Vaibhav Suri surges to the top – All India Chess Federation

With three rounds to go, GM Vaibhav Suri emerged sole leader with seven points after outwitting IM Akash G. in the eight round of ongoing National Senior Championship being held at Sikkim on Monday.

Three players Aravindh Chinthamabaram, Sandipan Chanda, and G Akash are in joint-second place with six-and-a-half points each.

On the top board, Vaibhav opted for King’s Pawn opening to which Akash replied with c5 before it deviated into Sicilian Defence: Moscow Variation. Vaibhav slowly built an attack on the kingside. A few inaccurate moves, the Black player found himself in a hopeless position. With things going out of control, the overnight leader had no option but to resign after 44 moves.

Akash G, who has been having a dream-run was finally given his first taste of defeat.

On the second board, GM Aravindh Chinthamabaram and GM Lalith Babu settled for a 32-move draw after Queen Pawn opening to which the Lalith chose Queen’s Indian/Nimzo Indian Hybrid setup and with no scope to make any headway opted to split the point.

Important Results

Round 8

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2597	6	1 – 0	6½	IM	Akash G	2431	21
2	2	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2605	6	½ – ½	5½	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2556	5
3	1	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2611	5½	½ – ½	5½	GM	Anurag Mhamal	2490	11
4	12	IM	Vignesh N R	2475	5½	½ – ½	5½	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2555	6
5	88		Grahesh Y	2029	5½	0 – 1	5½	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2545	7
6	36	IM	Nitin S.	2329	5	½ – ½	5	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2535	8
7	9	GM	Visakh N R	2516	5	½ – ½	5	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2304	41
8	48	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2269	5	0 – 1	5	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	2493	10
9	16	IM	Ravi Teja S.	2455	5	1 – 0	5		Subhayan Kundu	2222	53
10	52	FM	Navalgund Niranjan	2231	5	0 – 1	5	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2455	17
11	18	GM	Bakre Tejas	2445	5	½ – ½	5	FM	Harshad S	2291	44
12	22	GM	Neelotpal Das	2430	5	1 – 0	5		Gurung Rahul	2037	85
13	49		Pranav V	2264	5	½ – ½	5	GM	Himanshu Sharma	2392	29
14	117		Vijay Kumar	1842	5	0 – 1	5	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2367	31
15	4	GM	Sengupta Deep	2564	4½	1 – 0	4½	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2322	37
16	56		Soham Kamotra	2199	4½	0 – 1	4½	GM	Kunte Abhijit	2467	13
17	14	IM	Das Arghyadip	2459	4½	1 – 0	4½	FM	Rohith Krishna S	2306	39
18	62		Manigandan S S	2164	4½	0 – 1	4½	GM	Laxman R.R.	2444	19
19	20	IM	Das Sayantan	2440	4½	1 – 0	4½		Senthil Maran K	2305	40
20	35	IM	Girinath P.D.S.	2330	4½	½ – ½	4½	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2423	23

Pairings

Round 9

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	7	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2545	6½		7	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2597	3
2	6	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2555	6		6½	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2605	2
3	21	IM	Akash G	2431	6½		6	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	2493	10
4	17	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2455	6		6	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2611	1
5	5	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2556	6		6	IM	Ravi Teja S.	2455	16
6	11	GM	Anurag Mhamal	2490	6		6	GM	Neelotpal Das	2430	22
7	31	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2367	6		6	IM	Vignesh N R	2475	12
8	29	GM	Himanshu Sharma	2392	5½		5½	GM	Sengupta Deep	2564	4
9	8	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2535	5½		5½	GM	Sriram Jha	2384	30
10	25	IM	Gusain Himal	2412	5½		5½	GM	Visakh N R	2516	9
11	13	GM	Kunte Abhijit	2467	5½		5½	IM	Nitin S.	2329	36
12	32	IM	Muthaiah Al	2363	5½		5½	IM	Das Arghyadip	2459	14
13	41	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2304	5½		5½	GM	Bakre Tejas	2445	18
14	19	GM	Laxman R.R.	2444	5½		5½		Pranav V	2264	49
15	44	FM	Harshad S	2291	5½		5½	IM	Das Sayantan	2440	20
16	61	CM	Patil Pratik	2167	5½		5½	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2421	24
17	15	IM	Krishna C R G	2459	5		5½		Grahesh Y	2029	88
18	23	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2423	5		5		Utsab Chatterjee	2200	54
19	27	IM	Padmini Rout	2407	5		5		Surendran N	2142	66
20	63	WFM	Pandey Srishti	2162	5		5	IM	Rajesh V A V	2393	28

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