board in a top board game. Bogdanovich was of course not surprised, because he made his intentions clear long back in the opening.

When Wang Hao plays 11.Rxa4, it is safe to say that he has win only in his mind.

Wang Hao played an attacking game since the beginning. Although he might not have got any substantial advantage immediately, but in the endgame he capitalized on Van Wely mistake of a mistimed Knight exchange.

It is true that Hao has an advantage, but 35...Ne5 only accelerated white's win

Notice the tattoo on Iturrizaga's right arm? He had no intention of losing today so he made a quick 22-move draw | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

It was not Leon's day today as he lost against GM Ivan Popov after a 4.5+ hours long grueling battle | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Leon managed to equalize with the Black pieces out of the opening in Sicilian Dragon against GM Ivan Popov. However he blundered a pawn in a Double Rook and many pawns endgame which proved to be fatal.

Undoubtedly it is a difficult position to play in time pressure. So what is the correct square for the Black King?

WIM Divya Deshmukh defeated her first GM of the tournament Tu Hoang Thong | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Yesterday she held her nerve in time pressure and managed to salvage a draw in Rook and Opposite Color Bishop along a connected passed pawns against IM Liu Xiangyi of Singapore.

Final moments of the game betweeen Divya and Liu Xiangyi | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Round 7 results:

Bo.No. NameTypFEDRtgPts.ResultPts.NameTypFEDRtg No.
113GMBogdanovich StanislavUKR25361 - 05GMMareco SandroARG26664
21GMWang HaoCHN271851 - 05GMVan Wely LoekNED26127
35GMNguyen Ngoc Truong SonVIE2647½ - ½5GMIturrizaga Bonelli EduardoVEN26396
431IMLiu GuanchuCHN2445½ - ½GMPredke AlexandrRUS26118
59GMWen YangCHN25991 - 0GMNguyen Anh DungVIE245826
611GMPopov IvanRUS25811 - 0CMMendonca Leon LukeU16IND244630
735Zhao YuanheCHN24311 - 0GMTran Tuan MinhVIE255612
853GMCao SangVIE23851 - 0GMKarthik VenkataramanIND249420
955IMPham ChuongVIE23830 - 14GMDemchenko AntonRUS26783
1049FMHoang Canh HuanVIE239441 - 04GMCheparinov IvanGEO26832
1115IMGukesh DU16IND252941 - 04FMSetyaki Azarya JodiINA237858
1218IMXu YiCHN252041 - 04Tran Quoc DungVIE237660
1361IMPham Le Thao NguyenVIE23744½ - ½4FMNasanjargal UrtnasanMGL250319
1462IMChu Wei ChaoCHN23734½ - ½4IMNguyen Anh KhoiVIE248424
1570IMRaghunandan Kaumandur SrihariIND235241 - 04IMShyaamnikhil PIND242937
1640GMLaxman R.R.IND24254½ - ½4WIMNandhidhaa P VIND2240100
1765Wang Shixu BCHN23621 - 0GMChanda SandipanIND253414
1866IMRathnakaran K.IND23610 - 1GMMegaranto SusantoINA252616
1967IMFenil ShahIND2360½ - ½Chen Qi BCHN244332
2069IMVo Thanh NinhVIE2358½ - ½Li YankaiCHN243434

 

Round 8 pairings:

Round 8 on 2019/03/12 at 09:30

Bo.No. NameTypFEDRtgPts.ResultPts.NameTypFEDRtg No.
11
GMWang HaoCHN27186GMBogdanovich StanislavUKR2536
13
26
GMIturrizaga Bonelli EduardoVEN2639GMPopov IvanRUS2581
11
335
Zhao YuanheCHN2431GMWen YangCHN2599
9
47
GMVan Wely LoekNED26125GMCao SangVIE2385
53
53
GMDemchenko AntonRUS267855IMGukesh DU16IND2529
15
64
GMMareco SandroARG266655IMLiu GuanchuCHN2445
31
75
GMNguyen Ngoc Truong SonVIE264755IMXu YiCHN2520
18
88
GMPredke AlexandrRUS261155FMHoang Canh HuanVIE2394
49
912
GMTran Tuan MinhVIE25565IMRaghunandan Kaumandur SrihariIND2352
70
1016
GMMegaranto SusantoINA2526IMNitin S.IND2408
46
11100
WIMNandhidhaa P VIND2240FMNasanjargal UrtnasanMGL2503
19
1220
GMKarthik VenkataramanIND2494IMRahul Srivatshav PIND2400
47
1324
IMNguyen Anh KhoiVIE2484IMPham ChuongVIE2383
55
1426
GMNguyen Anh DungVIE2458IMChu Wei ChaoCHN2373
62
1530
CMMendonca Leon LukeU16IND2446Wang Shixu BCHN2362
65
1638
IMNguyen Van HuyVIE2428FMPranesh MU16IND2309
79
1761
IMPham Le Thao NguyenVIE2374GMLaxman R.R.IND2425
40
1841
IMBulmaga IrinaROU2424IMMiciano John MarvinPHI2317
76
1945
IMLe Quang LongVIE2412Xu MinghuiCHN2293
86
202
GMCheparinov IvanGEO268344FMNguyen Dang Hong PhucVIE2376
59