2nd elllobregat Open R3: Visakh, Sankalp and Aditya Mittal in a four-way lead

by Shahid Ahmed - 03/12/2021

Seven out of top eight games ended in a draw in Round 3 of 2nd elllobregat Open 2021. GMs Visakh N R, Sankalp Gupta, Helgi Ass Gretarsson (ISL) and IM Aditya Mittal are the only four players at 3.0/3. IM Aditya Mittal scored an impressive win over GM Aydin Suleymanli. One of the latest GM of India, Sankalp Gupta defeated GM Jiri Stocek (CZE). Arjun Erigaisi survived a massive scare against GM Hipolito Asis Gargatagli (ESP). FM Aditya Samant continues his impressive run as he won against IM Bharath Subramaniyam H. Sankalp will go against Visakh and Helgi will face Aditya in Round 4 which starts today at 9:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Niklesh Jain

Aditya Mittal beats Aydin Suleymanli

Only three games ended decisively among the top ten boards, and Black won all three of them. Five games ended decisively out of first 23 boards. IMs Arghyadip Das, Sayantan Das and Sidhant Mohapatra drew with GMs Abhimanyu Puranik, Volodymyr Vetoshko (UKR) and Harsha Bharathakoti.

IM Aditya Mittal is one of the four leaders 3.0/3 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

GM Visakh N R is also at 3.0/3 | Photo: Amruta Mokal

One of the latest GM of India, Sankalp Gupta is one of the four leaders 3.0/3 | Photo: Rupali Mullick

Hipolito - Arjun Erigaisi: 0.5-0.5

Arjun Erigaisi got into a bit of trouble against GM Hipolito Asis Gargatagli (ESP).

Position after 27...Rd8

27...Bb3 is what Black needed to play to make sure he does not lose material. Find out why 27...Rd8 is a mistake. Arjun somehow managed to fight back and get into an interesting endgame.

Position after 43...Bd6

How do you assess this position? The game continued 44.Rxb7 Bxh2 and eventually Black had to give up the bishop for the passed b-pawn. The game ended in a draw as White could not make break Black's fortress of four pawns by a rook.

Position after 63...g5

IM Arghyadip Das (pictured) - GM Abhimanyu Puranik: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Sayantan Das (pictured) - GM Volodymyr Vetoshko (UKR): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Sidhant Mohapatra (pictured) - GM Harsha Bharathakoti: 0.5-0.5

FM Aditya Samant (pictured) - IM Bharath Subramaniyam H: 1-0

Replay Round 3 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 3 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	25	GM	Krzyzanowski Marcin	2510	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2646	1
2	2	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2633	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Muradli Mahammad	2501	27
3	26	GM	Asis Gargatagli Hipolito	2502	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2627	5
4	6	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2620	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Beerdsen Thomas	2484	33
5	28	GM	Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis	2491	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	2594	9
6	11	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2579	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Gretarsson Helgi Ass	2476	37
7	30	IM	Saduakassova Dinara	2491	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Yuffa Daniil	2567	12
8	38	IM	Vrolijk Liam	2470	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	2557	14
9	15	GM	Stocek Jiri	2557	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Sankalp Gupta	2468	41
10	18	GM	Suleymanli Aydin	2541	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Aditya Mittal	2459	43
11	60	IM	Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio	2413	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Narciso Dublan Marc	2519	23
12	24	GM	Visakh N R	2515	2	1 - 0	2	FM	Habans Aguerrea Javier	2298	85
13	4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2630	1½	½ - ½	1½	IM	Kacharava Nikolozi	2469	39
14	42	GM	Rios Cristhian Camilo	2460	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	2606	7
15	8	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2604	1½	½ - ½	1½	IM	Das Arghyadip	2453	46

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Round 4 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	41	IM	Sankalp Gupta	2468	3		3	GM	Visakh N R	2515	24
2	37	GM	Gretarsson Helgi Ass	2476	3		3	IM	Aditya Mittal	2459	43
3	1	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2646	2½		2½	GM	Asis Gargatagli Hipolito	2502	26
4	2	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2633	2½		2½	GM	Krzyzanowski Marcin	2510	25
5	5	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2627	2½		2½	GM	Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis	2491	28
6	27	IM	Muradli Mahammad	2501	2½		2½	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2620	6
7	9	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	2594	2½		2½	IM	Saduakassova Dinara	2491	30
8	12	GM	Yuffa Daniil	2567	2½		2½	IM	Garriga Cazorla Pere	2477	36
9	33	IM	Beerdsen Thomas	2484	2½		2½	GM	Fier Alexandr	2563	13
10	14	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	2557	2½		2½	IM	Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio	2413	60
11	23	GM	Narciso Dublan Marc	2519	2½		2½	IM	Vrolijk Liam	2470	38
12	3	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2633	2		2½	FM	Samant Aditya S	2297	86
13	51	GM	Kjartansson Gudmundur	2443	2		2	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2630	4
14	7	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	2606	2		2	IM	Pantzar Milton	2441	53
15	54	IM	Das Sayantan	2436	2		2	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2604	8

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