2nd Chessable Sunway Formentera R1: Mahitosh stuns Aditya Mittal

by Shahid Ahmed - 19/04/2023

FM Mahitosh Dey scored a big upset against GM Aditya Mittal in the first round of 2nd Chessable Sunway Formentera Open 2023. The sole IM-norm holder, Mahitosh capitalized on his opportunity when his opponent went for a wrong exchange which made his king vulnerable. Later when he got a chance to fight back, he missed it and Mahitosh scored the full point. WIM Anastasiya Rakhmangulova (UKR) scored the only other upset of the round when she defeated the runner-up of 2nd Menorca Open, GM Pranav V. GMs Aravindh Chithambaram, Aryan Chopra, Leon Luke Mendonca, Pranav Anand, Karthik Venkataraman and Raja Rithvik R have made a winning start. Round 2 starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST.

First round jitters

GM Aravindh Chithambaram defeated IM Michael Rahal (ESP) | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Mahitosh - Aditya Mittal

Position after 21.Bg5

FM Mahitosh Dey (2154) played a simple move 21.Bg5. GM Aditya Mittal's (2505) best course of action would have been 21...Rxf3 22.Bxe7 Rb3 and the position remains balanced. Instead, he opted for 21...Bxg5?? and everything fell apart. 22.Ng5 h6 23.Qh7+ Kf8 24.Qh8+ Ke7 25.Nxe6! fxe6 26.Qxg7+ Kd8 27.Qg8+ Ke7 28.Qg7+ Kd8 29.Qxh6? allowed Black to get back in the game.

Position after 28...Kd8

How should White keep the attack going? The first move that comes to mind seeing this position is 29.d5! Since White does not have a lot of pieces left on the board, the closest to the black king apart from the queen, is a pawn at e5. White went 29.Qxh6 which created an opportunity for Black to get back in the game Rd3. Unfortunately, he missed and played a flashy 29...Qxa2?? 30.Qg5+ forced him to give up his knight because otherwise White gets to control the b1-square and capture Black's queen. White won the game in the next five moves.

FM Mahitosh Dey scored a big win over GM Aditya Mittal

WIM Anastasiya Rakhmangulova (UKR) scored an upset victory against GM Pranav V | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

A total of 57 players including 19 GMs, 11 IMs, 2 WGMs and 2 WIMs are taking part from 18 countries across the world in Group A (>1700). The eleven day ten-round Swiss League Rating tournament is organized by and at Hotel Club Sunway Punta Prima from 18th to 28th April 2023 in Spain. The time control of the tournament is 90 minutes/40 moves + 30 minutes + 30 seconds per move from the first move.

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Round 1 results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	4	4	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2607	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Rahal Michael A	2319	32
1	5	33	WGM	Doluhanova Evgeniya	2318	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Aryan Chopra	2607	5
1	6	6	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2596	0	1 - 0	0		Liu Zhaoqi	2301	34
1	11	39	WIM	Rakhmangulova Anastasiya	2266	0	1 - 0	0	GM	Pranav V	2545	11
1	12	12	GM	Pranav Anand	2525	0	1 - 0	0	FM	Sahithi Varshini M	2260	40
1	14	14	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2516	0	1 - 0	0	FM	Sande Edreira Jose Antonio	2217	42
1	17	45	FM	Mahitosh Dey	2154	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Aditya Mittal	2505	17
1	19	47		Southcott-Moyers Indy	2112	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Samant Aditya S	2496	19
1	21	49	FM	Lacrosse Marc	2081	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Raja Rithvik R	2472	21
1	23	51	WIM	Varela La Madrid Tilsia Carolina	2078	0	0 - 1	0	FM	Panda Sambit	2452	23
1	25	53		Wagner Bernd	2070	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2437	25
1	26	26	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2433	0	1 - 0	0	WFM	Blanco Garcia Liliam Barbara	2054	54
1	27	55	FM	Krishnan Ritvik	2004	0	1 - 0	0		Chen Peng	2425	27
1	28	28	IM	Kushagra Mohan	2400	0	1 - 0	0		Advaitt Srikant Koduri	1630	56

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Round 2 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
2	2	19	IM	Samant Aditya S	2496	1		1	GM	Dardha Daniel	2625	2
2	3	20	IM	Chen Qi B	2493	1		1	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2607	4
2	4	5	GM	Aryan Chopra	2607	1		1	IM	Fernandez Guillen Ernesto J.	2461	22
2	5	21	GM	Raja Rithvik R	2472	1		1	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2596	6
2	7	23	FM	Panda Sambit	2452	1		1	GM	Xu Xiangyu	2587	8
2	8	9	GM	Jacobson Brandon	2556	1		1	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2433	26
2	9	25	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2437	1		1	GM	Li Di	2554	10
2	10	28	IM	Kushagra Mohan	2400	1		1	GM	Pranav Anand	2525	12
2	12	57		Da Silva Jose Carlos Peixoto M.	1606	1		1	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2516	14
2	13	15	GM	Asis Gargatagli Hipolito	2511	1		1	FM	Mahitosh Dey	2154	45
2	14	3	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	2619	½		1	FM	Krishnan Ritvik	2004	55
2	16	11	GM	Pranav V	2545	0		½	IM	Seo Jung Min	2500	18
2	17	17	IM	Aditya Mittal	2505	0		0	CM	Krzywda Andrzej	2223	41
2	28	40	FM	Sahithi Varshini M	2260	0		0	WFM	Blanco Garcia Liliam Barbara	2054	54
2	29	56		Advaitt Srikant Koduri	1630	0	1			bye

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