Parsvnath India International Chess - GM Bykhovsky upset by youngster Sumit Grover

Chess news and chess trivia blog (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011

Hi Everybody,

The Parsvnath International Chess Tournament - one of India's most-famous events - saw another interesting upset in the third round. A young Sumit Grover rated just about 2100 beat Grandmaster Avigdor Bykhovsky though other top seeded players moved 'safely' to the next round.

Indian Grandmasters Parimarjan Negi, Abhijeet Gupta and Arun Prasad and top seed Alexander Areshchenko, Slovenian Grandmaster Lenic Luka and Mikhailo Oleksienko of Ukraine move to Round 4 with a perfect score. Negi beat Akash PC Iyer while Abhijeet and Arun Prasad beat Ahmed Feroz of Bangladesh and N Surendran.
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(Left) Indian National Chess Champion - the talented Parimarjan Negi.

Earlier, in the second round, IMs Sahaj Grover and Rahul Sangma had beaten second seed Chinese Grandmaster Ni Hua and Alon Greenfeld of Israel respectively while Avigdor Bykhovsky had beaten third seed Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine.

You can keep track of the event at the official website of the Indian Chess Federation.

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