Mr Commonwealth is sole leader with three rounds left

5 years ago

The 2019 Commonwealth Chess Championship began successfully under the aegis of the Delhi Chess Association. The tournament consists of 94 players with 13 Grandmasters and 11 International Masters.

The multiple times Commonwealth Champion GM Abhijeet Gupta led the tournament with 5.5/6 after six rounds of play. He has dropped only a half point so far, to GM RR Laxman. He has beaten GM Praveen Thipsay, GM Aravindh Chithambaram, and GM Debashis Das.

Rd.	Bo.	SNo		Name	Rtg	FED	Club/City	Pts.	Res.
1	1	48	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2063	IND	Andra Pradesh	3,0	s 1
2	1	30	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	2245	IND	Tamilnadu	3,5	w 1
3	1	18	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2405	IND	Maharastra	3,5	s 1
4	1	3	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2598	IND	Tamilnadu	4,5	w 1
5	1	15	GM	Laxman R.R.	2437	IND	Tamilnadu	4,0	s ½
6	1	6	GM	Debashis Das	2544	IND	Orissa	4,5	w 1

At 5/6, is Telangana based super talent GM Arjun Erigaisi… (Photo by Amit Sharma)

…and GM MR Lalith Babu, also on 5/6. (Photo by Amit Sharma)

India’s latest International Master Bhakti Kulkarni is displaying her great form and is on 4.5/6. (Photo by Amit Sharma)

Rank after Round 6

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2606	Delhi	5,5	0,0	20,0	23,0
2	7	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	2526	Telangana	5,0	0,0	19,0	22,0
3	4	GM	Lalith Babu M R	IND	2571	Andra Pradesh	5,0	0,0	18,0	20,5
4	3	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2598	Tamilnadu	4,5	0,0	21,0	23,5
5	27	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	IND	2290	Tamilnadu	4,5	0,0	20,0	22,5
6	21	WGM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2380	Goa	4,5	0,0	20,0	22,5
7	2	GM	Narayanan.S.L	IND	2603	Kerala	4,5	0,0	19,5	22,0
8	10	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	IND	2488	Maharastra	4,5	0,0	19,5	21,5
9	6	GM	Debashis Das	IND	2544	Orissa	4,5	0,0	19,0	21,5
10	5	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	IND	2557	Tamilnadu	4,5	0,0	18,0	21,0