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Delhi GM Open 2018 Rd. 02: Walkover Shocker for the fourth-seeded Timur Gareyev

7 years ago

Photo Credits: David Llada

New Delhi (10 Jan 18): The games had begun, the top seeds were comfortably seated on their boards. For the professional star players, it was yet another day at work. 14-year-old Koustav Chatterjee, rated 2288, was the only player waiting anxiously for his opponent. American GM Timur Gareyev, rated 2605, had ‘left’ the official car and had not reached the venue. He had decided that he will come to the venue on his own. The clock was ticking and the walkover time-limit of 30 minutes was fast approaching.

Already in the second round, the games began to become tougher than normal for all the top seeds. Azeri GM Arkadij Naiditsch, the top seed with a rating of 2701, had another normal day at the office as he managed to defeat Egyptian Adham Kandil, rated 2294.

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Third seed Arjuna Awardee GM Abhijeet Gupta rated 2610, also had a not so difficult time in dispatching FM Ankit Gajwa, rated 2284.

GM Abhijeet Gupta [Photo: David Llada]

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On the second table, unheralded Tamil Nadu youngster A.L. Muthiah rated 2291, managed to hold the second seed GM Amonatov Farrukh, rated 2636 to a draw. It was a Reti Opening in which Muthiah was applying steady pressure on the queenside with the white pieces. Around the 40th move, the Indian had a chance to keep up the pressure and go to an endgame a pawn up. But with less time on the clock, Muthiah decided to repeat his position and take the draw instead.

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Meanwhile, Timur Gareyev did reach the venue, but not on time. He was three minutes late. The chief arbiter Vasanth BH decided to award the point to the young Koustov Chatterjee.

GM Timur Gareyev

 

Gareyev commented, “I was in the process of changing the rooms in my hotel and hence, was delayed. The kid played a nice game and it was probably drawish but he blundered in the end and lost.” Gareyev sportingly decided to put the incident behind him and to focus on playing well in the rest of the tournament.

The tenth-seeded GM Diptayan Ghosh, rated 2556, was playing Odisha’s Rajesh Nayak, rated 2247. Diptayan had a completely winning position with the white pieces but a hasty 36.f5 break, which turned out to be a blunder, meant that he had to settle only for a draw.

Pairings/Results

Round 2 on 2018/01/10 at 09:30 hrs

Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 1 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2701 1 1 – 0 1 IM Kandil Adham 2294 68
2 69 Muthaiah Al 2291 1 ½ – ½ 1 GM Amonatov Farrukh 2636 2
3 3 GM Gupta Abhijeet 2610 1 1 – 0 1 FM Gajwa Ankit 2284 72
4 71 Koustav Chatterjee 2288 1 + – – 1 GM Gareyev Timur 2605 4
5 5 GM Rozum Ivan 2595 1 1 – 0 1 Ajay Krishna S 2280 74
6 73 FM Rathanvel V S 2284 1 0 – 1 1 GM Sengupta Deep 2586 6
7 7 GM Tiviakov Sergei 2584 1 1 – 0 1 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 2269 76
8 75 FM Srinath Rao S.V. 2270 1 0 – 1 1 GM Karthikeyan Murali 2580 8
9 9 GM Solodovnichenko Yuri 2571 1 1 – 0 1 Saurabh Anand 2251 78
10 11 GM Ghosh Diptayan 2556 1 ½ – ½ 1 Nayak Rajesh 2247 80

 

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