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1st Guwahati International GM Open starts in four days

by ChessBase India - 09/03/2022

Guwahati, Assam and North East India will be the host to the biggest international GM Open tournament in the region starting this Sunday 13th March. Press Conference for the 1st Guwahati International GM Open tournament 2022 was held yesterday 8th March at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium (Sarusajai). The tournament will take place from 13th to 20th March at DTRP Indoor Stadium in Guwahati, Assam. Total prize fund of the tournament is ₹1500000. Top three prizes are - ₹251000, ₹201000 and ₹150000 each. Total 51 prizes are up for grabs. 207 players from 11 countries across the world have already registered for this event. Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Press Conference

Press Conference of 1st Guwahati International GM Open 2022 | Photo: Ravi Kant Tiwari

• All Assam Chess Association, the official State body for the game of Chess and the National Chess body: All India Chess Federation are all set to organize the First Guwahati International Grandmasters Open Chess Tournament with the support of the Sports Authority of India, Government of India and Government of Assam in Guwahati, from 14th March to 20th March, 2022.

 

• The total Prize Fund alone is 15 Lakh. SAI, Government of India has already approved 15 Lakh and disbursed 75% which is reserved as the Prize money.

 

• Top Grandmasters and International Masters from 14 countries have already confirmed their participation.

GM Pavel Ponkratov is slated to be the top seed who had won the 12th Chennai Open in 2020

• Players from the following Countries have already confirmed: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Paraguay, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and Zambia.

GM Visakh N R will be the highest rated Indian player in the field | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

• 13 Grandmasters, 3 Woman Grandmaster, 13 International Masters, 5 FIDE Masters, 2 Woman International Masters, total 200 Chess Players are already enlisted to participate in the Tournament. The number will increase over the next one week.

GM Deepan Chakkravarthy will be the second-highest rated player among the Indians | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

• From India, players from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telengana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, West Bengal apart from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, total 22 states are already enlisted to play. The number may increase during next week.

Second Runner-up in the recently concluded MPL 58th National Senior, GM Iniyan P will be the third-highest rated Indian in the field | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

• The Tournament will provide Norms and Rating opportunities to the players. Players who will defeat or do better with rated players will get International Rating points, and for players scoring certain specific points against higher titled players will get Norms for Titles as per FIDE Rules.

 

• This type of Tournament as well as such a grand event of International scale has never happened before in Assam or entire North East India in the arena of Chess till now.

 

• Now we have only one International Master Shahil Dey in the entire North East India. For Rating and particularly for Norms required for getting a Title, all players has to go abroad. If we organise Tournameents like this, then we can get more IM and possibly GM from this region, and we can create a Chess Hub in Assam and entire North East India.

 

- Organizing Committee

First Guwahati International Grandmasters Open Chess Tournament

Gist of the Press Conference

Source: Press Release

 

ChessBase India's Aditya Sur Roy will be present at the venue. We will bring you detailed coverage of the event.

Players list

No. NameFideIDFEDRtgIsexTyp
1
GMPonkratov Pavel4157800RUS2641
2
GMDelgado Ramirez Neuris3503631PAR2622
3
GMVisakh N R25012223IND2522
4
GMDeepan Chakkravarthy J.5011132IND2520
5
GMIniyan P25002767IND2516
6
GMMosadeghpour Masoud12519278IRI2511
7
GMFawzy Adham10613129EGY2490
8
GMKarthik Venkataraman25006479IND2485
9
IMRaahul V S25035525IND2478
10
GMMirzoev Azer13400304AZE2476
11
IMTahbaz Arash12528846IRI2469
12
IMKrishna C R G5018625IND2466
13
IMDas Sayantan5034426IND2459
14
GMRios Cristhian Camilo4403940COL2449
15
IMNigmatov Ortik14202131UZB2445
16
IMShyaamnikhil P5024218IND2442
17
IMAbdisalimov Abdimalik14206323UZB2435
18
IMNitin S.5018277IND2427
19
Gholami Orimi Mahdi12558486IRI2420
20
IMGusain Himal5033861IND2408
21
GMSaptarshi Roy5008980IND2402
22
IMShahil Dey35062352IND2400U15
23
GMKarthikeyan P.5018226IND2397
24
IMSidhant Mohapatra5028698IND2359
25
IMRatnakaran K.5005507IND2316
26
IMSai Agni Jeevitesh J5070147IND2316
27
WGMDivya Deshmukh35006916IND2301w
28
IMSangma Rahul5013615IND2286
29
Kaustuv Kundu5056900IND2281
30
FMAaryan Varshney45048975IND2277

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