Kolkata 2018 Round 6: Momentary lapse in concentration costs Rozum the full point!

by Sagar Shah - 20/05/2018

Everyone thought he was cruising towards victory. Everyone was sure he would win the game. And then Ivan Rozum moved his king inadvertently to g7 instead of g8 and in a flash he moved from a winning to a completely lost position. That's how cruel the game of chess is! Check out this game in which Ivan plays beautiful chess to outplay GM Adam Tukhaev, only to fall at the final hurdle. Tukhaev is now the sole leader with 5.5/6. He is followed by eight GMs on 5.0/6, which includes two Kolkata lads Sandipan Chanda and Deep Sengupta. Round 6 report from Kolkata.

Rozum blunders in a winning position against Tukhaev

It was one of the biggest blunders made by Ivan Rozum in the tournament. He has shown some really solid chess. However, in a completely winning position against Adam Tukhaev he blundered a full rook and later had to resign the game. Let's have a look at how it happened.

Black just played the move ...a5 and defended his pawn on b4. He is now threatening Rc8 to win the c7 pawn.

The knight on b5 supported the pawn on c7 but once the black king came over to d7 it was going to be curtains for White.

Black's last move was Kh7-g7?? which was a horrible move. Can you see why?

And just like that, from being able to reach 6.0/6, Ivan Rozum was pushed to 5.0/6 and Adam Tukhaev took the pole position with 5.5/6 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Both local boys Deep Sengupta and Sandipan Chanda scored wins over GM Ziaur Rahman and GM R.R. Laxman respectively | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Sandipan showed excellent calculations and technique to beat Laxman | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

There was a point where Chanda calculated for nearly 30 minutes. What was he thinking? We ask him after the game!

Ziaur Rahman fought really hard, but towards the end he wasn't able to hold Deep Sengupta:

Nigel Short managed to get the better of Vietnamese GM Tran Tuan Minh | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Nigel Short shares with us his thoughts about his win over GM Tran Tuan Minh

Arjun Erigaisi and Nihal Sarin made a quick draw, the variation was short but highly interesting! | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Ivan Rozum won the best game of the day for Round 5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Arghyadip and his wife visited the tournament hall | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Gukesh was pretty unlucky that he lost a drawn position against Vladimir Burmakin. But full credit to the Russian GM for trying right until the very end! | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Video gallery:

The blind chess players of India fighting hard against some of the best players of our country

Visually challenged national champion Kishan Gangolli beats young Siddhart Jagadeesh

Deepan Chakkravarthy was completely lost in the middlegame against GM Neelotpal Das, but somehow managed to save himself and convert the endgame

Final moments of Adam Tukhaev winning against Ivan Rozum

Results of round 6:

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	9	GM	Tukhaev Adam	2551	4½	1 - 0	5	GM	Rozum Ivan	2581	6
2	14	GM	Narayanan Srinath	2525	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2608	4
3	1	GM	Short Nigel D	2656	4	1 - 0	4	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	2512	17
4	7	GM	Sandipan Chanda	2573	4	1 - 0	4	GM	Laxman R.R.	2444	29
5	8	GM	Sengupta Deep	2563	4	1 - 0	4	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2495	20
6	21	FM	Erigaisi Arjun	2488	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Nihal Sarin	2551	10
7	25	IM	Harsha Bharathakoti	2463	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2531	12
8	13	GM	Burmakin Vladimir	2528	4	1 - 0	4	CM	Gukesh D	2426	33
9	28	GM	Neelotpal Das	2452	4	0 - 1	4	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2516	16
10	30	IM	Das Sayantan	2437	4	½ - ½	3½	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2619	2
11	3	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2617	3½	1 - 0	3½		Saravana Krishnan P.	2360	53
12	11	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	2532	3½	½ - ½	3½	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2355	54
13	15	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	2518	3½	1 - 0	3½		Srijit Paul	2347	55
14	57	IM	Ravi Teja S.	2338	3½	1 - 0	3½	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2505	18
15	19	GM	Neverov Valeriy	2496	3½	1 - 0	3½	WIM	Vaishali R	2316	60
16	68	IM	Sangma Rahul	2295	3½	1 - 0	3½	IM	Vignesh N R	2485	22
17	69		Kunal M.	2295	3½	0 - 1	3½	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	2462	26
18	81		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	2281	3½	1 - 0	3½	IM	Khusenkhojaev Muhammad	2456	27
19	31	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	2434	3½	1 - 0	3½	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	2271	85
20	32	IM	Nitin S.	2432	3½	1 - 0	3½		Patil Pratik	2259	88

Rank after round 6:

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w	we	w-we
1	9	GM	Tukhaev Adam		UKR	2551	UKR	5,5	0,0	19,5	21,5	19,75	5	5,5	4,32	1,18
2	6	GM	Rozum Ivan		RUS	2581	RUS	5,0	0,0	21,0	24,0	18,50	5	5	4,20	0,80
3	14	GM	Narayanan Srinath		IND	2525	AIR INDIA	5,0	0,0	20,0	22,0	17,25	4	5	3,79	1,21
4	8	GM	Sengupta Deep		IND	2563	PSPB	5,0	0,0	19,0	21,5	16,50	5	5	4,20	0,80
5	7	GM	Sandipan Chanda		IND	2573	WB	5,0	0,0	18,5	21,5	18,25	4	5	4,54	0,46
6	1	GM	Short Nigel D		ENG	2656	ENG	5,0	0,0	18,5	20,5	16,75	4	5	4,70	0,30
7	4	GM	Amonatov Farrukh		TJK	2608	TJK	5,0	0,0	18,0	20,5	16,75	4	5	4,79	0,21
8	16	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2516	RLYS	5,0	0,0	17,5	19,5	16,00	5	5	4,74	0,26
9	13	GM	Burmakin Vladimir		RUS	2528	RUS	5,0	0,0	16,0	18,5	15,25	4	5	4,50	0,50
10	32	IM	Nitin S.		IND	2432	RLYS	4,5	0,0	20,5	23,0	15,50	4	4,5	3,70	0,80
11	21	FM	Erigaisi Arjun		IND	2488	TEL	4,5	0,0	19,5	22,0	14,75	4	4,5	3,93	0,57
12	30	IM	Das Sayantan		IND	2437	WB	4,5	0,0	19,0	22,0	16,75	3	4,5	4,20	0,30
13	12	GM	Lalith Babu M R		IND	2531	PSPB	4,5	0,0	18,5	21,0	14,75	3	3,5	3,21	0,29
14	31	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi		IND	2434	PSPB	4,5	0,0	18,0	21,5	16,25	3	4,5	4,42	0,08
15	45	IM	Rathnakaran K.		IND	2377	RLYS	4,5	0,0	18,0	20,0	13,25	4	4,5	3,47	1,03
16	15	GM	Shyam Sundar M.		IND	2518	TN	4,5	0,0	17,5	20,0	14,75	3	4,5	4,56	-0,06
17	41	IM	Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari		IND	2400	KAR	4,5	0,0	17,0	19,5	14,75	4	4,5	4,11	0,39
18	10	IM	Nihal Sarin		IND	2551	KER	4,5	0,0	17,0	19,5	14,50	3	4,5	4,73	-0,23
19	39	IM	Rahul Srivatshav P		IND	2402	AP	4,5	0,0	17,0	19,5	14,25	3	4,5	4,45	0,05
20	3	GM	Karthikeyan Murali		IND	2617	PSPB	4,5	0,0	17,0	19,0	14,25	4	4,5	5,14	-0,64

Pairings for round 7:

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Short Nigel D	2656	5		5½	GM	Tukhaev Adam	2551	9
2	4	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2608	5		5	GM	Sengupta Deep	2563	8
3	6	GM	Rozum Ivan	2581	5		5	GM	Burmakin Vladimir	2528	13
4	16	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2516	5		5	GM	Sandipan Chanda	2573	7
5	14	GM	Narayanan Srinath	2525	5		4½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2617	3
6	10	IM	Nihal Sarin	2551	4½		4½	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	2434	31
7	12	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2531	4½		4½	IM	Nitin S.	2432	32
8	39	IM	Rahul Srivatshav P	2402	4½		4½	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	2518	15
9	19	GM	Neverov Valeriy	2496	4½		4½	IM	Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari	2400	41
10	45	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2377	4½		4½	FM	Erigaisi Arjun	2488	21

Two battles that I am looking forward to are Nigel Short facing GM Adam Tukhaev and Sandipan Chanda up against Deepan Chakkravarthy.

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