2nd Chessable Sunway Formentera R6: Aryan Chopra regains sole lead

by Shahid Ahmed - 25/04/2023

Aryan Chopra defeated Raja Rithvik R to regain his sole lead. Aravindh Chithambaram and Pranav Venkatesh drew with Vladimir Fedoseev and Karthik Venkataraman respectively. IM Prraneeth Vuppala scored an impressive win over the World Under-16 champion, GM Pranav Anand. IM Vaishali drew with GM Xu Yi (CHN). Aravindh, Fedoseev and Pranav V are in pursuit at 4.5/6 each. Karthik finished third in the second Blitz event on 23rd April, scoring 7/9. Vitaliy Bernadskiy (UKR) and Daniel Dardha (BEL) scored 7.5/9 each. They were placed first and second respectively. Aryan will face Fedoseev at the top board in the seventh round which starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Prraneeth scores an impressive win over Pranav Anand

GM Aryan Chopra is back at the top again 5/6 | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

GM Vladimir Fedoseev - GM Aravindh Chithambaram: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Sunway Chess Open

Aryan - Raja Rithvik

Position after 21.d6

GM Aryan Chopra (2607) played 21.d6 to keep the bishop pair on the board. 21...Rxb1 22.Rxb1 Bh6 is what the computer recommends being balanced. GM Raja Rithvik R (2472) opted for 21...Nd7? 22.Bh3 Red8 23.Bxd7 Rxb1 24.Rxb1 Rxd7 25.Rb6 d3 26.Rxa6 Nb7 27.Ra7 the d6-pawn is tactically defended. Eventually the passed d-pawn played a crucial role in White earning the victory.

Prraneeth - Pranav Anand

Position after 27.c5

IM Prraneeth Vuppala (2437) made a positional squeeze against GM Pranav Anand (2525). White already had a space advantage on the queenside. He increased it further 26.c4, 27.c5. Black's crippled pieces could not save the game. White is positionally winning in the above diagram and he had no trouble converting it into a win.

IM Prraneeth Vuppala 4/6 | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

IM Vaishali (pictured) - GM Xu Yi (CHN): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

The tournament hall | 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 6 results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
6	1	1	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	2674	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2607	4
6	2	5	GM	Aryan Chopra	2607	4	1 - 0	4	GM	Raja Rithvik R	2472	21
6	3	11	GM	Pranav V	2545	4	½ - ½	3½	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2516	14
6	5	17	IM	Aditya Mittal	2505	3½	0 - 1	3	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2596	6
6	8	23	FM	Panda Sambit	2452	3	0 - 1	3	GM	Li Di	2554	10
6	9	25	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2437	3	1 - 0	3	GM	Pranav Anand	2525	12
6	10	15	GM	Asis Gargatagli Hipolito	2511	3	1 - 0	3	IM	Kushagra Mohan	2400	28
6	11	26	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2433	3	½ - ½	3	GM	Xu Yi	2505	16
6	13	19	IM	Samant Aditya S	2496	3	1 - 0	3	FM	Krishnan Ritvik	2004	55
6	16	40	FM	Sahithi Varshini M	2260	2½	1 - 0	2½	FM	Grutter Tim	2353	29
6	23	41	CM	Krzywda Andrzej	2223	1½	½ - ½	1½	FM	Mahitosh Dey	2154	45
6	25	56		Advaitt Srikant Koduri	1630	1½	½ - ½	1½	WIM	Varela La Madrid Tilsia Carolina	2078	51

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Standings after Round 6

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	5	GM	Aryan, Chopra		IND	2607		5	19	22	17,75
2	4	GM	Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr.		IND	2607		4,5	20,5	23,5	17,00
3	1	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir		FID	2674		4,5	17,5	20	14,00
4	11	GM	Pranav, V		IND	2545		4,5	16,5	19,5	14,50
5	2	GM	Dardha, Daniel		BEL	2625	SK Moretus Hoboken	4	20	21,5	13,50
6	6	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke		IND	2596		4	19	22,5	14,75
7	14	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman		IND	2516		4	19	21	12,75
8	25	IM	Prraneeth, Vuppala		IND	2437		4	19	20,5	12,25
9	21	GM	Raja, Rithvik R		IND	2472		4	19	20,5	12,00
10	9	GM	Jacobson, Brandon		USA	2556		4	18,5	21	12,75

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Round 7 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
7	1	1	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	2674	4½		5	GM	Aryan Chopra	2607	5
7	2	4	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2607	4½		4½	GM	Pranav V	2545	11
7	3	2	GM	Dardha Daniel	2625	4		4	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2437	25
7	5	6	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2596	4		4	GM	Asis Gargatagli Hipolito	2511	15
7	6	21	GM	Raja Rithvik R	2472	4		4	GM	Jacobson Brandon	2556	9
7	7	14	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2516	4		4	IM	Samant Aditya S	2496	19
7	9	13	GM	Alsina Leal Daniel	2520	3½		3½	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2433	26
7	10	16	GM	Xu Yi	2505	3½		3½	FM	Sahithi Varshini M	2260	40
7	11	20	IM	Chen Qi B	2493	3½		3½	IM	Aditya Mittal	2505	17
7	12	12	GM	Pranav Anand	2525	3		3½		Chen Peng	2425	27
7	14	34		Liu Zhaoqi	2301	3		3	FM	Panda Sambit	2452	23
7	16	28	IM	Kushagra Mohan	2400	3		3	FM	Krishnan Ritvik	2004	55
7	25	45	FM	Mahitosh Dey	2154	2		2		Blazquez Denis	2077	52
7	26	54	WFM	Blanco Garcia Liliam Barbara	2054	1½		2		Advaitt Srikant Koduri	1630	56

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