Commonwealth Chess Begins in India: GM Sergei Tiviakov Top Seed

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The Commonwealth Chess Championship 2012 has begun in Chennai, India. The eleven-round Swiss System tournament has the confirmed participation of more than 455 players from 15 countries. The top seed is Grandmaster Sergei Tiviakov of the Netherlands among 17 Grandmasters and 84 titled players. Two rounds were played on Friday. The tournament concludes on December 1. Read the complete list of participants in the extended post.

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Participants:

1. GM Tiviakov Sergei NED 2659
2. GM Adly Ahmed EGY 2607
3. GM Adhiban B. IND 2559
4. GM Lintchevski Daniil RUS 2555
5. GM Oleksienko Mikhailo UKR 2551
6. GM Paragua Mark PHI 2532
7. GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2530
8. GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2528
9. GM Sethuraman S.P. IND 2520
10. GM Venkatesh M.R. IND 2520
11. GM Arun Prasad S. IND 2513
12. GM Grover Sahaj IND 2509
13. GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2500
14. IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 2488
15. IM Shyam Sundar M. IND 2484
16. GM Neelotpal Das IND 2467
17. GM Laxman R.R. IND 2461
18. IM Akshayraj Kore IND 2459
19. GM Fominyh Alexander RUS 2456
20. IM Dimakiling Oliver PHI 2453
21. IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2445
22. IM Thejkumar M. S. IND 2442
23. IM Narayanan Srinath IND 2438
24. GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 2434
25. IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 2431
26. IM Rathnakaran K. IND 2430
27. IM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 2423
28. IM Swayams Mishra IND 2423
29. IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2417
30. IM Karthikeyan P. IND 2414
31. G. Akash IND 2404
32. Navin Kanna T.U. IND 2402
33. IM Tania Sachdev IND 2400
34. IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman IND 2400
35. IM Akshat Khamparia IND 2398
36. IM Nitin S. IND 2398
37. IM Garcia Jan Emmanuel PHI 2394
38. WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 2384
39. IM Ravichandran Siddharth IND 2381
40. FM Rajesh V A V IND 2370
41. IM Senador Emmanuel PHI 2352
42. Narayanan.S.L IND 2350
43. IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 2348
44. IM Mohota Nisha IND 2342
45. FM Das Sayantan IND 2339
46. Karthikeyan Murali IND 2329
47. Krishna C.R.G. IND 2327
48. WGM Padmini Rout IND 2326
49. FM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. IND 2311
50. FM Ikeda Junta AUS 2304
51. IM Babu N Sudhakar IND 2296
52. WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman IND 2296
53. Purushothaman T IND 2286
54. IM Wageih Kareim EGY 2284
55. Kathmale Sameer IND 2281
56. Arun Karthik R. IND 2278
57. Kunal M. IND 2276
58. IM Prakash G B IND 2270
59. Abhilash Reddy M.L. IND 2269
60. Ram S. Krishnan IND 2269
61. CM Prince Bajaj IND 2263
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63. WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 2251
64. K. Praneeth Surya IND 2246
65. Deepak Katiyar IND 2244
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78. WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 2179
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