Grand Swiss 2019-Anand Suffers Shock defeat

6 years ago

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand struggled with his form in the first round of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2019 as he suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Grandmaster Evgeny Najer of Russia.

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It was a highly tactical game in which Najer launched an impressive attack against Anand’s king which was successful since black was unable to find a difficult saving resource.

IM Raunak Sadhwani also caused an upset by beating GM Sanan Sjugirov of Azerbaijan.

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In an India vs India clash on board 17,GM Vidit Gujrathi beat GM Sethuraman S.P with the white pieces while GM Adhiban B beat chinese player Wu Li in an impressive sacrificial game.

The only other loss for an Indian player came in the form of GM Prithu Gupta’s defeat against GM Vladimir Fedoseev of Russia.

All the remaining games by the Indian Players were drawn.

Pairings

Round 2 on 2019/10/11 at 15:00

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	58	GM	Sarana Alexey	2655	1		1	GM	Carlsen Magnus	2876	1
2	2	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2812	1		1	GM	Sevian Samuel	2654	61
3	60	GM	Oparin Grigoriy	2654	1		1	GM	Yu Yangyi	2763	5
4	62	GM	Motylev Alexander	2651	1		1	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	2746	11
5	63	GM	Melkumyan Hrant	2650	1		1	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2732	13
6	65	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2645	1		1	GM	Wang Hao	2726	15
7	16	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	2721	1		1	GM	Riazantsev Alexander	2645	67
8	70	GM	Bluebaum Matthias	2643	1		1	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2718	17
9	20	GM	Xiong Jeffery	2708	1		1	GM	Adhiban B.	2639	73
10	76	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	2638	1		1	GM	Anton Guijarro David	2674	39
11	77	GM	Adly Ahmed	2636	1		1	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2670	41
12	81	GM	Najer Evgeniy	2635	1		1	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	2664	47
13	98	GM	L’ami Erwin	2619	1		1	GM	Shirov Alexei	2664	49
14	101	GM	Jobava Baadur	2617	1		1	GM	Dreev Aleksey	2662	51
15	106	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2608	1		1	GM	Demchenko Anton	2655	57
16	6	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2760	½		1	IM	Sadhwani Raunak	2479	129
17	84	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	2630	½		½	GM	So Wesley	2767	3
18	86	GM	Alekseev Evgeny	2629	½		½	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2759	7
19	8	GM	Aronian Levon	2758	½		½	GM	Abasov Nijat	2632	83
20	96	GM	Van Foreest Jorden	2621	½		½	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2748	9