Deep Sengupta victorious in Hastings

Since it's inception in 1920, Hastings has become one of the most famous tournaments in the world, and has played host to some of the greatest names in chess history. Every World Champion up to and including Anatoly Karpov (except Bobby Fischer) played at Hastings at some point.

This year Deep Sengupta entered his name into the illustrious list of Hastings winners. He scored 7.0/9 and lost only to IM Bobby Cheng of Australia and beat players such Mark Hebden (UK) and Alexandr Fier (Brazil).

Tournament winner Deep Sengupta

Final standings after 9 rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	RtgI	Pts.
1	4	GM	SENGUPTA Deep	IND	2575	7,0
2	9	IM	GALYAS Miklos	HUN	2473	6,5
	11	IM	PRAGGNANANDHAA R	IND	2452	6,5
	16	GM	LALIC Bogdan	CRO	2443	6,5
	18	IM	DAS Arghyadip	IND	2399	6,5
	20	FM	HARIA Ravi	ENG	2382	6,5
7	1	GM	SETHURAMAN S.P.	IND	2647	6,0
	2	GM	FIER Alexandr	BRA	2590	6,0
	3	GM	GLEDURA Benjamin	HUN	2584	6,0
	5	GM	KARTHIKEYAN Murali	IND	2530	6,0
	6	GM	RASMUSSEN Allan Stig	DEN	2502	6,0
	13	IM	TAN Justin	AUS	2451	6,0
13	7	GM	GORMALLY Daniel W	ENG	2493	5,5
	8	GM	HEBDEN Mark L	ENG	2492	5,5
	10	IM	KJARTANSSON Gudmundur	ISL	2468	5,5
	12	FM	HANSEN Mads	DEN	2452	5,5
	15	IM	CHENG Bobby	AUS	2446	5,5
	17	GM	FLEAR Glenn C	ENG	2428	5,5
	25	FM	THYBO Jesper Sondergaard	DEN	2352	5,5
	27	IM	BATES Richard A	ENG	2347	5,5
	33		PLAYER Edmund C	ENG	2239	5,5
	36	WGM	MAISURADZE Nino	FRA	2231	5,5
	38	IM	MARUSENKO Petr	UKR	2214	5,5
	41	FM	LYELL Mark	ENG	2203	5,5
	63		BOINO Claudio	POR	2066	5,5
26	19	FM	GARRIGA CAZORLA Pere	ESP	2386	5,0
	21	IM	LEDGER Andrew J	ENG	2377	5,0
	23	IM	SIVA Mahadevan	IND	2360	5,0
	24	IM	BELLIN Robert	ENG	2353	5,0
	30	FM	TEH Eu Wen Aron	MAS	2279	5,0
	32	WIM	VAISHALI R	IND	2254	5,0
	35	IM	PROSVIRIAKOV Vladimir	USA	2236	5,0
	42		SCOTT Gordon W	ENG	2198	5,0
	44		RAMSDAL Jens Albert	DEN	2190	5,0
	45	FM	EAMES Robert S	ENG	2187	5,0
	49		HEALEY Michael W	ENG	2173	5,0
	54		FOO William J	ENG	2145	5,0
38	14	GM	ARKELL Keith C	ENG	2447	4,5

... 99 players

Source: chess-results.com

English FM Ravi Haria also had a good tournament. He scored 6.5/9 which brought him his second IM norm . Here's his win against Grandmaster Danny Gormally.

Ravi Haria

But star of the tournament was undoubtedly 11-year old Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu of India, the world's youngest International Master. He did not lose a single game and finished with 6.5/9 to share second place. The following wild game against Danish Grandmaster Allan Stig Rasmussen shows his potential.

Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, born August 10, 2005, the youngest International Master of all time.
He became an IM when he was 10 years, 10 months and 19 days old.

Games

This year's congress was held in memory of Con Power, director of the Hastings Chess Congress from about 1980 to 2014. He passed away with his family by his side on Friday 6th May 2016.

Photos: Brendan O'Gorman

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