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Chanda lets Short escape

Defending champion inches closer to retaining the title with sole lead after eight rounds

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Updated : Sep 18, 2017, 05:56 PM IST

Defending champion inches closer to retaining the title with sole lead after eight rounds

MUMBAI: Sandipan Chanda of Bengal let defending champion Nigel Short of England escape from his clutches in the eighth round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship here on Monday. The draw enabled Short to emerge as the sole leader with 7 points. Half-a-point behind are several others, with two more rounds to go.

On the adjacent table, another overnight leader, MR Venkatesh, succumbed under time pressure against Vijayalakshmi Subbarman in a 62-move encounter.

Mistakes play a vital role in any sport, but when it comes to chess it can prove be the brutal, and Sandipan realised it the hard way.

Despite holding an edge over the Englishman for the better part of the game, the Bengal challenger committed errors and paid for it, enabling his opponent to take the sole lead. Incidentally, this was the second time in the championship that Short had to split points — the previous one coming against Venkatesh in the fourth round.

It was a bad out for the Grandmasters as six of them fell by the wayside. Among them were Pravin Thipsay, Dibyendu Barua, RM Ramesh and Wu Shaobin from Singapore.

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