2nd elllobregat Open R1: Aditya Samant stuns Vitaliy Bernadskiy

by Shahid Ahmed - 01/12/2021

FM Aditya Samant scored the biggest upset of the first round as he beat one of the tournament favorite, GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (UKR) at 2nd elllobregat Open 2021. The 15-year-old boy holds an IM-norm, and he has won two rating tournaments this year, Rapid and Classical in September and November respectively at his home city, Pune. A total of 157 players including 37 GMs, 34 IMs, 3 WGMs and 2 WIMs are taking part from 41 countries across the world. The total prize fund of the event is €25400, the first prize is €10000. Karthikeyan Murali, Arjun Erigaisi, Sethuraman, Visakh N R and Sankalp Gupta made a winning start among Indian GMs.

Prraneeth draws with Iniyan

CM Prraneeth Vuppala who holds an IM-norm drew with GM Iniyan P. The only Indian woman taking part in this event, WIM Isha Sharma also made an impressive start as she drew with IM Bharath Subramaniyam H. Untitled Vaibhav Jayant Raut continues his good form from 53rd Barbera del Valles Open 2021, as he drew with IM IM Claudio Javier Minzer (ARG).

Aditya Samant stunned GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy

Karthikeyan - Marta: 1-0

GM Karthikeyan Murali executed a beautiful combination against IM Marta Garcia Martin (ESP).

Position after 25...h5

Try to think like Karthikeyan and find the beautiful finish for White after 25...h5.

Fourth seeded Karthikeyan scored an emphatic victory

Cadilhac - Arjun Erigaisi: 0-1

FM Igor Tokuichi Kikuchi Cadilhac (BRA) did not respond correctly to GM Arjun Erigaisi's attack on the kingside.

Position after 29...Qh4

Black has a simple threat of Qxf2+ and exploit White's back-rank weakness, White completely ignored it. 30.Bxf8 Qxf2+ 31.Kh1 Ne5 and White had to resign as the queen does not have any more safe squares where it can also prevent back-rank checkmate threat.

It goes without saying that Arjun Erigaisi is in top form | Photo: Lennart Ootes

CM Prraneeth Vuppala (pictured) - GM Iniyan P: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Rupali Mullick

WIM Isha Sharma (pictured) - IM Bharath Subramaniyam H: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Rupali Mullick

IM Claudio Javier Minzer (ARG) - Vaibhav Jayant Raut (pictured): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Club d'Escacs Barberà

Replay Round 1 games

The tournament is taking place at Hotel Playafels, at Castelldefels, Barcelona in Spain from 30th November to 8th December 2021. Every day game starts at 9:30 p.m. IST, except the last round which starts at 2:30 p.m. IST. Time control is 90 minutes/40 moves + 30 minutes/end + 30 seconds increment per move starting from move 1.

Round 1 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	76	GM	Pogorelov Ruslan	2338	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2646	1
2	2	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2633	0	1 - 0	0	WGM	Heinemann Josefine	2336	77
3	78	FM	Klimkowski Jan	2333	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2633	3
4	4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2630	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Garcia Martin Marta	2324	79
5	80	FM	Cadilhac Igor Tokuichi Kikuchi	2323	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2627	5
6	6	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2620	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Cruz Filemon	2310	81
7	82	FM	Barbero Sendic Alejandro	2307	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	2606	7
8	8	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2604	0	½ - ½	0	FM	Dudognon Thibault	2305	83
9	84	FM	Kenneskog Theodor	2302	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	2594	9
10	135		Flaata Alexander R.	2061	0	0 - 1	0	FM	Habans Aguerrea Javier	2298	85
11	86	FM	Samant Aditya S	2297	0	1 - 0	0	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	2592	10
12	11	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2579	0	1 - 0	0	FM	Seemann Jakub	2296	87
13	88	FM	Schippers Maurice	2290	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Yuffa Daniil	2567	12
14	13	GM	Fier Alexandr	2563	0	1 - 0	0	CM	Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan	2282	89
15	90	IM	Pomes Marcet Juan	2275	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	2557	14

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Round 2 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2646	1		1	IM	Martinez Ramirez Lennis	2458	44
2	45	GM	Movsziszian Karen	2457	1		1	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2633	2
3	46	IM	Das Arghyadip	2453	1		1	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2630	4
4	5	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2627	1		1	IM	Ayats Llobera Gerard	2448	50
5	49	IM	Zwirs Nico	2450	1		1	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2620	6
6	7	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	2606	1		1	IM	Das Sayantan	2436	54
7	9	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	2594	1		1	IM	Kaasen Tor Fredrik	2432	56
8	51	GM	Kjartansson Gudmundur	2443	1		1	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2579	11
9	12	GM	Yuffa Daniil	2567	1		1	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2429	57
10	53	IM	Pantzar Milton	2441	1		1	GM	Fier Alexandr	2563	13
11	14	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	2557	1		1	GM	Perez Mitjans Orelvis	2425	59
12	55	IM	Molina Roberto Junio Brito	2434	1		1	GM	Stocek Jiri	2557	15
13	58	FM	Garcia Ramos Daniel	2428	1		1	GM	Suleymanli Aydin	2541	18
14	21	GM	Vetoshko Volodymyr	2525	1		1	IM	Maltsevskaya Aleksandra	2411	61
15	60	IM	Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio	2413	1		1	GM	Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel	2520	22

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