Chigorin Memorial: Indians struggle

8 years ago

Photo by Lennart Ootes

St. Petersburg, Russia: Just a few days ago, WIM Vaishali R. had made the nation proud by finishing 3rd in the M. Chigorin Blitz Tournament. In the Classical section, however, Indians are yet to gain momentum as Grandmasters Sethuraman S.P. and Deep Sengupta are on 3 points each at the end of four rounds.

In a formidable field of 356 players, including 16 Indians, International chess festival “M.Chigorin Memorial” 2017 has commenced on 20th October and will end on 29th of this month. The time control is 90 minutes and 30 seconds increment per move from move 1 for this 9 rounds event.

IM Abdusattorov Nodirbek (UZB) caused an upset in the 4th round by defeating GM. S.P. Sethuraman.

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GM Artemiev Vladislav (RUS) along with five players is jointly leading the tournament with 5.0/5 points.

Player overview for IND

SNo		Name	Rtg	RtgN	FED	1	2	3	4	Pts.	Rk.
4	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2632	0	IND	1	1	1	0	3,0	34
11	GM	Sengupta Deep	2587	0	IND	0	1	1	1	3,0	73
33	IM	Praggnanandhaa R	2503	0	IND	1	0	1	0	2,0	154
89	FM	Fenil Shah	2350	0	IND	½	1	0	1	2,5	124
104	WIM	Vaishali R	2330	0	IND	1	½	0	1	2,5	114
106	WGM	Soumya Swaminathan	2320	0	IND	½	1	½	1	3,0	69
142		Moksh Amit Doshi	2222	0	IND	1	½	0	1	2,5	115
160	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	2190	0	IND	1	½	½	½	2,5	99
190		Manush Shah	2109	0	IND	½	1	0	0	1,5	243
203		Bhambure Shantanu	2088	0	IND	0	1	0	1	2,0	183
218	WFM	Divya Deshmukh	2051	0	IND	0	1	0	1	2,0	200
234	WIM	Gagare Shalmali	2013	0	IND	0	1	0	1	2,0	218
284		Anant Prabhudesai	1869	0	IND	0	1	0	0	1,0	279
291		Thrish Karthik	1843	0	IND	1	0	0	½	1,5	237
312		Patel Palak	1741	0	IND	0	0	1	1	2,0	224
335		Pradeep Pandya	1571	0	IND	0	0	0	½	0,5	342