RTU Open in Riga: Donchenko joins the leaders

by ChessBase
8/14/2021 – Alexander Donchenko won a fifth game in a row on Saturday to join Igor Kovalenko and Narayanan in the shared lead on 6½ points at the Riga Techinal University Open. The German grandmaster will have the black pieces against Kovalenko in Sunday’s final round. The action begins at 10:00 CEST (4:00 ET, 10:00 UTC).

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RTU Open 2021

The RTU Open 2021 is a nine round Swiss with a time limit of 90 minutes for the entire game and an increment of 30 seconds for each move.

Standings after round 8

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Kovalenko Igor 6,5 40,0
2 Narayanan.S.L 6,5 38,5
3 Donchenko Alexander 6,5 33,5
4 Hakobyan Aram 6,0 39,5
5 Erigaisi Arjun 6,0 39,0
6 Smirin Ilia 6,0 37,5
7 Laurusas Tomas 6,0 37,0
8 Arjun Kalyan 6,0 36,0
9 Kantor Gergely 6,0 36,0
10 Meshkovs Nikita 6,0 35,5
11 Gukesh D 6,0 35,5
12 Ivic Velimir 6,0 35,0
13 Karthikeyan Murali 6,0 34,0
14 Nihal Sarin 5,5 39,0
15 Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 5,5 37,5
16 Budisavljevic Luka 5,5 36,0
17 Grigorov Grigor 5,5 35,5
18 Sanal Vahap 5,5 35,0
19 Pranav Anand 5,5 35,0
20 Roshka Yevgeniy 5,5 35,0
21 Praggnanandhaa R 5,5 34,5
22 Yuffa Daniil 5,5 34,5
23 Visakh N R 5,5 34,0
24 Chukavin Kirill 5,5 33,0
25 Gokerkan Cem Kaan 5,5 33,0
26 Raja Harshit 5,5 32,5
27 Miezis Normunds 5,5 32,0
28 Dudin Gleb 5,5 30,0
29 Sethuraman S.P. 5,5 29,5
30 Pultinevicius Paulius 5,0 38,5

...176 participants

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