Vadim Zvjaginsev in Sole Lead in SCO National Chess International Open

Top seed GM Vadim Zvjaginsev of Russia emerged as a sole leader after the end of the fifth round of the 2019 SCO National Chess International Open Competition being played here today in Xintei, China. Indians, namely GM M R Venkatesh, IM CRG Krishna and WGM Bhakti Kulkarni, who had a good start, in the beginning, are now trailing behind the leader.

In the 5th round, on table no 1, Indian GM MR Venkatesh played the Pirc Defence with black and chose to exchange the light squared bishop for the f3 knight. Later Venkatesh let Vadim change the pawn structure to kings indian type where the missing light square bishop was seriously felt. Vadim maneuvered his pieces to the kingside to get a decisive attack to win in 33 moves.

The game between two Indians WGM Bhakti Kulkarni and IM CRG Krishna witnessed the Slav defense. Krishna playing black sacrificed a pawn on the q-side and obtained a good compensation. Bhakti regrouped her pieces and denied any practical chances to Krishna in mutual time shortage and finally won material to win in 56 moves. With this victory, Bhakti moved to 4 points, half a point behind the leader. Krishna after his two-loss in succession remained on 3 points.

IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra had an easy victory over the Chinese girl Guo Weibao with black to take his tally to 3 points.

Results

Round 5 on 2019/09/23 at 14:30

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	2644	3½	1 – 0	3½	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2481	10
2	12		Zhao Yuanhe	2457	3½	½ – ½	3½	GM	Paravyan David	2605	2
3	20		Zhao Chenxi	2379	3½	½ – ½	3½	IM	Gholami Aryan	2542	6
4	16	IM	Zhang Ziji	2430	3	½ – ½	3	GM	Idani Pouya	2586	4
5	17	WGM	Kulkarni Bhakti	2429	3	1 – 0	3	IM	Krishna C R G	2446	14
6	8	IM	Dai Changren	2512	2½	½ – ½	3	GM	Darini Pouria	2428	18
7	27		Liu Zexu	2257	2½	½ – ½	2½	GM	Xu Yinglun	2565	5
8	9	IM	Nigmatov Ortik	2482	2½	1 – 0	2½	FM	Gan-Od Sereenen	2343	24
9	11	WIM	Zhu Jiner	2471	2½	1 – 0	2½	WGM	Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz	2262	26
10	13	IM	Xiang Zeyu	2456	2½	½ – ½	2½		Xi Qi	2193	34
11	15	IM	Chen Qi B	2435	2½	½ – ½	2½		Sun Yidi	2115	38
12	3	GM	Antipov Mikhail Al.	2588	2	½ – ½	2	FM	Baterdene Tsogbayar	2209	32
13	19		Wang Shixu B	2398	2	½ – ½	2		Kabilov Amin	2199	33
14	21		Pang Tao	2374	2	1 – 0	2		Zhang Xiao	2073	40
15	35		Zhu Hengyi	2182	2	0 – 1	2	IM	Lodhi Mahmood	2349	22
16	23	GM	Khatanbaatar Bazar	2347	2	0 – 1	2		Li Guohao	2142	36
17	46	CM	Orozbaev Eldiar	1908	2	0 – 1	2	FM	Karimov Alisher	2251	28
18	49		Guo Weibao	1848	2	0 – 1	2	IM	Mishra Neeraj-Kumar	2247	29
19	7	GM	Liu Yan	2524	1½	1 – 0	1½		Bauyrzhan Arnash	2061	41
20	25		Peng Hongchi	2273	1½	1 – 0	1½	WCM	Yang Yijing	2025	42
21	39		Hu Yu A.	2105	1½	½ – ½	1½		Lin Peisen	1849	48
22	53		Saira Rafique	1079	1	0 – 1	1	FM	Ulziikhishigjargal Ochirkhuyag	2238	30
23	31		Ma Lin	2210	1	½ – ½	1		Li Shanglin	1898	47
24	37	WIM	Baymuratova Sevara	2126	1	1 – 0	1	WCM	Zhumagali Raian	1173	52
25	54		Akmatbekov Chubak	0	1	0 – 1	1		Zairbek Kyzy Begimai	1989	43
26	55		Wu Sibo	0	1	1 – 0	1		Waqar Ahmad Madni	1979	44
27	51		Khazhatuly Alikhan	1587	½	0 – 1	½	WFM	Antonova Nadezhda	1930	45
28	50		Zhang Haining	1596	½	1			bye

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