Asian Continental Chess Championship: Irene Sukandar Wins Women’s Crown with one Round to Go
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Sharjah: Indonesian Irene Sukandar clinched the Asian Women’s chess crown with one round to spare at Sharjah Chess Club on Friday.
Meanwhile in the Open Section, Chinese GM Yu Yangyi beat Bu Xiangzhi to take sole lead with 6.5 points after the penultimate eighth round of the Asian Continental Chess Championship.
Sukandar drew in 37 moves of a Trompovsky Attack by Gong Qianyun of Singapore to tally seven points, an unreachable 1.5 ahead of second-place Iranian WGMs Sarasadat Khademalsharieh and Atousa Pourkashiyan. The Indonesian matched her victory in the same event two years ago in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. She now advances to the Women’s World Cup next year.
In the race for silver and bronze medals in the Women’s division, tied at five points each in fourth to seventh slots are Gong Qianyun, Tan Zhongyi of China, Hoang Thi Bao Tram of Vietnam and IM Eesha Karavade of India.
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Asian Chess: Parimarjan Negi Wins on Tiebreak; Irene Sukandar Wins Women's Section
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012Hi everyone,Here is the latest chess news update from the Asian Continental Chess Championships that have concluded in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi has won the Asian continental chess championship despite his final round loss to A R Saleh Salem of UAE.
Negi finished the tournament with 7 points and tied for the first place with Yu Yangyi of China. But in their direct encounter earlier in the championship, Negi had beaten Yangyi, which helped him win the gold medal.
Meanwhile, the Indian leader in the women's section, Mary Ann Gomes lost out on the gold by losing to Tan Zhongyi of China. A draw would have been enough for her to give the Indians a double. Irine Sukandar Kharisma of Indonesia won the women's section. For the record, in the men's section, Yangyi finished second, repeating his performance from last year and the third spot was bagged by Saleh on 6.5 points. In the women's section, Tan Zhongyi finished third.
Results final round open: A R Salem Saleh (Uae, 6.5) beat Parimarjan Negi (7); Le Quang Liem (Vie, 5.5) drew with Yu Yangyi (Chn, 7); Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (5.5) drew with John Paul Gomez (Phi, 5.5); Xiu Deshun (Chn, 5.5) drew with M R Venkatesh (5.5); Wen Yang (Chn, 6) beat G N Gopal (4.5); Nguyen Duc Hoa (Vie, 5) beat Abhijeet Gupta (4); B Adhiban (5) beat Farid Firman Syah (Ina, 4); Nezad Husein Aziz (Qat, 4.5) drew with S P Sethuraman (4); Deepan Chakkravarthy (4) drew ith Le Quang Long (Vie, 4); Tran Tuan Minh (Vie, 3.5) drew with N Srinath (3.5).
Women's section: Tan Zhongyi (Chn, 6.5) beat Mary Ann Gomes (6.5); Irine Sukandar Kharisma (Ina, 7) beat Eesha Karavade (5.5); Padmini Rout (5.5) lost to Wang Jue (Chn, 6.5); Le Thanh Tu (Vie, 5.5) lost to Ding Yixin (Chn, 6.5); Pham Le Thao Nguyen (vie, 5) drew with Tania Sachdev (5); Guo Qi (Chn, 5.5) beat Swathi Ghate (4.5); Ni Shiqun (Chn, 5) drew with Nisha Mohota (5); Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vie, 3.5) lost to B Pratyusha (4.5); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (4.5) had a bye.
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Asia Continental Chess R7: Negi, Sukandar Lead in Open, Women's Sections
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012Hi everyone,
The latest chess news update from the Asian Continental Chess in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is that Indian GM Parimarjan beat Chinese GM Ding Liren in the seventh round to maintain his lead at the chess championshp. in only 30 moves to keep his lead in the Asian Chess Continental Championship here on Saturday.
Negi sacrificed a pawn on the 18th move to open lines against Ding's king in the centre since he had not castled. Negi controlled the half open file and was about to win a bishop when Ding resigned. Negi leads alone with six points. Three players -- GMs Yu Yangyi of China, Oliver Barbosa of the Philippines and Salem Saleh of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- follow with five and a half points each.
In the women's section, WGM Irene Sukandar of Indonesia drew with Ding Yixin of China in 30 moves of a Sicilian Defence. They exchanged pieces and reached a drawn minor piece endgame. Sukandar leads alone with six points followed by Indian WGM Mary Ann Gomes with 5.5. Four players trail with 5 points each namely Eesha Karavade of India, and Chinese Tan Zhongyi, Wang Jue and Ding Yixin.
Gomes upset top seed GM Zhao Xue of China in 70 moves. Zhao had a bad pawn structure in the endgame and could not stop the pawn advance of her opponent.
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Asian Chess R4 - Irene Sukandar in sole lead in women's section; five-way tie in open section
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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WGM Irene Sukandar has gone into sole lead while there is a five-way tie in the open section after four rounds at the Asian Continental Chess Tournament being held in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam. You can access the official website the Asian Chess Federation site for live games and other info. Tied Yu and Liu are GMs Ding Liren of China, Oliver Barbosa of Philippines and Susanto Megaranto of Indonesia.
Ding outplayed GM S. Sethuraman of India in an endgame of opposite colored Bishops that lasted 79 moves.
Six players are in the second spot with 3 points each - IM Gao Rui of China and GMs John Paul Gomez of the Philippines, Le Quang Liem of Vietnam, Negi Parimarjan of India, Zhou Jianchao of China and Salem A. R. Saleh of the United Arab Emirates.
In the 5th round, the two Chinese Liu and Ding are paired, Barbosa plays Yu Yangyi while Megaranto faces GM Negi Parimarjan.
In the Women's section, Batchimeg tried to draw by perpetual check but Sukandar forced an exchange of Queens to transpose into a won endgame in 80 moves. Nine women follow in second spot - with 3 points each namely top seed Zhao Xue and compatriots Wang Jue and Dig Yixin of China, WGM Nguyen Thi Thanh An and Hoang Thi Bao Tram of Vietnam, Batchimeg and IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag of Mongolila, and Tania Sachdev and Mohota Nisha of India. Sukandar plays the top seed Zhao Xue in the 5th round of the chess event.
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