Tamil Nadu’s P. Inyian secured his third and final GM norm

8 years ago

Photos: Niklesh Jain/ ChessBase India

Fifteen-year-old Iniyan secured his third and final GM norm in 41st Barbera Del Valles international open chess tournament, held at Barcelona, Spain from July 4-12. Iniyan successfully finished this tournament by securing second place.

Iniyan scored 7/9, with a rating performance rating of 2644. Among 90 players from 17 countries, Iniyan started as 18th seed and successfully remained undefeated in the tournament.

The talented boy from Erode has a live rating of 2476 – is yet to cross 2500-rating barrier needed to be awarded Grandmaster title.

Iniyan is supported by Olirum Erodu Foundation and the Indian Public school. He is trained under Mr K. Visweswaran in Chennai.

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	RtgI	RtgN	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	GM	Guseinov Gadir				AZE	2654	0		7,5	39,5	50,0	0,0
2	18	IM	Iniyan P	U16			IND	2451	0		7,0	41,0	52,5	0,0
3	2	GM	Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo				CUB	2548	2510		6,5	39,0	50,0	0,0
4	7	GM	Stella Andrea			2437	ITA	2504	2464	Sabadell Chessy	6,5	37,5	48,5	0,0
5	30	GM	Gonzales Jayson	A			PHI	2367	0		6,5	35,5	44,5	0,0
6	6	IM	Karthik Venkataraman				IND	2514	0		6,5	33,5	43,0	0,0
7	4	GM	Martinez Alcantara Jose Eduardo				PER	2545	0		6,0	42,0	53,0	0,0
8	12	GM	Oliva Castaneda Kevel				CUB	2491	0		6,0	36,5	46,5	0,0
9	5	IM	Asis Gargatagli Hipolito			2570	ESP	2538	2534	Sant Cugat	6,0	36,0	47,5	0,0
10	8	GM	Munoz Miguel			2540	ESP	2500	2486	Sant Andreu	6,0	35,5	46,0	0,0
11	13	IM	Cori Quispe Kevin Joel				PER	2487	0		6,0	33,5	42,5	0,0
12	10	GM	Manolache Marius				ROU	2494	0		6,0	33,0	40,5	0,0
13	22	GM	Himanshu Sharma				IND	2420	0		5,5	39,5	51,0	0,0
14	26	GM	Perez Mitjans Orelvis	A		2487	ESP	2399	2401	Barcelona	5,5	38,0	48,0	0,0
15	14	IM	Aguero Jimenez Luis Lazaro			2474	CUB	2473	2473	Torà	5,5	36,5	48,0	0,0
16	61		Kumar Gaurav	C			IND	2074	0		5,5	36,5	47,5	0,0
17	17	GM	Torre Eugenio	S60			PHI	2460	0		5,5	35,5	45,5	0,0
18	35	FM	Herrera Reyes Jose Antonio	A		2384	ESP	2311	2305	Llinars V.	5,5	35,0	45,0	0,0
19	3	GM	Guliyev Namig				AZE	2545	0		5,5	34,0	44,5	0,0
20	11	GM	Alsina Leal Daniel			2556	ESP	2492	2513	Barberà	5,5	34,0	44,0	0,0