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JULY 15: Ketan Khaire of Pune and Pallavi Shah of Kolhapur became the joint leaders with 5.5 points apiece as the Maharashtra State Selection Chess Tournament at the Andheri Sports Complex today wound its way past the sixth round today.
Khaire defeated overnight sole leader Shashikant Kutwal in 22 moves. Kutwal, playing black, opted for the Sicilian Najdorf variation, captured a pawn on e4 but allowed Khaire to attack. It developed into complications and Kutwal realised that he would lose his queen to save himself from checkmate and resigned on the 22nd move.
Pallavi crushed Mumbai’s Sharath Gokul in 34 moves. She sacrificed two minor pieces for Gokul’s rook and a pawn. This brought the King into the open play and rest was easy.
In second spot with five points each were Kutwal of Pune, Deepak Andurkar, P G Date, Ramakrishna Kashelkar and Pankaj Joshi of Nagpur.
Results (sixth round): Ketan Khaire (5.5) bt Sashikant Kutwal (5); Pallavi Shah (5.5) bt Sharath Gokul (4.5); Deepak Andurkar (5) bt Vivek Sthalekar (4.5); Ramkrishna Kashelkar (5) bt Amardeep Bartakke (4); PG Date (5) bt Prathmesh Mokal (4); Salil Surendran (4.5) drew with Umesh Panbude (4.5); Pankaj Joshi (5) bt Rashmin Pulekar (4); VNK Solanky (4.5) bt D Ravishankar 3.5); LP Khadilkar (4.5) bt S Kherdekar (3.5); Utpal Sasane (4) drew with Vinayak Ghate (4); Yashraj Aidasani (4.5) bt DK Golwankar (3.5); Vikrant Chole (4.5) bt Rajesh Sapkal (3.5); Satchidananda Soman (4) bt V Barhanpure (3); Sanjeev Kumar (4) bt M Abhyankar (3); Prasad Ghate (4) bt Mohan Naik (3); Ketan Boricha (4) bt Sailesh Ambekar (3); D Pandit (4) bt DG Bhandarkar (3); S Banerjee (4) bt Sailesh Gadre (3); A Chatterjee (4) bt A Bhurke (3); P Dodeja (4) bt A Thakur (3); SM Shetye (4) bt SK Shinde (3).
Bandra packers win
Bandra Packers trounced Bharat Petroleum 5-0 in the Mumbai District Football Association-organised Harwood League match at the St. Xavier’s ground, parel today.
After two matches, Bandra Packers have four points with one win and a draw. BPCL were condemned to their third defeat in four matches after having drawn an earlier tie.
Ranzie Kallicharan opened the scoring for Bandra Packers with a goal after 31 minutes. Blaze Vessaoker (55th), Girish Desai (59th), Pascal Koli (69th) and Altaf Mansari (75th) rounding off the tally.
Agrawal, Balsara Shine
PJ Hindu Gymkhana overcame Santacruz Gymkhana with the help of some wonderful play by Arun Agrawal in the Mumbai Billiards League for the week ending Sunday for the Mathurdas Vissanji Challenge Trophy. Agrawal scored the highest break of 135. The other century maker of the week was Omar Balsara, who notched a unfinished 102 for Bombay Gymkhana B, who, however, lost to Khar Gymkhana.
Nalin Patel (99) and Ashok Shandilya (94), were among the other top players who came up with good breaks for their teams, Bombay Gymkhana `A’ and Central Railway Matunga Institute.
The results of the second week’s play
Section A: PJ Hindu Gymkhana A vs Santacruz Gymkhana 600-446 (home) & 600-584 (away); Dadar Club vs Central Rly M Inst B 647-743 & 710-761; Park Club vs MBPT Reynold’s Inst 757-642 & 798-697
Section B: Dadar Parsee Colony Gymkhana B vs Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana Club 672-719 & 446-602; Catholic Gymkhana B vs Garware Club House B 570-340 & 475-655; Chembur Gymkhana A vs Shivaji Park Gymkhana B 763-653 & 789-659
Section C: PJ Hindu Gym C vs NSCI A 663-634 & 657-760; Parsee Gymkhana vs Matharpacady Club 821-775 & 725-841; Garware Cub House A (Bye)
Section D: MBPT Sports Club B vs Tata Sports Club 769-737 & 700-692; Dadar Parsee College Gymkhana A vs Catholic Gymkhana A 672-769 & 537-776; Matunga Gymkhana vs Bombay Gymkhana A 702-635 & 447-616
Section E: MBPT Sports Club A vs Shivaji Park Gym A 696-730 & 737-641; Laughton C Rly Inst. vs Cricket Club of India A 676-727 & 6687-756; Bombay Gymkhana B vs Khar Gymkhana 703-718 & 626-711
Section F: Cricket Club of India B vs C Rly M Inst A 346-505 & 332-512; Elphinstone Cricket Club vs NSCI B 750-625 & 713-557; Chembur Gymkhana B vs PJ Hindu Gym B 520-622 & 574-615
Hadsikar moves up
Uttam Hadiskar moved ahead with a 25-11, 25-0 victory over Rajesh Rapelli in the sixth round of the Kshatriya Union Club-organised open carrom tournament at the Vanmali Hall, Dadar here today.
Results: Open singles (6th round): Uttam Hadiskar bt Rajesh Rapelli 25-11, 25-0; Sajid Sayyed bt Vineet Dadarkar 4-25, 25-0, 20-11; Deepak Gaikwad bt Praveen Madhyalkar 21-20, 17-6; Shashikant Kondkar bt Vilas Zite 25-0, 25-5; Jagan Bengle bt Shankar Sawardekar 25-5, 12-14, 25-0; Mahendra Tambe bt Ramesh Gangawane 25-0, 25-20.
