GM Boris Savchenko wins second tournament in a row

Russian Grandmaster Boris Savchenko, with 8 points from 10 rounds, emerged champion in the inaugural Tetrasoft Grandmaster Open tournament (20th to 27th of August) JW Marriot Hotel, Hyderabad yesterday. This was his second tournament victory in a row after Athens of the East International Open which was held in Madurai, Tamil Nadu earlier this month.

Boris was tied for the top spot with Ukraine’s Adam Tukhaev on eight points each. However, Boris defeated Tukhaev in the 10th round and that helped him lay his hands on the trophy and get richer by Rs 2.5 lakh.

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The runner-up, GM Adam Tukhaev, took home Rs 2 lakh. With 7.5 points, Tajikistan’s Khusenkhojaev Muhammad took the third place.

In other results, Odisha’s Sahoo Utkal Ranjan was the best performing Indian player, with a 5th place finish. Tied on second place with GM Laxman RR, Hari Madhavan and Kaustuv Kundu. Reigning National Sub-junior Champion and local talent Raja Ritvik was declared the best Telangana player at 10th position with 7 points.

Sports Authority of Telangana State (SATS) chairman A Venkateshwar Reddy and VC and MD A Dinakar Babu distributed the trophies and cash awards to the winners.

Final Ranking

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	1	GM	Savchenko Boris	RUS	2576	Russia	8,0	1,0	59,5	63,0	50,50	7
2	3	GM	Tukhaev Adam	UKR	2541	Ukraine	8,0	0,0	60,5	65,0	51,00	7
3	7	IM	Khusenkhojaev Muhammad	TJK	2442	Tajikishtan	7,5	0,0	63,0	66,5	48,00	5
4	4	IM	Triapishko Alexandr	RUS	2519	Russia	7,5	0,0	59,5	65,5	47,25	6
5	18		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND	2278	Odisha – India	7,5	0,0	58,5	63,5	45,50	6
6	8	GM	Laxman R.R.	IND	2426	ICF	7,5	0,0	57,5	60,0	41,75	6
7	23		Hari Madhavan N B	IND	2231	Tamil Nadu – India	7,5	0,0	53,5	57,0	41,75	5
8	16		Kaustuv Kundu	IND	2295	West Bengal – India	7,5	0,0	52,5	56,5	41,25	6
9	5	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	2509	Iran	7,0	0,0	60,5	66,0	43,50	5
10	12	IM	Raja Rithvik R	IND	2364	Telangana – India	7,0	0,0	58,0	62,5	41,00	6
11	14		Pranav V	IND	2316	Tamil Nadu – India	7,0	0,0	57,0	59,5	38,00	6
12	2	GM	Smirnov Pavel	RUS	2574	Russia	7,0	0,0	56,0	59,5	39,00	6
13	19	FM	Aaryan Varshney	IND	2272	Delhi – India	7,0	0,0	55,0	60,0	40,75	5
14	20	CM	Kushagra Mohan	IND	2252	Telangana – India	7,0	0,0	53,5	57,5	37,00	6
15	10		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	2416	Maharashtra – India	7,0	0,0	52,5	56,5	37,00	6
16	24	GM	Ziatdinov Raset	USA	2228	USA	7,0	0,0	51,5	55,5	37,25	5
17	55		Ayushh Ravikumar	IND	1907	Tamil Nadu – India	7,0	0,0	50,5	54,5	36,00	5
18	26		Baivab Mishra	IND	2215	Odisha – India	7,0	0,0	49,5	53,5	34,75	6
19	28	FM	Ramakrishna J.	IND	2155	Andhra Bank	7,0	0,0	46,5	50,0	34,75	6
20	13	IM	Rathnakaran K.	IND	2337	S Rly	6,5	0,0	60,5	64,5	40,00	5
21	9	GM	Karthikeyan P.	IND	2422	ICF	6,5	0,0	59,0	63,5	38,25	6
22	11	IM	Muthaiah Al	IND	2384	Tamil Nadu – India	6,5	0,0	58,0	62,0	38,00	4
23	15		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	IND	2299	Andhra Pradesh – India	6,5	0,0	57,0	60,5	35,50	5
24	35		Manish Kumar (2006)	IND	2053	Odisha – India	6,5	0,0	56,0	59,0	33,50	6
25	29		Surendran N	IND	2152	Tamil Nadu – India	6,5	0,0	55,0	59,5	35,50	6