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Abhimanyu Puranik is the highest scoring Indian after seven rounds of Sunway Sitges. He beat the strong Iranian GM Amin Tabatabaei in the seventh round and moved to 6.0/7.| Photo: Lennart Ootes

From a position that looked slightly better for Black (Tabatabaei), Abhimanyu launched such a fierce attack, that the Iranian GM was not able to handle it and succumbed to a quick loss.

With a 2746 performance, 2580 rated Abhimanyu Puranik and slowly and steadily moving towards the 2600 mark! .| Photo: Lennart Ootes

He was also the World Junior silver medalist behind Parham Maghsoodloo in 2018 .| Photo: Lennart Ootes

GM Daniel King analyzes Abhimanyu's win over Amin Tabatabaei

What a beautiful photo of the great Chuky by Lennart Ootes

The clash of two Indian GMs - Nihal Sarin (right) against Girish Koushik. .| Photo: Lennart Ootes

Nihal Sarin tried really hard but couldn't convert his position into a win against GM Girish Koushik .| Photo: Lennart Ootes

After a couple of losses, Pragg struck back with a fine win over Ezra Kirk (2433) .| Photo: Lennart Ootes

One of the prodigies of Indian chess, Bharath Subramaniyam who became an IM at the age of 11 years and 8 months, is on four out of seven .| Photo: Lennart Ootes

Raunak Sadhwani is concentration personified even off the board! .| Photo: Lennart Ootes

The favourite place for Indian players after the round is the Foosball table! .| Photo: Lennart Ootes

How many hats will this guy wear? Oskar Stober takes pictures with his Nikon camera. By the way, he is also the interviewer in the following interview:

Abhimanyu speaks about his sixth round draw against Li Di

Results of round 7

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2690	5	½ - ½	6	GM	Korobov Anton	2668	3
2	8	GM	Kovalenko Igor	2647	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2585	25
3	26	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2580	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Tabatabaei M.Amin	2635	11
4	13	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2626	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Wagner Dennis	2578	27
5	18	GM	Durarbayli Vasif	2609	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Li Di	2543	35
6	33	GM	Nasuta Grzegorz	2545	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Gareyev Timur	2598	21
7	12	GM	Vocaturo Daniele	2627	4½	½ - ½	5	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2544	34
8	36	GM	Harutyunian Tigran K.	2540	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2656	5
9	52	GM	Sadzikowski Daniel	2504	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Edouard Romain	2653	7
10	9	GM	Donchenko Alexander	2644	4½	1 - 0	4½	GM	Moradiabadi Elshan	2539	37

Standings after round 7

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	RtgI	RtgN	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	3	GM	Korobov Anton				UKR	2668	0		6,5	30,0	33,5	30,75
2	18	GM	Durarbayli Vasif				AZE	2609	0		6,0	26,5	29,5	25,50
3	26	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu				IND	2580	0		6,0	25,5	29,0	24,50
4	9	GM	Donchenko Alexander				GER	2644	0		5,5	28,5	32,0	24,50
5	33	GM	Nasuta Grzegorz				POL	2545	0		5,5	28,5	31,5	24,25
6	1	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily				UKR	2690	0		5,5	28,5	31,0	24,00
7	25	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime				ESP	2585	2572	Ext	5,5	28,5	31,0	23,75
8	13	GM	Narayanan.S.L				IND	2626	0		5,5	28,0	31,0	21,75
9	8	GM	Kovalenko Igor				LAT	2647	0		5,5	27,5	31,5	24,25
10	21	GM	Gareyev Timur				USA	2598	0		5,5	27,5	31,0	23,75
11	27	GM	Wagner Dennis				GER	2578	0		5,5	27,5	30,0	22,75
12	34	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	H16			IND	2544	0		5,5	27,0	30,5	23,75
13	23	GM	Liang Awonder	16			USA	2593	0		5,5	25,5	28,5	22,00
14	14	GM	Heimann Andreas				GER	2617	0		5,5	25,5	28,5	21,75
15	20	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	H			ESP	2605	2609	Gal	5,5	25,0	28,0	21,50
16	22	GM	Svane Rasmus				GER	2597	0		5,5	24,5	28,0	22,00
17	11	GM	Tabatabaei M.Amin				IRI	2635	0		5,0	31,5	34,5	23,25
18	35	GM	Li Di	H			CHN	2543	0		5,0	29,0	31,5	19,75
19	24	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	H16			IND	2586	0		5,0	28,5	32,0	20,00
20	71	IM	Parvanyan Ashot	H			GER	2456	0	SG Turm Kiel von 1910	5,0	28,5	31,0	20,75

Pairings of round 8

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	GM	Korobov Anton	2668	6½		6	GM	Durarbayli Vasif	2609	18
2	8	GM	Kovalenko Igor	2647	5½		6	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2580	26
3	23	GM	Liang Awonder	2593	5½		5½	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2690	1
4	25	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2585	5½		5½	GM	Donchenko Alexander	2644	9
5	13	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2626	5½		5½	GM	Svane Rasmus	2597	22
6	27	GM	Wagner Dennis	2578	5½		5½	GM	Heimann Andreas	2617	14
7	33	GM	Nasuta Grzegorz	2545	5½		5½	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	2605	20
8	21	GM	Gareyev Timur	2598	5½		5½	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2544	34
9	2	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	2690	5		5	GM	Sindarov Javokhir	2526	42
10	5	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2656	5		5	IM	Sadhwani Raunak	2507	48

Overview of Indian players:

SNo		Name	RtgI	RtgN	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pts.	Rk.	Group
5	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2656	0	IND	1	1	0	1	1	½	½				5,0	21	Group A
10	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2638	0	IND	1	1	1	1	0	0	½				4,5	55	Group A
13	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2626	0	IND	1	1	1	1	1	0	½				5,5	8	Group A
16	GM	Nihal Sarin	2612	0	IND	1	½	1	½	1	½	½				5,0	29	Group A
17	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2611	0	IND	1	1	½	0	1	½	1				5,0	38	Group A
24	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	2586	0	IND	1	1	1	1	0	0	1				5,0	19	Group A
26	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2580	0	IND	1	½	1	1	1	½	1				6,0	3	Group A
31	GM	Gukesh D	2547	0	IND	1	1	½	1	½	0	1				5,0	33	Group A
34	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2544	0	IND	1	½	1	1	½	1	½				5,5	12	Group A
40	GM	Narayanan Srinath	2529	0	IND	1	1	1	½	½	0	1				5,0	24	Group A
44	GM	Harsha Bharathakoti	2523	0	IND	1	½	½	1	1	½	0				4,5	58	Group A
48	IM	Sadhwani Raunak	2507	0	IND	1	1	0	1	0	1	1				5,0	41	Group A
49	GM	Girish A. Koushik	2506	0	IND	1	0	1	1	½	1	½				5,0	50	Group A
55	GM	Iniyan P	2497	0	IND	1	½	½	½	½	½	0				3,5	150	Group A
65	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2470	0	IND	1	0	1	1	0	1	1				5,0	46	Group A
77	IM	Raja Harshit	2447	0	IND	1	1	½	0	1	½	½				4,5	56	Group A
85	IM	Bharath Subramaniyam H	2420	0	IND	½	1	0	½	1	1	0				4,0	91	Group A
87	IM	Kulkarni Bhakti	2418	0	IND	½	1	0	1	½	0	1				4,0	108	Group A
90	IM	Akash Pc Iyer	2415	0	IND	1	0	½	½	0	1	0				3,0	185	Group A
92	IM	Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	2414	0	IND	1	0	1	1	½	½	0				4,0	103	Group A
94	FM	Rathanvel V S	2410	0	IND	½	1	0	1	1	½	0				4,0	98	Group A
98	IM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2398	0	IND	1	½	½	0	1	0	1				4,0	82	Group A
102	IM	Krishna Teja N	2383	0	IND	1	0	1	0	½	½	1				4,0	112	Group A
108	IM	Raja Rithvik R	2381	0	IND	1	0	1	0	½	1	½				4,0	94	Group A
109	WGM	Vaishali R	2376	0	IND	1	0	1	0	½	½	1				4,0	119	Group A
113	FM	Manu David Suthandram R	2369	0	IND	1	0	½	1	½	0	½				3,5	137	Group A
115	IM	Sankalp Gupta	2365	0	IND	1	½	½	0	1	0	1				4,0	96	Group A
125	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2338	0	IND	1	0	1	0	1	½	0				3,5	147	Group A
128	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	2332	0	IND	1	0	1	½	0	½	0				3,0	186	Group A
133		Samant Aditya S	2309	0	IND	1	½	0	1	0	½	1				4,0	101	Group A
134	FM	Krishnater Kushager	2308	0	IND	1	½	½	1	0	0	1				4,0	90	Group A
139		Ajay Krishna S	2302	0	IND	1	1	0	1	0	0	1				4,0	86	Group A
140	FM	Matta Vinay Kumar	2300	0	IND	1	0	1	0	1	0	1				4,0	123	Group A
153	WIM	Rakshitta Ravi	2260	0	IND	1	½	0	1	½	1	0				4,0	85	Group A
159	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	2253	0	IND	0	1	1	0	1	0	1				4,0	114	Group A
163	FM	Dushyant Sharma	2247	0	IND	0	½	1	0	1	0	1				3,5	155	Group A
164		Panesar Vedant	2247	0	IND	0	1	0	1	0	1	½				3,5	162	Group A
168		Rohit S	2234	0	IND	0	1	0	1	0	1	0				3,0	190	Group A
169	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2229	0	IND	½	0	½	1	½	1	½				4,0	109	Group A
172	CM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2221	0	IND	½	0	½	1	0	1	½				3,5	152	Group A
174	WFM	Cholleti Sahajasri	2216	0	IND	0	0	1	½	0	1	½	0	0	0	3,0	198	Group A
175		Karthik Rajaa	2212	0	IND	0	1	0	½	½	1	½				3,5	139	Group A
177	FM	Ajay Karthikeyan	2203	0	IND	½	0	1	½	1	1	0				4,0	92	Group A
183	CM	Tanmay Jain	2193	0	IND	0	1	0	1	0	½	½				3,0	194	Group A
185	IM	Mohota Nisha	2191	0	IND	0	1	½	0	1	½	½				3,5	149	Group A
187		Bartakke Amardeep S.	2190	0	IND	0	1	0	½	1	0	½				3,0	192	Group A
189		Sibi Visal R	2185	0	IND	0	1	0	0	1	½	0				2,5	233	Group A
191		Sekar B	2176	0	IND	0	1	1	½	1	1	½				5,0	47	Group A
198		Natarajan C	2157	0	IND	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0,0	306	Group A
200		Godbole Atharva	2148	0	IND	0	½	1	1	0	½	½				3,5	159	Group A
204	CM	Shahil Dey	2135	0	IND	0	1	0	1	0	0	1				3,0	196	Group A
206	WIM	Tejaswini Sagar	2128	2095	IND	0	1	1	0	½	½	½				3,5	163	Group A
210		Darpan Inani	2117	0	IND	0	1	0	½	1	0	0				2,5	238	Group A
211		Arjun C Krishnamachari	2113	0	IND	½	0	1	0	1	½	½				3,5	141	Group A
219		Tanmay Chopra	2100	0	IND	0	1	½	½	½	½	½				3,5	165	Group A
220	WCM	Sharma Isha	2099	0	IND	0	1	0	0	1	½	1				3,5	174	Group A
223	CM	Rajarishi Karthi	2093	0	IND	0	0	1	½	0	1	½				3,0	215	Group A
225		Toshali V	2083	0	IND	0	1	0	0	0	1	1				3,0	223	Group A
227		Kishan Gangolli	2078	0	IND	0	½	½	½	½	½	½				3,0	221	Group A
229		Dhrupad Kashyap	2073	0	IND	0	½	0	½	1	0	1				3,0	224	Group A
231	CM	Mohamed Anees M	2056	0	IND	0	1	½	1	½	1	0				4,0	105	Group A
246		Jijo Joy	2019	0	IND	0	½	½	½	½	½	½				3,0	210	Group A
248		Potluri Saye Srreezza	2013	0	IND	0	0	1	1	0	½	½				3,0	216	Group A
255		Ayushh Ravikumar	1982	0	IND	½	0	½	½	½	½	1				3,5	164	Group A
260	WFM	Savitha Shri B	1968	0	IND	0	½	½	0	1	0	1				3,0	211	Group A
267		Manukonda Arun	1923	0	IND	0	½	½	1	1	0	0				3,0	202	Group A
273	AIM	Komal Srivatsav Sajja	1907	0	IND	0	½	1	0	0	0	0				1,5	284	Group A
274		Nawin J J	1907	0	IND	0	0	1	1	0	1	½				3,5	170	Group A
281		Gugan G	1843	0	IND	1	0	0	½	1	0	½				3,0	195	Group A
282		Srimathi R	1842	0	IND	0	0	½	½	1	½	½				3,0	212	Group A
283	CM	Gopal K.N.	1840	0	IND	0	0	½	1	½	1	0				3,0	219	Group A
284		Devnani Kush	1829	0	IND	0	0	½	1	0	0	½				2,0	277	Group A
289		Krithigga K	1812	0	IND	0	0	0	0	1	½	0				1,5	292	Group A
291		Niharika Ch	1803	0	IND	0	0	0	1	1	0	1				3,0	214	Group A
292		Sawant Akshay	1793	0	IND	0	0	0	0	½	1	1				2,5	262	Group A
293		Kabhilan S	1789	0	IND	0	½	0	½	1	0	0				2,0	269	Group A
295		Morvekar Kedar	1777	0	IND	0	1	0	½	½	½	0				2,5	240	Group A
298		Aryan B Joshi	1770	0	IND	0	0	1	½	0	0	0				1,5	285	Group A
300		Sagar Siya	1754	1408	IND	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	0			0,5	305	Group A
301		Shivika Rohilla	1744	0	IND	0	0	½	0	1	0	1				2,5	261	Group A
302		Mrithyunjay Mahadevan	1735	0	IND	0	0	½	0	0	1	1				2,5	260	Group A
304		Ankitha Goud Palle	1724	0	IND	0	1	0	½	0	½	½				2,5	236	Group A
305		Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam	1717	0	IND	½	0	1	0	0	0	½				2,0	265	Group A
308		Rosh Jain	1697	0	IND	0	½	0	1	0	0	1				2,5	256	Group A
309		Varsha Ramesh	1669	0	IND	0	0	½	0	1	1	½				3,0	204	Group A

Abhimanyu Puranik has a performance of 2746 after seven rounds at the Sunway Sitges 2019

Results of round 7

Standings after round 7

Pairings of round 8

Overview of Indian players:

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Abhimanyu Puranik has a performance of 2746 after seven rounds at the Sunway Sitges 2019

Results of round 7

Standings after round 7

Pairings of round 8

Overview of Indian players:

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