Georgian GM Pantsulaia wins Delhi International Chess

New Delhi (16 Jan 19) :-Third seed Grandmaster Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia won the 17th Delhi International Chess tournament 2019 after settling for a quick draw with Grandmaster S.L Narayanan in the 10th and final round that concluded here.

It was a seven way tie at the top between Levan Pantsulaia (Georgia), Mosadeghpour Masoud (Iran), Stupak Kirill (Belarus), Amonatov Farrukh (Tajikistan), Diptayan Ghosh, Abhijeet Gupta, and Narayanan.S.L on eight points apiece in the event but Levan was declared the winner based on his better tiebreak.

While Levan got richer by Rs. 6,00,000/- , Mosadeghpour Masoud got Rs. 5,00,000/- and Stupak Kirill took Rs. 4,00,000/- from the total kitty of over one crore one lakh prize money split over three categories.

IM Visakh NR scored his third and final GM norm here. He is all set to become India’s 59th Grandmaster.

There were norms galore at the tournament. International Masters Gukesh D and Visakh NR secured GM norms while Aditya Mittal, Saurabh Ananad, Bharat Kumar Reddy and Neelash Saha scored IM Norms respectively. Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh scored a Women’s International Master norm from her performance here. Mounika beat Kamdar Udit in her final round game.

Meanwhile in the ‘C’ group, Bir Kumar of Bihar won the first prize. Scoring 9.5 points out of a possible ten, Bir Kumar stayed a half point ahead of Nischay Sharma of Madhya Pradesh and Rishi R of Tamil Nadu who both tied for the second spot on nine points but the former was declared the runners up based on his better tiebreak.

Final Standings

Rk.		Name	Typ	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.
1	GM	Pantsulaia Levan		GEO	2597	GEO	8,0
2	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud		IRI	2517	IRI	8,0
3	GM	Stupak Kirill		BLR	2542	BLR	8,0
4	GM	Amonatov Farrukh		TJK	2621	TJK	8,0
5	GM	Ghosh Diptayan		IND	2544	Wes	8,0
6	GM	Gupta Abhijeet		IND	2581	Del	8,0
7	GM	Narayanan.S.L		IND	2575	Ker	8,0
8	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan		IRI	2533	IRI	7,5
9	GM	Predke Alexandr		RUS	2620	RUS	7,5
10	GM	Tran Tuan Minh		VIE	2541	VIE	7,5
11	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2543	ICF	7,5
12	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade		IND	2487	Mah	7,5
13	IM	Harsha Bharathakoti		IND	2481	Tel	7,5
14		Pranav V	U15	IND	2318	TN	7,5
15	IM	Gukesh D	U15	IND	2497	TN	7,0
16	GM	Debashis Das		IND	2538	Ori	7,0
17	GM	Erigaisi Arjun		IND	2548	Tel	7,0
18	IM	Visakh N R		IND	2486	TN	7,0
19	IM	Vignesh N R		IND	2461	TN	7,0
20	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej		BLR	2582	BLR	7,0
21	GM	Rozum Ivan		RUS	2589	RUS	7,0
22	GM	Movsziszian Karen		ARM	2514	ARM	7,0
23	CM	Aditya Mittal	U15	IND	2251	Mah	7,0
24	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh		IND	2437	Mah	7,0
25	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim		RUS	2445	RUS	7,0
26	IM	Muthaiah Al		IND	2406	TN	7,0
27	GM	Paichadze Luka		GEO	2583	GEO	7,0
28	FM	Shailesh Dravid		IND	2334	Mah	7,0
29	IM	Karthikeyan P.		IND	2457	Rlwys	7,0
30	IM	Khusenkhojaev Muhammad		TJK	2455	TJK	7,0