13th KIIT GM Open R1: 10-year-old Sathvik Adiga stuns GM Raset Ziatdinov

by Shahid Ahmed - 23/05/2022

10-year-old 1607-rated Sathvik Adiga scored the biggest upset of the first round against GM Raset Ziatdinov (USA, 2224). The 13th edition of KIIT International Chess Festival witnesses the participation of 174 players including 11 GMs, 14 IMs, a WGM and 3 WIM in Category A from 10 countries across the world including India. The Category B (Below 1900) has a total participation of 327 players. The total prize fund of the festival is ₹25,00,000. Category A, B and C has the prize fund of ₹13,00,000, ₹600000 and ₹600000 each respectively. Category C starts on 26th May. Round 2 starts today at 3:00 p.m. IST. Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

A smooth start for the top seeds

The top seed of the event is Tajikistan no.1 GM FST Farrukh Amonatov (2622). The highest rated Indian player in the event is GM Laxman R R (2420).

10-year-old Sathvik Adiga scored the biggest upset of the first round | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Top seed of the tournament, GM Farrukh Amonatov (TJK, 2622) started off with a victory over Rupam Mukherjee (1768) | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Highest rated Indian in the field, GM Laxman R R defeated reigning National Sub-Junior Girls 2022 champion - Tanisha S Boramanikar (1716) | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Kalinga Institute of Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) founder - Prof. Dr. Achyuta Samanta seen lighting the lamp | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Inauguration Ceremony of 13th KIIT International Chess Festival 2022 | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Inaugural first moves are being made | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Prof.Achyuta Samanta, Founder of KIIT and KISS, Hon'ble MP Kandhamal, Sushil Kumar Lohani, IAS, Principal Secretary to Govt. of Odisha, Ranjan Mohanty, AICF Joint Secretary, Debabrata Bhatta, Joint Secretary, All Odisha Chess Association and IM FST Sekhar Chandra Sahu were present at the Inauguration Ceremony.

AICF Joint Secretary, Atul Kumar Gupta makes the inaugural first move on the top board | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Tournament hall - Category A | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Tournament hall - Category B | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Omkar Sameer Talwalkar - Visually Challenged | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Video Gallery

He cannot see, but is such a fighter - the story of Omkar Talwalkar | Video: ChessBase India

13th KIIT International Chess Festival 2022 Inauguration Ceremony | Video: ChessBase India

Finding stalemate ideas are never easy | Rupam Mukherjee vs GM Farrukh Amonatov | Video: ChessBase India

How to make a breakthrough in the endgame | Shadhursshaan R vs IM Ameya Audi | Video: ChessBase India

Knight vs Bishop Endgame - Who wins? Avigyan Ghosh vs Sriansh Das | Video: ChessBase India

For more Inauguration Ceremony and Round 1 photos of Category A and Category B, please click at the respective links.

A total of 174 players including 11 GMs, 14 IMs, a WGM and a WIM are taking part from 10 countries across the world including India in Category A. The tournament is organized by All Odisha Chess Association & KIIT University from 22nd to 29th May 2022 at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The ten-round Swiss league tournament has a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

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Round 1 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	86		Rupam Mukherjee	1768	West Bengal	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2622	Tajikistan	1
2	2	GM	Paichadze Luka	2567	Georgia	0	1 - 0	0		Sachi Jain	1768	Delhi	87
3	88		Hriday Panchal	1766	Delhi	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Fedorov Alexei	2529	Belarus	3
4	4	GM	Savchenko Boris	2524	Russia	0	1 - 0	0		Nirnay Garg	1755	Haryana	89
5	5	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2492	Belarus	0	1 - 0	0		Jain Kushagra	1749	Maharashtra	91
6	92		Soboleva Anastasia	1744	Russia	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Nikitenko Mihail	2479	Belarus	6
7	94		Liyanage Pesandu Rashmitha	1730	Sri Lanka	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Mirzoev Azer	2476	Azerbaijan	7
8	8	GM	Stupak Kirill	2440	Belarus	0	1 - 0	0		Kanishka S	1723	Tamil Nadu	95
9	96		Rout Yashita	1718	Odisha	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2431	Bangladesh	9
10	10	GM	Laxman R.R.	2420	Tamil Nadu	0	1 - 0	0		Boramanikar Tanisha S	1716	Maharashtra	97
11	98		Anish Rooj	1711	West Bengal	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Azaladze Shota	2420	Georgia	11
12	12	IM	Nitin S.	2399	Tamil Nadu	0	1 - 0	0		Shounak Mazumder	1709	West Bengal	99
13	13	IM	Gusain Himal	2396	Western Railway	0	1 - 0	0		Arnab Debnath	1691	West Bengal	101
14	102		Shadhursshaan R	1690	Tamil Nadu	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Audi Ameya	2389	Goa	14
15	15	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2361	Tamil Nadu	0	1 - 0	0		Nayak Sajan Kumar	1681	KIIT	103
16	104		Badamundi Tapan	1663	Odisha	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Abdyjapar Asyl	2346	Kyrgyzstan	16
17	17	FM	Rohith Krishna S	2337	Tamil Nadu	0	1 - 0	0		Anushka Gupta	1658	West Bengal	105
18	106	WCM	Chinnam Vyshnavi	1657	Andhra Pradesh	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2331	PSPB	18
19	19	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2327	Odisha	0	1 - 0	0		Mrinmoy Rajkhowa	1652	Assam	107
20	108		Darsh Shetty	1645	Maharashtra	0	0 - 1	0	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2308	Delhi	20

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Round 2 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	1	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2622	Tajikistan	1		1	IM	Hegde Ravi Gopal	2001	Karnataka	46
2	47		Shaik Sumer Arsh	1999	Telangana	1		1	GM	Paichadze Luka	2567	Georgia	2
3	3	GM	Fedorov Alexei	2529	Belarus	1		1	AFM	Pawar Harshit	1961	Delhi	51
4	50	AGM	Sahib Singh	1991	Delhi	1		1	GM	Savchenko Boris	2524	Russia	4
5	52		Atul Kumar	1953	Jammu & Kashmir	1		1	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2492	Belarus	5
6	6	IM	Nikitenko Mihail	2479	Belarus	1		1		Koustav Chakraborty	1945	West Bengal	53
7	7	GM	Mirzoev Azer	2476	Azerbaijan	1		1		Ankit Ray	1932	West Bengal	55
8	57		Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni	1912	Telangana	1		1	GM	Stupak Kirill	2440	Belarus	8
9	9	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2431	Bangladesh	1		1		Soni Krishan	1904	Delhi	59
10	61		Ayush Jha	1900	West Bengal	1		1	GM	Laxman R.R.	2420	Tamil Nadu	10
11	11	IM	Azaladze Shota	2420	Georgia	1		1		Mahendra Teja Mekala	1871	Andhra Pradesh	64
12	65	WFM	Baghirova Khatun	1866	Azerbaijan	1		1	IM	Nitin S.	2399	Tamil Nadu	12
13	66		Aditya P Melani	1855	Gujarat	1		1	IM	Gusain Himal	2396	Western Railway	13
14	14	IM	Audi Ameya	2389	Goa	1		1		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1844	West Bengal	70
15	69		Velpula Sarayu	1845	Telangana	1		1	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2361	Tamil Nadu	15
16	16	IM	Abdyjapar Asyl	2346	Kyrgyzstan	1		1		Jaiveer Mahendru	1832	Maharashtra	72
17	71		Tiwari Shivansh	1838	Madhya Pradesh	1		1	FM	Rohith Krishna S	2337	Tamil Nadu	17
18	18	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2331	PSPB	1		1		Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar	1816	West Bengal	74
19	73		Swayham P Das	1825	Gujarat	1		1	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2327	Odisha	19
20	20	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2308	Delhi	1		1		Tamhankar Siddhant	1802	Maharashtra	76

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