GM Diptayan Ghosh beats GM Ziaur Rahman in 7 moves

Indian GM Diptayan Ghosh joined four other players to jointly lead the 17th Delhi International Grandmaster Chess Tournament at the end of 7th round today.

Diptayan won in just 7 moves after the Bangladeshi Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman made a costly mistake. The game turned out be the fastest game to get over in round 7.

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Ziaur played the innocuous looking pawn move c2-c4 on move 6. Diptayan immediately captured the pawn—attacking the light-squared Bishop and threatening Qa5+ discovered Check. Ziaur resigned on the next move.

Top seed GM Amonatov Farrukh and GM Debashis Das, who were the other leaders at the end of sixth round, settled for a draw in 45 moves.

On third board, GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus was outplayed by Vietnamese GM Tran Tuan Minh, winner of Bhopal Grandmaster Open 2018.

Among the local favourites, Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta drew his game against Iran’s Ghaem Maghami Ehsan and moved to 5.5 points. Abhijeet will need a good finish in the last three remaining rounds.

With three rounds to go, Grandmasters Diptayan Ghosh, Debashis Das, Mosadeghpour Masoud, Tran Tuan Minh and Stupak Kirill are the five leaders.

The One Crore One Lakh prize money chess festival also has parallel events running with the main International open. The final event is called the ‘C’ category. The record books have been rewritten again as the event has participation of over 1535 players and carries a total prize money of Rs. 33,00,000/- (Rupees Thirty-three Lakhs).

Pairings

Round 8 on 2019/01/14 at 10:00 hrs

Photos by David Llada