Delhi International Chess Begins with Abhijeet Gupta as Top Seed

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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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Rose Valley Chess Video: GM Marat Dzhumaev Marat Wins on Tiebreak

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012

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Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan)

GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan has won the Rose Valley Chess Open - billed as Asia's biggest chess open - in Kolkata, by defeating International Master V Vishnu Prasanna in the 11th and final round that concluded here at Gorky Sadan. Second place went to Indian GM S P Sethuraman as he had to to be content with a second place finish after drawing with second seed Grandmaster Anton Korobov of Ukraine. Like Dzhumaev, Sethuraman also scored eight points out of a possible 11 but the Uzbek had better tiebreak score, according to a press release.

GM Marat at 07:30

In a eight-way tie for the third place Grandmaster-in-waiting Vidit Santosh Gujarathi turned up with the best tiebreak score and finished third overall. Top seed Radoslav Wostajzek of Poland finished fourth, while Kolkata’s own Deep Sengupta ended fifth.

Anton Korobov, Swapnil Dhopade, Ni Hua of China, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Sergei Tiviakov of Holland finished sixth to tenth respectively.

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