Nodirbek Abdusattorov wins 2nd elllobregat Open in Playoffs, Karthikeyan Murali finishes second

by Shahid Ahmed - 09/12/2021

Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) drew his final round game against Jaime Santos Latasa (ESP). Since Karthikeyan Murali and IM Pere Garriga Cazorla (ESP) won their respective games, Playoff was enforced. Karthikeyan prevailed the home-country player in the Semifinals, however he lost the Finals of the Playoff against Abdusattorov. Thus the top seed won the tournament, Karthikeyan secured second place and Pere was placed third. They won €10000, €5000 and €2000 cash and a trophy each respectively. IM Aditya Mittal and FM Aditya S Samant secured their second GM and IM-norm respectively. Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

The Amazing Adityas

Both IM Aditya Mittal and FM Aditya S Samant had a fantastic tournament. While the former remained undefeated, scored 6.5/9 to secure fifth place, earn his second GM-norm and win €1300 cash, the latter secured his second IM-norm. Both of them have very good chance to become India's latest Grandmaster and International Master respectively before the year 2021 ends as their next event, 8th Sunway Sitges Chess Festival starts in four days.

Winner of 2nd elllobregat Open 2021 - GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Top 3 (L to R) - 3rd IM Pere Garriga Cazorla (ESP), 1st GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) and 2nd GM Karthikeyan Murali | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Karthikeyan - Tomas: 1-0

GM Karthikeyan Murali defeated IM Tomas Sosa (ARG) with a correct play in the endgame to tie for the first place 7.0/9 along with GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) and IM Pere Garriga Cazorla (ESP).

Runner-up - Karthikeyan Murali | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

GM Arjun Erigaisi drew his final round game and secured 4th place | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Aditya Mittal - Yuffa: 0.5-0.5

IM Aditya Mittal had a hard-fought draw against GM Daniil Yuffa (ESP). The better part of the endgame featured four knights where Aditya used his knights beautifully to prevent his opponent from creating a passed pawn on the kingside.

5th - IM Aditya Mittal scored an unbeaten 6.5/9 | Photo: Kusum Mittal

Aditya's unbeaten run at 2nd elllobregat Open 2021

GM Abhimanyu Puranik beat GM Volodymyr Vetoshko (UKR) to finish at 10th place | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Playoff Semifinals: Pere - Karthikeyan: 0-1

Since three players - Abdusattorov, Karthikeyan and Pere finished at 7.0/9. They had to play the Playoff to determine the top three places. Pere faced Karthikeyan in the Semifinals where the winner will face Abdusattorov in the best of two Finals. Time control for all games: 5 minutes + 3 seconds increment. Karthikeyan won the first game, despite his opponent being better for the significant part of the game.

Check out the final moments of the game

Abdusattorov won both games in the Finals against Karthikeyan to clinch the tournament | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

FM Aditya S Samant receives his second IM-norm certificate | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Aditya performed at 2544 and gained 56.4 Elo rating points

Replay Round 9 and Tie-break 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 9 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2633	6	½ - ½	6½	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2646	1
2	17	IM	Sosa Tomas	2542	6	0 - 1	6	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2630	4
3	5	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2627	6	½ - ½	6	IM	Muradli Mahammad	2501	27
4	6	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2620	6	0 - 1	6	IM	Garriga Cazorla Pere	2477	36
5	43	IM	Aditya Mittal	2459	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Yuffa Daniil	2567	12
6	20	GM	Van Foreest Lucas	2532	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	2557	14
7	2	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2633	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Arjun Kalyan	2537	19
8	8	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2604	5½	1 - 0	5½	GM	Vetoshko Volodymyr	2525	21
9	11	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2579	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	2594	9
10	24	GM	Visakh N R	2515	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	2592	10
11	33	IM	Beerdsen Thomas	2484	5½	½ - ½	5	GM	Iniyan P	2554	16
12	13	GM	Fier Alexandr	2563	5	1 - 0	5	IM	Sankalp Gupta	2468	41
13	15	GM	Stocek Jiri	2557	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Minzer Claudio Javier	2442	52
14	18	GM	Suleymanli Aydin	2541	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Suarez Uriel Adrian	2343	75
15	40	IM	Quintiliano Pinto Renato R.	2469	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Narciso Dublan Marc	2519	23

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	K	rtg+/-
1	1	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek			UZB	2646	UZBEKISTAN	7,0	49,0	53,5	40,75	10	8,1
2	4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali			IND	2630	AICF	7,0	46,0	49,0	37,25	10	6,9
3	36	IM	Garriga Cazorla Pere			ESP	2477	CAT Mollet	7,0	42,0	45,0	33,25	10	17,4
4	5	GM	Erigaisi Arjun			IND	2627	AICF	6,5	47,5	52,0	36,50	10	2,6
5	43	IM	Aditya Mittal			IND	2459	AICF	6,5	47,5	48,5	32,25	10	24,1
6	14	GM	Meshkovs Nikita			LAT	2557	LETONIA	6,5	46,5	50,5	34,75	10	13,1
7	12	GM	Yuffa Daniil			ESP	2567	VAL Paterna	6,5	46,5	50,0	34,75	10	6,5
8	27	IM	Muradli Mahammad			AZE	2501	AZERBAIJAN	6,5	45,5	50,0	34,50	10	19,9
9	3	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime			ESP	2633	EXT Magic	6,5	45,0	49,5	35,00	10	-1,5
10	8	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu			IND	2604	AICF	6,5	43,0	46,0	32,00	10	-2,7
11	20	GM	Van Foreest Lucas			NED	2532	Shah 21	6,5	41,5	43,5	29,50	10	9,3
12	6	GM	Sethuraman S.P.			IND	2620	AICF	6,0	48,0	52,5	33,50	10	-4,1
13	11	GM	Safarli Eltaj			AZE	2579	AZERBAIJAN	6,0	47,5	52,0	33,25	10	6,3
14	25	GM	Krzyzanowski Marcin			POL	2510	Silesia Raciborz	6,0	47,0	51,0	31,00	10	13,3
15	33	IM	Beerdsen Thomas			NED	2484	Schaakstad Apeldoorn	6,0	46,5	50,0	31,00	10	16,6
16	17	IM	Sosa Tomas			ARG	2542	CAT CE Mollet	6,0	44,5	47,5	29,75	10	2,0
17	13	GM	Fier Alexandr			BRA	2563	BRASIL	6,0	44,0	48,5	31,00	10	0,7
18	9	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.			UKR	2594	UCRANIA	6,0	43,5	48,0	31,50	10	-1,0
19	2	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan			UKR	2633	Getxo	6,0	43,5	47,0	30,00	10	-3,7
20	24	GM	Visakh N R			IND	2515	AICF	6,0	43,5	46,0	28,00	10	8,7

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