IM Raja Rithvik stuns top-seeded GM Boris Savchenko

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Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott 1st International GRAND MASTER (Above 1700) CHESS TOURNAMENT – 2019

At the end of fifth round, IM Triapishko Alexandr of Russia emerged sole leader of the Tetrasoft Marriott Grandmaster tournament by scoring 5 points. The tournament which is underway in J.W Mariott, Hyderabad, witnessed local youngest IM Raja Rithvik defeating the top seed GM Savchenko Boris of Russia.

On 3rd board, IM Raja Rithvik R opened the game with Nf3 and the higher-rated GM Savchenko Boris of Russia replied with d6. On 45th move Black’s move Be4 proved to be a costly error. Savchenko resigned on 60th move.

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On 1st board, IM Triapishko Alexandr of Russia opened with King’s pawn at e4. His opponent GM Karthikeyan P. of Tamil Nadu replied with g6 (modern) defence. The game was roughly equal until, Black’s move 64.. Rxe3 favored White.

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Results

Round 5 on 2019/08/23 at 09:30 A.M.

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	4	IM	Triapishko Alexandr	2519	Russia	4	1 – 0	4	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2422	ICF	9
2	7	IM	Khusenkhojaev Muhammad	2442	Tajikishtan	4	½ – ½	4		Pranav V	2316	Tamil Nadu – India	14
3	12	IM	Raja Rithvik R	2364	Telangana – India	3½	1 – 0	3½	GM	Savchenko Boris	2576	Russia	1
4	18		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	2278	Odisha – India	3½	0 – 1	3½	GM	Tukhaev Adam	2541	Ukraine	3
5	19	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2272	Delhi – India	3½	½ – ½	3½	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	2509	Iran	5
6	8	GM	Laxman R.R.	2426	ICF	3½	1 – 0	3½		Manish Kumar (2006)	2053	Odisha – India	35
7	2	GM	Smirnov Pavel	2574	Russia	3	½ – ½	3		Patil Pratik	2216	Maharashtra – India	25
8	6	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2496	Chile	3	½ – ½	3		Dahale Atul	2064	Maharashtra – India	34
9	28	FM	Ramakrishna J.	2155	Andhra Bank	3	½ – ½	3	IM	Muthaiah Al	2384	Tamil Nadu – India	11
10	31		Barath Kalyan M	2118	Tamil Nadu – India	3	0 – 1	3	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2337	S Rly	13
11	33	IM	Sahu Sekhar Chandra	2070	Odisha – India	3	0 – 1	3		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2299	Andhra Pradesh – India	15
12	16		Kaustuv Kundu	2295	West Bengal – India	3	1 – 0	3		Kavinda Akila	2024	Srilanka	36
13	44	FM	De Silva L M S T	1984	Srilanka	3	0 – 1	3		Bhambure Shantanu	2288	Maharashtra – India	17
14	20	CM	Kushagra Mohan	2252	Telangana – India	3	1 – 0	3		Raju J.K.	1999	Telangana – India	42
15	45		Mushini Ajay	1980	Andhra Pradesh – India	3	0 – 1	3		Varun V	2251	Andhra Pradesh – India	21
16	22		Nayak Rajesh	2250	Odisha – India	3	1 – 0	3		Sreehith Reddy R	1526	Telangana – India	146
17	119		Garv Rai	1682	Delhi – India	3	½ – ½	3		Hari Madhavan N B	2231	Tamil Nadu – India	23
18	10		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2416	Maharashtra – India	2½	0 – 1	3		Karthik Sai Ch	1872	Telangana – India	60
19	29		Surendran N	2152	Tamil Nadu – India	2½	0 – 1	2½		Md.Abzid Rahman	1861	Bangladesh	64
20	71		Potawad Anirudhha	1833	Maharashtra – India	2½	½ – ½	2½		Pimpalkhare Vedant	2123	Maharashtra – India	30