Agnivo, Shriraj and Midilesh beat IMs
Agnivo Chakraborty, Shriraj Bhosale and Midilesh Ms defeated IM Semetei Tologon Tegin (KGZ), IM Amrou Sobh (EGY) and IM Kudzanai Mamombe (ZIM) respectively. GM Shyam Sundar M missed a win against Viresh Sharnarthi and had to be content with a draw. Saurabh Choubey had a well contested draw with IM Mayank Chakraborty. WCM Prishita Gupta and Manas Gaikwad held IM Uurtsaikh Agibileg (MGL) and IM Sanket Chakravarty to a draw each.
Matta - Aronyak
Position after 50...Kf7
Should White take the f5-pawn or move the rook? FM Matta Vinay Kumar (2091) made the incorrect decision of taking the pawn 51.gxf5? gxf5-+ and IM Aronyak Ghosh (2544) went on to win the game. Find out what White should have done instead and also why taking on f5 is a bad idea.
Shyam Sundar - Viresh
After winning an exchange, GM Shyam Sundar M (2470) was cruising towards victory, until he blundered in the game 57.Rf8?? Kxf8 and now Viresh Sharnarthi (2084) is no longer losing the game. A simple 57.Rxh5 would have won the game for White. Instead, he had a momentary blind spot, thought his king was at g7, so he played Rf8 and lost the rook.
Saurabh Choubey (2083) held IM Mayank Chakraborty (2457) to a well contested draw.
Notable results
IM Sanket Chakravarty - Manas Gaikwad: 0.5-0.5
IM Semetei Tologon Tegin - Agnivo Chakraborty: 0-1
IM Manish Anto Cristiano F - GM Raset Ziatdinov: 0.5-0.5
GM Attila Czebe - Aadik Theophane Lenin: 0.5-0.5
IM Amrou Sobh - Shriraj Bhosale: 0-1
Bhaavan Kolla - WIM Mrudul Dehankar: 1-0
Pavan Karthikeya Varma Gunturi - IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu: 0.5-0.5
IM Kudzanai Mamombe - Midilesh Ms: 0-1
A total of 174 players including 16 GMs, 25 IMs and 4 WIMs are taking part from 19 countries across the world including India in Category A (>2000). The tournament is organized by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association from 2nd to 9th January 2025 at Hotel Ramada Egmore in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 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
Standings after Round 1
| Rk. | SNo | Name | Typ | sex | FED | RtgI | Club/City | Pts. | TB1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 130 | Mhamane, Sourabh | IND | 2012 | MH | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 173 | Perecharla, Hariram Saikrishna | U12 | USA | 1789 | USA | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | 1 | IM | Aronyak, Ghosh | IND | 2544 | RSPB | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2 | GM | Siddharth, Jagadeesh | U18 | SGP | 2515 | SGP | 1 | 0 | |||
| 3 | GM | Iniyan, Pa | IND | 2508 | TN | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 6 | GM | Shyaam, Nikhil P | IND | 2449 | RSPB | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 7 | GM | Rios Gomez, Cristhian Camilo | COL | 2435 | COL | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | GM | Das, Sayantan | IND | 2434 | WB | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 9 | GM | Deepan, Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2413 | TN | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | IM | Vaz, Ethan | U14 | IND | 2412 | GA | 1 | 0 | |||
| 11 | GM | Fedorov, Alexei | S50 | BLR | 2409 | BLR | 1 | 0 | |||
| 12 | IM | Kaustuv, Kundu | IND | 2409 | WB | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 13 | IM | Sathvik, Adiga | U14 | IND | 2395 | KA | 1 | 0 | |||
| 15 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar, Shete | IND | 2379 | MH | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | IM | Shahil, Dey | U18 | IND | 2374 | AS | 1 | 0 | |||
| 18 | GM | Venkatesh, M.R. | IND | 2362 | TN | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 19 | GM | Nguyen, Duc Hoa | VIE | 2358 | VIE | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 21 | GM | Podolchenko, Evgeniy | BLR | 2346 | BLR | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 22 | CM | Mrithyunjay, Mahadevan | U16 | IND | 2345 | TN | 1 | 0 | |||
| 23 | IM | Slizhevsky, Alexander | RUS | 2340 | RUS | 1 | 0 |
