GM Diptayan Ghosh beats GM Ziaur Rahman in 7 moves

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Indian GM Diptayan Ghosh joined four other players to jointly lead the 17th Delhi International Grandmaster Chess Tournament at the end of 7th round today.

Diptayan won in just 7 moves after the Bangladeshi Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman made a costly mistake. The game turned out be the fastest game to get over in round 7.

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Ziaur played the innocuous looking pawn move c2-c4 on move 6. Diptayan immediately captured the pawn—attacking the light-squared Bishop and threatening Qa5+ discovered Check. Ziaur resigned on the next move.

Top seed GM Amonatov Farrukh and GM Debashis Das, who were the other leaders at the end of sixth round, settled for a draw in 45 moves.

On third board, GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus was outplayed by Vietnamese GM Tran Tuan Minh, winner of Bhopal Grandmaster Open 2018.

Among the local favourites, Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta drew his game against Iran’s Ghaem Maghami Ehsan and moved to 5.5 points. Abhijeet will need a good finish in the last three remaining rounds.

With three rounds to go, Grandmasters Diptayan Ghosh, Debashis Das, Mosadeghpour Masoud, Tran Tuan Minh and Stupak Kirill are the five leaders.

The One Crore One Lakh prize money chess festival also has parallel events running with the main International open. The final event is called the ‘C’ category. The record books have been rewritten again as the event has participation of over 1535 players and carries a total prize money of Rs. 33,00,000/- (Rupees Thirty-three Lakhs).

Pairings

Round 8 on 2019/01/14 at 10:00 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	13	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2544	6		6	GM	Debashis Das	2538	17
2	19	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	2517	6		6	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	2541	16
3	15	GM	Stupak Kirill	2542	6		5½	IM	Erigaisi Arjun	2548	12
4	1	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2621	5½		5½	IM	Gukesh D	2497	22
5	3	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2597	5½		5½	IM	Harsha Bharathakoti	2481	26
6	21	GM	Movsziszian Karen	2514	5½		5½	GM	Popov Ivan	2588	6
7	7	GM	Paichadze Luka	2583	5½		5½	IM	Vignesh N R	2461	29
8	9	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2581	5½		5½	IM	Das Sayantan	2451	32
9	10	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2575	5½		5½	IM	Girish A. Koushik	2411	41
10	24	IM	Visakh N R	2486	5½		5½	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2543	14
11	37	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	2437	5½		5½	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	2533	18
12	5	GM	Rozum Ivan	2589	5		5½	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2303	67
13	48	CM	Rohith Krishna S	2382	5		5	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2582	8
14	23	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2487	5		5	IM	Gusain Himal	2371	51
15	25	IM	Gajek Radoslaw	2481	5		5	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2346	56
16	60	FM	Shailesh Dravid	2334	5		5	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2470	27
17	63		Pranav V	2318	5		5	GM	Deviatkin Andrei	2461	28
18	65	IM	Kathmale Sameer	2312	5		5	IM	Karthikeyan P.	2457	30
19	66	IM	Ameir Moheb	2309	5		5	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2446	34
20	68		Neelash Saha	2300	5		5	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2437	38