Darsh Shetty, playing with the white pieces, put up a strong performance to defeat young challenger Chris Isaiah on the second board in Round 5 of the All India Chess Masters FIDE Rating Chess Championship, currently underway at the Mumbai Chess Centre, Russian House, Pedder Road.
On the top board, Yash Kapadi continued his impressive run by overcoming Shravana Agrawal to secure a full point. Meanwhile, Shreyas Kaushik outplayed Deepak Soni in a tactical encounter, and Woman Candidate Master (WCM) Kirti Patel registered a convincing win against Sidharth Kumar on the fourth board. All the top four players with five points each won their respective matches and now tally five points each to be the joint leader.
Round 4 Results:
- Yash Kapadi (ELO 1879) 1 beat 0 Shravana Agrawal (ELO 1688)
- Darsh Shetty (ELO 1833) 1 beat 0 Chris Isaiah (ELO 1659)
- Shreyas Kaushik (ELO 1736) 1 beat 0 Deepak Soni (ELO 1753)
- WCM Kirti Patel (ELO 1695) 1 beat 0 Sidharth Kumar (ELO 1768)
- Vageesh Swaminathan (ELO 1763) 1 beat 0 Mayur Yuti (ELO 1646)
- Samvid Pasbola (ELO 1715) .5 drew with .5 Naresh Shraddha (ELO 1609)
- Hridaya Goyal (ELO 1704) 1 beat 0 Siddharth Gupta (Unrated)
- Avani Udipi (ELO 1669) .5 drew with .5 Ravi Vihaan (ELO 1567)
- Yati Agarwal (ELO 1588) .5 drew with .5 Ajay Kush (ELO 1850)
- Daksh Jagesia (ELO 1882) 1 beat 0 Sarvesh Sawant (ELO 1563)