On Monday the 8th Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival started in Sitges. For the A-Open 280 players have registered, among them more than 30 grandmasters. Top seed is Anton Korobov from Ukraine, second seed is Ivan Cheparinov. Behind him follows Nihal Sarin as the best player of the large Indian delegation, which is 69 players strong and includes ten Grandmasters and two WGMs.

Nihal Sarin | Photo: Lennart Ootes
113 players take part in the B-Open which is limited to players with an Elo-rating of <2001.
The players in action | Photo: Rupali Mullick
After 3 rounds no less than 19 players still have a perfect score. Top seed Anton Korobov is among this group of 19 players and in round 3 he won a nice positional game, in which he demonstrated why positions with opposite-coloured bishops are everything but drawish when other pieces are still on the board.
1.e4 | 1,184,215 | 54% | 2421 | --- |
1.d4 | 958,932 | 55% | 2434 | --- |
1.Nf3 | 286,327 | 56% | 2441 | --- |
1.c4 | 184,722 | 56% | 2443 | --- |
1.g3 | 19,884 | 56% | 2427 | --- |
1.b3 | 14,598 | 54% | 2428 | --- |
1.f4 | 5,953 | 48% | 2377 | --- |
1.Nc3 | 3,906 | 50% | 2384 | --- |
1.b4 | 1,790 | 48% | 2378 | --- |
1.a3 | 1,250 | 54% | 2406 | --- |
1.e3 | 1,081 | 49% | 2409 | --- |
1.d3 | 969 | 50% | 2378 | --- |
1.g4 | 670 | 46% | 2361 | --- |
1.h4 | 466 | 54% | 2382 | --- |
1.c3 | 439 | 51% | 2425 | --- |
1.h3 | 289 | 56% | 2420 | --- |
1.a4 | 118 | 60% | 2461 | --- |
1.f3 | 100 | 47% | 2427 | --- |
1.Nh3 | 92 | 67% | 2511 | --- |
1.Na3 | 47 | 62% | 2476 | --- |
Please, wait...
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.g3 Nc6 6.Bg2 Nf6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Nc3 0-0 9.Bg5 Be6 10.Rc1 c4 11.Ne5 Qb6 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Na4 Qb4 14.b3 cxb3 15.axb3 Rfc8 16.e3 h6 17.Bxf6 Bxf6 18.Nc5 Re8 19.Qc2 Qb5 20.Nxe6!? Rxe6 21.Bh3 Rd6 22.Qa2 Bd8 23.Rc5 Qb7 24.Rfc1 a5 25.Qc2 Ra6 26.e4! dxe4 27.Qxe4 g6!? 27...Be7 28.d5! cxd5 29.Qe8+ Kg7 30.Bc8 Qe7 31.Qxe7 Bxe7 32.Bxa6 Rxa6 33.Rxd5 a4 34.Rd7! Ba3 35.Rcc7 axb3 36.Rxf7+ Kg8 37.Rg7+ Kf8 38.Rcf7+ Ke8 39.Rb7 Kf8 40.Rgc7 Ra8 41.Rxb3 1–0
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Korobov,A | 2699 | Taher,Y | 2455 | 1–0 | 2021 | D34 | 8th Sunway Sitges 2021 | 3.1 |
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Standings after round 3
Rk. |
Snr |
|
|
Name |
Country |
Elo |
Pts. |
Tb1 |
1 |
45 |
|
IM |
Quintiliano Pinto Renato R. |
BRA |
2466 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
2 |
1 |
|
GM |
Korobov Anton |
UKR |
2699 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
|
2 |
|
GM |
Cheparinov Ivan |
BUL |
2664 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
|
14 |
|
GM |
Safarli Eltaj |
AZE |
2579 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
|
31 |
|
GM |
Priasmoro Novendra |
INA |
2502 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
6 |
11 |
|
GM |
Sethuraman S.P. |
IND |
2613 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
|
16 |
|
GM |
Kadric Denis |
BIH |
2572 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
|
23 |
|
GM |
Suleymanli Aydin |
AZE |
2537 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
|
32 |
|
GM |
Harsha Bharathakoti |
IND |
2489 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
|
37 |
|
IM |
Garriga Cazorla Pere |
ESP |
2477 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
11 |
4 |
|
GM |
Niemann Hans Moke |
USA |
2645 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
|
90 |
|
IM |
Soumya Swaminathan |
IND |
2351 |
3,0 |
4,0 |
13 |
10 |
|
GM |
Vocaturo Daniele |
ITA |
2621 |
3,0 |
3,5 |
|
19 |
|
IM |
Livaic Leon |
CRO |
2547 |
3,0 |
3,5 |
|
29 |
|
IM |
Sankalp Gupta |
IND |
2504 |
3,0 |
3,5 |
16 |
30 |
|
IM |
Muradli Mahammad |
AZE |
2503 |
3,0 |
3,5 |
17 |
12 |
|
GM |
Puranik Abhimanyu |
IND |
2604 |
3,0 |
3,0 |
|
25 |
|
GM |
Van Foreest Lucas |
NED |
2530 |
3,0 |
3,0 |
|
46 |
|
GM |
Rios Cristhian Camilo |
COL |
2460 |
3,0 |
3,0 |
20 |
239 |
|
|
Devnani Kush |
IND |
1934 |
2,5 |
4,5 |
21 |
3 |
|
GM |
Nihal Sarin |
IND |
2662 |
2,5 |
4,5 |
|
7 |
|
GM |
Karthikeyan Murali |
IND |
2630 |
2,5 |
4,5 |
|
24 |
|
GM |
Dardha Daniel |
BEL |
2533 |
2,5 |
4,5 |
24 |
41 |
|
GM |
Stefanova Antoaneta |
BUL |
2469 |
2,5 |
4,5 |
|
117 |
|
FM |
Dalaud Dorian |
FRA |
2275 |
2,5 |
4,5 |
26 |
50 |
|
IM |
Pranesh M |
IND |
2437 |
2,5 |
4,5 |
27 |
21 |
|
GM |
Maze Sebastien |
FRA |
2541 |
2,5 |
4,0 |
|
63 |
|
IM |
Baenziger Fabian |
SUI |
2409 |
2,5 |
4,0 |
|
80 |
|
IM |
Moksh Amit Doshi |
IND |
2368 |
2,5 |
4,0 |
30 |
9 |
|
GM |
Kollars Dmitrij |
GER |
2622 |
2,5 |
4,0 |
|
62 |
|
GM |
Neelotpal Das |
IND |
2410 |
2,5 |
4,0 |
|
84 |
|
FM |
Manu David Suthandram R |
IND |
2360 |
2,5 |
4,0 |
33 |
44 |
|
IM |
Kurmann Oliver |
SUI |
2466 |
2,5 |
4,0 |
34 |
5 |
|
GM |
Tabatabaei M. Amin |
IRI |
2643 |
2,5 |
3,5 |
35 |
34 |
|
IM |
Dann Matthias |
GER |
2482 |
2,5 |
3,5 |
|
65 |
|
FM |
Hess Max |
GER |
2404 |
2,5 |
3,5 |
37 |
35 |
|
IM |
Di Berardino Diego Rafael |
BRA |
2480 |
2,5 |
3,0 |
|
111 |
|
FM |
Kenneskog Theodor |
SWE |
2307 |
2,5 |
3,0 |
39 |
6 |
|
GM |
Abdusattorov Nodirbek |
UZB |
2633 |
2,5 |
3,0 |
|
8 |
|
GM |
Erigaisi Arjun |
IND |
2629 |
2,5 |
3,0 |
|
51 |
|
IM |
Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh |
IND |
2429 |
2,5 |
3,0 |
|
64 |
|
IM |
Sukandar Irine Kharisma |
INA |
2407 |
2,5 |
3,0 |
43 |
70 |
|
IM |
Dionisi Thomas |
FRA |
2396 |
2,5 |
3,0 |
44 |
53 |
|
IM |
Boyer Mahel |
FRA |
2427 |
2,0 |
5,0 |
280 players
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