The 2nd DCA Open has a rousing start!

9 years ago

The 2nd edition of Delhi Open FIDE Rated Tournament kicked off in Hotel Caspia, Delhi. This year’s tournament has a whopping prize fund of Rs. 17,77,000/- which attracted a total number of 481 players from across the country, including 2 Grandmasters, 8 International Masters and 419 International rated players.

Top-seeds had a smooth sailing in the first three rounds. Until IM Himal Gussain (CHAN) was held to draw on board one by experienced veteran player O.T Anilkumar of Kerala. Also, on board 3, GM Venkatesh M.R (TN) couldn’t squeeze a win against Rahul Verma (MAH) in the fourth round.

CM Aronyak Ghosh (WB) drew IM Arghyadip Das (RLYS)

IM Chakravarthi Reddy (TEL) defeated Samriddhaa Ghosh (WB) in the fifth round.

Going to the sixth round, six players are jointly leading the tournament with 05/5 points.

Pairings/Results

Round 6 on 2017/10/13 at 1530 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	10	IM	Sangma Rahul	2311	5		5	IM	Abhishek Kelkar	2403	4
2	11		Shailesh Dravid	2292	5		5	GM	Laxman R.R.	2392	6
3	7	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	2353	5		5	FM	Matta Vinay Kumar	2288	12
4	1	IM	Gusain Himal	2454	4½		4½		Badrinath S.	2035	24
5	17		Pranav Shetty	2159	4½		4½	IM	Das Arghyadip	2434	2
6	35		Priyanka Kumari	1973	4½		4½	IM	Hemant Sharma (del)	2342	8
7	9	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2326	4½		4½		Raghav Srivathsav V	1967	38
8	15	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	2185	4½		4½		Bhanot Stuti	1805	95
9	37		Arun Rathi	1970	4½		4		Patil Pratik	2212	14
10	3	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2418	4		4		Rishabh Nishad	1904	60
11	5		Saravana Krishnan P.	2396	4		4		Ashish Kumar	1896	62
12	67		Anurag Jaiswal	1886	4		4	CM	Kushagra Mohan	2215	13
13	71		Saksham Rautela	1877	4		4		Joshi Govind Ballabh	2163	16
14	73		Naveen S Hegde	1874	4		4		Deepak Katiyar	2106	20
15	23		Ganesh Babu S	2054	4		4		Shubham	1890	64