Delhi GM Open 2018 Rd. 04: Ziaur Rahman beats Tran Tuan Minh to take sole lead

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IGI Stadium, Delhi (11-Jan.-2018): 24th seed GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh defeated Vietnamese GM Tran Tuan Minh to emerge as the new sole leader after the end of the fourth round of 16th Delhi International Chess tournament now underway here.

At the end of three rounds, eleven players were tied at 3.0/3. Rahman showed immense discipline and skill to beat Tran Tuan.

It was a Trompovsky Opening from Rahman who had the white pieces but Tran Minh played pretty accurately and was having a better position. Early in the middlegame, Black had stifled the position on the kingside where Rahman had swung his rook. Meanwhile, Rahman had expanded on the queenside.

But Tran Minh made a very strange move when he castled kingside where Rahman was able to break open the position and swiftly drum up an attack on black’s king.

All other co-leaders could only draw their games and hence, the Bangladeshi grandmaster leads alone with 4.0/4.

In the B-Category with 783 players being held simultaneously, 8 rounds of play have been completed and with two rounds to go. Shubham of Haryana rated 1915, and Subhra Saha, of West Bengal, rated 1727, lead together with 7.5/8

Pairings/Results

Round 4 on 2018/01/11 at 10:00 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2610	3	½ – ½	3	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2475	22
2	9	GM	Solodovnichenko Yuri	2571	3	½ – ½	3		Arjun Kalyan	2407	36
3	23	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2472	3	1 – 0	3	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	2548	14
4	40	FM	Erigaisi Arjun	2386	3	½ – ½	3	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2542	16
5	42	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2380	3	½ – ½	3	GM	Pruijssers Roeland	2536	18
6	1	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2701	2½	1 – 0	3		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2337	49
7	41	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2382	2½	0 – 1	2½	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2636	2
8	43	IM	Abhishek Kelkar	2378	2½	0 – 1	2½	GM	Sengupta Deep	2586	6
9	7	GM	Tiviakov Sergei	2584	2½	1 – 0	2½	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2372	45
10	53	FM	Hafiz Arif Abdul	2324	2½	0 – 1	2½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2580	8