National Chess Championship: Abhijeet Gupta in sole lead after 32-move win over Koustav Chatterjee

National Chess Championship: Abhijeet Gupta in sole lead after 32-move win over Koustav Chatterjee

On a day when seven of the top eight boards witnessed decisive battles, Abhijeet’s sustained pressure saw Koustav resign after facing the loss of a knight in this battle of two overnight leaders.

MPL 59th National Senior R4: Abhijeet Gupta and Koustav Chatterjee emerge early coleaders - ChessBase India

GM Iniyan P (TN) drew with his statemate and top seed GM Sethuraman S P (PSPB) in the fourth round of MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022. FM Vedant Panesar (MAH) also shared the point with IM Aronyak Ghosh (WB). GM Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB) defeated the reigning Asian Junior 2022 Open champion, IM Harshavardhan G B (TN) and IM Koustaav Chatterjee (WB) prevailed over IM Nitin S (TN). Abhijeet and Koustav will inevitably clash in the fif…