61st National Championship R5: Surya, Neelash and Aronyak make a perfect start 5/5

by Shahid Ahmed - 22/08/2024

GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly (PSPB), IM Neelash Saha (RSPB) and IM Aronyak Ghosh (RSPB) are the three leaders after the fifth round of 61st National Championship 2024. The top seed, Surya won a tough battle against GM Deep Sengupta (PSPB). The latter made a positional mistake which allowed his opponent to get an initiative and later do a beautiful combination. Neelash showed fantastic positional understanding to beat GM Sankalp Gupta (MAH). IM Aronyak Ghosh (RSPB) returned the in-form GM Venkatesh M R's (PSPB) exchange sacrifice and later seized his opportunity in the endgame. The reigning Tamil Nadu State Sub-Junior and Senior champion, 13-year-old CM Aakash G stunned India's latest GM P Shyaam Nikhil (RSPB). Round 6 starts tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. IST. Photos: Himank Ghosh

13-year-old Aakash G upsets India's latest GM

GM P Shyaam Nikhil (RSPB) made an unforced error which cost him the game against CM Aakash G (TN). Telangana boys - FM Arjun Adireddy and Vignesh Advaith Vemula drew with GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J (RSPB) and IM Ajay Karthikeyan (TN) respectively. Esshaan Wadhawan (DEL) defeated IM Sammed Shete (MAH).

IM Neelash Saha (RSPB) displayed great positional understanding to beat GM Sankalp Gupta (MAH)

Deep - Surya

Position after 34...h5

In an already winning position, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly (PSPB, 2583) found a nice combination. 34...h5 35.Nxd2 hxg4+ 36.Kg1 Nb3+! preventing Rxb6 37.Kf1 Nxd2+ 38.Ke2 Nxe4 39.Kd3 Nc5+ 40.Kc4 f3 41.e6 fxg2 42.e7 Re8 43.Rbd1 Kc8 44.Kd5 Nd3 and Black won.

GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly (PSPB) won a fine game against GM Deep Sengupta (PSPB)

GM Sayantan Das (RSPB) - GM Karthik Venkataraman (AP): 0.5-0.5

Neelash - Sankalp

Position after 30.Rc6!

GM Sankalp Gupta (MAH, 2546) made an incorrect positional decision of opening up the c-file. White gained complete control of it and he asserted dominance 30.Rc6! If Black accepts the exchange sacrifice 30...Bxc6 White will very happy to recapture with the d5-pawn 31.dxc6 to open up his light-squared bishop's path. The game continued 30...h5 31.Rac1 Black had to take the rook, otherwise White will force by forming an Alekhine's Gun Bxc6 32.dxc6 Kh8 33.Bc4 Rh7 and White won the game in ten more moves.

Venkatesh - Aronyak

Position after 35..Nc7

There is a minute difference between playing 36.d6 right away and trading the pawns first. Find out what is the key difference. GM Venkatesh M R (PSPB, 2387) made the mistake of pushing the pawn first 36.d6 Rxe2 37.Kxe2 Ne6 and IM Aronyak Ghosh (RSPB, 2535) went on to win the game.

IM Aronyak Ghosh (RSPB) scored his fifth win over a strong opponent GM Venkatesh M R (PSPB)

GM Diptayan Ghosh (RSPB) ended Raihaan Zahid's (TEL) unbeaten streak

GM Sethuraman S P's (PSPB) passed pawns proved to be the deciding factor in his win over GM Neelotpal Das (PSPB)

GM Mitrabha Guha (RSPB) - IM Nitin S (RSPB): 0.5-0.5

GM Vignesh N R (RSPB) and IM Viani Antonio Dcunha (KAR) had a prolonged draw

Shyaam - Aakash

Position after 30.g4?

GM P Shyaam Nikhil (RSPB, 2442) made an unforced error 30.g4? It was unnecessary as it increased the vulnerability of his king at f1. 30...Bc6 31.Ng5 Bxg2+ 32.Kxg2 Qb7+ 33.Kh2 Rd3 34.Bc1 Bc7 35.Qg2 Qb8 36.Nxe6 Re8 37.Qc6 Nf7 38.Ba3 Bxf4+ and it's over. White's a1-rook did not even participate in the game.

The reigning Tamil Nadu State Sub-Junior and Senior champion, CM Aakash G made the most out of his opportunity against India's latest GM P Shyaam Nikhil

GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (RSPB) - FM Arjun Adireddy (TEL): 0.5-0.5

IM Ajay Karthikeyan (TN) - Vignesh Advaith Vemula (TEL): 0.5-0.5

IM Sammed Shete (MAH) - Esshan Wadhawan (DEL): 0-1

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Round 5 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	12	GM	Sengupta, Deep	2516	PSPB	4	0 - 1	4	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	2583	PSPB	1
2	15	GM	Das, Sayantan	2491	RLY	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman	2568	AP	5
3	16	IM	Neelash, Saha	2470	RLY	4	1 - 0	4	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	2546	MAH	7
4	23	GM	Venkatesh, M.R.	2387	PSPB	4	0 - 1	4	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh	2535	RLY	9
5	4	GM	Ghosh, Diptayan	2568	RLY	3½	1 - 0	4		Raihaan, Zahid	2136	TEL	39
6	26	GM	Neelotpal, Das	2355	PSPB	3½	0 - 1	3½	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	2571	PSPB	3
7	8	GM	Mitrabha, Guha	2537	RLY	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Nitin, S.	2341	RLY	27
8	10	GM	Vignesh, N R	2526	RLY	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Viani, Antonio Dcunha	2378	KAR	25
9	28	GM	Laxman, R.R.	2328	RLY	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	Visakh, N R	2517	RLY	11
10	18	IM	Shyaam, Nikhil P	2442	RLY	3½	0 - 1	3½	CM	Aakash, G	2317	TN	29

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Standings after Round 5

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	1	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar		IND	2583	PSPB	5	14,5	17,5	17,50	0	5	5	5	4,04	0,96	10	9,6
2	16	IM	Neelash, Saha		IND	2470	RLY	5	13	16	16,00	0	5	5	5	4,06	0,94	10	9,4
3	9	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh		IND	2535	RLY	5	12,5	15	15,00	0	5	5	5	4,38	0,62	10	6,2
4	15	GM	Das, Sayantan		IND	2491	RLY	4,5	16	18	15,75	0	4	5	4,5	4,07	0,43	10	4,3
5	5	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman		IND	2568	AP	4,5	15	17,5	15,25	0	4	5	4,5	4,20	0,30	10	3
6	4	GM	Ghosh, Diptayan		IND	2568	RLY	4,5	14,5	17	15,00	0	4	5	4,5	4,36	0,14	10	1,4
7	3	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.		IND	2571	PSPB	4,5	13,5	16	14,25	0	4	5	4,5	4,21	0,29	10	2,9
8	29	CM	Aakash, G		IND	2317	TN	4,5	13,5	14	12,25	0	4	5	4,5	4,01	0,49	20	9,8
9	23	GM	Venkatesh, M.R.		IND	2387	PSPB	4	16	17,5	12,50	0	4	5	4	3,35	0,65	10	6,5
10	25	IM	Viani, Antonio Dcunha		IND	2378	KAR	4	15,5	18	14,00	0	3	5	4	3,35	0,65	10	6,5

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Round 6 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	1	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	2583	PSPB	5	5	IM	Neelash, Saha	2470	RLY	16
2	9	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh	2535	RLY	5	4½	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	2571	PSPB	3
3	5	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman	2568	AP	4½	4½	GM	Ghosh, Diptayan	2568	RLY	4
4	29	CM	Aakash, G	2317	TN	4½	4½	GM	Das, Sayantan	2491	RLY	15
5	31	FM	Adireddy, Arjun	2309	TEL	4	4	GM	Iniyan, Pa	2547	TN	6
6	7	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	2546	MAH	4	4		Sahoo, Utkal Ranjan	2300	ODI	32
7	33	AGM	Vignesh, B	2245	TN	4	4	GM	Mitrabha, Guha	2537	RLY	8
8	37		Vignesh, Advaith Vemula	2189	TEL	4	4	GM	Vignesh, N R	2526	RLY	10
9	11	GM	Visakh, N R	2517	RLY	4	4		Balkishan, A.	2077	KAR	48
10	39		Raihaan, Zahid	2136	TEL	4	4	GM	Sengupta, Deep	2516	PSPB	12

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