Sen Gupta emerges sole leader in Dubai Open

Deep Sen Gupta emerged as sole leader with a tally of seven points at the end of the eighth and penultimate round of Dubai Junior Open chess championship, held at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club.

Aghayev Nijat, Safarli Eltaj and Vic Neil Villanueva are in the second spot with six and a half points while Mahdi Ayat and Omid Noroozi are in the third spot with six points.

Deep Sen Gupta easily defeated Hamad Abdul Razaq in 37 moves. Hamad Abdul Razaq committed a mistake in the early stage and as a result lost a pawn during the middle game.

Hamad put up a stiff resistance in an inferior position, but was ousted by a tactical combination which enabled the black to win a piece. The rest was routine technique.

Aghayev Nijat of Azerbaijan defeated Omid Noroozi in a prolonged match which lasted 40 moves. It was a complicated battle in which both players competed for control of centre. Omid succeeded in the winning position, but went astray and lost the match.

Ibrahim Mohammed Khouri suffered a crucial defeat against Safarli Eltaj in a king pawn opening.

Results (round eight):

Hamad Abdulrazzaq (5.5) lost to Sengupta, Deep (7); Aghayev Nijat (6.5) bt Noroozi, Omid (6); Ibrahim Mohammed Kho(5.5) lost to Safarli Eltaj (6.5); Vic, Neil Villanueva(6.5) bt Hasanov Shahriar (5.5); Marwan AbdulWahab (5) lost to Ayaat Mahdi (6); Pourkashiyan, Atousa(5.5) bt Mohammed AbdulRahim (4.5); Yehya M. Saleh (5.5) bt Ahmed Abbas Khoori (4.5).

Ahmed Ishaq (5.5) bt Mohammed Nasir (4.5); Azemat Amir (5.5) bt Raouf Abdou (4.5); Al Sulaiti, Ghanem (5) bt Khalid Ahmed Mohamme(4); Salem AbdulRahman (5) bt Khademi, Mohammed (4); AbdulRahman Ahmed (5) bt Omar Salem (4); Abdullahzadeh, Arash(5) bt Saeed Ishaq (4); Ali Obaid (5) bt Sanchit, Chauhan (4); Rashid Zainal (4.5) bt AbdulAziz Kurmostaji (3.5); Razipour Suhrab (4.5) bt Hamed Saleh (3.5); Mansoor Abbas Khoori(3.5) lost to Walid Yousof (4.5).

Modwal, Sankalp (4.5) bt Saeed Yousof (3.5); Walid Aziz Jawad (4) drew Mohammed Hasan Abdul(4); Majid Ahmed Obaid (3) lost to AbdulAziz Ibrahim (4); Samer Monzer Ali (3.5) drew AbdulAziz Omar (3.5); AbdulAziz Yousof (4) bt Mohammed Issa (3); Abdulla Idrees (3) lost to Omar AbdulWahab (4); Rashid Al-Dahery (3) lost to Mohammed Masoud Abdu(4).

Wafaa AlGhasra (3.5) drew AbdulRahim Mohammed (3); Ahmed Mohsin (2.5) lost to AbdulRahman Mohammed(3.5); Ahmed AbdulKarim (3.5) bt Omer Abdullah (2.5); Somaya Mohammed (2.5) lost to Zayed Ali Al-Hamed (3); Afraa Abdullah (3) bt Mohsim Saleh AlHamed (2); Aysha Fouad (3) bt Wafaa, Fakhrow (2); Shaima Taref (0) lost to Maryam Mansoor Hadi (2.5); Shayma Ahmed (2) lost to Nouf Ahmed AlHamadi (2.5); Marwa Fouad (2) bt Alyaa Ali Mohammed (1).