GM Oliver Barbosa wins Delhi Chess Open 2012

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Sixth seed Filipino GM Oliver Barbosa beat Indian IM Shyam Nikhil to win the 10th Parsvnath International Delhi Chess Open on Monday. Barbosa finished the event with 9.5 points to take the Rs 2 lakh. The second spot was tied for by GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines and Indian IM Lalith Babu. The former won on tiebreak.

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Round 10 video

Top Final Standings :-
(1) GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines
(2) GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines
(3) IM Lalith Babu M R of India
(4) GM Mark Paragua of Philippines
(5) Ma Qun of China
(6) GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia
(7) Zeng Chongsheng of China
(8) IM Vaibhav Suri of India
(9) IM Shyam Nikil of India
(10) GM Abhijit Kunte of India
Best Women : GM Hoang Thanh Trang of Hungary

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Delhi Chess Open R7: Barbosa and Gomez maintain lead

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That was a video - as you have already come to know - from the ongoing Delhi Chess Open 2012. 

GM Oliver Barbosa and GM Gomez John Paul

Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul drew their top-board game in the seventh round at the open to remain in the lead. Meanwhile, World Under-18 bronze medalist, Debashis Das shocked second seed Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus. Playing with black pieces in Semi-Slav variation, Das took his opponent’s queen for rook and bishop in 32 move and used his queen and knight combination to good effect in the middle game. 


Five players including Debashis Das and International Master K Rathnakaran, who held top seed Sandipan Chanda in the seventh round encounter are sharing the second spot with six points along with Russian Grandmasters Andrei Deviatkin, Evgeny Gleizerov and Filipino Grandmaster Mark Paragua.


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Delhi Chess Open R6: Barbosa, Gomez lead

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Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul defeated Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan and Indian International Master Lalith Babu M R respectively in the sixth round to emerge as the joint leaders in the 10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament. 

Playing with black pieces in Caro-Kan defence game, Barbosa gained an exchange of rook for his minor piece in the thirty first move and facing the inevitable, Dzhumaev give up the match after six more moves.

While playing white side of Maroczy Bind variation of Sicilian defence, Lalith Babu failed to convert a favourable middle game position and lost the initiative towards the end to hand over full point to his Filipino rival. Here is a video from the event.



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