{"id":16715,"date":"2017-02-20T14:49:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/?p=16715"},"modified":"2017-02-20T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:53:34","slug":"lalith-babu-all-set-for-moscow-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/?p=16715","title":{"rendered":"Lalith Babu all set for Moscow challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M. Lalith Babu | Photo Credit: CH_VIJAYA BHASKAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vijayawada \u00a0:<\/p>\n

City-based chess Grandmaster Musunuri Lalith Babu (2593) needs just seven points to enter the coveted 2,600-mark which will enable him to join the illustrious club consisting of players like Adhiban, Sasikiran, Sethuraman and Abhijit Gupta.<\/p>\n

To garner the elusive points, he will be travelling to Moscow to take part in the Aeroflot Grandmasters tournament from February 20 to March 3 which will feature the best of brains in the world of sixty-four squares.<\/p>\n

After the end of the classic round on March 2, he will take part in the Aeroflot blitz tournament which will contain 18 rounds in which the world top 10 players will feature.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the world\u2019s strongest tournaments where a good number of Russian Grand Masters will take part along with top-notch players from Israel, China, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan,\u201d said Lalith who is working as the Grade 1 Officer in the Indian Oil Corporation in Vijayawada.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Moscow sojourn was a forgettable one as he garnered just five points out of nine and finished 42nd in the final rating list. \u201cThe tourney assumes importance as the winner will qualify for the prestigious Dortmund Super Grandmaster tournament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He said he was playing in \u2018Group A\u2019 where players above 2,550 would clash. \u201cI am placed 78th among the 80 entries in the fray.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he was not taking any online coaching this year as he could not afford the Bulgarian coach Vladimir Chuchelov who proved costly. \u201cI am practising all alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the tournament was not one to try experimental moves especially with the openings as the rivals were proficient with all sorts of openings. \u201cI do not want to try new things and I wish to play solid chess,\u201d said Lalith who finished fifth in the Delhi International Open that concluded recently.<\/p>\n

He further said, \u201cI wish to avoid complicating positions. I am also working out how not to fall in to the opening trap of the rival.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lalith Babu is spending the best part of his time improving his fitness as he needed seven hours of playing daily. \u201cOne needs to have lot of energy as it is gruelling event,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> State> Andhra Pradesh \/ by J.R. Sridharan \/ February 18th, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vijayawada \u00a0: City-based chess Grandmaster Musunuri Lalith Babu (2593) needs just seven points to enter the coveted 2,600-mark which will enable him to join the illustrious club consisting of players like Adhiban, Sasikiran, Sethuraman and Abhijit Gupta. To garner the elusive points, he will be travelling to Moscow to take part in the Aeroflot Grandmasters … Continue reading Lalith Babu all set for Moscow challenge<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-records-all","category-sports","category-world-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X5ZU-4lB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16715"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16723,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715\/revisions\/16723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}