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A total of 179 players from 18 countries, which include 22 Grandmasters, 27 International Masters and three Women Grandmasters are taking part in the premier section to fight over the 30 lakh prize money (roughly USD 48,000) while the Category ‘B’ tournament for players rated under 1999 FIDE, which is underway simultaneously, attracted a total of 484 players. The Category ‘C’ tournament, for players below 1599 FIDE, will start on Tuesday and in spite of over 600 entries is seeing more pouring in every day.
CEO of the All India Chess Federation, Bharat Singh, inaugurating the opening ceremony
according to the Indian tradition "Lighting the lamp"
Top players during the Opening Ceremony
At the top of the tables, top seed defending champion Abhijeet Gupta maintained a perfect score with a finely crafted victory over Nr Vignesh. The Catalan Opening by Gupta as white yielded a slightly better position which was nurtured to perfection.
One of the early leaders after 3.5/4 is top seed and defending champion, Indian GM Abhijeet
Gupta (2631) playing against Vighnesh Sr.
Fourth seed Luxembourgian GM Alberto David officially from Italy also started with a 3.0/3 before
falling in the fourth round to…
...Indian GM Deepan Chakkavarthy, only 20th in the starting list, but the only player with a perfect 4.0/4 start.
The talented Indian GM Sahaj Grover drew top seed Gupta in the fourth round and is in the pack with 3.5/4
Chennai Open winner GM Ivan Popov of Russia suffered
a
shock defeat
at the hands of unheralded Aniruddha Deshpande in the opening round
Concentration is the key to the success of Aniruddha Deshpande 3.0/4,
who is on a staggering 2693 performance so far after drawing with…
…sixth seed Italian Grandmaster Brunello Sabino (2552).
Third seed Russian grandmaster Anton Demchenko in deep thought
Winner of several GM tournaments in India Uzbek grandmaster Dzhumaev Marat is working
on his comeback after a slip in round three
Young Indian Grandmaster Debashis Das
Maybe a new perspective is what is needed
Hmm … can I save this match? Young Ananya Agrawal playing in Group B
During third round we found two new guests outside the tournament hall …
It is is probably a good thing they did not appear too interested in chess
The organizers arranged a nice birthday celebration for IM Sl Naryanan and IA Vashantha after round three
Video report of first rounds by Vijay Kumar
Rk |
SNo |
Ti. |
Name |
Fed |
Rtg |
Pts |
TB |
1 |
20 |
GM |
Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND |
2484 |
4.0 |
8.0 |
2 |
7 |
GM |
Cruz Cristhian | PER |
2546 |
3.5 |
9.0 |
3 |
1 |
GM |
Gupta Abhijeet | IND |
2631 |
3.5 |
8.5 |
4 |
10 |
GM |
Grover Sahaj | IND |
2528 |
3.5 |
8.5 |
5 |
3 |
GM |
Demchenko Anton | RUS |
2611 |
3.5 |
8.0 |
6 |
42 |
IM |
Nitin S. | IND |
2355 |
3.5 |
7.5 |
7 |
8 |
GM |
Baryshpolets Andrey | UKR |
2541 |
3.5 |
7.0 |
8 |
5 |
GM |
Mozharov Mikhail | RUS |
2557 |
3.5 |
7.0 |
33 |
IM |
Himanshu Sharma | IND |
2427 |
3.5 |
7.0 |
|
10 |
35 |
IM |
Satyapragyan Swayangsu | IND |
2410 |
3.5 |
7.0 |
11 |
43 |
IM |
Kulkarni Vikramaditya | IND |
2354 |
3.5 |
6.5 |
12 |
21 |
IM |
Narayanan Srinath | IND |
2477 |
3.5 |
6.5 |
45 |
Visakh Nr | IND |
2346 |
3.5 |
6.5 |
||
14 |
77 |
Harikrishnan.A.Ra | IND |
2200 |
3.0 |
9.0 |
|
15 |
49 |
Kunal M. | IND |
2336 |
3.0 |
9.0 |
|
16 |
25 |
IM |
Saptarshi Roy | IND |
2448 |
3.0 |
9.0 |
62 |
Abhishek Kelkar | IND |
2280 |
3.0 |
9.0 |
||
18 |
4 |
GM |
David Alberto | ITA |
2572 |
3.0 |
8.5 |
19 |
91 |
Deshpande Aniruddha | IND |
2157 |
3.0 |
8.5 |
|
20 |
28 |
GM |
Neelotpal Das | IND |
2437 |
3.0 |
8.0 |
Links
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