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Monday, December 12, 2011

Congratulations to GM Abhijeet Gupta for winning London Chess Classic Open Tournament 2011

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Hello everyone,

Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta has won the London Chess Classic 2011 open section with a fine win over GM Keith Arkell of England while Indian International Master Sahaj Grover got the second position after after the final round of the event that concluded on Sunday. Abhijeet, a former world junior champion and reigning Indian national champion, scored eight points in all and will be past the coveted 2650 ELO rating mark in the next rating list, while Sahaj continued his progress for his Grandmaster title.

"I came here last year and had mediocre results, but off late I have been playing better and this win here will probably help me a lot for tough future events like Gibraltar and Aeroflot open," said Abhijeet after a nerve-wracking final game against Arkell. "I had much better position out of the opening and he used too much time to complicate matters, it was a pretty crazy game but somehow, I was able to pull through," said the former under-10 world champion and the reigning World Junior bronze medallist, said Sahaj Grover.

There was Indian dominance in the junior section as all the prizes were shared by them. Mohammad Ashraf, PV Nandhidhaa and under-12 world champion Murali Karthikeyan shared the honours in the junior category. You can access the official website of the London Chess Classic for more details.

Here are the top standings:

Rank
Name
Score
Fed.
Rating
1
GM Gupta, Abhijeet
8.0
IND
2640
2
IM Grover, Sahaj
7.5
IND
2515
3
GM Jones, Gawain C B
7.0
ENG
2635
4
GM Hillarp Persson, Tiger
7.0
SWE
2530
5
IM Das, Arghyadip
7.0
IND
2470
6
GM Summerscale, A P
7.0
ENG
2422
7
IM D`Costa, Lorin A R
7.0
ENG
2409
8
GM Cornette, Matthieu
6.5
FRA
2548
9
GM Wells, Peter K
6.5
ENG
2492
10
IM Smith, Axel
6.5
SWE
2480
11
IM Hunt, Adam C
6.5
ENG
2458
12
IM Pert, Richard G
6.5
ENG
2455
13
GM Arkell, Keith C
6.5
ENG
2418
14
IM Houska, Jovanka
6.5
ENG
2415
15
IM Slavin, Alexei
6.5
RUS
2400
16
IM Bates, Richard A
6.5
ENG
2386
17
IM Mikkelsen, Nikolaj
6.5
DEN
2381
18
FM Weber, Tom
6.5
LUX
2355
19
Stoma, Pawel
6.5
POL
2316
20
GM Tikkanen, Hans
6.0
SWE
2586
21
GM Pert, Nicholas
6.0
ENG
2563
22
GM Hebden, Mark L
6.0
ENG
2515
23
IM Roy Chowdhury, Saptarshi
6.0
IND
2411
24
IM Thorfinnsson, Bjorn
6.0
ISL
2402
25
IM Rendle, Thomas E
6.0
ENG
2389
26
IM Buckley, Graeme N
6.0
ENG
2383
27
IM Ferguson, Mark
6.0
ENG
2374
28
IM Getz, Nicolai
6.0
NOR
2369
29
IM Crouch, Colin S
6.0
ENG
2366
30
Gislason, Gudmundur
6.0
ISL
2318
31
FM Alfred, Nathan S W
6.0
ENG
2294
32
CM Coleman, David J
6.0
ENG
2244
33
FM Smith, Andrew Philip
6.0
IRL
2167
34
Tozer, Philip A A
6.0
ENG
2159

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