Ashwin, Muzzaffar and Kavin cause upsets in round 1 of 19th BCC Open 2019

by Shahid Ahmed - 07/04/2019

19th BCC Open 2019 was pawned off with 201 players from 34 countries including 17 GMs, 7 IMs, 5 WIM, 10 FM and 3 CMs. Top nine seeds had a smooth sailing but tenth seed Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo of Chile got held to a draw by 13-year old Ashwin Hariharan of Singapore. Veteran Muzzaffar Ahmad of Malaysia defeated IM Haridas Pascua of Philippines and local talent Nattavutthisit Kavin of Thailand drew with GM Villamayor Buenaventura of Singapore among the upsets. The report contains photos, games and an interview from round 1. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Few upsets in an otherwise smooth day for top seeds

14-year old Avinash got a good opportunity to play against the former World Championship GM Nigel Short | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Short punished Avinash for his passive play with a beautiful combination to win the game.

Avinash played 28...Kf7. White has a beautiful combination here. Find out how

GM Jan Gustafsson plays only one over-the-board regularly since 2011, that is this tournament Bangkok Chess Club Open | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Second seed of the tournament GM Jan Gustafsson talks about chess24 and Play Magnus merger and much more | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Reignin National Rapid Champion GM M R Lalith Babu leads the Indian charge as the third seed of the tournament and he scored a comfortable win in the opening round against Nadeem Aziz of Pakistan | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Deep Sengupta was instrumental in PSPB winning National Team championship early this year. He made a short work of his opponent Nodon Jeremi of Japan | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Former BCC Open winner in 2013, GM Zhao Zong-Yuan of Australia picked up a comfortable win in round 1 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Local talent Wongsawan Thoetsak of Thailand had put a strong resistance but eventually GM Andrea Stella of Italy overcame all to score a full point | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

India's 55th GM Karthik Venkataraman defeated Calacday Henry of Philippines with ease | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

In a battle between two Australians, IM Ly Moulthun came out at the top against Peter Frost | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Swapnil Dhopade had no difficulty defeating his compatriot Rindhiya V | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

13-year old untitled Ashwin Hariharan of Singapore held GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo of Chile to a draw in an equal Queen-Rook ending.

GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo of Chile was not looking forward to a draw | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Abhijit Kunte picked up the fastest win among top seeds in just 18 moves when his opponent blundered a piece | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Photo Gallery:

One of the first chess couple of India: GM Dibyendu Barua and WIM Saheli Dhar | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The strongest chess couple of India: GM Sriram Jha and IM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Tournament Director IO Kai Tuorila picked up a quick win | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

One of the oldest players of the tournament and also of Sri Lanka, Vasanta Wettasinha scored a fine win local kid Hansing Saphong of Thailand | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Round 1 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Short Nigel D	2636	0	1 - 0	0		Avinash Ramesh	1834	101
2	102		Manthan Kashyap Datta	1832	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	2
3	3	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2577	0	1 - 0	0		Nadeem Aziz	1828	103
4	104		Nodon Jeremi	1827	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Sengupta Deep	2551	4
5	5	GM	Zhao Zong-Yuan	2529	0	1 - 0	0		Pheephacharakan Pinatpong	1827	105
6	106		Wongsawan Thoetsak	1827	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Stella Andrea	2512	6
7	7	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2505	0	1 - 0	0		Calacday Henry	1820	107
8	108		Frost Peter	1810	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Ly Moulthun	2490	8
9	9	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2488	0	1 - 0	0		Rindhiya V	1803	109
10	110		Ashwin Hariharan	1801	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2487	10
11	11	GM	Kunte Abhijit	2485	0	1 - 0	0		Morris Byron	1799	111
12	112		Razali Muhd Syukur	1792	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Lou Yiping	2482	12
13	13	GM	Horvath Jozsef	2479	0	1 - 0	0	CM	Tanmay Jain	1789	113
14	114		Muzzaffar Ahmad	1781	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Pascua Haridas	2426	14
15	15	GM	Barua Dibyendu	2409	0	1 - 0	0		Hng Mei-Xian Eunice	1780	115
16	116		Nattavutthisit Kavin	1776	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	2398	16
17	17	GM	Schebler Gerhard	2385	0	1 - 0	0		Stones Rebecca	1775	117
18	118		Saksaringkarn Nattawut	1764	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Sriram Jha	2381	18
19	19	IM	Roy Prantik	2374	0	1 - 0	0		Clark Domenic	1751	119
20	120		Garv Rai	1738	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	2345	20
21	21	GM	Bellon Lopez Juan Manuel	2343	0	1 - 0	0		Soumik Datta	1730	121
22	122		Haraldsson Oskar	1725	0	0 - 1	0	FM	Menkinoski Riste	2306	22
23	23		Neelash Saha	2303	0	1 - 0	0		Yeoh Yuan Hui	1722	123
24	124	WCM	Goh Jie Yi	1715	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Duong The Anh	2302	24
25	25	FM	Susilodinata Andrean	2296	0	1 - 0	0		Batchis Paul	1709	125
26	126		Asavasaetakul Chawit	1708	0	0 - 1	0	WIM	Luong Phuong Hanh	2273	26
27	27		Salvador Louie	2270	0	1 - 0	0		Abe Yuta	1706	127
28	128		Andersson Kent	1705	0	0 - 1	0		Larichev Dmitry	2267	28
29	29	IM	Deshmukh Anup	2253	0	1 - 0	0		Ang Jing Xuan	1703	129
30	130		Burbach Brunel Baron	1700	0	0 - 1	0	FM	Sauravh Khherdekar	2247	30

Complete round 1 results

Round 2 Pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	56	FM	Wiwatanadate Poompong	2025	1		1	GM	Short Nigel D	2636	1
2	2	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	1		1	WCM	Vishwa Vasnawala	2018	57
3	58	FM	Nouri Alekhine	2001	1		1	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2577	3
4	4	GM	Sengupta Deep	2551	1		1		Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar	1998	59
5	61	CM	Goh Zi Han	1992	1		1	GM	Zhao Zong-Yuan	2529	5
6	6	GM	Stella Andrea	2512	1		1		Mohd Saprin Amir Ghaazi	1971	65
7	62		Sarbojit Paul	1984	1		1	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2505	7
8	8	GM	Ly Moulthun	2490	1		1		Sibi Visal R	1955	67
9	68		Savige Colin B	1952	1		1	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2488	9
10	70		Tantipura Noppakorn	1945	1		1	GM	Kunte Abhijit	2485	11
11	12	IM	Lou Yiping	2482	1		1		Tobor Mick	1949	69
12	72		Nguyen Le Minh Phu	1934	1		1	GM	Horvath Jozsef	2479	13
13	74		Tuorila Kai	1927	1		1	GM	Barua Dibyendu	2409	15
14	76	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra	1916	1		1	GM	Schebler Gerhard	2385	17
15	18	GM	Sriram Jha	2381	1		1		Runarsson Gunnar	1927	73
16	78		Nandan Buragohain	1913	1		1	IM	Roy Prantik	2374	19
17	20	IM	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	2345	1		1	CM	Norris Damian C	1917	75
18	80		Nguyen Truong Bao Tran	1908	1		1	GM	Bellon Lopez Juan Manuel	2343	21
19	22	FM	Menkinoski Riste	2306	1		1		Yutithamnon Surapole	1914	77
20	82	WCM	Sim Jia Ru	1890	1		1		Neelash Saha	2303	23
21	24	IM	Duong The Anh	2302	1		1		Laurain Dominique	1908	79
22	84		Sanket Chakravarty	1887	1		1	FM	Susilodinata Andrean	2296	25
23	26	WIM	Luong Phuong Hanh	2273	1		1		Brunner Karl	1900	81
24	86		Silva Winston Joseph R	1880	1		1		Salvador Louie	2270	27
25	28		Larichev Dmitry	2267	1		1	FM	Ismail Ahmad	1887	83
26	88		Meenal Gupta	1878	1		1	IM	Deshmukh Anup	2253	29
27	30	FM	Sauravh Khherdekar	2247	1		1	CM	Nisban Cyrus	1878	87
28	92		Sandhiratne Akkarawut	1865	1		1	WFM	Cholleti Sahajasri	2232	31
29	32	IM	Damia Angelo	2215	1		1		Kollmann Robert	1874	89
30	34	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2197	1		1		Wong Zhenyong Jayden	1869	91

Complete round 2 pairings

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