Utut held to draw by Russia's Deviatkin<\/p>\n
Musthofid, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Grand Master (GM) Utut Adianto of Indonesia failed to tame
\nRussian IM Andrei Deviatkin and had to be content with a draw in
\ntheir seventh round game at the Aeroflot Open chess tournament in
\nMoscow on Monday.<\/p>\n
A draw was imminent when a three-time repeated move was
\nunavoidable after 22 moves, which was Utut's shortest game so far
\nat the tournament, which features 201 players, 136 of whom are
\nGM-rated.<\/p>\n
Utut, whose current elo-rating is 2562 against Deviatkin's
\n2487, played out a Caro-Kann game for more than two hours at the
\nRossija Hotel, according to Utut's companion Kristianus Liem.<\/p>\n
It was Utut's second draw in addition to his three wins and
\ntwo losses to give him an overall total of 4 points in the
\nprovisional standings from seven of the planned nine rounds.<\/p>\n
\"Deviatkin who seems to feel like he was a class apart from
\nUtut was apparently moving his pieces around in hopes of a draw
\nalthough he held white,\" Kristianus said in a release here on
\nTuesday.<\/p>\n
\"That was imminent when he opted for a knight move to the c5
\nsquare on move five. This maneuver is known to be leading to a
\ndraw.<\/p>\n
\"Entering the middle of the game, Deviatkin always chose moves
\nwhich were safe and risk-free,\" Kristianus said.<\/p>\n
Utut was forced to repeat his queen move between c4 and c7
\nsquares. Otherwise, he would have fallen into a poor position.<\/p>\n
\"I had to accept the repeated moves as another continuation
\nmove would have benefited white. I could have lost if I had
\nforced myself to take another tack,\" Utut was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
GM Alexei Alexandrov (2633) leads alone at the top of the
\nleaderboard with 6 points after he registered another win on the
\nday over fellow Russian GM Vadim Zvjaginsev (2671).<\/p>\n
Following behind with 5.5 points are GM Viktor Bologan (2630)
\nof Moldova, GM Alexei Fedorov (2579) of Russia and GM Maxim
\nSorokin (2560) of Argentina.<\/p>\n
Separately in Jakarta, junior player Tirta Chandra upset FM
\nSukirman Teddy in the third round of the 16-strong Gunadarma
\n\"elo-rating\" chess tournament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Tirta, a 16-year-old, has booked 2.5 points from three rounds
\nand is half a point behind leader GM Edhi Handoko, whose third
\nwin came at the expense of FM Yoseph Majella.<\/p>\n
Susanto Megaranto, the other junior contender at the
\ntournament, has won once and drawn twice to amass 2 points along
\nwith five other participants.<\/p>\n
Sukirman and FM Maksum Firdaus remain pointless after losing
\nout in all of their three pairings.<\/p>\n
Deviatkin, A (2487) - Adianto, U (2562)
\n1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Nc5 b6 6.Nb3
\ne6 7.Nf3 Nf6 8.g3 Nbd7 9.Bg2 Bb4+ 10.c3 Bd6 11.0-0 0-0
\n12.Qe2 Qc7 13.h3 h6 14.Re1 Rac8 15.Ne5 c5 16.Nc4 cxd4
\n17.Nxd6 d3 18.Nb5 Qc4 19.Nd6 Qc7 20.Nb5 Qc4 21.Nd6 Qc7
\n22.Nb5 Qc4<\/p>",
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