Gukesh becomes World’s Second Youngest Grandmaster

New Delhi (15 Jan 19) :- Chennai’s Gukesh D. made his third and final Grandmaster norm in the penultimate round of 17th Delhi International chess tournament now underway here.

Gukesh has secured 7 points in nine rounds to become the second youngest grandmaster in chess history, behind Sergey Karjakin of Russia but ahead of Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan. He won his game in the ninth round against Dinesh Sharma rated 2303.

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Meanwhile Grandmaster Pantsulaia Levan of Georgia stayed ahead of the field after defeating overnight leader Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran. Kerala’s Grandmaster S. L Narayanan outwitted Odisha’s Debashis Das to take his tally to 7.5 points.

The Rs. 35 Lakh tournament will come to an end on Wednesday. The tenth round will witness clash of overnight leaders Pantsulaia Levan and S.L Narayanan.

Local hopeful GM Abhijeet Gupta has a chance to finish in top five if he can win his last round game against Gukesh D. However, the young Chennai prodigy is in top form here.

There were norms galore at the tournament. International Masters Gukesh D and Visakh NR secured GM norms while Aditya Mittal, Saurabh Ananad, Bharat Kumar Reddy and Neelash Saha scored IM Norms respectively.

Pairings

Round 10

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	10	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2575	7½		7½	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2597	3
2	1	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2621	7		7	IM	Visakh N R	2486	24
3	9	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2581	7		7	IM	Gukesh D	2497	22
4	19	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	2517	7		7	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2548	12
5	13	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2544	7		7	IM	Praveen Kumar C	2233	81
6	21	GM	Movsziszian Karen	2514	7		7	GM	Stupak Kirill	2542	15
7	23	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2487	7		7	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	2541	16
8	2	GM	Predke Alexandr	2620	6½		6½	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2470	27
9	5	GM	Rozum Ivan	2589	6½		6½	IM	Karthikeyan P.	2457	30
10	7	GM	Paichadze Luka	2583	6½		6½	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2437	38
11	35	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim	2445	6½		6½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2570	11
12	43	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2405	6½		6½	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2543	14
13	17	GM	Debashis Das	2538	6½		6½	IM	Muthaiah Al	2406	42
14	65	IM	Kathmale Sameer	2312	6½		6½	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	2533	18
15	63		Pranav V	2318	6½		6½	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2515	20
16	89		Saurabh Anand	2210	6½		6½	IM	Harsha Bharathakoti	2481	26
17	76	CM	Aditya Mittal	2251	6½		6	GM	Popov Ivan	2588	6
18	67	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2303	6		6	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2582	8
19	68		Neelash Saha	2300	6		6	IM	Vignesh N R	2461	29
20	31	IM	Khusenkhojaev Muhammad	2455	6		6		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2197	91