60th National Championship 2023 R3: Dhananjay causes knightmare for Abhijeet Gupta

by Shahid Ahmed - 19/08/2023

Dhananjay S (CHAT) scored a huge victory over the top seed of 60th National Chess Championship 2023, GM Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB) in the third round. The reigning Chhattisgarh State Senior champion traded both of his bishops for knights by the tenth move. Later he manuevered his knights quite well. When opportunity arose, he exchanged one of his knight with his opponent's good bishop and went on to convert his advantage quite well. Ram S Krishnan (BSNL) had a good chance to win in the endgame after his opponent, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (RSPB) sacrificed his bishop in a balanced endgame. Shriraj Bhosale (MAH) had an exciting draw against IM Neelash Saha (RSPB) who sacrificed his queen. Round 4 starts today at 3 p.m. IST. Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Ram S Krishnan misses against Deepan

GM Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB) had made a shaky start. He landed himself in trouble in the second round. Somehow he managed to escape. In the third round, Dhananjay did not allow his advantage to slip away. Apart from the top board, there were no major upsets among the top boards. Several GMs and IMs were held to a draw by their lower rated opponents. GM P Karthikeyan (RSPB) suffered his second consecutive loss of the event. This time against A Mithiran (TN).

Dhananjay S (CHAT) scored a huge upset victory against the top seed - GM Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB)

Abhijeet - Dhananjay

Position after 33...Nd2

The reigning Chhattisgarh State Senior champion, Dhananjay S (2133) traded his bishop pairs for knights by move no.10. He gained a pawn by maneuvering his knights, few moves before the above position arose. GM Abhijeet Gupta (2625) erred 34.Qe4? Nd2! attacks the queen and threatens Nf3+ fork at the same time. It forced White to go 35.Qh7+ Kf8 36.Be4 Black took the e4-bishop as it was much more active than the dark-squared bishop. White's position fell apart in a hurry, he had to give up his bishop and call it a day as checkmate threat was unstoppable.

Kaivalya Sandip Nagare (MAH) forced a draw against GM Visakh N R (RSPB) | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Deepan - Ram

Position after 63.Ka4

In an equal endgame, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (2446) created an imbalance by sacrificing his bishop at a6. After a few moves, we reached the above position where Ram S Krishnan (1941) got his final opportunity to win the game. Try to find out the beautiful idea. The game continued 63...Ne7 64.b5 and it ended in a draw after 16 more moves.

Ram S Krishnan (BSNL) got a great opportunity to win in the endgame | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Shriraj Bhosale (MAH) had an exciting draw against IM Neelash Saha (RSPB) | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Some notable results

GM Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB) - Dhananjay S (CHAT): 0-1

CM Kaivalya Sandip Nagare (MAH) - GM Visakh N R (RSPB): 0.5-0.5

GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (RSPB) - Ram S Krishnan (BSNL): 0.5-0.5

Shriraj Bhosale (MAH) - IM Neelash Saha (RSPB): 0.5-0.5

IM Mehar Chinna Reddy C H (RSPB) - Sanchay Dubey (UP): 0.5-0.5

Arnav Muralidhar (KAR) - IM D V Prasad (KAR): 0.5-0.5

IM P Konguvel (PSPB) - Nirnay Garg (HAR): 0.5-0.5

Bhoopnath (BIH) - IM Abhishek Kelkar (MAH): 0.5-0.5

Uddipan Roy (WB) - GM Laxman R R (RSPB): 0.5-0.5

GM Sriram Jha (LIC) - Md. Reyan (BIH): 0.5-0.5

IM D K Sharma (LIC) - Rebecca Jesumarian (TN): 0.5-0.5

WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty (LIC) - Marium Fatima (BIH): 0.5-0.5

GM P Karthikeyan (RSPB) - A Mithiran (TN): 0-1

A total of 352 players including 18 GMs, 17 IMs and a WGM are taking part in this tournament from various states across the country. The eleven-round Swiss League Rating tournament is taking place at Boxing Hall, Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune, Maharashtra from 16th to 26th August 2023. The time control of the event is 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes with an increment of 30 seconds from move no.1

Prizes

The total prize fund of the tournament is ₹3000000. The top three prizes are ₹600000, ₹500000 and ₹400000 each.

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Round 3 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.	PGN
1	1	GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	2625	PSPB	2	0 - 1	2	FM	Dhananjay, S	2133	CHAT	48	PGN
2	49		Thanki, Hemal Karsanji	2128	BSNL	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	2611	AAI	2	PGN
3	3	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	2591	PSPB	2	1 - 0	2	CM	John, Veny Akkarakaran	2127	KER	50	PGN
4	4	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	2583	PSPB	2	1 - 0	2		Apoorv, Kamble	2082	KAR	52	PGN
5	5	GM	Ghosh, Diptayan	2568	WB	2	1 - 0	2		Vignesh, Advaith Vemula	2018	TEL	62	PGN
6	55	CM	Nagare, Kaivalya Sandip	2071	MAH	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Visakh, N R	2540	RSPB	6	PGN
7	61		Pattnayak, Nilsu	2020	ODI	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Mitrabha, Guha	2505	WB	8	PGN
8	9	GM	Iniyan, P	2502	TN	2	1 - 0	2		Ambarish, Sharma	1993	WB	68	PGN
9	65		Bharadia, Yash	1997	RAJ	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Vignesh, N R	2501	RSPB	10	PGN
10	11	GM	Das, Sayantan	2489	RSPB	2	1 - 0	2	AFM	Pawar, Harshit	1970	DEL	72	PGN
11	75		Lad, Mandar Pradip	1954	GOA	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Sengupta, Deep	2474	PSPB	12	PGN
12	76		Anup, Shankar R	1951	TN	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Akash, G	2456	TN	14	PGN
13	15	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.	2446	RSPB	2	½ - ½	2		Ram, S. Krishnan	1941	BSNL	82	PGN
14	87		Bhosale, Shriraj	1930	MAH	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Neelash, Saha	2435	RSPB	16	PGN
15	17	GM	Venkatesh, M.R.	2434	PSPB	2	1 - 0	2		Mehta, Naitik R	1931	GUJ	86	PGN
16	89		Tripathy, B C	1930	JHAR	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Anuj, Shrivatri	2420	MP	18	PGN
17	20	IM	Das, Arghyadip	2413	RSPB	2	1 - 0	2	FM	Ramakrishna, J.	1922	TEL	92	PGN
18	91		Kartik, Kumar Singh	1925	MAH	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Srihari, L R	2407	TN	22	PGN
19	23	IM	Krishna, C R G	2405	RSPB	2	1 - 0	2		Jani, Kushal R	1913	GUJ	94	PGN
20	93		Umashankar, A	1920	PUD	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Nitin, S.	2386	RSPB	24	PGN

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	2	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu		IND	2611	AAI	3	4	6	6,00	0	3
	10	GM	Vignesh, N R		IND	2501	RSPB	3	4	6	6,00	0	3
	23	IM	Krishna, C R G		IND	2405	RSPB	3	4	6	6,00	0	3
4	3	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.		IND	2591	PSPB	3	4	5,5	5,50	0	3
	4	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar		IND	2583	PSPB	3	4	5,5	5,50	0	3
	18	IM	Anuj, Shrivatri		IND	2420	MP	3	4	5,5	5,50	0	3
7	9	GM	Iniyan, P		IND	2502	TN	3	4	5	5,00	0	3
	27		Sahoo, Utkal Ranjan		IND	2367	ODI	3	4	5	5,00	0	3
	41	CM	Nayak, Rajesh		IND	2194	ODI	3	4	5	5,00	0	3
	48	FM	Dhananjay, S		IND	2133	CHAT	3	4	5	5,00	0	3
11	14	GM	Akash, G		IND	2456	TN	3	4	4,5	4,50	0	3
12	30	IM	Utsab, Chatterjee		IND	2322	WB	3	4	4	4,00	0	3
	40		Aakash Sharadchandra, Dalvi		IND	2196	MAH	3	4	4	4,00	0	3
14	20	IM	Das, Arghyadip		IND	2413	RSPB	3	3,5	5	5,00	0	3
	26	CM	Soham, Kamotra		IND	2381	J&K	3	3,5	5	5,00	0	3
16	8	GM	Mitrabha, Guha		IND	2505	WB	3	3,5	4,5	4,50	0	3
	12	GM	Sengupta, Deep		IND	2474	PSPB	3	3,5	4,5	4,50	0	3
	17	GM	Venkatesh, M.R.		IND	2434	PSPB	3	3,5	4,5	4,50	0	3
	22	IM	Srihari, L R		IND	2407	TN	3	3,5	4,5	4,50	0	3
	24	IM	Nitin, S.		IND	2386	RSPB	3	3,5	4,5	4,50	0	3

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Round 4 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	2	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	2611	AAI	3		3	IM	Das, Arghyadip	2413	RSPB	20
2	22	IM	Srihari, L R	2407	TN	3		3	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	2591	PSPB	3
3	24	IM	Nitin, S.	2386	RSPB	3		3	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	2583	PSPB	4
4	26	CM	Soham, Kamotra	2381	J&K	3		3	GM	Ghosh, Diptayan	2568	WB	5
5	8	GM	Mitrabha, Guha	2505	WB	3		3	IM	Krishna, C R G	2405	RSPB	23
6	30	IM	Utsab, Chatterjee	2322	WB	3		3	GM	Iniyan, P	2502	TN	9
7	10	GM	Vignesh, N R	2501	RSPB	3		3		Sahoo, Utkal Ranjan	2367	ODI	27
8	40		Aakash Sharadchandra, Dalvi	2196	MAH	3		3	GM	Das, Sayantan	2489	RSPB	11
9	12	GM	Sengupta, Deep	2474	PSPB	3		3	CM	Nayak, Rajesh	2194	ODI	41
10	14	GM	Akash, G	2456	TN	3		3	IM	Praveen, Kumar C	2167	TN	43
11	48	FM	Dhananjay, S	2133	CHAT	3		3	GM	Venkatesh, M.R.	2434	PSPB	17
12	18	IM	Anuj, Shrivatri	2420	MP	3		3		Kolla, Bhaavan	1727	AP	161
13	6	GM	Visakh, N R	2540	RSPB	2½		2½		Mahindrakar, Indrajeet	1996	MAH	67
14	56		Sinha, Sudhir Kumar	2050	BIH	2½		2½	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh	2538	RSPB	7
15	60		Ajay, Santhosh Parvathareddy	2034	UP	2½		2½	IM	Shyaamnikhil, P	2467	RSPB	13
16	70		Phatak, Aanjaneya	1978	MAH	2½		2½	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.	2446	RSPB	15
17	16	IM	Neelash, Saha	2435	RSPB	2½		2½		Gawai, Siddhant	1973	MAH	71
18	77		Mukund, Hemant Agarwal	1950	GUJ	2½		2½	GM	Vishnu, Prasanna. V	2411	TN	21
19	82		Ram, S. Krishnan	1941	BSNL	2½		2½	IM	Mehar, Chinna Reddy C.H.	2384	RSPB	25
20	32	IM	Prasad, Devaki V	2254	KAR	2½		2½		Bhosale, Shriraj	1930	MAH	87

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