Meetansh Dixit misses against Levan Pantsulaia
Meetansh - Pantsulaia
GM Levan Pantsulaia (GEO, 2551) made his king vulnerable when he played 15...f5? Meetansh Dixit (1874) was forced to play 16.exf6 gxf6 17.Nc3 Bxb3 18.cxb3 f5 now White needed to play 19.Bxf5 right away to capitalize on Black's weak king and rapidly bring his pieces into the attack. Instead, he played 19.Qg6+ allowing the king to start his escape 19...Kd8. A few moves later White played 22.Bxf5 but the effect was not the same and eventually drew the game via perpetual check.
Vairaj - Karen
43...Kc8 prevents Rd8 whereas 43...Kb8?? which was played in the game by GM Karen H Grigoryan (ARM, 2520), invites trouble 44.Rd8+ Ka7 45.Nb6 Rf8 46.Rd1 e4 47.Kc4 Bg7 48.Rd2 e3 49.Ra2+ Kb8 50.Nd7+ Kc7 51.Nxf8 Bxf8 52.Nxf8 Bxf8 after a bit more inaccurate play, Black got himself a few more chances to get back in the game.
What is the correct way to continue for Black after 61.Kc4 ? Black played 61...Be5?? 62.b5 Kd7 63.Kb4 Bc7 Black got the idea correct now but it is too late 64.Rg7+ Kc8 now 65.b6 would have been winning for White. 65.Ka4?? cxb5+ 66.Kxb5 Kb8?? Black moved his king to the wrong side. If there were no pawns on the board that would have been a correct choice.
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Round 1 results
| Bo. | No. | White | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Black | Rtg | No. | PGN | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 223 | Siddharth, Sai | 1876 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | Narayanan S L, | 2600 | 1 | PGN | |||
| 2 | 2 | GM | Ghosh, Diptayan | 2573 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | CM | Sankalan Shah, | 1874 | 224 | PGN | ||
| 3 | 225 | Meetansh, Dixit | 1874 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Pantsulaia Levan, | 2551 | 3 | PGN | |||
| 4 | 4 | GM | Karthik, Venkataraman | 2550 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | Elesh, Tripathi | 1872 | 226 | PGN | |||
| 5 | 227 | Bhanushali Neemay, | 1871 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | Petrosyan, Manuel | 2541 | 5 | PGN | |||
| 6 | 6 | GM | Gupta, Abhijeet | 2538 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | Eugen, Mehul Shah | 1870 | 228 | PGN | |||
| 7 | 229 | Shravan, Sriram | 1870 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | Paichadze, Luka | 2529 | 7 | PGN | |||
| 8 | 8 | GM | Sivuk, Vitaly | 2522 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | WCM | Wankhade Sanskruti, | 1869 | 230 | PGN | ||
| 9 | 231 | Vairaj, Sogerwal | 1869 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | GM | Grigoryan, Karen H. | 2520 | 9 | PGN | |||
| 10 | 10 | GM | Nikitenko Mihail, | 2520 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | Mann Akbari, | 1868 | 232 | PGN | |||
| 11 | 233 | AIM | Saikat, Nath | 1866 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | IM | Aronyak, Ghosh | 2510 | 11 | PGN | ||
| 12 | 12 | GM | Samant Aditya S, | 2498 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | WCM | Nanditha, V | 1864 | 234 | PGN | ||
| 13 | 235 | Aayush Kabra, | 1864 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | Gharibyan, Mamikon | 2472 | 13 | PGN | |||
| 14 | 14 | Sriram, Adarsh Uppala | 2460 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | WFM | Tanishka, Kotia | 1862 | 236 | PGN | |||
| 15 | 237 | Aahil, Patra | 1862 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | Savchenko, Boris | 2456 | 15 | PGN |
Standings after Round 1
| Rk. | SNo | Name | Typ | sex | Gr | FED | Rtg | Club/City | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 | Alok, Sinha | IND | 2207 | DL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1,00 | |||||
| 2 | 150 | Rakesh, Kumar Nayak | IND | 1953 | OR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1,00 | |||||
| 3 | 239 | Jashanpreet Singh, | IND | 1861 | SSCB | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1,00 | |||||
| 4 | 261 | Shreyaskar, Tanti | IND | 1835 | WB | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1,00 | |||||
| 5 | 1 | GM | Narayanan S L, | IND | 2600 | KL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 6 | 5 | GM | Petrosyan, Manuel | ARM | 2541 | ARM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 7 | 7 | GM | Paichadze, Luka | GEO | 2529 | GEO | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 8 | 11 | IM | Aronyak, Ghosh | IND | 2510 | RSPB | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 9 | 13 | GM | Gharibyan, Mamikon | ARM | 2472 | ARM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 10 | 15 | GM | Savchenko, Boris | RUS | 2456 | RUS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 11 | 19 | GM | Deepan, Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2410 | TN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 12 | 21 | IM | Harsh, Suresh | IND | 2392 | TN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 13 | 23 | IM | Agibileg, Uurtsaikh | MGL | 2384 | MGL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 14 | 29 | IM | Shahil Dey, | IND | 2366 | AS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| 15 | 31 | Nithin Babu, | IND | 2360 | KL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,00 |
Round 2 pairings
| Bo. | No. | White | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Black | Rtg | No. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | GM | Narayanan S L, | 2600 | 1 | 1 | Sagnik, Halder | 1975 | 137 | ||||
| 2 | 134 | Rachit H Gurnani, | 1976 | 1 | 1 | GM | Ghosh, Diptayan | 2573 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | 136 | CM | Vyom Malhotra, | 1975 | 1 | 1 | GM | Karthik, Venkataraman | 2550 | 4 | |||
| 4 | 5 | GM | Petrosyan, Manuel | 2541 | 1 | 1 | Nishant Abhijeet Jawalkar, | 1972 | 139 | ||||
| 5 | 138 | AFM | Arhan, Jain | 1973 | 1 | 1 | GM | Gupta, Abhijeet | 2538 | 6 | |||
| 6 | 7 | GM | Paichadze, Luka | 2529 | 1 | 1 | Naga Sai Sarthak Karanam, | 1970 | 141 | ||||
| 7 | 140 | Jagreet Misra, | 1971 | 1 | 1 | GM | Sivuk, Vitaly | 2522 | 8 | ||||
| 8 | 142 | CM | Vedant, Rupeshbhai Varasada | 1968 | 1 | 1 | GM | Nikitenko Mihail, | 2520 | 10 | |||
| 9 | 11 | IM | Aronyak, Ghosh | 2510 | 1 | 1 | IM | Sobh, Amrou | 1963 | 145 | |||
| 10 | 146 | WCM | Sreekarthika Velmurugan, | 1956 | 1 | 1 | GM | Samant Aditya S, | 2498 | 12 | |||
| 11 | 13 | GM | Gharibyan, Mamikon | 2472 | 1 | 1 | CM | Vandan Alankar Sawai, | 1955 | 147 | |||
| 12 | 148 | Subhrajit Dey, | 1955 | 1 | 1 | Sriram, Adarsh Uppala | 2460 | 14 | |||||
| 13 | 15 | GM | Savchenko, Boris | 2456 | 1 | 1 | AGM | Prashanth, J Naik | 1954 | 149 | |||
| 14 | 150 | Rakesh, Kumar Nayak | 1953 | 1 | 1 | IM | Neelash, Saha | 2456 | 16 | ||||
| 15 | 151 | Savanth Krishnan R, | 1952 | 1 | 1 | GM | Sanikidze Tornike, | 2425 | 18 |
