SCS International Open GM Chess Tourney begins in style

Seeded players posted comfortable wins in the opening round of the 1st SCS International Open GM Chess Tournament at hotel Swosti Plaza in Bhubaneswar today. Earlier the week-long tournament with 336 players from seven countries in the fray was inaugurated by Orissa Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei. Speaking on the occasion, Ghadei assured all possible support for the success of the 10-round tournament. Sports and Youth Services Minister Praveen Chandra Bhanjadeo, All India Chess Federation (AICF) secretary D V Sundar, treasurer Bhrat Singh Chauhan, host Orissa Ches Ad-hoc Committee chairman Asit Mukherjee, spornsors Star Consultancy Services director Triveni Kumar Mohanty, local Parliament Member Prasanna Patasani, organizing committee members Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Kumud Kumar Nath and Vivek Kumar Tibarewal were present at the gala opening ceremony. The AICF secretary requested the Finance Minister to allot a house for the State chess association. The sprawling Chanakya Hall of the five-star hotel wore a festive look with colourful decorations and cultural programme. Important results (Round 1): Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) bt Venu N Madhav (Ind), Igor Kurnosov (Rus) bt Shyam Sundar Sharma (Ind), Yuriy Kuzubov (Rus) bt Atishay Ajmera (Ind), Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr) bt Sultana Zakia (Ban), Abhijeet Gupta (Ind) bt Pratik Patil (Ind), Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr) bt Sayan Bose (Ind), Roman Ovetchkin (Rus) bt Prakash Nepal (Nep), Enamul Hossain (Ban) bt Sanjay Date (Ind), Andrey Rychagov (Rus) bt Suman Suwal (Nep), Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz) bt Sanket Sagar Dash (Ind), Segey Vokarev (Rus) bt Balaram Napit (Nep), Neelotpal Das (Ind) bt Dasharathi Sahoo (Ind), Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz) bt Sumit Kumar Banerjee (Ind), Alexander Fominyh (Rus) bt Ranjan Mohanty (Ind), B Adhiban (Ind) bt Aditya Chakraborty (Ind), Deepan Chakkravarthy (Ind) bt Md Rimon (Ban), Lalit Babu (Ind) bt Gobardhan Behera (Ind), Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ind) drew with Jitendria Vel (Ind). Orissa results: Swayangsu Satyapragyan bt (w/o) bt Ashmed Raju (Ban), Soumya Ranjan Mishra bt Jyotish Roy (Ind), Mohammad Ashraf lost to Himanshu Sharma (Ind), Anwesh Upadhyaya bt Sunyasakta Satapathy (Ori, Ind), Debashis Das bt (w/o) K Gogoi (Ind), Sekhar Chandra Sahu bt (w/o) Shyam Sundar Agarwal (Ind), Pabitra Mohan Mohanty bt Anil Bhoi (Ori, Ind), Manoj Panigrahi bt Ankit Tripathy (Ori, Ind), Padmini Rout bt Ashutosh Mohapatra (Ori, Ind), Utkal Ranjan Sahoo bt (w/o) B K Behera (Ori, Ind), Binod Kumar Sahu drew with Imocha Laishram (Ind), Swayams Mishra bt K K Bisoi (Ori, Ind), Kiran Manisha Mohanty bt Dibakar Patnaik (Ori, Ind).