Six share lead in 2nd Gujarat Grandmaster Open

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The 2nd Gujarat International Grandmaster Open is a 10-round Swiss tournament taking place from 22-29 September 2019 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The tournament consists of an impressive cash pool of Rs. 25,00,000/- The category A of the event is meant for players rated 2000 or above, while categories B and C are reserved for players below 1999 and 1599 respectively. A total of 206 players are competing in category A of the tournament and had attracted participants from across 13 different nations.

The tournament was inaugurated on 22nd September by Shri Ajay Patel (President Emeritus, Gujarat State Chess Association), Shri Bhavesh Patel (CEO, Gujarat State Chess Association), Shri Jayesh Modi (President, Karnavati Club), Shri Mayur Patel (Vice President, Gujarat State Chess Association), Shri Samir Shah (Treasurer, Gujarat State Chess Association), and Shri Tejas Bakre (1st GM of Gujarat).

There were quite a few major upsets at the start of the tournament. Notably, GM Laxman R.R, fresh from his major win in the Pearl City Open, Hyderabad, had tasted a sour defeat at the hands of unheralded 12-year-old Sai Varshith Chilukuri in the first round.

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In the second round, second-seed GM Deepan Chakkravarthy was held to a draw by local lad Anadkat Kartavya while GM Rahman Ziaur had to split point with Rathneesh R of Tamil Nadu.

At the end of round 4, four Grandmasters Saptarshi Roy, Sandipan Chanda, Rozum Ivan, and Lugovskoy Maxim; two International Masters Sayantan Das and Rathnakaran K. emerge as leaders with 100% score respectively.

Pairings

Round 5 on 2019/09/25 at 09:30 A.M.

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	9	IM	Das Sayantan	2434	4		4	GM	Rozum Ivan	2596	1
2	11	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim	2422	4		4	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2529	3
3	27	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2325	4		4	GM	Saptarshi Roy	2480	5
4	6	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2476	3½		3½	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2357	23
5	29		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2304	3½		3½	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	2454	7
6	14	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2408	3½		3½	CM	Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan	1956	79
7	25	IM	Neelash Saha	2334	3½		3½	IM	Eraschenkov Denis	2390	17
8	2	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2539	3		3	IM	Abu Sufian Shakil	2255	34
9	4	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2492	3		3		Nayak Rajesh	2227	37
10	10	GM	Neelotpal Das	2433	3		3	GM	Ziatdinov Raset	2222	38
11	40	IM	Deshmukh Anup	2193	3		3	GM	Himanshu Sharma	2408	13
12	52		Pranav Shetty	2124	3		3	GM	Murshed Niaz	2405	15
13	16	GM	Hesham Abdelrahman	2396	3		3		Aradhya Garg	2157	49
14	56		Thanki Hemal Karsanji	2098	3		3	GM	Manik Mikulas	2375	19
15	21	FM	Siddharth Jagadeesh	2362	3		3		Zia Tahsin Tajwar	2142	51
16	22	IM	Nitin S.	2361	3		3	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	2102	55
17	24	FM	Manush Shah	2352	3		3		Barath Kalyan M	2092	59
18	26		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	2329	3		3		Kishan Gangolli	2089	60
19	28		Pranav V	2308	3		3		Satkar Chirag	2052	65
20	31	FM	Shailesh Dravid	2299	3		3		Adarsh Tripathi	1915	90