chessbase india logo

Aeroflot 2019 Round 5: Can anyone stop Sasikiran?

by Sagar Shah - 24/02/2019

Sasikiran is in a fiery mood at the Aeroflot Open 2019. He has played against five grandmasters and scored five wins, three of them being above 2600 Elo! His victims include Klementy Sychev (2545), Rasmus Svane (2599), Aravindh Chithambaram (2601), Maksim Chigaev (2613) and Anton Korobov (2687). With 5.0/5 Sasikiran has a rating performance of 3409 and is already gaining 20 Elo points which takes his rating to 2698 on the live Elo list! He may well break into 2700 once again today, a feat that he had achieved seven years ago in January 2012. His sixth round opponent is the young Iranian talent Amin Tabatabaei. In this report we analyze Sasikiran's win over Korobov from round five of the Aeroflot Open 2019.

Look at those eyes. In it radiate the power of a man who wants to give everything he has! | Photo: David Llada

Sasikiran's phenomenal performance of 3409!

9.Re1!? in the Najdorf is the sixth most popular move in the position. Surely Korobov must not have expected it.

The pawn moving to a5 clamped Black's position on the queenside. Little by little, Black's breathing space was reducing.

Look at how the white pieces are slowly moving within their territory and causing maximum damage! The rook to e2-d2 idea was extremely powerful.

Korobov couldn't take the passivity any more and sacrificed his rook on c3. Well, in many Sicilian positions this works well, but not here. White is well coordinated and Black doesn't have enough compensation.

The move Bg4! sealed the deal. Black is losing more material and hence Korobov resigned

Rank after Round 5

Rk.SNoNameTypFEDRtgPts. TB1  TB2 
111GMSasikiran KrishnanIND26785,022604
262GMKulaots KaidoEST25424,032637
343GMTabatabaei M.AminU18IRI25904,032570
430GMChigaev MaksimRUS26134,022555
528GMMartirosyan Haik M.ARM26164,022512
635GMDeac Bogdan-DanielU18ROU26033,532648
729GMZhou JianchaoCHN26153,532559
853GMFier AlexandrBRA25613,522675
91GMWei YiCHN27333,522593
1044GMAntipov Mikhail Al.RUS25893,522554
1172IMXu YiCHN25203,032621
1282IMSargsyan ShantU18ARM24883,032595
133GMWang HaoCHN27143,032590
1452GMPetrosyan ManuelARM25643,032579
159GMKorobov AntonUKR26873,032577
1613GMSjugirov SananRUS26633,032558
1721GMSarana AlexeyRUS26303,032555
1815GMAnton Guijarro DavidESP26423,032544
1923GMParavyan DavidRUS26273,032527
41GMPetrosian Tigran L.ARM25953,032527

Overview of Indian performances in A group:

SNoNameRtgFED12345Pts.Rk.Group
11GMSasikiran Krishnan2678IND111115,01Open A
14GMSethuraman S.P.2651IND½10½½2,558Open A
18GMGanguly Surya Shekhar2636IND1½½½½3,038Open A
38GMAravindh Chithambaram Vr.2601IND110002,077Open A
42GMNarayanan.S.L2593IND11½½03,032Open A
45GMNihal Sarin2578IND110½½3,029Open A
47GMVaibhav Suri2575IND0½11½3,023Open A
49GMNarayanan Srinath2572IND½001½2,075Open A
55GMKarthikeyan Murali2560IND½011½3,027Open A
57GMLalith Babu M R2556IND00½1½2,074Open A
63GMAryan Chopra2540IND½½½½02,078Open A
65GMPuranik Abhimanyu2538IND½01½½2,554Open A
67GMDebashis Das2532IND½1½½½3,030Open A
68GMPraggnanandhaa R2532IND010½12,550Open A
71GMVishnu Prasanna. V2524IND00½½½1,594Open A
74IMGukesh D2508IND001½01,592Open A
78GMGagare Shardul2495IND00½1½2,072Open A
79GMKarthik Venkataraman2494IND0½0011,596Open A
84IMIniyan P2480IND½½0½½2,065Open A
87GMHarika Dronavalli2471IND1½00½2,081Open A
88IMPrithu Gupta2470IND0½0½12,068Open A
91CMAditya Mittal2454IND½010½2,082Open A
93IMSadhwani Raunak2448IND½1½½½3,034Open A
94IMArjun Kalyan2444IND½½0½01,589Open A
95IMRaja Rithvik R2443IND001½½2,085Open A

Standings after round 4 in B group:

Rk.SNoNameTypFEDRtgPts. TB1  TB2 
13GMBogdanovich StanislavUKR25364,022417
241IMSchekachikhin MaksimRUS24023,522527
317GMSwapnil S. DhopadeIND24883,522375
425IMDrygalov SergeyRUS24503,522346
529IMMuradli MahammadU18AZE24443,522331
633GMDanielian ElinaARM24273,522265
739FMDavtyan ArturU18ARM24133,032372
87GMLintchevski DaniilRUS25173,032349
979Koustav ChatterjeeU18IND23323,022477
105IMHarutyunian Tigran K.ARM25323,022404
119GMLevin Evgeny A.RUS25123,022387
1238IMSamsonkin ArtiomCAN24193,022385
134IMLi DiCHN25343,022378
1448FMOfitserian BorisRUS23953,022368
1512GMGasanov EldarUKR25003,022364
1610GMShyam Sundar M.IND25123,022357
1727IMAsadli VugarU18AZE24493,022349
1831IMUlko JaroslavRUS24393,022337
1920IMBelyakov BogdanRUS24643,022335
2035Bazeev GermanRUS24233,022334
2132GMHayrapetyan HovikARM24343,022320
2253Sammed Jaykumar SheteIND23873,022314

Overview of Indian performances in B group:

SNoNameRtgFED1234Pts.Rk.Group
10GMShyam Sundar M.2512IND10113,016Open B
17GMSwapnil S. Dhopade2488IND11½13,53Open B
46IMNitin S.2395IND½1½02,064Open B
51IMKrishna Teja N2391IND½½102,073Open B
53Sammed Jaykumar Shete2387IND½11½3,022Open B
60CMMendonca Leon Luke2376IND½0011,5101Open B
72Sankalp Gupta2345IND0½½12,071Open B
79Koustav Chatterjee2332IND11½½3,09Open B
82CMAronyak Ghosh2324IND½½½01,580Open B
85FMDixit Nikhil2318IND0½½½1,598Open B
86WGMGomes Mary Ann2317IND½½001,0109Open B
88IMPadmini Rout2315IND½½012,053Open B
92Ajay Karthikeyan2298IND½0101,581Open B
98WIMNandhidhaa P V2268IND0½½12,076Open B
109Bhambure Shantanu2220IND½0101,587Open B
110FMSrihari L R2211IND½01½2,059Open B
114WIMMahalakshmi M2185IND0½011,577Open B
121Jaeel Atharva2145IND½0½½1,594Open B
122WIMPujari Rucha2133IND01001,0114Open B
123WIMChitlange Sakshi2127IND00½11,596Open B
124WIMDivya Deshmukh2126IND½1102,530Open B
125Rakshitta Ravi2105IND00½00,5123Open B
126WIMGagare Shalmali2026IND000½0,5118Open B

 

Overview of Indian performances in C group:

SNoNameRtgFED123456Pts.Rk.Group
13Pranavananda V2234IND101114,06Open C
34WIMPujari Rucha2133IND101½002,551Open C
40WFMBommini Mounika Akshaya2076IND101013,040Open C
48Priyanka K2033IND101013,041Open C
51Sanskriti Goyal2006IND011002,071Open C
59WCMIsha Sharma1935IND0111½3,513Open C
60Ghosh Samriddhaa1913IND0101½2,549Open C
69Varsha Ramesh1831IND010012,074Open C
74Sunyuktha C M N1804IND011½02,546Open C

 



Contact Us