Rishipal shocks Neelotpal

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD JAN. 6. Local lad Rishipal Singh of Osmania University created the biggest sensation of the day when he defeated International Master Neelotpal Das in the fifth round of the 5th Global Trust Bank's FIDE rated All India Open chess tournament here on Saturday. Top seed G.B. Prakash maintained a half point lead over the rest by beating Survajit Saha.

Rishipal, playing with great precision, gradually established his domination and by the 14th move had a clear advantage. On the 24th move he was a pawn up and Neelotpal under time pressure lost a piece in the 33rd move and surrendered on the 37th.

Another AP player, Y. Kalyan Kumar who had upset P. Konguvel on Friday, kept up his fine performance by beating IM N.K. Mishra in 45 moves. Mishra adopted a Nimzo Indian defence and on the 21st move Kalyan sacrificed a knight for a pawn and later went a pawn up. He established complete control on the board and forced Mishra to resign on the 45th move.

The results:G.B. Prakash 5 bt Survajit Saha 4, Ravi Hegde 4.5 drew with N. Sanjay 4.5, Satyapragnan 4 drew with Roy Choudhary 4.5, Rishipal Singh 4.5 bt Neelotpal Das 3.5, T.S. Ravi 4 drew with Preetam Sharma 4, Poobesh Anand 4.5 bt Sudhakar Babu 3.5, Shankar Roy 4.5 bt Anupama Gokhale 3.5, Roktim Bandhopadhyay 3.5 lost to M.Y. Raju 4.5, Y. Kalyan Kumar 4.5 bt N.K. Mishra 3.5, Vishal Sareen 4.5 bt Sai Meera Ravi 3.5, R.K. Mishra 4.5 bt Arindam Mukherjee 3.5, S.K. Sinha 4 drew with Somak Palit 4, Rasmin Pulekar 4 drew with R.S. Gupta 4, Malleswara Rao 4.5 bt Dilip Pagay 3.5, Atanu Lahiri 4.5 bt Dinesh Kumar 3.5, Lanka Ravi 4 bt G. Balaji 3, P.D.S. Girinath 4 bt Swathi Mohota 3, N. Bhattacharya 3 lost to J. Gokhale 4, R. Upadhaya 3 lost to Anup Deshmukh 4, S.K. Rathore 4 bt Kiran Agarwal 3.

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