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Delhi 10: Amonatov wins; 5 Indians in Top-10

by Priyadarshan Banjan - 17/01/2017

The biggest Open in India, probably the world, came to an end with Tajik GM Farrukh Amonatov taking first place with a quick draw in the final round. GM Diptayan Ghosh finished second as Indians took five of the top ten positions. Niranjan Navalgund scored his first grandmaster norm in the ninth round itself but two more norms were scored. Illustrated report.

Delhi 10: Amonatov wins; 5 Indians in Top-10

Photos by Jitendra Choudhary

 

Going into the tenth and final round, Indians had a great opportunity to inflict a clean sweep on the top five positions. 18-year-old GM Diptayan Ghosh had the white pieces against the leader GM Amonatov Farrukh, who was half a pointy ahead of him and everyone else. In fact, every white player in the top five boards was an Indian.

Bo. No.     Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts.   Name Rtg   No.
1 3   GM Ghosh Diptayan 2570 ½ - ½ 8 GM Amonatov Farrukh 2619   1
2 5   GM Karthikeyan Murali 2564 7 ½ - ½ GM Dzhumaev Marat 2457   20
3 15   IM Swayams Mishra 2491 7 ½ - ½ 7 GM Tukhaev Adam 2516   9
4 2   GM Lalith Babu M R 2587 1 - 0 7 IM Visakh N R 2453   21
5 23   IM Shyaamnikhil P 2446 ½ - ½ GM Sivuk Vitaly 2540   8

Tajikistan's Amonatov Farrukh made a tacit draw offer which his opponent Diptayan Ghosh eventually accepted. With 8.5/9, Amonatov was crowned the champion, half a point ahead of the rest.
[Event "CatA"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.01.16"]
[Round "10.1"]
[White "Ghosh, Diptayan"]
[Black "Amonatov, Farrukh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E05"]
[WhiteElo "2570"]
[BlackElo "2619"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
[WhiteClock "1:33:10"]
[BlackClock "1:26:37"]
1. d4 {568} d5 {121} 2. c4 {3} e6 {6} 3. Nf3 {3} Nf6 {6} 4. g3 {2} Be7 {32} 5.
Bg2 {4} dxc4 {9} 6. O-O {18} O-O {8} 7. Qc2 {2} a6 {6} 8. Qxc4 {6} b5 {6} 9.
Qc2 {2} Bb7 {9} 10. Bd2 {4} Be4 {25 A tacit draw offer.} 11. Qc1 {4} Bb7 {16}
12. Qc2 {3} Be4 {5} 13. Qc1 {2} Bb7 {6} 14. Qc2 {2} Be4 {5} 1/2-1/2

 

While the innumerable fans of the young star from West Bengal would have hoped that Diptayan would push with the white pieces, it was not to be. Diptayan took the second place. Funnily enough, Diptayan was on the black side of this exact position as in the game above in the previous tournament he played in — the IIFL Wealth Open.

The second board game between GM Karthikeyan Murali (2564) and GM Marat Dzhumaev (2457) was also a draw. Dzhumaev, a regular in the tournament since the inaugural edition in 2003 took the third place while Karthikeyan was fourth.
[Event "CatA"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.01.16"]
[Round "10.2"]
[White "Karthikeyan, Murali"]
[Black "Dzhumaev, Marat"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C70"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2457"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
[WhiteClock "0:01:53"]
[BlackClock "0:01:14"]
1. e4 {0} e5 {1082} 2. Nf3 {0} Nc6 {8} 3. Bb5 {49} a6 {11} 4. Ba4 {117} g6 {26}
5. O-O {249} Bg7 {40} 6. c3 {112} d6 {93} 7. Bxc6+ {602} bxc6 {8} 8. d4 {4} f6
{385} 9. Qb3 {245} Qd7 {388} 10. Na3 {450} a5 {439} 11. c4 {626} Nh6 {671} 12.
c5 {858} Nf7 {15} 13. cxd6 {351} cxd6 {10} 14. dxe5 {248} fxe5 {9} 15. Rd1 {224
} O-O {502} 16. Nc4 {638} Qe6 {29} 17. Qc3 {655} Ba6 {1225} 18. Nxa5 {186} Be2
{10} 19. Re1 {9} Bxf3 {35} 20. gxf3 {2} Rxa5 {128} 21. Qxa5 {2} Qh3 {11} 22.
Qc3 {77} d5 {199} 23. f4 {75} Qh5 {9} 24. Qg3 {83} dxe4 {143} 25. Rxe4 Nd6 {112
} 26. Re1 {105} Nf5 {18} 27. Qg5 {36} Qf3 {203} 28. a4 {114} Nd4 {41} 29. Ra3 {
34} exf4 {51} 30. Qg2 {78} Qh5 {73} 31. f3 {21} Qc5 {298} 32. Qf2 {61} Qd5 {67}
33. Kh1 {32} g5 {10} 34. Qg2 {41} h5 {26} 35. Rd3 {25} c5 {28} 36. Bd2 {27} c4
{37} 37. Rc3 {38} Nf5 {60} 38. Rg1 {27} Rf7 {36} 39. Qe2 {34} Nh4 {23} 40. Be1
{27} Bxc3 {22} 41. Bxh4 {26} Bf6 {22} 42. Rd1 {32} Qc6 {23} 43. Rg1 {36} Rg7 {
18} 44. Bf2 {14} Qxa4 {60} 45. Qe6+ {22} Rf7 {7} 46. Qc8+ {56} Kg7 {54} 47. Bh4
{24} Qd7 {41} 48. Qxc4 {23} Qh3 {17} 49. Qxf4 {4} Be7 {33} 50. Rxg5+ {64} Bxg5
{15} 51. Qxg5+ {2} Kf8 {19} 52. Qd8+ {10} Kg7 {6} 53. Qg5+ {41} Kf8 {11}
1/2-1/2

 

The prize winners: Amonatov won Rs. 4 lakhs or his efforts while Diptayan took hom Rs. 3 lakhs and Dzhumaev won Rs. 2 lakhs.

IM Swayams Mishra was in a must-win situation to score his final GM norm and become a grandmaster, but he could only draw.
[Event "CatA"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.01.16"]
[Round "10.3"]
[White "Swayams, Mishra"]
[Black "Tukhaev, Adam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E73"]
[WhiteElo "2491"]
[BlackElo "2516"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
[WhiteClock "0:13:31"]
[BlackClock "0:07:58"]
1. d4 {0} Nf6 {77} 2. c4 {0} g6 {3} 3. Nc3 {0} Bg7 {4} 4. e4 {0} d6 {4} 5. Be2
{0} O-O {5} 6. Be3 {8} Na6 {180} 7. g4 {950} c5 {193} 8. d5 {551} b5 {299} 9.
cxb5 {92} Nc7 {14} 10. a4 {74} Rb8 {25} 11. g5 {795} Nh5 {54} 12. Bxh5 {1210}
gxh5 {16} 13. Qxh5 {9} a6 {19} 14. Nge2 {25} axb5 {41} 15. axb5 {73} Nxb5 {200}
16. Nxb5 {298} Rxb5 {77} 17. O-O {5} Rxb2 {1091} 18. Ng3 {45} Qd7 {821} 19. Nf5
{711} Rb4 {189} 20. Nh6+ {90} Bxh6 {127} 21. gxh6 {11} f6 {729} 22. f3 {60} Qh3
{416} 23. Qxh3 {14} Bxh3 {6} 24. Rfb1 {38} Kf7 {577} 25. Kf2 {87} Rg8 {38} 26.
Rxb4 {389} Rg2+ {70} 27. Ke1 {5} cxb4 {3} 28. Rb1 {4} Ra2 {179} 29. Rxb4 {331}
Bg2 {8} 30. f4 {11} Bf3 {6} 31. Bd2 {21} f5 {10} 32. exf5 {21} Bxd5 {36} 33.
Bc3 {23} Rxh2 {25} 34. Bg7 {17} Rh5 {179} 35. Rb8 {54} Rxf5 {4} 36. Rf8+ {4}
Kg6 {3} 37. Rxf5 {6} Kxf5 {1} 38. Bf8 {-error} 1/2-1/2

 

Local lad Aaradhya Garg (2230) scored an IM norm and finished 14th with 7.0/10. He beat GM Neelotpal Das in a mut-win game in a memorable fashion.
[Event "15th International GM Open Chess Tourna"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.01.16"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Neelotpal, Das"]
[Black "Aradhya, Garg"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C77"]
[WhiteElo "2462"]
[BlackElo "2230"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. Nc3 d6 8. Nd5
h6 9. c3 O-O 10. h3 Be6 11. g4 Bxd5 12. exd5 Na5 13. Bc2 Nxd5 14. g5 h5 15. b4
Nxc3 16. Qd2 Bxb4 17. a3 c5 18. axb4 cxb4 19. O-O Rc8 20. Kh2 Qc7 21. Nh4 Nc6
22. Rxa6 Nd4 23. Bd1 Nb1 24. Qxb4 Qxc1 25. Ng6 Nd2 26. Ne7+ Kh8 27. Qxd6 Nxf1+
0-1

 

Bengali talent Arpita Mukherjee (2054) scored 6.0/10 and registered a WIM norm.

Final Ranking after 10 Rounds

Rk. SNo     Name Rtg Pts.  TB1   TB2   TB3 
1 1   GM Amonatov Farrukh 2619 8,5 0,0 62,0 56,5
2 3   GM Ghosh Diptayan 2570 8,0 0,0 60,0 54,5
3 20   GM Dzhumaev Marat 2457 8,0 0,0 54,0 50,0
4 5   GM Karthikeyan Murali 2564 7,5 0,0 64,0 58,0
5 15   IM Swayams Mishra 2491 7,5 0,0 60,0 54,5
6 2   GM Lalith Babu M R 2587 7,5 0,0 57,0 52,0
7 14   GM Czebe Attila 2491 7,5 0,0 56,0 50,5
8 12   GM Deviatkin Andrei 2499 7,5 0,0 55,0 50,0
9 9   GM Tukhaev Adam 2516 7,5 0,0 54,0 49,5
10 21   IM Visakh N R 2453 7,0 0,0 61,5 56,0

In the ‘C’ group, Suhaib Ahmad of Uttar Pradesh won the first prize with 9.0/10. It was a four-way tie at the top between R P Baisakh, S Satyanarayan, Bishal Basak on nine points apiece in the event and Ahmad had the best tiebreak to back him. Check the final standings here.

The playing arena. The tournament had close to 2000 players participating under a single roof.

India's two best organizers—Praful Zaveri of the IIFL Wealth Open and Bharat Singh Chauhan of the world's biggest tournament, Delhi Open—in the middle of a conversation.