Iniyan clinches La Nucia Open

by Shahid Ahmed
10/15/2021 – Iniyan Panneerselvam scored an unbeaten 7/8 to win the La Nucia International Open 2021. He had to miss the eighth round game due to his commitments towards the CoinDCX Chess Super League, and still managed to win the tournament in just eight games. He won a trophy and €2.500 as a prize. Iniyan annotated his favourite game from the tournament. | Photo: Valencian Chess Federation
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Iniyan Panneerselvam scored an unbeaten 7/8 to win the La Nucia International Open 2021. He had to miss the eighth round game due to his commitments towards the CoinDCX Chess Super League, and still managed to win the tournament in just eight games. He won a trophy and €2.500 as a prize.

GMs Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder (CHI) and Andrey Sumets (UKR) also finished with the same 7/9 score. However, they were placed second and third according to the tie-breaks. This is Iniyan’s third over-the-board triumph of the year since he won a double at the Noisiel Open. 

Iniyan annotated his favourite game from the tournament, his win against GM Evgeny Postny (ISR) in the fifth round.

 
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1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bf4 0-0 6.e3 b6 7.Rc1 Bb7 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Nxd5 Qxd5 10.a3 We are still in opening theory. Bd6 11.Bxd6 cxd6 11...Qxd6 12.Bd3 White has a slight advantage because of black's weak c7 pawn. 12.Bd3 Nd7 13.e4! A natural move like 13.0-0 would allow Black to play Nf6 and have central control. White would still retain a slight advantage but it's not much. 13...Qa5+ 14.Qd2 Qxd2+ 15.Nxd2 Rfc8 16.Ke2 Kf8 Black offered a draw in this position. 17.f4 Ke7 18.Ke3 Black's issue is that he can't gain more space. If he plays d5, then white will reply e5 which shuts down the black bishop for the entire game. If Black plays e5, then after Nf3 followed by g4, h5, g5, black can't retain the tension and has to exchange the pawns leading to an isolated d6 pawn. Even then Black would have space problems. Nf6 19.h3 h6 20.g4 Retaining both the Rooks with 20.Rcf1 isn't so good here because of Nh5 21.Rhg1 g5 When black gets to free himself a bit. 20...Rxc1 21.Rxc1 Rc8 22.Rg1 White still retains the initiative. Nd7 23.h4 Rh8 24.Nf3 Rc8 Black decides to stay put and wait for white to do something. 25.g5 hxg5 26.hxg5 26.fxg5!? White's idea now is to create a passer on the h-file. But I am not sure if it works because even if I do get h5 and h6, after gxh6 gxh6 black's King is very close to the pawn. 26...Rh8 27.Kf2 covering the squares in the h-file before beginning an active plan. Kd8 28.Kg3 Ke7 29.Rc1 Now Black has to decide on how to protect the c7 square - with the rook or the king? Rc8 29...Kd8 would give White ideas of 30.Nd2 Followed by Nc4 targetting the now weakened d6-pawn. Even if Black defends that, white has ideas of e5 followed by placing the knight on the outpost created at d6 at the correct moment. 30.Rh1 Finally the white rook is on an open file. e5!? Black lashes out for counterplay 31.Nh4 31.fxe5 dxe5 32.d5 Is objectively better. 31...exf4+ 31...g6 32.f5 Is very strong for White. exd4 32...Rg8 33.f6+ Kd8 34.Nf3+- The pawn wedge on f6 cramps black completely. 33.fxg6 fxg6 34.Nxg6++- 32.Kxf4 g6 33.Ke3 d5 Now the game takes an interesting turn. He could maintain the position with 33...Nf8 when white has 34.Nf3 And it's still not easy for Black. White's rook is entering the game, Black's pieces can't do something productive all the while White's pawns grab more space. 34.Nxg6+! His idea while playing d5 is that 34.e5 is not possible due to Nxe5 when the game simplifies after 35.Nxg6+ 35.dxe5?? d4+-+ 35...Nxg6 36.Bxg6 fxg6 37.Rh7+ Ke6 38.Rxb7 Rc2 39.Rxa7 Rxb2= 34...fxg6 35.Rh7+ Kd6 35...Ke8 loses to 36.e5 Black doesn't have a defence against Bxg6 and e6. Rc6 37.Bb5+- 35...Kd8 36.e5 Is once again much better for White. 35...Ke6! Is the defence that saves Black but it is difficult to find over the board. 36.e5 36.Bf1 Now White is threatening Bh3 but here black has the very cool Kd6! Black simply side steps from the check. Now the difference is that the g6 pawn wouldn't be under attack from the Bishop after e5+. 37.e5+ Kc6 38.Rg7 Nf8 when White has enough compensation for the piece but not more. 36...Rb8! A key move protecting the b7 Bishop. 37.Bf1 Nxe5 38.Bh3+ Kd6 39.dxe5+ Kxe5 40.Re7+ Kd6 41.Re6+ Kc5 42.Rxg6 when White can still try on but the game should end in a draw. 36.e5+ Kc6 37.b4! cramping black's position further. b5 37...Rg8 38.b5+ Kc7 39.e6 Bc8 40.e7 Now black can't stop the threat of Bxg6 followed by e8=Q. 38.Bxg6 Nf8 Otherwise Bf7 followed by g6-g7-g8=Q. 39.Rh6 Nxg6 40.Rxg6+ Kd7 41.Rg7+ Kc6 42.g6 White is clearly winning now. Rh8 43.Rf7 Bc8 43...Rh1 44.Kf4 bringing the king into the play Rg1 44...Bc8 45.Kg5+- 45.Kf5+- Now the g-pawn will be unstoppable. 44.g7 Rg8 45.Kf4 White's king will go up the board and force black to give up the rook while Black's King is stuck in it's place without being able to come to the defence on the kingside. Bd7 46.Kg5 Be8 47.Kf6 1–0
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Iniyan,P2529Postny,E25521–02021D37La Nucia Open 20215.1

Andrey Sumets, Iniyan, Rodrigo Vasquez

Top 3 (left to right): GM Andrey Sumets 7/9 (UKR), GM P Iniyan 7/8 and GM Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder 7/9 (CHI) | Photo: Valencian Chess Federation

GM Iniyan had an interesting draw with the eventual second runner-up, GM Andrey Sumets.

 

14...d3 is an interesting pawn sacrifice — 15.Qxd3 Bf5 16.Qd5 Bxe4 17.Qxf7+ Kh8 18.Bxe4 Rf8 19.Bxf8 Rxf8 and Black is safe, although initially, it may have seemed to cause trouble for Black. Iniyan obviously saw all these lines before pushing his d-pawn. The game eventually ended in a draw.

 
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1.d4 6 Nf6 28 2.Nf3 58 g6 7 3.g3 97 Bg7 33 4.Bg2 4 0-0 364 5.0-0 19 d6 5 6.Nc3 4 d5 480 7.Re1 18 Na6 153 8.e4 356 Nxe4 870 9.Nxe4 121 dxe4 70 10.Rxe4 5 c5 51 11.Qe2 1471 cxd4 731 12.Bg5 40 Qb6 35 13.Bxe7 125 Re8 341 14.Ng5 553 d3?! 1955 14...Nc7 15.Qxd3 347 15.cxd3 Bf5 15...Qxb2? 16.Re1 16.Bc5 Qb5 15...Bf5 17 16.Qd5 142 Bxe4 56 17.Qxf7+ 12 Kh8 3 18.Bxe4 43 Rf8 226 19.Bxf8 130 Rxf8 8 20.Qc4 105 Qxf2+ 101 21.Kh1 36 Bxb2 131 22.Rb1 153 Nc5 167 23.Bg2 667 23.Rxb2 Qe1+ 24.Kg2 Qd2+ 25.Kh3 Qxg5 23...Qe3 69 24.Ne4 696 b6 47 25.Nxc5 186 ½–½
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Sumets,A2497Iniyan,P2529½–½2021A49La Nucia Open6.1

Iniyan defeated the eventual runner-up of the event, GM Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder, in the seventh round.

 

Black cornered and limited the mobility of his own queen with 13...e5 14.Bh2 Bd7 15.Be2, and we got the above position. To avoid the queen from getting trapped, Black had to give up a piece — 15...Qf5 16.g4 Nxg4 17.hxg4 Qxg4+ 18.Bg3. Even though Black got a couple of pawns for the knight, it was not enough compensation. Iniyan converted his advantage into a win without any difficulty.

 
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1.d4 29 Nf6 13 2.c4 10 g6 7 3.Nc3 26 d5 9 4.Nf3 50 Bg7 9 5.Bf4 5 0-0 216 6.Rc1 5 dxc4 352 7.e3 50 c5 110 8.dxc5 426 Qa5 88 9.Bxc4 9 Nc6 150 10.0-0 246 Qxc5 13 11.Nb5 364 Qh5 247 12.Nc7 1700 Rb8 693 13.h3 29 e5? 1259 14.Bh2 15 Bd7 527 15.Be2 99 Qf5 519 15...Bxh3 16.gxh3 16.Nxe5? Qg5 16...Rbd8 17.Qc2+- 16.g4 207 Nxg4 30 17.hxg4 28 Qxg4+ 6 18.Bg3 716 Qh3 158 19.Rc4 187 Rbd8 106 20.Rh4 872 Qf5 27 21.e4 91 Qf6 9 22.Qc1 98 Qd6 445 23.Nd5 27 Be6 282 24.Rd1 152 Bxd5 48 25.Rxd5 7 Qe7 49 26.Rxd8 124 Nxd8 203 27.Bc4 38 Ne6 71 28.Bxe6 74 Qxe6 12 29.Ng5 20 Rc8 25 30.Qd2 64 Qc6 38 31.Kg2 346 h6 91 32.Nf3 19 g5 42 33.Rh1 38 g4? 52 33...f5 34.Nh4 4 Qxe4+ 6 35.Kh2 4 Kh7 304 36.Re1 42 Rc2 53 37.Qd1 13 Qc4 32 38.Qd7 27 Rxb2 110 39.Qf5+ 13 Kg8 1 40.Rd1 9 Qe6 129 41.Rd8+ 7 Bf8 4 42.Qxe6 23 fxe6 2 43.Ng6 8 Kf7 31 44.Nxe5+ 145 Kg7 28 45.Rd7+ 7 1–0
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Iniyan,P2529Vasquez Schroeder,R24671–02021D92La Nucia Open7.1

Iniyan defeated IM Jony Wilson Leon Valdes (CUB) in the final round.

 

27.Kf2 is a big mistake, as White lost the loose pawns and Black gained a decisive advantage. Find out how.

 
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1.d4 2 Nf6 44 2.c4 7 g6 4 3.f3 4 c5 4 4.d5 5 Bg7 5 5.e4 9 d6 3 6.Nc3 4 0-0 8 7.Nge2 2 e6 7 8.Ng3 12 exd5 4 9.cxd5 5 a6 6 10.a4 4 Nbd7 4 11.Be2 7 Rb8 3 12.0-0 41 Ne8 3 13.Be3 299 Nc7 10 14.Rc1 328 b5 462 15.axb5 676 Nxb5 487 16.Nxb5 28 axb5 6 17.b4 42 c4 1781 18.Bd4 698 Bxd4+ 7 19.Qxd4 5 f5 6 20.exf5 111 gxf5 11 21.f4 324 Qb6 30 22.Qxb6 53 Nxb6 7 23.Bf3 4 Ra8 795 24.Ne2 134 Bd7 63 25.Ra1 264 Na4 11 26.Ra2 479 Rfe8 8 27.Kf2? 78 27.Rfa1 27...Nc5 8 28.Rxa8 73 Nd3+ 5 29.Kg3 6 Rxa8 3 30.Nd4 32 Kf7 359 31.Be2 301 Nxb4 47 32.Rb1 271 Ra3+ 27 33.Kh4 261 Nxd5 47 34.Rxb5 431 Nxf4 49 35.Rb7 83 Kf6 24 36.Bf1 198 Ng6+ 197 37.Kh5 5 Nf8 138 38.Bxc4 404 Ra4 491 39.Rc7 15 Be8+ 58 40.Kh6 6 40.Kh4 d5 40...d5 6 41.Rc8 86 Rxc4 76 42.Rxe8 6 Kf7 7 43.Re5 132 Rxd4 9 44.Rxf5+ 4 Ke7 13 45.h3 57 Rd1 46 46.Kg7 60 Ne6+ 49 47.Kxh7 12 d4 6 48.h4 196 d3 8 49.Rf2 112 Re1 121 50.Rd2 9 Nc5 7 51.h5 34 Re2 90 52.Rd1 1 Rxg2 15 53.h6 5 d2 27 54.Kh8 60 Ne4 6 55.h7 73 Ng5 5 0–1
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Leon Valdes,J2379Iniyan,P25290–12021A50La Nucia Open9.3

Iniyan, La Nucia Chess Open 2021

Iniyan getting interviewed by the local media | Photo: Valencian Chess Federation

Three nice finishes

 

GM Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder (CHI) defeated FM Alejandro Domingo Nunez (ESP) in round 6

 

GM Evgeny Postny (ISR) won against IM Carolina Lujan (ARG) in round 8

 

IM Jony Wilson Leon Valdes (CUB) lost to GM P Iniyan in round 9

Final standings

  SNo.     Name Country Points Elo
1 5 GM m Iniyan, P IND 7.0 2529
2 8 GM m Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo CHI 7.0 2467
3 6 GM m Sumets, Andrey UKR 7.0 2497
4 4 GM m Postny, Evgeny ISR 6.5 2552
5 2 GM m Santos Ruiz, Miguel ESP 6.5 2596
6 1 GM m Fedorchuk, Sergey A. UKR 6.5 2606
7 12 IM m Cruz Lledo, Pablo ESP 6.5 2446
8 21 FM m Domingo Nunez, Alejandro ESP 6.0 2326
9 47   m Benet Morant, Damia ESP 6.0 2016
10 70   m Vinuesa Sorli, Ruben ESP 6.0 1795
11 14 WGM f Cori T., Deysi PER 6.0 2382
12 15 IM m Leon Valdes, Jony Wilson CUB 6.0 2379
13 18 IM m Vassallo Barroche, Mauricio ESP 6.0 2340
14 27 FM m Castellanos Gomez, Alejandro ESP 6.0 2235
15 10 IM m Ayats Llobera, Gerard ESP 6.0 2453
16 3 GM m Solodovnichenko, Yuri UKR 6.0 2577

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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.g4 Be6 9.g5 Nfd7 10.h4 Nb6 11.f4 exf4 12.Bxf4 d5 13.Qd4 0-0 14.0-0-0 dxe4 15.Qxe4 Qc8 16.Bd3 g6 17.h5 Qc6 18.Qe1 Qf3 19.Qh4 h6 20.Rdg1 1–0
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Fedorchuk,S-Torres Boch,J-1–02021La Nucia Open 20211.1

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