IM Siddharth Ravichandran upset top seed GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly in the 7th round of the SREI International Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Kolkata Town Hall on Wednesday.
The 10-round Grandmasters’ chess tournament is organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy in association with Allsport Foundation.
Meanwhile IM Jacek Stopa of Poland emerged as the sole leader with 6,0/7 points as he got the better of local GM Deep Sengupta in a sharp interesting encounter which arose from a Reti opening. Stopa won a piece in the middle game and later consolidated his extra material win in 33 moves.
IM Siddharth Ravichandran upset top seed GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly in the 7th round of the SREI International Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Kolkata Town Hall on Wednesday.
The 10-round Grandmasters’ chess tournament is organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy in association with Allsport Foundation.
Meanwhile IM Jacek Stopa of Poland emerged as the sole leader with 6,0/7 points as he got the better of local GM Deep Sengupta in a sharp interesting encounter which arose from a Reti opening. Stopa won a piece in the middle game and later consolidated his extra material win in 33 moves.