Karthik Venkataraman wins 59. Indian Championship

by André Schulz
1/5/2023 – Over the turn of the year, the Indian Chess Federation organised its 59th National Championship, an open event that attracted almost 200 players. After a very exciting tournament the 23-year old Karthik Venkataraman won with 10.0/13. | Photos: All Indian Chess Federation
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On 22.12, the All Indian Chess Federation (AICF) launched the 59th Indian National Championships. The tournament was a 13-round Swiss with almost 200 participants. As the date clashed with the Rapid and Blitz World Championships in Almaty, a number of well-known Indian top players were absent. But still 65 title holders took part, 18 of them grandmasters.

Top seed was S.P. Sethuraman (Elo 2642). Abhijeet Gupta, five-time Commonwealth gold medallist, Vaibhav Suri, captain of the Indian team at the World Team Championship and Leon Mendonca were also among the favourites.

With 5.0/5 Abijheet Gupta had the best start.

GM Abijheet Gupta und IM Koustav Chatterjee

Top seed GM S P Sethuraman | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

But then Gupta lost the momentum and his rivals could catch up. In round 11 Gupta lost a crucial and tense game against GM Karthik Venkataraman, in which both sides missed wins in a complicated position.

 

A very important win for Karthik Venkataraman who then also won in round 12 against Chatterjee. Before the 13th and last round Venkataraman was thus sole first and a last-round draw was enough for him to win the title with 10.0/13 as his rivals also drew. In the 13 rounds of the Championship the 23-year old from Andhra Pradesh did not suffer a single loss.

Abijheet Gupta, who won silver, also received a big cup...

... as did Visakh NR, who finished third

The 19-year-old Koustav Chatterjee, who finished seventh with 9.0/13 made his third and final GM norm and is now India's 78th grandmaster.

Koustav Chatterjee | Photo: Twitter

Final standings after 13 rounds

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Karthik Venkataraman 10 100
2 Gupta Abhijeet 9,5 102,5
3 Visakh N R 9,5 100
4 Shyaamnikhil P 9,5 90
5 Das Sayantan 9,5 88
6 Aronyak Ghosh 9 103,5
7 Koustav Chatterjee 9 103
8 Mitrabha Guha 9 102,5
9 Sethuraman S.P. 9 101,5
10 Hari Madhavan N B 9 98,5
11 Iniyan P 9 96,5
12 Panesar Vedant 9 96
13 Vignesh N R 9 91
14 Saravana Krishnan P. 8,5 97
15 Harshavardhan G B 8,5 95,5
16 Srihari L R 8,5 94,5
17 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 8,5 94
18 Ajay Krishna S 8,5 94
19 Karthikeyan P. 8,5 91
20 Nitin S. 8,5 90,5
21 Kushagra Mohan 8,5 87
22 Soham Kamotra 8,5 87
23 Avinash Ramesh 8,5 83,5
24 Sengupta Deep 8 99
25 Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H. 8 98,5

...196 players

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André Schulz started working for ChessBase in 1991 and is an editor of ChessBase News.
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