Iniyan wins World Cup Qualifier

AICF Office 3 years ago

With a superlative performance in the AICF World Cup Qualifier, Grandmaster P Iniyan booked his tickets to Sochi for the World Cup 2021.

The online 17 player round robin tournament at Tornelo platform was organized by All India Chess Federation to select a player for the World Cup 2021 after Asian Continental Hybrid Chess Championship got cancelled at Indian venues due to surge in Covid cases.

Iniyan registered 12 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw in the process to earn 12 ½ points while Grandmaster D Gukesh also scored identical score but Direct Encounter tie break helped Iniyan to book the only berth for the world cup. Grandmaster Sethuraman S P finished third with 10½ points while experienced campaigner Surya Sekhar Ganguly finished fourth with 10 points.

All India Chess Federation congratulate P Iniyan for winning the Qualifier and wish him the very best for the World Cup. Further we extend our heartfelt thanks to all the players for their whole hearted support and cooperation for the event following an unprecedented situation.

We congratulate the Arbiters team of Dharmendra Kumar, Gopakumar M S and Vivek Sohani for meticulously conducting the event without any issues.

All India Chess Federation takes this opportunity to extend our sincere gratitude to Prof Ken Regan for his invaluable contribution for the success of the event.

The final standings:-

Rank		Name	Rtg	Pts	Res.	SB	Vict	Vict
1	GM	P Iniyan	2506	12½	1	91.25	12	5
2	GM	Gukesh D	2578	12½	0	88.00	10	6
3	GM	S.p Sethuraman	2644	10½	0	69.25	8	4
4	GM	Sekhar Ganguly Surya	2625	10	3	78.75	9	4
5	GM	S.L Narayanan	2624	10	1½	69.00	7	2
6	IM	S. Nitin	2381	10	1	65.50	9	4
7	IM	Rithvik R Raja	2408	10	½	67.50	8	4
8	IM	Srivatshav Peddi Rahul	2463	9	0	67.25	8	3
9	GM	Baskaran Adhiban	2660	8½	0	59.00	6	1
10	GM	Sengupta Deep	2527	8	0	51.75	7	3
11	IM	Mittal Aditya	2438	7½	0	53.50	6	1
12	GM	Vasanthan Perumal Vishnu Prasanna	2476	6½	0	48.00	5	3
13	IM	Krishna Crg	2478	6	0	40.75	5	2
14	IM	Swaminathan Soumya	2351	5	0	32.00	3	1
15	FM	Vinay Kumar Matta	2305	4	1	26.50	4	1
16	IM	Krishnan P Saravana	2312	4	0	22.75	3	1
17	FM	Singhania Vatsal	2371	2	0	9.75	1	0