Chennai International Chess Open 2013: Babu, Gujrathi, Mozharov Lead after Five Rounds
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013
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Five rounds have been played at the open chess tournament being held along with the Anand vs Carlsen Chennai World Chess Championship 2013. Grandmaster M R Lalith Babu of India defeated GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel of Armenia and now shares the lead with GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (India) and IM Mozharov Mikhail (Russia) among others. All the leaders have 4.5 points.
Results (Round 5): (Indians unless specified): M R Lalith Babu (4.5) bt Ter-Sahakyan Samvel (Arm) 4, Guramishvili Sopiko (Geo) 3.5 lost to Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (4.5), Mirozev Azer (Aze) 4 drew with V Vishnu Prasanna (4), Loeffler Stefan(Ger) 3.5 lost to Mozharov Mikhail (Rus) 4.5, Popov Ivan (Rus) 4 bt Karthikeyan Murali (3.5), Babujian Levon (Arm) 4 bt Petrosyan Tigran S (Arm) 3, R R Laxman (3.5) drew with Papin Vasily (Rus) 3.5, T U Navin Kanna (3) lost to Drazic Sinisa (Srb) 4, Swapnil S Dhopade (3) lost to Sardana Rishi (Aus) 4, N R Vignesh (3.5) drew with Shardul Gagare (3.5).
Labels: chennai international chess open, Magnus Carlsen, mikhail mozharov, mr lalith babu, vidit gujrathi, Viswanathan Anand
GM Ziaur Rahman Wins Nagpur Chess Open 2012
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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Bangladesh Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman has won the Nagpur Open Chess tournament with a last round draw with IM Ankit Rajpara. Both Rahman and GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (who registered a hard-fought win over top Indian GM Lalith Babu) tied for the top score, but Rahman won on the Buchholz tie-break.
Ziaur, who had an impressive second-place finish in the Chennai open chess tournament in 2010. Top seed Aleksandrov played a tough game to beat Babu in 76 moves. Martyn Kravtsiv, the second seeded GM from Ukraine, agreed to a quick draw with Bengal's Diptayan Ghosh in a Catalan opening game on the third table. The 15-move draw helped Martyn finish third with 8.5 points while 17-year-old Vidit Gujrathi excelled with a fourth place finish.
FINAL STANDINGS: 1. Ziaur Rahman (9, 77.0), 2. Aleksej Aleksandrov (9, 75.5), 3. Martyn Kravtsiv (8.5, 75.0), 4. Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (8, 75.5), 5. Himanshu Sharma (8, 72.0), 6. Ankit Rajpara (8, 71.0), 7. Sahaj Grover (8, 70.5), 8. Diptayan Ghosh (8, 66.0), 9. Andrey Vovk (8, 65.5), 10. MR Lalith Babu (7.5, 73.5).
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Labels: Aleksej Aleksandrov, diptayan ghosh, lalith babu, nagpur open chess, vidit gujrathi, ziaur rahman
Indian Chess Teen G Akash Breaks Vishy Anand National Chess Title Record
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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Chess statisticians and chess historians might like this chess trivia particularly. We have just received an interesting report by Chess Magazine Black & White. The report is about an Indian chess teen actually scraping off a few months from World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand's Indian national chess title record.
Vidit, Akash and Arun on the podium. others from left: IM Atanu Lahiri, Sec. WB Ad Hoc Committee, R. Anantharam Chief Arbiter, PK Bannerjee former foot ball olympian, Hon. Commerce Minister Partho Chatterjee, DV Sundar, FIDE Vice President, GM Dibyendu Barua, Ambar Singh from TATA.
The report states: Sixteen-year-old untitled G Akash (born October 1) has won the National Premier Chess Championship in India and is now the country's youngest-ever national chess champion. He earned the title on Sunday scoring 9 points in 13 rounds at the age of 16 years and 14 days!
But, of course, in Anand's case, the world chess champion was already an IM by the age of 15 in 1984. He won that title twice more and became India's first Grandmaster at the age of 18.
World Chess Champion GM Viswanathan Anand had won the national chess title at a few months older than G Akash. The teenager also gets an entry into the World Cup as he picks up an IM title and a GM norm. As India is considered as a separate Zone for the world chess championship qualification matches, Akash will get a direct entry to the World Cup to be held in Tromse, Norway next year.
There was a 3-way tie for the second spot with IM Vidit Gujrathi, GM S Arun Prasad and GM Deep Sengupta all finishing on 8.5 points. But Vidit finished second for having a better 'buchholzs' score. Arun Prasad was placed third while Deep had to be content with the 4th position.
"When I came here, I was only thinking of getting an IM norm, but now I have to set new goals," said Akash after the final round. "I want to dedicate this title to my parents and my coach, Grandmaster RB Ramesh, who has worked hard on my game," he added. A student of computer science at Jawahar Higher Secondary School in Chennai, he gets time to play chess for only two hours daily.
But, aided by a bit of luck, things started turning in his favour from 11th round as M R Venkatesh, who led the pack for four rounds, forfeited his match to the youngster for arriving three minutes late because of traffic.
We find India a very interesting chess country and look forward to new talent coming from there in the footsteps of strong world players like Vishy Anand and Koneru Humpy.
Labels: arun prasad, atanu lahiri, dibyendu barua, g akash, vidit gujrathi, Viswanathan Anand, world chess champion
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Five rounds have been played at the open chess tournament being held along with the Anand vs Carlsen Chennai World Chess Championship 2013. Grandmaster M R Lalith Babu of India defeated GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel of Armenia and now shares the lead with GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (India) and IM Mozharov Mikhail (Russia) among others. All the leaders have 4.5 points.
