Gangolli sparkles
Karnataka’s Kishan Gangolli and Krishna Udupa registered victories in the first round of the National FIDE-rated Open chess tournament for the blind at the Sree Kanteerava stadium on Sunday.
Kishan put it past Delhi’s Lovely Kumar Grover while Krishna got the better of Manoj Kumar Barik of Orissa in another game. But there was disappointment for the hosts as Nagaraja KS lost to Amit Deshpande of Maharashtra and Prabhu Swamy M was beaten by Kerala’s Noushad EP.
Results (first round): Lovely Kumar Grover (Del, 0) lt to Kishan Gangolli (Kar, 1); Krishna Udupa (Kar, 1) bt Manoj Kumar Barik (Ori, 0); Manoj Parmar (MP, 0) lt to Makwana Ashvin K (Guj, 1); Swapanil Shah (Mah, 1) bt Mayank Sharma (Del, 0); Mehta Piyush (Guj, 0) lt to Bagyatkar Madan (Mah, 1); Deshpande Amit (Mah, 1) bt Nagaraja KS (Kar, 0); Narendra Kumbhar (Ori, 0) lt to Kakade Atul (Mah, 1); Shashidhar KM (Kar, 0) lt to Naresh Pramanik (Mah, 1); Poornachandra Tejaswi (Kar, 0) lt to Akhilesh K Srivastava (Del, 1); Noushad EP (Ker, 1) bt Prabhu Swamy M (Kar, 0).
