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Hasselbacken 04-06: Adhiban, Sasi and Vidit in pursuit

by Priyadarshan Banjan - 06/05/2016

The Stockholm Chess Society is the third oldest continuously running chess club in the world, first founded in 1866. Celebrating its 150th anniversary, the Hasselbacken Open has been organized, bringing players from all over the world, and the organizers have held nothing back with photos, GM video commentary, and more! Three Indians are pursuing the leaders with 5.0/6. See the report and don't miss the beautiful games by Vidit and Adhiban.

Hasselbacken 04-06: Adhiban, Sasi, and  Vidit in pursuit

Photos by Lars OA Hedlund

You may have never been to Stockholm, but when you read that the capital of Sweden is an archipelago of fourteen islands connected by fifty-seven bridges, and when you see the pictures of the lovable city, you can only long to be present in this Scandivanian beauty. To be precise geographically, the main Stockholm city is not really an archipelago but a fashionable and trend-setting society. A part of it is inside a time capsule, with historic structures and razor-thin cobblestone streets, while the main city is surrounded by the vast archipelago.

Panorama over Stockholm around 1868 as seen from a hot air balloon, around the time the Stockholm Chess Society was founded. Lithography by Carl Johan Billmark made in 1868. 

Turns out, the gorgeousness is not just extended to the city's landscape, but also its metro railway system. The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is well-known for its decoration of the stations. Running 110km underground in Stockholm’s Tunnelbana (subway) is the world’s longest art exhibition, with paintings, sculptures, mosaics and installations created by 150 artists since the 1950s in more than 90 of the city’s 100 stations.

Above is the is the vibrantly coloured abstract harlequin design that engulfs the Kungsträdgården Station along the Blå linjen (Blue line) in the centre of Stockholm. Painted by Ulrik Samuelson in 1977, with later additions made by the artist in 1987, this ceiling artwork can be found on the Arsenalsgatan exit side of the station. (Photo: Lola Akinmade Åkerström)
Back to some chess: three players stand at 5.5/6 — Russian Dimitry Andreikin (2732), Frenchman Sebastian Maze (2617) and Israeli Ilia Smirin (2665). In the large pack of pursuers at 5.0/6, three Indians are fighting hard for a good finish in the business end of the tournament.
GM B. Adhiban (2663) has it task cut out as he takes on one of the leaders — Smirin — in the seventh round, but with the white pieces.
Here is an exciting win by him from the fifth round:
[Event "Hasselbacken Open 2016"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.05.04"]
[Round "5.6"]
[White "Adhiban, B."]
[Black "Vorobiov, Evgeny E"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "2663"]
[BlackElo "2572"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "6000+30"]
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. a4 O-O 7. O-O a5 8. h3
c6 9. Re1 h6 10. Ba2 Re8 11. Be3 Qc7 12. Qe2 Nf8 13. Rad1 Ng6 14. d5 Ra6 15.
Bc4 Ra8 16. Bb3 Ra6 17. Nd2 Nh7 18. Nc4 Rf8 19. dxc6 bxc6 20. Qd2 Nh4 21. Qd3
Rd8 22. Nb5 cxb5 23. axb5 a4 24. Ba2 Nxg2 25. Kxg2 Qd7 26. Bb6 Ng5 27. bxa6
Nxh3 28. Nxe5 1-0
GM Krishnan Sasikiran (2642) will be playing the creative Lithuanian GM Eduardas Rozentalis (2584) with the black pieces.
[Event "Hasselbacken Open 2016"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.05.05"]
[Round "6.10"]
[White "Sasikiran, Krishnan"]
[Black "Lindberg, Bo 1984"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C95"]
[WhiteElo "2643"]
[BlackElo "2397"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "6000+30"]
[WhiteClock "0:52:23"]
[BlackClock "0:07:10"]
1. e4 {0} e5 {0} 2. Nf3 {0} Nc6 {15} 3. Bb5 {0} a6 {17} 4. Ba4 {3} Nf6 {17} 5.
O-O {9} Be7 {10} 6. Re1 {7} b5 {21} 7. Bb3 {7} d6 {12} 8. c3 {6} O-O {12} 9. h3
{6} Nb8 {46} 10. d4 {16} Nbd7 {7} 11. Nbd2 {9} Bb7 {12} 12. Bc2 {16} Re8 {15}
13. Nf1 {12} Bf8 {18} 14. Ng3 {7} g6 {11} 15. b3 {25} Bg7 {578} 16. d5 {34} Rc8
{58} 17. c4 {60} Nb6 {849} 18. Rb1 {182} c6 {151} 19. Bd2 {458} Qc7 {1110} 20.
Bd3 {405} Nbd7 {1479} 21. Rc1 {546} Qb8 {264} 22. Bc2 {927} Qa8 {189} 23. Bg5 {
993} bxc4 {715} 24. bxc4 {54} cxd5 {28} 25. cxd5 {84} Rc7 {49} 26. Rb1 {370}
Rec8 {185} 27. Ba4 {459} Nc5 {226} 28. Rb6 {151} Nfd7 {200} 29. Rxd6 {156} Bf8
{17} 30. Bxd7 {325} Nxd7 {15} 31. Rxd7 {7} Rxd7 {4} 32. Nxe5 {7} Rd6 {9} 33.
Ng4 {161} Bg7 {46} 34. Be7 {66} Rb6 {229} 35. d6 {32} Rd8 {336} 36. Bxd8 {133}
Qxd8 {6} 37. e5 {26} h5 {21} 38. Nh2 {92} Rb5 {64} 39. f4 {311} Qb6+ {94} 40.
Kh1 {0} Rb2 {0} 41. Nf3 {0} Rb5 {0} 42. Qd4 {0} Qa5 {0} 43. Ne4 {0} h4 {0} 44.
Qc3 {0} Qa4 {0} 45. d7 {0} 1-0
GM Vidit Gujrathi (2648) will face GM Hannes Stefansson (2581) of Iceland in the seventh round.
A beautiful game with the black pieces:
[Event "Hasselbacken Open 2016"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.05.05"]
[Round "6.9"]
[White "Akesson, Ralf"]
[Black "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A37"]
[WhiteElo "2452"]
[BlackElo "2648"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "6000+30"]
[WhiteClock "0:01:04"]
[BlackClock "0:02:30"]
1. Nf3 {0} g6 {273} 2. c4 {44} Bg7 {275} 3. Nc3 {79} c5 {12} 4. g3 {112} Nc6 {8
} 5. Bg2 {6} d6 {26} 6. O-O {45} e6 {6} 7. e3 {151} Nge7 {48} 8. d4 {101} O-O {
11} 9. d5 {1816} Na5 {39} 10. Nd2 {40} Rb8 {292} 11. Rb1 {431} exd5 {506} 12.
Nxd5 {49} b5 {104} 13. Nxe7+ {605} Qxe7 {107} 14. cxb5 {1012} Rxb5 {258} 15.
Ne4 {385} d5 {571} 16. Nc3 {295} Bxc3 {133} 17. Qd3 {13} Rb4 {464} 18. Qxc3 {
198} Bf5 {505} 19. Ra1 {20} Nc6 {565} 20. Bxd5 {233} Ne5 {7} 21. b3 {294} Rd8 {
59} 22. Bg2 {66} Rd3 {41} 23. Qe1 {72} Bh3 {441} 24. f3 {176} Bxg2 {22} 25.
Kxg2 g5 {54} 26. h3 {149} h5 {121} 27. Ba3 {190} Rb6 {854} 28. Qe2 {93} g4 {113
} 29. hxg4 {49} hxg4 {2} 30. fxg4 {93} Rbd6 {407} 31. Rad1 {18} Qb7+ {39} 32.
e4 {45} Qa6 {500} 33. Rxd3 {48} Rxd3 {7} 34. Qb2 {57} Qd6 {51} 35. Qc1 {31}
Rd2+ {27} 36. Kg1 {24} Qd4+ {7} 37. Kh1 {6} Qxe4+ {5} 0-1
GM Sethuraman S.P. (2658 was amongst the leaders until the fifth round, but his sixth-round loss to the top seed Andreikin meant that he is stranded at 4.5/6.
[Event "Hasselbacken Open 2016"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.05.05"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Andreikin, Dmitry"]
[Black "Sethuraman, S.P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2736"]
[BlackElo "2658"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "6000+30"]
[WhiteClock "1:00:24"]
[BlackClock "0:41:46"]
1. Nf3 {0} d5 {16} 2. d4 {0} Nf6 {8} 3. Bf4 {17} e6 {18} 4. e3 {242} c5 {8} 5.
c3 {66} Nc6 {5} 6. Nbd2 {9} Bd6 {5} 7. Bg3 {8} O-O {70} 8. Bb5 {21} a6 {632} 9.
Bxc6 {498} bxc6 {5} 10. Qa4 {27} Rb8 {1376} 11. Qa3 {963} Bxg3 {412} 12. hxg3 {
130} Qb6 {4} 13. O-O {960} Nd7 {215} 14. Rfb1 {597} cxd4 {1215} 15. cxd4 {17}
c5 {4} 16. Nb3 {437} c4 {28} 17. Nc5 {4} a5 {1541} 18. b3 {154} Nxc5 {266} 19.
dxc5 {36} Qb4 {21} 20. Qxb4 {158} axb4 {242} 21. bxc4 {242} dxc4 {4} 22. Ne5 {
12} Rb5 {198} 23. Nxc4 {41} Rxc5 {3} 24. Rxb4 {17} Ba6 {22} 25. Nd2 {196} Rc2 {
34} 26. Nf3 {135} Ra8 {77} 27. a4 {41} Kf8 {6} 28. g4 {191} Rc4 {104} 29. Rab1
{145} Rxb4 {12} 30. Rxb4 {1} Be2 {11} 31. Ne5 {48} f6 {75} 32. Nd7+ {103} Ke7 {
26} 33. Nc5 {10} Kd6 {103} 34. Ne4+ {69} Kc6 {5} 35. g5 {24} f5 {155} 36. Nc3 {
10} Bd3 {19} 37. Rh4 {221} Kc5 {44} 38. Rd4 {104} Bc4 {12} 39. Rd7 {35} Kb4 {35
} 40. Nb5 {0} Rxa4 {0} 41. Nd4 {0} Ra1+ {0} 42. Kh2 {0} Ra2 {0} 43. Kg3 {0} Kc5
{0} 44. Rxg7 {0} f4+ {0} 45. Kxf4 {0} Rxf2+ {0} 46. Ke5 {0} Rxg2 {0} 47. Nxe6+
{0} Bxe6 {0} 48. Kxe6 {0} Re2 {0} 49. Rc7+ {0} Kb6 {0} 50. Rxh7 {0} Rxe3+ {0}
51. Kf5 {0} Kc6 {0} 52. g6 {0} Rg3 {0} 53. g7 {0} Kd5 {0} 54. Rh5 {0} 1-0

11-year-old FM Nihal Sarin (2349)has huffed and puffed to 4.0/6.
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Pairings for Round 07:

Bo. No.     Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts.   Name Rtg   No.
1 16   GM Sébastien Mazé 2617 5½   5½ GM Andreikin Dmitry 2736   1
2 6   GM Adhiban B. 2663 5   5½ GM Smirin Ilia 2665   5
3 17   GM Bok Benjamin 2605 5   5 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2660   7
4 19   GM Sevian Samuel 2589 5   5 GM Predojevic Borki 2654   9
5 10   GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2648 5   5 GM Stefansson Hannes 2581   21
6 20   GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2584 5   5 GM Krishnan Sasikiran 2643   11
7 25   GM van Foreest Jorden 2551 5   5 GM Bachmann Axel 2621   13
8 27   GM Urkedal Frode 2549 5   5 GM Landa Konstantin 2618   15
9 2   GM Shirov Alexei 2686 4½   5 GM Mikhalevski Victor 2516   30
10 37   IM Almasi Istvan 2420 4½   4½ GM Almasi Zoltan 2682   3
11 8   GM S.P Sethuraman GM 2658 4½   4½ GM Smith Axel 2503   32
12 12   GM Mareco Sandro 2625 4½   4½ FM Hedman Erik 2354   49
See the complete pairings here.

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