Four Players lead with full points – All India Chess Federation

National Open Senior Chess Championship 2018

After three rounds, GM Aravindh Chithambaram, GM Deep Sengupta , IM Karthikeyan Pandian and Ritviz Parab are jointly leading with 3 points respectively at the National Senior Open Chess championship, organized by All J&K Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation, at Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust— Jammu.

A total of 162 players from 27 states and 8 special units including 19 grand masters and 20 International masters are participating in this championship. This is also a Asian Zonal 3.7 event as India is a separate Zone in Asia. Total prizes of Rs.20 Lakhs will be distributed among top 10 players first prize being 5 Lakhs. The winner will also get a direct entry into the FIDE World Cup 2019.

Top-seed and Arjuna Awardee GM Abhijeet Gupta cruised through first and second round. However, he was held to draw in the third round by GM Bakre Tejas. Abhijeet is now in a pack of 28 players, following the leaders, at 2.5 points.

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Similarly, GM Karthikeyan Murali and GM Vaibhav Suri were also held to draw on second and third boards respectively. Karthikeyan was paired against IM Girinath P.D.S. of RSPB in the second round. The players agreed to a draw after 32 moves.

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The only exceptions were GM Aravindh Chithambaram and GM Deep Sengupta, who kept their winning streak intact to be part of the four-player leading pack at three points.

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IM Karthikeyan Pandian and Ritviz Parab are also in the leaders group.

Pairings

Round 4

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	15	IM	Karthikeyan P.	2482	3		3	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2584	4
2	5	GM	Sengupta Deep	2565	3		3		Ritviz Parab	2338	39
3	1	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2597	2½		2½	IM	Rajesh V A V	2402	26
4	27	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2400	2½		2½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2591	2
5	3	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2589	2½		2½	IM	Satyapragyan Swayangsu	2394	28
6	7	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2550	2½		2½	IM	Gusain Himal	2379	32
7	9	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2527	2½		2½	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2366	36
8	33	IM	Rahul Srivatshav P	2379	2½		2½	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	2518	10
9	31		Raahul V S	2381	2½		2½	IM	Stany G.A.	2509	12
10	13	GM	Anurag Mhamal	2491	2½		2½	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2346	38
11	37		Neelash Saha	2351	2½		2½	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2490	14
12	40	FM	Srihari L R	2316	2½		2½	IM	Vignesh N R	2455	18
13	41	IM	Girinath P.D.S.	2313	2½		2½	IM	Akash G	2443	22
14	23	GM	Laxman R.R.	2436	2½		2½		Srijit Paul	2298	45
15	49	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2282	2½		2½	GM	Bakre Tejas	2433	24
16	25	GM	Neelotpal Das	2412	2½		2½		Bhambure Shantanu	2223	57
17	65		Nayak Rajesh	2173	2		2	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2528	8
18	67	IM	Shetty Rahul	2159	2		2	IM	Krishna C R G	2464	16
19	19	IM	Swayams Mishra	2452	2		2		Niraj Saripalli	2144	70
20	69	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	2144	2		2	IM	Nitin S.	2450	20