Aravindh in the lead – All India Chess Federation

National Open Senior Chess Championship 2018

Report by I.A Ganesh Babu S

GM Aravindh Chidhambaram emerged as a sole leader at the end of 4th round of National Senior Open Chess championship, organized by All J&K Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation, at Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust— Jammu.

Aravindh playing with black pieces against English opening by IM Karthikeyan of RSPB, took the pawn majority on the queenside and exchanged all the pieces resulting in a winning king and pawn endgame in 42 moves.

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On the second spot, thirteen players are with 3.5 points. The other overnight leader GM Deep Sen Gupta of PSPB could not convert his slight advantage in the opening against Ritviz Parab of Goa ended up in a draw.

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Top seeded GM Abhijeet Gupta’s powerful seventh rank rooks ensured him a victory against IM VAV Rajesh of Tamil Nadu on board 3.

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Fifty-nine-year-old GM Pravin thipsay sacrificed an exchange in order to open up the kingside against GM Karthikeyan Murali, where he missed out the equal position and gave back the exchange resulting in weakening the king’s position. Soon Thipsay converted into advantage with two pawns up and won the game in 33 moves.

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GM Karthik Venkataraman overlooked a piece sacrifice on 27th move by IM Rathnakaran, who completely destroyed karthik’s kingside which forced him to resign in 34 moves.

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An another overwhelming result by IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy beat GM Tejas Bakre of Air India, earlier he won against GM M R Venkatesh of PSPB.

Important results of Round4:

Bo.		Name	IRtg	Club	Pts	Res.	Pts		Name	IRtg	Club
1	IM	Karthikeyan P.	2482	RSPB	3	0 – 1	3	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2584	TN
2	GM	Sengupta Deep	2565	PSPB	3	½ – ½	3		Ritviz Parab	2338	GOA
3	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2597	PSPB	2½	1 – 0	2½	IM	Rajesh V A V	2402	TN
4	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2400	MAH	2½	1 – 0	2½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2591	PSPB
5	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2589	PSPB	2½	1 – 0	2½	IM	Satyapragyan Swayangsu	2394	AI
6	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2550	RSPB	2½	1 – 0	2½	IM	Gusain Himal	2379	RSPB
7	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2527	AP	2½	0 – 1	2½	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2366	RSPB
8	IM	Rahul Srivatshav P	2379	TEL	2½	½ – ½	2½	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	2518	TN
9		Raahul V S	2381	TN	2½	0 – 1	2½	IM	Stany G.A.	2509	AAI
10	GM	Anurag Mhamal	2491	GOA	2½	1 – 0	2½	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2346	TN
11		Neelash Saha	2351	WB	2½	½ – ½	2½	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2490	RSPB
12	FM	Srihari L R	2316	TN	2½	0 – 1	2½	IM	Vignesh N R	2455	TN
13	IM	Girinath P.D.S.	2313	RSPB	2½	½ – ½	2½	IM	Akash G	2443	TN
14	GM	Laxman R.R.	2436	RSPB	2½	1 – 0	2½		Srijit Paul	2298	WB
15	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2282	PSPB	2½	1 – 0	2½	GM	Bakre Tejas	2433	AI
16	GM	Neelotpal Das	2412	PSPB	2½	1 – 0	2½		Bhambure Shantanu	2223	MAH

Pairings of Round 5 (top 10 Boards)

Bo.		Name	IRtg	Club	Pts	Res.	Pts		Name	IRtg	Club
1	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2584	TN	4	–	3½	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2597	PSPB
2	GM	Laxman R.R.	2436	RSPB	3½	–	3½	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2589	PSPB
3	GM	Neelotpal Das	2412	PSPB	3½	–	3½	GM	Sengupta Deep	2565	PSPB
4		Ritviz Parab	2338	GOA	3½	–	3½	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2550	RSPB
5	IM	Stany G.A.	2509	AAI	3½	–	3½	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2400	MAH
6	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2366	RSPB	3½	–	3½	GM	Anurag Mhamal	2491	GOA
7	IM	Vignesh N R	2455	TN	3½	–	3½	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2282	PSPB
8	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	2518	TN	3	–	3	FM	Jubin Jimmy	2267	KER
9	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2490	RSPB	3	–	3		Nayak Rajesh	2173	ORI
10		Surendran N	2176	TN	3	–	3	IM	Karthikeyan P.	2482	RSPB