Nihal Sarin wins Silver Lake Open

Nihal Sarin was the clear winner of the Silver Lake Open in Veliko Gradiste, Serbia. After seven rounds, Sarin, who celebrates his 17th birthday on 13 July, led with 6.5/7 and was a whole point ahead of the field.

But after Sarin drew against Abhimanyu Puranik in round eight, Raunak Sadhwani and Serbian veteran Branko Damljanovic again came within striking distance of Sarin. In the last round, it came to a duel between the leader and his rival Damljanovic. Sarin came to a smooth win and outplayed Damljanovic right from the opening.

On twitter Sarin commented his tournament win rather matter-of-factly.

Won Silver Lake Open 2021 with 8.0/9. #Akshayakalpa
— Nihal Sarin (@NihalSarin) June 30, 2021

131 players from 27 countries played in the A Open, 16 Grandmasters and 17 International Masters.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	TB1	TB2	TB3	Rp	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	3	GM	Nihal Sarin	U18				2620	8,0	49,5	0,0	2807	9	8	6,26	1,74	10	17,4
2	6	GM	Sadhwani Raunak	U18				2555	7,0	51,0	0,0	2660	9	7	5,75	1,25	10	12,5
3	4	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu					2589	7,0	48,5	0,0	2581	9	7	6,92	0,08	10	0,8
4	11	IM	Makhnev Denis					2480	7,0	44,5	0,0	2562	9	7	6,02	0,98	10	9,8
5	9	GM	Sadikhov Ulvi					2490	6,5	47,0	0,0	2516	9	6,5	6,05	0,45	10	4,5
6	1	GM	Ter-Sahakyan Samvel					2644	6,5	46,0	0,0	2559	9	6,5	7,17	-0,67	10	-6,7
7	18	IM	Agmanov Zhandos					2404	6,5	46,0	0,0	2460	9	6,5	5,73	0,77	10	7,7
8	10	IM	Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis					2485	6,5	45,5	0,0	2508	9	6,5	6,13	0,37	10	3,7
9	14	IM	Boskovic Drasko					2451	6,5	45,5	0,0	2514	9	6,5	5,60	0,90	10	9,0
10	13	IM	Raja Harshit					2459	6,5	44,5	0,0	2508	9	6,5	5,78	0,72	10	7,2
11	7	GM	Sedlak Nikola					2519	6,5	44,0	0,0	2516	9	6,5	6,37	0,13	10	1,3
12	31	FM	Vetokhin Savva	U18				2324	6,5	41,5	0,0	2470	9	6,5	4,71	1,79	20	35,8
13	8	GM	Damljanovic Branko	S60				2501	6,5	39,0	0,0	2467	9	6,5	6,48	0,02	10	0,2
14	19	IM	Radovanovic Nikola					2395	6,0	48,0	0,0	2557	9	6	4,02	1,98	10	19,8
15	5	GM	Perunovic Milos					2567	6,0	45,0	0,0	2469	8	5,5	6,25	-0,75	10	-7,5
16	22	IM	Mullick Raahil	U18				2386	6,0	44,0	0,0	2445	9	6	5,21	0,79	20	15,8
17	34	FM	Pasti Aron	U18				2318	6,0	39,5	1,0	2260	9	6	6,50	-0,50	20	-10,0
18	76	WFM	Balabayeva Xeniya	U18	w			2116	6,0	39,5	0,0	2390	9	6	2,82	3,18	40	127,2
19	102		Erdogmus Yagiz Kaan	U18				1955	6,0	39,0	0,0	2303	8	5	1,53	3,47	40	138,8
20	20	IM	Megalios Konstantinos					2390	5,5	46,0	0,0	2416	9	5,5	5,06	0,44	10	4,4
21	2	GM	Petrosyan Manuel					2625	5,5	46,0	0,0	2430	9	5,5	7,30	-1,80	10	-18,0

131 players

Games

In the B-Open almost 100 players took part. Aleksa Alimpic, Aleksandar Arandjelovic and FM Miodrag Jevtic shared first place with 7.5/9 points each. Alimpic won on tiebreak.