Island of Peace hosted its first open rated chess tournament

Silchar, AKA the "Island of Peace", is the headquarters of Cachar district of the state of Assam in India. It is also the place where the world's first polo club was formed. In recent time, Silchar has conducted a lot of state events successfully and this has encouraged its district association to hold it's first ever open rated event.

GM Dibyendu Barua inaugurating the event along with Deputy Commissioner of Cachar District Dr. S.Lakshamana.


The event is organized by the Cachar District Chess Association (C.D.C.A) in the spacious and beautiful premises of Hotel Ellora, which is in the heart of the city. In total, the tournament has attracted a total of 209 players from 4 different countries with as many as 111 rated players.

Muskan Debnath of Tripura faced her first GM opponent in the first round.

9th Kandy Open Champion IM Suvrajit Shah against Princess of Tripura Arshiya Das.

IM Sayantan Das of West Bengal (left) is in joint lead after round 3 with 3.0/3 points.

IM Rishi Sardana from Australia had a tough time reaching the venue in time as his flight from Guwahati had an unexpected delay of more than 2 hours.

IM Neeraj K. Mishra has also joined the leaders after 3rd round with 3.0/3 points.

Former Asian Champion WIM Saheli Dhar-Barua was last seen in action in the recently concluded Diamond Cement GM Open in Bangladesh.

 

One of the best thing about the event is that the oldest and youngest player are both ladies.

 

73 years old Anju Sarkar from Tripura (Left) and 5 years old Niranjana Achyut Borah from Assam (Right) are the oldest and the youngest player of the event!

 

A major upset of round three was National U-9 runners up Mayank Chakraborty drew against WIM Saheli Dhar-Barua, Ravi Kant Tiwari has annotated the game for us.


Mayank Chakraborty has recently secured the runner up position in the 32nd National U-9 Championship held in Ranchi.

The glittering trophies of the Championship!

CM Aronyak Ghosh of West Bengal (Left) outplayed first rated player of Assam, Chingkhei Singh (Right) to maintain his lead with 3.0/3 points.

At the end of round 3 there as 21 players leading the event with 3.0/3 points.

Starting Ranking:

No. NameFideIDFEDRtgsexTypGr
1
GMBarua Dibyendu5000025IND2443
2
IMDas Sayantan5034426IND2425
3
IMSardana Rishi25004301AUS2407
4
CMAronyak Ghosh25072846IND2331U15
5
IMMishra Neeraj-Kumar5000106IND2272
6
IMSuvrajit Saha5002532IND2224
7
Singh S. Vikramjit5006090IND2192
8
Arpan Das5007208IND2164
9
Singh Y. Dhanabir5009723IND2098
10
Apollosana Mangang Rajkumar5010349IND2082

 

Standing list after 3rd round:

Rk.SNo NameTypsexGrFEDRtg TB1  TB2  TB3  TB4  TB5 
18
Arpan DasIND21643,00,06,04,06,00
15
Sharma Aribam M.IND19683,00,06,04,06,00
36
IMSuvrajit SahaIND22243,00,05,54,05,50
42
IMDas SayantanIND24253,00,05,04,05,00
4
CMAronyak GhoshU15IND23313,00,05,04,05,00
10
Apollosana Mangang RajkumarIND20823,00,05,04,05,00
11
Singh Bhogen R KIND20333,00,05,04,05,00
13
CMThapa KrishnaNEP20263,00,05,04,05,00
14
Majumdar ShankarIND20233,00,05,04,05,00
19
Subedi RajanNEP18963,00,05,04,05,00

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