Aeroflot 2019 R 03 + 04: Finish off your opponents like Sasikiran
Sasikiran scored a fine win against Aravindh Chithambaram in round three of the Aeroflot Open 2019. With this win he led the tournament along with Maksim Chigaev on 3.0/3. 23rd February is a double round (thanks to the bomb scare) and Sasi kept up his pace with another win against Chigaev. This gives the Chennai GM a score of 4.0/4 and a full points lead over the field. In round five that is currently in progress, Sasikiran is up against Anton Korobov. It will be interesting to see the game between these two ambitious players. We have some in-depth analysis from the game Sasikiran versus Aravindh that will help you to improve your art of calculation.
It was Chennai domination at the Aeroflot Open 2019 as Sasikiran took on Aravindh Chithambaram on the top board. The game was exciting and the opening was played very well by Sasikiran. However, the point which I really want to stress upon, is his middlegame calculation. Here's the position:
Sasikiran vs Aravindh Chithambaram
Bear in mind that there are a lot of variations and possibilities for both the sides. But if you are able to calculate them accurately, then you can be sure that you are on the road to chess improvement!
Sasikiran is not very active on Twitter but on 22nd of February a few hours before the game he made the following tweet:
Representing India in Official FIDE Chess events ( Asian/World/Olympiad) has always been an honor for me and shall always be. When i die, I should not regret that i missed a possibility to play for India whenever i had the chance. Next World Teams 2019.
— Sasikiran (@GMSasikiran) February 22, 2019
In round 4 Sasikiran kept up his pace and scored another win over Maksim Chigaev. 23rd February is a double round day because of the bomb threat on day one. Sasikiran now has a full point lead and is playing against Anton Korobov in round 5.
Rank after Round 4
Rk. | SNo | Name | Typ | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | |
1 | 11 | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | IND | 2678 | 4,0 | 2 | 2600 | |
2 | 35 | GM | Deac Bogdan-Daniel | U18 | ROU | 2603 | 3,0 | 2 | 2677 |
3 | 42 | GM | Narayanan.S.L | IND | 2593 | 3,0 | 2 | 2625 | |
4 | 62 | GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2542 | 3,0 | 2 | 2622 | |
5 | 2 | GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | RUS | 2715 | 3,0 | 2 | 2604 | |
6 | 1 | GM | Wei Yi | CHN | 2733 | 3,0 | 2 | 2585 | |
7 | 9 | GM | Korobov Anton | UKR | 2687 | 3,0 | 2 | 2569 | |
8 | 52 | GM | Petrosyan Manuel | ARM | 2564 | 3,0 | 2 | 2560 | |
9 | 4 | GM | Dubov Daniil | RUS | 2703 | 3,0 | 2 | 2557 | |
10 | 29 | GM | Zhou Jianchao | CHN | 2615 | 3,0 | 2 | 2542 | |
11 | 43 | GM | Tabatabaei M.Amin | U18 | IRI | 2590 | 3,0 | 2 | 2538 |
12 | 44 | GM | Antipov Mikhail Al. | RUS | 2589 | 3,0 | 2 | 2530 | |
13 | 28 | GM | Martirosyan Haik M. | ARM | 2616 | 3,0 | 2 | 2497 | |
14 | 30 | GM | Chigaev Maksim | RUS | 2613 | 3,0 | 1 | 2536 | |
15 | 32 | GM | Lupulescu Constantin | ROU | 2610 | 2,5 | 2 | 2715 | |
16 | 54 | GM | Abdusattorov Nodirbek | U18 | UZB | 2560 | 2,5 | 2 | 2696 |
17 | 39 | GM | Donchenko Alexander | GER | 2600 | 2,5 | 2 | 2662 | |
18 | 67 | GM | Debashis Das | IND | 2532 | 2,5 | 2 | 2629 | |
19 | 72 | IM | Xu Yi | CHN | 2520 | 2,5 | 2 | 2627 | |
20 | 45 | GM | Nihal Sarin | U18 | IND | 2578 | 2,5 | 2 | 2622 |
Player overview for India in A Group
SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pts. | Rk. | Group | |
11 | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2678 | IND | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4,0 | 1 | Open A |
14 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2651 | IND | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 2,0 | 52 | Open A |
18 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2636 | IND | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 2,5 | 25 | Open A |
38 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2601 | IND | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2,0 | 64 | Open A |
42 | GM | Narayanan.S.L | 2593 | IND | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 3,0 | 3 | Open A |
45 | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2578 | IND | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 2,5 | 20 | Open A |
47 | GM | Vaibhav Suri | 2575 | IND | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 2,5 | 35 | Open A |
49 | GM | Narayanan Srinath | 2572 | IND | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1,5 | 87 | Open A |
55 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2560 | IND | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2,5 | 39 | Open A |
57 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | 2556 | IND | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1,5 | 85 | Open A |
63 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2540 | IND | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 2,0 | 44 | Open A |
65 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 2538 | IND | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 2,0 | 45 | Open A |
67 | GM | Debashis Das | 2532 | IND | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 2,5 | 18 | Open A |
68 | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2532 | IND | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1,5 | 81 | Open A |
71 | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | 2524 | IND | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1,0 | 96 | Open A |
74 | IM | Gukesh D | 2508 | IND | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1,5 | 82 | Open A |
78 | GM | Gagare Shardul | 2495 | IND | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1,5 | 68 | Open A |
79 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | 2494 | IND | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0,5 | 99 | Open A |
84 | IM | Iniyan P | 2480 | IND | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1,5 | 70 | Open A |
87 | GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2471 | IND | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1,5 | 72 | Open A |
88 | IM | Prithu Gupta | 2470 | IND | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1,0 | 91 | Open A |
91 | CM | Aditya Mittal | 2454 | IND | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1,5 | 75 | Open A |
93 | IM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2448 | IND | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 2,5 | 21 | Open A |
94 | IM | Arjun Kalyan | 2444 | IND | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1,5 | 66 | Open A |
95 | IM | Raja Rithvik R | 2443 | IND | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1,5 | 84 | Open A |
Player overview for India in B Group
SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | Pts. | Rk. | Group | |
10 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | 2512 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2,0 | 38 | Open B |
17 | GM | Swapnil S. Dhopade | 2488 | IND | 1 | 1 | ½ | 2,5 | 8 | Open B |
46 | IM | Nitin S. | 2395 | IND | ½ | 1 | ½ | 2,0 | 43 | Open B |
51 | IM | Krishna Teja N | 2391 | IND | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2,0 | 33 | Open B |
53 | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | 2387 | IND | ½ | 1 | 1 | 2,5 | 13 | Open B | |
60 | CM | Mendonca Leon Luke | 2376 | IND | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0,5 | 121 | Open B |
72 | Sankalp Gupta | 2345 | IND | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1,0 | 92 | Open B | |
79 | Koustav Chatterjee | 2332 | IND | 1 | 1 | ½ | 2,5 | 4 | Open B | |
82 | CM | Aronyak Ghosh | 2324 | IND | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1,5 | 63 | Open B |
85 | FM | Dixit Nikhil | 2318 | IND | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1,0 | 85 | Open B |
86 | WGM | Gomes Mary Ann | 2317 | IND | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1,0 | 94 | Open B |
88 | IM | Padmini Rout | 2315 | IND | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1,0 | 95 | Open B |
92 | Ajay Karthikeyan | 2298 | IND | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1,5 | 66 | Open B | |
98 | WIM | Nandhidhaa P V | 2268 | IND | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1,0 | 103 | Open B |
109 | Bhambure Shantanu | 2220 | IND | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1,5 | 68 | Open B | |
110 | FM | Srihari L R | 2211 | IND | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1,5 | 50 | Open B |
114 | WIM | Mahalakshmi M | 2185 | IND | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0,5 | 113 | Open B |
121 | Jaeel Atharva | 2145 | IND | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1,0 | 102 | Open B | |
122 | WIM | Pujari Rucha | 2133 | IND | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1,0 | 90 | Open B |
123 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | 2127 | IND | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0,5 | 114 | Open B |
124 | WIM | Divya Deshmukh | 2126 | IND | ½ | 1 | 1 | 2,5 | 17 | Open B |
125 | Rakshitta Ravi | 2105 | IND | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0,5 | 115 | Open B | |
126 | WIM | Gagare Shalmali | 2026 | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0,0 | 125 | Open B |
Player overview in Category C for India
SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts. | Rk. | Group | |
13 | Pranavananda V | 2234 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4,0 | 6 | Open C | ||
34 | WIM | Pujari Rucha | 2133 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 2,5 | 51 | Open C |
40 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | 2076 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3,0 | 40 | Open C | |
48 | Priyanka K | 2033 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3,0 | 41 | Open C | ||
51 | Sanskriti Goyal | 2006 | IND | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2,0 | 71 | Open C | ||
59 | WCM | Isha Sharma | 1935 | IND | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 3,5 | 13 | Open C | |
60 | Ghosh Samriddhaa | 1913 | IND | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 2,5 | 49 | Open C | ||
69 | Varsha Ramesh | 1831 | IND | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2,0 | 74 | Open C | ||
74 | Sunyuktha C M N | 1804 | IND | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 2,5 | 46 | Open C |