GM Aleksandrov Aleksej top seed at 10th Parsvnath Delhi Chess Open 2012 from Jan 14

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One of the most popular tournaments in South Asia, it is the Parsvnath International Open that is developing into a strong chess event at the start of every year. The tenth edition of the tournament is going to be held from 14-23rd January at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, New Delhi, India. Subject to FIDE approval, Accelerated Pairing will be employed for first two rounds of the event to increase norm chances of players.


Top rated participants:
1 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2626 BLR
2 GM Kravtsiv Martyn 2601 UKR
3 GM Ulibin Mikhail 2587 RUS
4 GM Deviatkin Andrei 2574 RUS
5 GM Barbosa Oliver 2571 PHI
6 GM Gleizerov Evgeny 2566 RUS
7 GM Oleksienko Mikhailo 2563 UKR
8 GM Kunte Abhijit 2548 IND
9 GM Simantsev Mikhail 2548 UKR
10 GM Sethuraman S P 2543 IND
11 GM Danielsen Henrik 2542 ISL
12 GM Paragua Mark 2522 PHI
13 GM Bitoon Richard 2515 PHI
14 IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2513 IND
15 GM Gomez John Paul 2506 PHI
16 IM Kuderinov Kirill 2504 KAZ
17 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 2492 IND
18 Yu Ruiyuan 2487 CHN
19 GM Dzhumaev Marat 2485 UZB
20 IM Lalith Babu M R 2484 IND
21 IM Shyam Nikil P 2482 IND
22 IM Ashwin Jayaram 2472 IND
23 GM Neelotpal Das 2471 IND
24 Ma Qun 2462 CHN
25 IM Thejkumar M S 2452 IND
26 GM Hoang Thanh Trang 2446 HUN
27 IM Vakhidov Jahongir 2437 UZB
28 GM Thipsay Praveen M 2435 IND
29 GM Laxman R R 2431 IND
30 GM Sriram Jha 2418 IND


The 9th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament saw 25 Grandmasters in action in a field of around 400 players from more than 20 countries. The winner was Ukrainian Grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko.

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