GM P Iniyan takes second place at the Thailand Open 2019

The 1^st Thailand Chess Festival is a group of tournaments with the main event being Thailand Open Grand Master Chess Tournament. This event took place from 09/07/2019 to 16/07/2019 in Pattaya, Thailand.

There were 33 Titled players including 6 GMs, 10 IMs and 1 WIM from 19 countries, in a total participation of 67 players. Iniyan started the tournament as the second seed. He had to navigate through treacherous seas in the early middle of the tournament when he lost two consecutive games.

Undeterred he won the next 5 games in which notably he won against Indian GM Karthikeyan P. Before the start of the final game the leading places were 1. Dimakiling Oliver (PHI) 7 points, 2. Tsydypov Zhamsaran (RUS) 6.5 points 3. Iniyan (IND) 6 points. In the final game, Iniyan faced the leader IM Dimakiling Oliver with the black pieces and won the game in a must-win situation.

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.	SNo			Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1		IM	Tsydypov Zhamsaran	RUS	2565	7,5	0,0	42,5	47,0
2	2		IM	Iniyan P	IND	2524	7,0	1,0	45,5	49,5
3	9		IM	Dimakiling Oliver	PHI	2403	7,0	0,0	48,5	51,5
4	7		GM	Karthikeyan P.	IND	2415	6,5	0,0	46,5	51,0
5	6		IM	Pascua Haridas	PHI	2429	6,5	0,0	42,0	46,5
6	3		GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	VIE	2470	6,0	0,0	48,5	52,5
7	12		GM	Schebler Gerhard	GER	2391	6,0	0,0	46,0	49,5
8	10		GM	Vahidov Tair	UZB	2402	6,0	0,0	43,5	47,0
9	8		IM	Rahul Srivatshav P	IND	2414	6,0	0,0	43,0	47,5
10	28			Nguyen Hoang Duc	VIE	2071	6,0	0,0	39,0	41,5