19th BCC Open 2019: Gustafsson takes sole lead, Lalith Babu and Short closes in

by Shahid Ahmed - 11/04/2019

Second seeded GM Jan Gustafsson took sole lead at the conclusion of round 5 after Karthik blundered a rook and Gustafsson won the game in just 23 moves. Kunte went for two minor pieces and two pawns for a rook but that did not turn out in his favor as Short utilized his pawns and rooks brilliantly to score a victory. Lalith Babu scored a victory over Villamayor Buenaventura after the latter got a bad pawn structure in Reti and then blundered an exchange. FM Susilodinata Andrean scored a nice victory over GM Ly Moulthun in Ruy Lopez Berlin. GM Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder of Chile won 19th BCC Open Blitz by scoring 12.0/15 . He won a Rolling Trophy and 12000 Baht as prize. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Karthik's horrifying blunder puts Gustafsson into sole lead

If there is one game that will haunt Karthik Venkataraman for a while then that will be the round 5 game of 19th BCC Open 2019 against GM Jan Gustafsson | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Things were going quite well for the 55th Indian GM Karthik Venkataraman but suddenly he made an irrevocable blunder.

Karthik has threatened a checkmate at g7. Blocking it is the only way to save it...

It is evident that Gustafsson is aiming for 23...Qg6 to stop the checkmate

However Karthik just played 23.Rf2 which is a game losing blunder

Last time they played in the same tournament was in 2011 where the result was same, Short won. Only this time the colors are reversed | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

On a regular day, 15.Rxc6 seems like a very logical move...

However, Short managed to gain some initiative and found a little trick too. Can you find it?

Lalith Babu took advantage of the weakened pawn structure of his opponent GM Villamayor Buenaventura in Open Catalan | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Swedish veteran GM Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez held GM Deep Sengupta to a fighting draw when the latter had to settle for a perpetual check | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Sriram Jha made a quick draw with Australian GM Zhao Zong-Yuan | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Neelash Saha held GM Andrea Stella to a draw in an Opposite Color Bishop ending which lasted for 40 moves | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

FM Andrean Susilodinata of Indonesia defeated GM Ly Moulthun of Australia | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The position is equal. However White can take some chances. How?

Two Indian legends: IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman continued her terrific form as she held GM Dibyendu Barua to a draw | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder wins 19th Bangkok Chess Club Open Blitz

GM Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder of Chile won 19th Bangkok Chess Club Open Blitz by scoring 12.0/15 . He won a Rolling Trophy and 12000 Baht as prize | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Former National Blitz Champion of India, IM Prantik Roy scored 11.5/15 and was declared as the 1st runner-up. He won cash prize | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Louie Salvador of Philippines scored 11.0/15 and he finished at 3rd position. He won cash prize | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

For more photos from the Blitz event, visit here

Hilarious reaction after getting flagged in a winning position with a Queen | Video: Shahid Ahmed

"I like to play Blitz too much" - GM Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder

Round 5 on 2019/04/10 at 11:00

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	7	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2505	4	0 - 1	4	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	2
2	11	GM	Kunte Abhijit	2485	4	0 - 1	3½	GM	Short Nigel D	2636	1
3	3	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2577	3½	1 - 0	3½	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	2398	16
4	21	GM	Bellon Lopez Juan Manuel	2343	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	Sengupta Deep	2551	4
5	18	GM	Sriram Jha	2381	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	Zhao Zong-Yuan	2529	5
6	23		Neelash Saha	2303	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	Stella Andrea	2512	6
7	25	FM	Susilodinata Andrean	2296	3½	1 - 0	3½	GM	Ly Moulthun	2490	8
8	15	GM	Barua Dibyendu	2409	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	2345	20
9	9	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2488	3	1 - 0	3		Saptorshi Gupta	2051	48
10	43		Sonkalan Bharati	2092	3	½ - ½	3	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2487	10
11	54		Armstrong Malcolm J	2035	3	0 - 1	3	IM	Lou Yiping	2482	12
12	13	GM	Horvath Jozsef	2479	3	1 - 0	3		Sarbojit Paul	1984	62
13	57	WCM	Vishwa Vasnawala	2018	3	0 - 1	3	IM	Pascua Haridas	2426	14
14	17	GM	Schebler Gerhard	2385	3	1 - 0	3		Savige Colin B	1952	68
15	19	IM	Roy Prantik	2374	3	½ - ½	3		Sanket Chakravarty	1887	84
16	63		Mueller Jens	1981	3	0 - 1	3	FM	Menkinoski Riste	2306	22
17	24	IM	Duong The Anh	2302	3	1 - 0	3		Tobor Mick	1949	69
18	86		Silva Winston Joseph R	1880	3	0 - 1	3	WIM	Luong Phuong Hanh	2273	26
19	27		Salvador Louie	2270	3	1 - 0	3		Meenal Gupta	1878	88
20	29	IM	Deshmukh Anup	2253	3	1 - 0	3		Avinash Ramesh	1834	101

Complete round 5 results

Round 6 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	5		4½	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2577	3
2	1	GM	Short Nigel D	2636	4½		4½	FM	Susilodinata Andrean	2296	25
3	4	GM	Sengupta Deep	2551	4		4		Neelash Saha	2303	23
4	5	GM	Zhao Zong-Yuan	2529	4		4	GM	Bellon Lopez Juan Manuel	2343	21
5	6	GM	Stella Andrea	2512	4		4	IM	Duong The Anh	2302	24
6	20	IM	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	2345	4		4	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2505	7
7	22	FM	Menkinoski Riste	2306	4		4	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2488	9
8	27		Salvador Louie	2270	4		4	GM	Kunte Abhijit	2485	11
9	12	IM	Lou Yiping	2482	4		4	IM	Deshmukh Anup	2253	29
10	26	WIM	Luong Phuong Hanh	2273	4		4	GM	Horvath Jozsef	2479	13
11	14	IM	Pascua Haridas	2426	4		4	WFM	Cholleti Sahajasri	2232	31
12	30	FM	Sauravh Khherdekar	2247	4		4	GM	Barua Dibyendu	2409	15
13	32	IM	Damia Angelo	2215	4		4	GM	Schebler Gerhard	2385	17
14	18	GM	Sriram Jha	2381	4		4	WFM	Hng Mei-En Emmanuelle	2124	41
15	8	GM	Ly Moulthun	2490	3½		4		Razali Muhd Syukur	1792	112
16	10	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2487	3½		3½	CM	Laine Panu	2076	45
17	16	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	2398	3½		3½		Sonkalan Bharati	2092	43
18	94		Poh Yu Tian	1858	3½		3½	IM	Roy Prantik	2374	19
19	34	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2197	3½		3½	WIM	Dhar-Barua Saheli	2038	53
20	84		Sanket Chakravarty	1887	3½		3½	WIM	Varshini V	2182	35

Complete round 6 pairings

Round 3 Challenger pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1		Sacar Mohamad	2092	2	1 - 0	2		Nguyen Trong Hung	1853	17
2	3		Portugalera Ric	2075	2	1 - 0	2		Calacday Henry	1820	20
3	22		Borigas Edgardo	1745	2	0 - 1	2		Chirananthavat Theemathas	2042	4
4	5	WFM	Nguyen Thi Thuy Trien	2002	2	1 - 0	2		Schmidt Stephan	1731	23
5	7		Lozano Arvie	1989	2	1 - 0	2		Maunders Myiesha	1695	24
6	9		Tushar Anand	1953	2	½ - ½	2		Kapoor Satvik	1674	26
7	11		Samrat Ghorai	1933	2	0 - 1	2		De Jesus Normel Benigno	1648	27
8	34		Kunnavakkam Sudarshanagopal Vin	1562	2	1 - 0	2		Brasoy Aksel	1900	12
9	13		Shahid Ahmed S.K.	1900	2	1 - 0	2	WCM	Kong Zi Yau Bernadette	1357	46

Complete round 3 pairings

Round 4 pairings

Bo.	No.	Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	13	Shahid Ahmed S.K.	1900	3		3		Sacar Mohamad	2092	1
2	14	Lovejoy David	1877	3		3		Portugalera Ric	2075	3
3	4	Chirananthavat Theemathas	2042	3		3		Kunnavakkam Sudarshanagopal Vin	1562	34
4	27	De Jesus Normel Benigno	1648	3		3	WFM	Nguyen Thi Thuy Trien	2002	5
5	77	Catayas Rodrigo	0	3		3		Lozano Arvie	1989	7
6	2	Manaog Stewart	2080	2½		2½		Tushar Anand	1953	9
7	26	Kapoor Satvik	1674	2½		2		Samrat Ghorai	1933	11
8	10	Naudin Yvan	1937	2		2		Nicolas Liagre	1535	36
9	12	Brasoy Aksel	1900	2		2		Htet Htet Than Sein	1532	38
10	39	Burbach Bruno	1497	2		2		Loyaga Nathaniel	1865	16

Complete round 4 results

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