Kolkata : Top seed, GM Debashis Das of Odisha suffered a shock defeat against Sankalan Bharati in the 2nd round of the Siddha Chess For Youth at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra here today. The 7 round Swiss league is being organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy and Allsport Foundation.
Sankalan, playing black , opted for his favourite Sicilian Dragon and broke open the queenside of his illustrious opponent. Debashis Das , unable to defend against the onslaught of the combined forces of Sankalan, resigned on the 26th move.
IM Swayams Mishra , also of Odisha won a minor piece ending against Akash Tiwari in a Queen’s Indian defence while Prantik Roy had to sweat in out against Vishal Didwania before winning a pawn in the ending where he had a knight against a bishop.
IM Diptayan Ghosh, score a facile victory against Dipanjan Chowdhury in a Catalan opening as he had total control of the central squares. His opponent resigned when faced with a loss of a pawn.
Amongst the other important winners were Mitrabha Guha, who beat Sohini Ganguly, Deborshi Mukherjee beat Yudhajeet De, Chandreyee Hajra beat Sayan Bose and Arpita Mukherjee beat Sayantan Mukherjee.
In the u-10 Girls’ section Sinthia Sarkar won her second game on the trot by beating Ashpriha Das while Souhardo Basak took his tally to two points by getting the better of Devansh Roy Choudhury in the u-10 boys section .
In the U-16 section, 2nd seed, Ayushman Majumdar went down to Disha Mundhra while top seed, Rounak Pathak and 4th seed Basant Das had little difficulty in winning their respective games.