Saurabh holds Vaibhav

6 years ago

New Delhi (10 Jan 19) :- Bihar youngster Saurabh Anand held fourth seed and local favourite Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri in the second round of the Delhi International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament now underway here at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Thursday.

It was a Caro-Kann opening wherein Saurabh equalised without much ado and went about pushing further on the Kingside. Highest rated Indian Vaibhav Suri soon gave perpetual checks to escape a deadly checkmate.

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In other upsets of the day, Telangana lad Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri held Russian Grandmaster Popov Ivan and former national champion GM Karthikeyan Murali was forced to sign the peace treaty with WCM Mrudul Dehankar. Grandmaster Tran Tuan Minh (Vietnam) and Grandmaster Paichadze Luka (Georgia) had to be satisfied with half points against Zia Tahsin Tajwar (Bangladesh) and Baivab Mishra respectively.

Amonatov Farrukh. Photo: Niklesh Jain/ Chessbase India

Meanwhile top seed Amonatov Farrukh beat WGM, Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz and Grandmaster Predke Alexandr defeated Singh S. Vikramjit without much struggle. Third seed Pantsulaia Levan outwitted WIM Srija Seshadri.

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56 players are maintaining the perfect score at the end of round two.

The One Crore One Lakh prize money chess festival also has parallel events running with the main International open. The ‘B’ Group has a participation of over 959 players while the ‘C’ group will have over 1200 players participating.

Pairings

Round 3 on 2019/01/10 at 16:00 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	41	IM	Girish A. Koushik	2411	2		2	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2621	1
2	2	GM	Predke Alexandr	2620	2		2	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2405	43
3	44	IM	Sardana Rishi	2398	2		2	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2597	3
4	45		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2395	2		2	GM	Rozum Ivan	2589	5
5	8	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2582	2		2	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2373	49
6	46		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	2388	2		2	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2581	9
7	10	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2575	2		2	IM	Gusain Himal	2371	51
8	12	IM	Erigaisi Arjun	2548	2		2		Koustav Chatterjee	2346	57
9	52	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2371	2		2	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2544	13
10	14	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2543	2		2	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2303	67
11	54	IM	Tran Minh Thang	2355	2		2	GM	Stupak Kirill	2542	15
12	56	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2346	2		2	GM	Debashis Das	2538	17
13	18	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	2533	2		2	IM	Sangma Rahul	2298	69
14	60	FM	Shailesh Dravid	2334	2		2	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	2517	19
15	62	FM	Navalgund Niranjan	2327	2		2	GM	Movsziszian Karen	2514	21
16	22	IM	Gukesh D	2497	2		2	FM	Mehdi Hasan Parag	2260	75
17	66	IM	Ameir Moheb	2309	2		2	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2487	23
18	24	IM	Visakh N R	2486	2		2	WIM	Varga Klara	2244	79
19	68		Neelash Saha	2300	2		2	IM	Gajek Radoslaw	2481	25
20	72	IM	Sarwat Walaa	2265	2		2	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2470	27