Untitled Neelash Saha beats Karen Movsziszian; Five Leads Emerge

Neelash Saha, rated only 2300, showed his true mettle and defeated Grandmaster Karen Movsziszian of Armenia, rated 2514, in the fourth round of 17th Delhi International open chess tournament now underway here.

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In the third round earlier, Neelash had managed to outwit Austrian International Master Gajek Radoslaw, rated 2481. Neelash is among the five players jointly holding the pole position with 4 points after four rounds of play.

West Bengal’s Grandmaster Diptayan Ghosh maintained a clean slate defeating compatriot International Master Sayantan Das in the fourth round

Grandmasters Debashis Das of Odisha, Ghaem Maghami Ehsan and Mosadeghpour Masoud, both Iranians, are the other players sharing the lead. The battle is only going to heat up as the championship now enters the half way stage.

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

Pairings

Round 5 on 2019/01/12 at 09:30 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	18	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	2533	4		4	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2544	13
2	68		Neelash Saha	2300	4		4	GM	Debashis Das	2538	17
3	2	GM	Predke Alexandr	2620	3½		4	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	2517	19
4	27	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2470	3½		3½	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2621	1
5	29	IM	Vignesh N R	2461	3½		3½	GM	Rozum Ivan	2589	5
6	6	GM	Popov Ivan	2588	3½		3½	IM	Khusenkhojaev Muhammad	2455	31
7	8	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2582	3½		3½	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim	2445	35
8	10	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2575	3½		3½	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	2437	37
9	12	IM	Erigaisi Arjun	2548	3½		3½	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2437	38
10	14	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2543	3½		3½	IM	Gusain Himal	2371	51
11	42	IM	Muthaiah Al	2406	3½		3½	GM	Stupak Kirill	2542	15
12	40	GM	Manik Mikulas	2413	3½		3½	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	2541	16
13	46		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	2388	3½		3½	IM	Gukesh D	2497	22
14	24	IM	Visakh N R	2486	3½		3½	FM	Gajwa Ankit	2263	73
15	58	IM	Kulkarni Vikramaditya	2345	3		3	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2597	3
16	4	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2590	3		3	IM	Siva Mahadevan	2333	61
17	62	FM	Navalgund Niranjan	2327	3		3	GM	Paichadze Luka	2583	7
18	66	IM	Ameir Moheb	2309	3		3	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2581	9
19	67	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2303	3		3	GM	Movsziszian Karen	2514	21
20	76	CM	Aditya Mittal	2251	3		3	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2487	23