Four leaders emerge after 8 rounds – All India Chess Federation

National Open Senior Chess Championship 2018

Report by I.A Ganesh Babu S

Three Players GM Vaibhav Suri, GM Deep Sengupta and IM Stany GA joined the lead with GM Aravindh Chithambaram at the end of the eighth round of ongoing National Open Senior Chess Championship being held at Jammu. Followed by seven players with 6.0 points including the top seed GM Abhijeet Gupta.

Aravindh could not get more than a draw against GM Vishnu Prasanna on board one.

The other over night leader GM Anurag Mhamal lost to IM Stany in 54 moves, where Stany’s powerful double bishops gave him a material advantage in the endgame.

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GM Vaibhav Suri had enough compensation for the pawn by weakening GM Swapnil’s kingside, later his attack on the kingside forced Swapnil to lose the queen and Vaibhav won the game in 73 moves.

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GM Deep Sengupta’s strong attack on the queenside against G B Harshavardhan gave him an extra piece and checkmated him in 73 moves.

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Top seed GM Abhijeet Gupta had a quick victory over Sammed Jayakumar Shete in 27 moves.

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Pairings

Round 9

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	5	GM	Sengupta Deep	2565	6½		6½	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2589	3
2	4	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2584	6½		6½	IM	Stany G.A.	2509	12
3	13	GM	Anurag Mhamal	2491	6		6	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2597	1
4	20	IM	Nitin S.	2450	6		6	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2550	7
5	24	GM	Bakre Tejas	2433	6		6	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	2518	10
6	9	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2527	5½		6	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2400	27
7	14	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2490	5½		5½	IM	Viani Antonio Dcunha	2392	30
8	66		Harshavardhan G B	2163	5½		5½	IM	Karthikeyan P.	2482	15
9	16	IM	Krishna C R G	2464	5½		5½		Raahul V S	2381	31
10	34		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2378	5½		5½	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	2458	17
11	22	IM	Akash G	2443	5½		5½	FM	Navalgund Niranjan	2240	55
12	25	GM	Neelotpal Das	2412	5½		5½	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2366	36
13	2	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2591	5		5		Ritviz Parab	2338	39
14	6	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2555	5		5	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2310	42
15	38	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2346	5		5	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2528	8
16	18	IM	Vignesh N R	2455	5		5	IM	Navin Kanna T.U.	2307	43
17	45		Srijit Paul	2298	5		5	IM	Swayams Mishra	2452	19
18	54		Saurabh Anand	2246	5		5	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2448	21
19	56	FM	Wagh Suyog	2240	5		5	GM	Laxman R.R.	2436	23
20	26	IM	Rajesh V A V	2402	5		5		Gurpreet Singh Maras	2261	53