Sasikiran suffers first loss – All India Chess Federation

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Grandmaster Sasikiran Krishnan suffered his first defeat in the seventh round of Aeroflot Open 2019 underway at Hotel Cosmos, Moscow, Russia. With two rounds to go, he shares joint-lead with three more grandmasters on 5.5/7 points. Four players are trailing behind the leaders with 5.0 points.

Sasikiran started well in the tournament with 5 consecutive victories and 1 draw.

In the sixth round, Sasikiran signed the peace treaty with Iranian GM Amin Tabatabaei in 23 moves to extend his solo lead in the ‘Category A’ tournament. However, in the seventh round game, GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia got a comfortable position out of the opening and began to press for the advantage and soon, his pieces began flooding in.

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Other Indians in the fray, GM S.L Narayanan lost to GM Sarana Alexey of Russia while GM Vaibhav Suri held higher-rated Russian GM Vladimir Fedoseev to a fighting draw in the seventh round.

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The Indian derby between GM Nihal Sarin and GM Praggnanandhaa R. ended in Nihal’s favor after the 14-year-old kept pressing in an equal position to squeeze out a win.

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Yesterday, the Top Indian Grandmasters Surya Shekhar Ganguly (born: 24-02-1983) and S.P Sethuraman (born: 25-02-1993) celebrated their respecitve birthdays together with the Indian Contingent.

Pairings

Round 8

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	11	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2678	5½		5½	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2542	62
2	28	GM	Martirosyan Haik M.	ARM	2616	5½		5	GM	Sarana Alexey	RUS	2630	21
3	43	GM	Tabatabaei M.Amin	IRI	2590	5		5	GM	Petrosian Tigran L.	ARM	2595	41
4	30	GM	Chigaev Maksim	RUS	2613	5		4½	GM	Wei Yi	CHN	2733	1
5	3	GM	Wang Hao	CHN	2714	4½		4½	GM	Firouzja Alireza	IRI	2618	26
6	7	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	RUS	2692	4½		4½	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2610	32
7	9	GM	Korobov Anton	UKR	2687	4½		4½	GM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	ROU	2603	35
8	29	GM	Zhou Jianchao	CHN	2615	4½		4½	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	2666	12
9	47	GM	Vaibhav Suri	IND	2575	4½		4½	GM	Anton Guijarro David	ESP	2642	15
10	25	GM	Khismatullin Denis	RUS	2621	4½		4½	GM	Fier Alexandr	BRA	2561	53
11	44	GM	Antipov Mikhail Al.	RUS	2589	4		4	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	RUS	2715	2
12	4	GM	Dubov Daniil	RUS	2703	4		4	GM	Nihal Sarin	IND	2578	45
13	46	GM	Yuffa Daniil	RUS	2578	4		4	GM	Nabaty Tamir	ISR	2688	8
14	13	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	RUS	2663	4		4	GM	Xu Yinglun	CHN	2512	73
15	60	GM	Hakobyan Aram	ARM	2545	4		4	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	RUS	2642	16
16	23	GM	Paravyan David	RUS	2627	4		4	FM	Afanasiev Nikita	RUS	2508	75
17	93	IM	Sadhwani Raunak	IND	2448	4		4	GM	Grachev Boris	RUS	2626	24
18	27	GM	Van Foreest Jorden	NED	2618	4		4	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	BLR	2574	48
19	33	GM	Idani Pouya	IRI	2604	4		4	IM	Sychev Klementy	RUS	2545	61
20	52	GM	Petrosyan Manuel	ARM	2564	4		4	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	KAZ	2604	34
21	72	IM	Xu Yi	CHN	2520	4		4	GM	Narayanan.S.L	IND	2593	42
22	40	GM	Svane Rasmus	GER	2599	3½		3½	GM	Kovalev Vladislav	BLR	2703	5
23	58	GM	Santos Ruiz Miguel	ESP	2554	3½		3½	GM	Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2703	6
24	54	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	UZB	2560	3½		3½	GM	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2681	10
25	14	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2651	3½		3½	IM	Yakubboev Nodirbek	UZB	2569	50