12th Parsvnath Chess International Round 7: GM Abhijeet Gupta beats Top Seed GM Martyn Kravtsiv
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Hello everyone,
Some chess news from India: The country's highest prize-money chess tournament is currently on in New Delhi. Seven rounds have been played at the 12th Parsvnath Chess Open International. GM Abhijeet Gupta beat top seed GM Martyn Kravtsiv in the seventh round, on Monday, to extend his lead by a full point over the rest of the field.
Gupta was unstoppable from the black side of a Scotch opening against Kravtsiv who needed to win to stay in conention for top honours in the tournament. It turned out to be a brilliant endgame display from Gupta who is fresh from his victory at the Al-Ain Classic in the UAE.
On the second board, M R Lalith Babu played it safe and drew in just 20 moves against Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia to inch himself up to 5.5 points. Joining him on the second spot was young International Master Ankit Rajpara who got the better of Levon Pantsulaia of Georgia, Veleriy Neverov of Ukraine, young talent Bobir Sattarov of Uzbekistan and Eldar Gasanov, also of Ukraine. In the next round now Gupta will play as white against Rajpara while Lalith Babu meets Sattarov.
Earlier, in the seventh round game, Gupta had drawn with Neverov after standing slightly better for the major part of a queen pawn game. The drawn result had helped Lalith Bau bridge the gap as he scored an easy victory over Raset Ziatdinov of Uzbekistan. (www.indianchessnews.com)
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India's Highest Prize-Money Delhi Chess Open begins Jan 9
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Hello everyone,
The 12th Delhi Chess Open begins Thursday with Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine as top seed. Fresh from his victory at the Al-Ain Chess Classic, Grandmaster and former world junior chess champion Abhijeet Gupta will be the highest-rated player among the huge Indian lot of players at the event.
One of the strongest chess open tournaments in the annals of Indian chess tournament history will see a total of 24 Grandmasters in the premier ‘A’ group that has 130 entries thus far. There are 24 International Masters in the fray apart from one Woman Grandmaster making the titled players' 50 in all.
The event will see an unprecedented more than 1,000 entries in the festival that surpasses the previous record of 899 participants in the previous edition of this annual event. The event is also the highest prize money tournament of India offering Rs. 23 lakh and Laptops to winners. There will be ten rounds in all.
Grandmaster Martyn Kravtsiv of Ukraine starts as the rating favourite in the premier group while Grandmaster Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia is the second seed. Gupta, who recently won the Al Ain Chess Classic, ahead of many fancied names, will be seeded third. (www.indianchessnews.com)
Top-20 players in the A Category rated above 20001 GM Kravtsiv Martyn 2628 UKR
2 GM Pantsulaia Levan 2614 GEO
3 GM Gupta Abhijeet 2606 IND
4 GM Barbosa Oliver 2579 PHI
5 GM Lalith Babu M.R. 2579 IND
6 GM Evdokimov Alexander A. 2558 RUS
7 GM Gagunashvili Merab 2547 GEO
8 GM Vaibhav Suri 2547 IND
9 GM Gomez John Paul 2541 PHI
10 GM Sanikidze Tornike 2541 GEO
11 GM Sengupta Deep 2538 IND
12 GM Venkatesh M.R. 2524 IND
13 GM Dzhumaev Marat 2521 UZB
14 GM Neverov Valeriy 2519 UKR
15 GM Arun Prasad S. 2504 IND
16 GM Grover Sahaj 2478 IND
17 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 2475 IND
18 IM Karthikeyan Murali 2472 IND
19 GM Gasanov Eldar 2469 UKR
20 GM Murshed Niaz 2464 BAN
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President Jacob Zuma Quotes on Chess
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Hi everyone,
South African President Jacob Zuma has lauded Indian chess player Abhijit Gupta for winning the Commonwealth Championships in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape Province of the country. For a report on the event read this Chess Blog post. Here are some nice Jacob Zuma quotes on chess from the event:
Zuma earlier drew a game after 20 minutes against the youngest player in the championships, five-year-old Keagan Rowe from East London in South Africa, later saying he had sacrificed some pieces “to balance the game.”
Zuma learnt to play chess while imprisoned on Robben Island alongside former president Nelson Mandela.
“Chess provided a solace to us that we needed in those conditions of isolation and deprivation. It propelled our minds beyond the confines of the prison walls and allowed us to reflect and to position our thoughts strategically to fight the (apartheid) regime,” Zuma said as he explained how prisoners had made chess sets out of soap and driftwood.
Zuma also called for chess to be encouraged as a serious sport in schools.
“(Chess) promotes latent skills among the children, patience, quick wit, decisiveness and confidence arising from competition with counterparts, including those from outside the country,” he said.
He also said: As a country we will also count on the LOC’s commitment to supporting chess development programmes in underprivileged communities.
"We are hopeful that our collective efforts will advance chess a great deal in this country. South Africa is the custodian of chess in the country. They have brought great pride to this country and in the last All African Games they brought back ten medals."
"I have also been informed that a young lady from these parts Ms Charlize van Zyl has been beating her opponents handsomely and won a strong event in Botswana and has become a women international master. The story of Charlize must serve as an inspiration to all the juniors here."
You can succeed if you have the commitment, dedication and passion. If you do not do well in athletic sports, chess can provide an interesting area as well. Please get involved and encourage others.
Please travel safely and to all of you that competed here, I want you to know that you are all winners.
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GM Abhijeet Gupta wins Commonwealth Chess Championship 2013
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Indian Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship after scoring 9,0/11 points and edging Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine) and Sergei Tiviakov(Netherlands) on tie-breaks to take the first place in the tournament that also incorporated South African Open Chess Championship.
Fedorchuk and Tiviakov took the second and third place in the Open Section, respectively.
Indian Grandmasters rounded up the medal count as Dibyendu Barua (8,5 points, 4th place) got the Commonwealth silver medal and last-year champion M.R. Lalith Babu (8,5 points, 5th place) won the bronze.
IM Jovanka Houska from England (8,5 points) won the gold medal among women, while Soumya Swaminathan (India; 8,5 points) settled for silver and Mary Ann Gomes (India; 7,5 points) won the bronze.
The Indians also dominated the junior section with G. Akash winning the gold, Sahaj Grover getting the silver and Rakesh Kulkarni securing the bronze medal. Kulkarni also won the South African open blitz championship held during the course of the championship.
South African President Jacob Zuma attended the closing ceremony and emphasized the importance of chess education in his speech.
The Commonwealth and South African Open Chess Championships 2013, the Nelson Mandela Bay Open Chess Championship and the South African Open Blitz chess Championship were held at The Boardwalk Hotel, Convention Centre and Spa in the city of Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa from 5th July 2013 to 14th July 2013. (www.chessdom.com)
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Delhi International Chess Begins with Abhijeet Gupta as Top Seed
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Hi everyone,
Grandmaster and former World Junior Chess Champion Abhijeet Gupta starts as the top seed and hot favorite in the premier event of Delhi International Chess Festival that gets underway from Saturday. The premier event has just over 100 participants which makes it one of the strongest tournaments with participation of over 50 titled players.
The premier section will see Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus in action as the second seed and Andrey Deviatkin of Russia, Czebe Attila of Hungary, Raset Ziatdinov of United States, Henrik Teske of Germany, Marat Dzhumaev and Dmitry Kayumov of Uzbekistan will make the tournament extremely competitive.
“This has been done to make the tournament norm-friendly for Indian participants”, said Mr. B S Chauhan, Organising secretary and also secretary All India Chess Federation.
The premier event will see some of the best players from India participating for a total prize purse of Rs. 1. 25 Million. After Abhijeet Gupta, the presence of Abhijeet Kunte, B Adhiban, P Magesh Chandran and Commonwealth champion M R Lalith Babu will be seen in action spread over ten rounds.
The ‘B’ section, for players rated below 2200 rating, will also start simultaneously and it has a prize pool of Rs. 3 Lacs while the section ‘C’, reserved for players rated below 1900 ELO rating will start on the 9th of January.
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Wojtaszek Top Seed in Delhi Invitational Chess Event
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GM Anton Korobov being welcomed in New Delhi.
The traditional AICF-AAI Chess Invitational - a Category 18 event - begins in New Delhi, India with six players on Friday. Asian Chess Champion Parimarjan Negi will meet Radoslav Wojtaszek of Poland in the first round. Krishnan Sasikiran is paired with Abhijeet Gupta, and former Russian champion Evgeny Alekseev is paired with current Ukrainian champion Anton Korobov in the first round, according to a press release.
The event is based on the format of double round-robin so that all participants play the others twice over. The time control is Classical with 100 minutes for the first forty moves to be followed by 50 minutes for the next 20 and a 15 minutes sudden death rule to follow thereafter. GM Wojtaszek, World Chess Champion Vishy Anand's second, is the top seed and the favourite in the event with a rating of 2734. Anton Korobov is second seed with a rating of 2702.
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Kavala Chess Open: GM Abhijeet Gupta Wins Clear First
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Hi everyone,
Indian national chess champion GM Abhijeet Gupta has won the 21st Kavala International Open Tournament. The event was held from July 25 to August 1 in Kavala, Greece. The chess tournament had three sections: Open A for those rated above 1900, Open B for the U2000 participants and Open C for U1050 and juniors born after 1.1.2000.
Abhijeet Gupta won the Open A with 7.5/9 points and took home the first prize of 2,500 EUR from a total prize fund of 10.000 EUR. Six players shared the second place with 6.5 points each. The best player among women was WGM Jolanta Zawadzka from Poland.
Abhijeet Gupta played the entire tournament in good form winning six and drawing three games. When asked about his best effort, he said, "I was black against Petrosian and playing against the top rated, he won a pawn but I was somehow able to get some forceful counter-play which really had him in troubles all along."
"It's normally one or two games that decide your fate in the tournament, here fortunately I was able to do well in them, something that had not been happening for some time even though I got a good result in Asian team championships some months back. I hope to carry this form forward," he said.
Final standings:
1. GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2627 – 7.5
2. IM Valsecchi Alessio ITA 2425 – 6.5
3. GM Sethuraman S P IND 2535 – 6.5
4. GM Damljanovic Branko SRB 2564 – 6.5
5. IM Azaladze Shota GEO 2484 – 6.5
6. IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 2476 – 6.5
7. GM Bosiocic Marin CRO 2570 – 6.5
8. GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2627 – 6
9. GM Petrosian Tigran L ARM 2661 – 6
10. GM Papaioannou Ioannis GRE 2597 – 6
11. GM Sanikidze Tornike GEO 2596 – 6
12. GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios GRE 2616 – 6
13. GM Jankovic Alojzije CRO 2543 – 6
14. GM Marjanovic Slavoljub SRB 2466 – 6
15. GM Antic Dejan SRB 2506 – 6
16. IM Pavlidis Antonios GRE 2462 – 5.5
17. GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2594 – 5.5
18. Markidis Konstantinos GRE 2291 – 5.5
19. Kerigan Demre TUR 2205 – 5.5
20. GM Neelotpal Das IND 2456 – 5.5
21. Galopoulos Nikolaos GRE 2406 – 5.5
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Philadelphia Chess Open Video by US Chess Scoop
Philadelphia Chess: GM Abhijeet Gupta Wins Title
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Reigning Indian national chess champion GM Abhijeet Gupta beat International Master Dean Ippolito of United States to win the Philadelphia International chess tournament. The 9th Annual Philadelphia International was held June 29-July 3 at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel, 17th & Race Streets, Philadelphia, PA.Gupta made a score of 7.5 points out of a possible nine. Indian M Venkatesh also became India's 28th GM at the chess tournament.
Venkatesh drew the final round game with compatriot S P Sethuraman to score seven points in all and finish second in the overall standings. Sethuraman also did well for his fourth place finish making it an Indian domination in Philadelphia.
"This was quite satisfying performance and I am also happy for my colleague Venkatesh who made his long overdue GM title here," said Gupta, adding that he was happy for Venkatesh who now becomes a GM.
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Israel-India team chess match from April 2-4
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Hi everyone,
According to an Indian chess news report, Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran will head the Indian team in a special match with Israel from April 2 to 4 in New Delhi. The match is being organised as a curtainraiser to the upcoming World Chess Championship to be held in May in Moscow. Besides Sasikiran, GM and current National Champion Abhijeet Gupta, Grandmaster B Adhiban and Grandmaster G N Gopal complete the Indian line up.
The Israeli team includes Grandmaster Illya Smirin, Grandmaster Tal Baron, Grandmaster Vitaly Golod and Gil Popliski. The match will be spread over three rounds and each player will play against all players of the other country at least once. There will be 12 games in all.
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Congratulations to GM Abhijeet Gupta for winning London Chess Classic Open Tournament 2011
Chess Blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011Hello 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
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Name
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Score
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Fed.
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Rating
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1
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GM Gupta, Abhijeet
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8.0
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IND
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2640
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2
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IM Grover, Sahaj
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7.5
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IND
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2515
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3
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GM Jones, Gawain C B
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7.0
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ENG
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2635
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4
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GM Hillarp Persson, Tiger
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7.0
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SWE
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2530
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5
|
IM Das, Arghyadip
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7.0
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IND
|
2470
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6
|
GM Summerscale, A P
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7.0
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ENG
|
2422
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7
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IM D`Costa, Lorin A R
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7.0
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ENG
|
2409
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8
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GM Cornette, Matthieu
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6.5
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FRA
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2548
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9
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GM Wells, Peter K
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6.5
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ENG
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2492
|
10
|
IM Smith, Axel
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6.5
|
SWE
|
2480
|
11
|
IM Hunt, Adam C
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6.5
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ENG
|
2458
|
12
|
IM Pert, Richard G
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6.5
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ENG
|
2455
|
13
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GM Arkell, Keith C
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6.5
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ENG
|
2418
|
14
|
IM Houska, Jovanka
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6.5
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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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GM Abhijeet Gupta wins Vizag International Chess Open on tiebreak
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
Congratulations to GM Abhijeet Gupta for maintaining his good chess run. Right after winning the Indian national chess championship, he has won the Vizag Open Chess Tournament in the city of Visakhapatnam, India. Despite a last-round loss, he won the event on tiebreak. The 11-round tournament had 200 players competing for the top prize.
Here are the top-20 standings
1. GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2640 – 8.5
2. GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 2566 – 8.5
3. GM Petrosian Tigran L ARM 2636 – 8.5
4. GM Danielsen Henrik ISL 2542 – 8.5
5. IM Lalith Babu M R IND 2484 – 8.5
6. GM Andriasian Zaven ARM 2619 – 8
7. IM Grover Sahaj IND 2515 – 8
8. IM Shyam Sundar M IND 2462 – 8
9. IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2455 – 8
10. GM Arun Prasad S IND 2530 – 8
11. Krishna C R G IND 2305 – 7.5
12. GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2485 – 7.5
13. IM Vaibhav Suri IND 2448 – 7.5
14. GM Sumets Andrey UKR 2569 – 7.5
15. IM Anwesh Upadhyaya IND 2413 – 7.5
16. Swayams Mishra IND 2386 – 7.5
17. FM Minhazuddin Ahmed BAN 2388 – 7.5
18. Navin Kanna T U IND 2377 – 7.5
19. GM Murshed Niaz BAN 2435 – 7.5
20. GM Laxman R R IND 2431 – 7.5
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GM Abhijeet Gupta leads Vizag GM Chess Open after 9 rounds
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Hello everyone,
Indian national chess champion Abhijeet Gupta leads the Vizag GM International Open Chess Championship taking place from November 23 to December 1 in Visakhapatnam, India.
The 11-round Swiss tournament with 198 participants saw Gupta go into the lead after 9 rounds a full point ahead of the rest of the field.
Round 9 standings:
1. GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2640 – 8.0
2-9. GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2485, GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 2566, IM Vaibhav Suri IND 2448, IM Grover Sahaj IND 2515, GM Andriasian Zaven ARM 2619, GM Petrosian Tigran L ARM 2636, GM Danielsen Henrik ISL 2542 and IM Lalith Babu M R IND 2484 – 7.0
10-21. Krishna C R G IND 2305, IM Shyam Sundar M IND 2462, GM Sumets Andrey UKR 2569, IM Anwesh Upadhyaya IND 2413, Navin Kanna T U IND 2377, Swayams Mishra IND 2386, IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2455, IM Swapnil S Dhopade IND 2435, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J IND 2492, IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND 2436, FM Rajesh V A V IND 2338 and IM Sangma Rahul IND 2357 – 6.5 etc
Round 10 top pairings:
- GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2640 – IM Grover Sahaj IND 2515
- GM Danielsen Henrik ISL 2542 – GM Petrosian Tigran L ARM 2636
- GM Andriasian Zaven ARM 2619 – GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 2566
- IM Vaibhav Suri IND 2448 – GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2485
- IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2455 – IM Lalith Babu M R IND 2484
- GM Sumets Andrey UKR 2569 – Krishna C R G IND 2305
- FM Rajesh V A V IND 2338 – GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J IND 2492
- IM Sangma Rahul IND 2357 – IM Shyam Sundar M IND 2462
- Navin Kanna T U IND 2377 – IM Venkatesh M R IND 2499
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