Debashis Das shares lead – All India Chess Federation

New Delhi (12 Jan 19):-Odisha Grandmaster Debashis Das continued with his winning ways and downed Neelash Saha to share lead in the 17th Delhi International Chess Tournament now underway here.

Scoring his fifth victory in as many games, Debashis edged ahead of the field and will take on co-leader Grandmaster GM Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran in the important sixth round game.

Neelash Saha, rated 2300 went for unusual moves in the opening and Debashis took his chances with black pieces to enter wild complexities. The game was already in Debashis’ favour in the early middle game and the Odisha-based ensured nothing went wrong for him.

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On top board, GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan of Iran drew with GM Diptayan Ghosh in what turned out to be a little less absorbing contest. Both these players were joined at the second spot by seven other players having 4.5 points apiece.

Local hopeful Vaibhav Suri succumbed to a loss against Siva Mahadevan of Tamil Nadu while Abhijeet Gupta defeated IM Ameir Moheb Egypt to reach 4 points.

The One Crore One Lakh prize money chess festival also has parallel events running with the main International open. The B Group of the big festival ended today with Dhanush Ragav N S of Tamil Nadu bagging the first prize of Rs. 3,01,000/-. Prakash Yadav of Madhya Pradesh finished second and won Rs. 2,01,000/- while Yadav Prem Gopal of Maharashtra was declared third that was worth one lakh one thousand rupees.

The ‘C’ category will begin on Sunday and will have over 1419 players competing in it. The International open carries a total prize money of Rs. 33,00,000/- (Rupees Thirty-three Lakhs).

Pairings

Round 6 on 2019/01/12 at 16:00 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	19	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	2517	5		5	GM	Debashis Das	2538	17
2	14	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2543	4½		4½	GM	Popov Ivan	2588	6
3	15	GM	Stupak Kirill	2542	4½		4½	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2582	8
4	16	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	2541	4½		4½	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2575	10
5	13	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2544	4½		4½	IM	Gukesh D	2497	22
6	3	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2597	4		4½	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	2533	18
7	1	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2621	4		4		Srijit Paul	2373	50
8	5	GM	Rozum Ivan	2589	4		4	IM	Girish A. Koushik	2411	41
9	7	GM	Paichadze Luka	2583	4		4	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2371	52
10	9	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2581	4		4	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2346	56
11	43	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2405	4		4	IM	Erigaisi Arjun	2548	12
12	49	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2373	4		4	IM	Visakh N R	2486	24
13	55	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	2353	4		4	IM	Harsha Bharathakoti	2481	26
14	61	IM	Siva Mahadevan	2333	4		4	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2470	27
15	68		Neelash Saha	2300	4		4	GM	Deviatkin Andrei	2461	28
16	73	FM	Gajwa Ankit	2263	4		4	IM	Vignesh N R	2461	29
17	91		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2197	4		4	IM	Das Sayantan	2451	32
18	95		Nayak Rajesh	2181	4		4	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2446	34
19	101		Patil Pratik	2161	4		4	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2437	38
20	39	GM	Czebe Attila	2418	4		4	CM	Aditya Mittal	2251	76