Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the Hoogeveen International Open Chess Tournament after defeating his compatriot Neelotpal Das in the ninth and final round, scored 7 points. In the final round, Gupta needed just 20 moves to defeat Das, who was hit by an avalanche of white pieces.
Gupta scored seven points out of a possible nine and ended half a point ahead of nearest counterparts Deep Sengupta and the Dutch duo of Benjamin Bok and Jan Werle, who all scored 6.5 points each. Sengupta finished second on tiebreak while Bok ended third.It was not such a smooth ride for Gupta as he lost to another compatriot – Ankit Rajpara –early in the second round.
However, he made three straight victories and towards the end, defeating Jan Werle in a key game to stamp his authority on the tournament.
Gupta won the Commonwealth Championship at New Delhi earlier this year. He also the former world junior champion now plans to take part in a couple of tournaments in Philippines in November.
Interesting Facts…
- The history of chess spans some 1500 years.
- The earliest predecessors of the game originated in India, prior to the 6th century AD.
- From India, the game spread to Persia.
- When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the Muslim world and subsequently spread to Southern Europe.
- There are a few phrases that every chess player dreads to hear, but loves to say.
- The first being “Checkmate”, and the second being “Give me a queen”.
- It is a predicament that is wonderful to create, winning a queen most often correlates to a winning game
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