Aronyak Ghosh clinches 3rd SDDM Cup All Bengal Open Rapid 2021

by Shahid Ahmed - 29/12/2021

IM Aronyak Ghosh scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 to finish a full point ahead of the competition and win 3rd SDDM Cup 2021. Four players - Pradip Ghosh, IM Koustav Chatterjee, Rupankar Nath and Alekhya Mukhopadhyay scored 7.5/9 each. They were placed second to fourth according to tie-breaks. It is one of the few tournaments which is organized by a Chess Division of a Municipality, South Dum Dum to be exact. Total prize fund of the event was ₹200000 with entry being only ₹600. The objective of the event is for maximum chess players to take part and they managed to achieve as 253 players took part in it. Check out few games of Aronyak which was shared with us. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

No increment Open tournament attracts 250+ players

IM Aronyak Ghosh won the SDDM Cup for the second time in his career as he won the first edition back in 2019, almost two years ago, just shy of three days. IM Koustav Chatterjee secured a podium finish for the second consecutive edition as he finished second in 2nd SDDM Cup over two years ago. Aronyak won ₹20000 cash, Pradip earned ₹12000 and Koustav got ₹10000. All three of them won a huge beautiful trophy each as can be seen in the photographs. If you are wondering what is so special about this event, there are three reasons - a huge total prize fund which is even bigger than some rating tournaments, low entry fee and no increment time control which is quite rare for an Open tournament these days.

Champion - IM Aronyak Ghosh 8.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Aronyak received his prize with a nice music, confetti which soared in the air with a loud bang | Video: Aronyak's fb

Runner-up Pradip Ghosh 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Second Runner-up IM Koustav Chatterjee 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Top 3 (L to R) - 2nd Pradip Ghosh, 1st IM Aronyak Ghosh and 3rd IM Koustav Chatterjee | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Aronyak scored an unbeaten 8.5/9

In the fifth round, he positionally outplayed a well-known trainer and player, Niladri Shekhar Bhattacharya.

Aronyak en route his victory against Niladri | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

4th Rupankar Nath 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th Alekhya Mukhopadhyay 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6th Sanket Chakravarty 7.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th Ambarish Sharma 7.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

8th Shahid Ahmed 7.0/9 | Photo: Umashankar Mukhopadhyay

I shot several interesting videos along with playing the tournament, which I enjoyed a lot. It was good to experience a time control which we grew up playing and haven't played in over half a decade or longer in a serious tournament. The videos will be uploaded and added to the article soon.

9th Ankit Ray 7.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

10th Soham Bhattacharyya 7.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

11th Sinthia Sarkar 7.0/9 was the only female player to finish in top 20 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Best Woman (L to R) - 1st Debapariya Manna 6.5/9, 2nd Sneha Halder 6.5/9 and 3rd Aarshiya Biswas 6.0/9 | Photo: Amit Ray

Photo Gallery

Sole visually challenged player of the event - Lokesh Kotecha 5.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Sole veteran woman in the field and a regular at West Bengal chess circuit, Subhra Das won the Best Veteran prize ahead of men scoring 5.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

9-year-old Angshu Ghosh might have lost the first round game against battle-hardened Pradip Ghosh, however his tenacity earned him the respect of the peers at a tender age | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Gallery has plenty of space for parents and accompanying persons | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Five synthetic indoor Badminton courts | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The stage for inauguration and closing ceremony. It may look small because the photo was shot from the playing arena on second floor, in reality it was quite big | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Top boards | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The huge tournament hall | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The second tournament hall | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

For more photos, please click here.

A total of 253 players including three IMs took part in this nine-round Swiss League event. The tournament was organized by South Dum Dum Municipal Sports Academy (Chess Division) at Dumdum, North 24 Parganas in West Bengal on 17th and 18th December. Total prize fund of the tournament was ₹200000. Time control was 30 minutes each without any increment.

Replay few games of Aronyak

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	2	IM	Aronyak Ghosh			IND	2074		8,5	50,5	51,5	48,75	0,0	8
2	5		Pradip Ghosh			IND	2033		7,5	54,0	59,0	46,75	0,0	7
3	4	IM	Koustav Chatterjee			IND	2058		7,5	49,0	53,0	42,75	0,0	7
4	7		Nath Rupankar			IND	1995		7,5	46,0	50,0	39,75	0,0	7
5	28		Alekhya Mukhopadhyay			IND	1418		7,5	44,5	47,0	38,25	0,0	7
6	21		Sanket Chakravarty			IND	1500		7,0	50,5	54,5	38,50	0,0	7
7	15		Ambarish Sharma			IND	1598		7,0	50,0	54,0	42,00	0,0	5
8	12	AGM	Shahid Ahmed S.K.			IND	1707		7,0	48,5	52,5	40,25	0,0	6
9	70		Ankit Ray	U13		IND	1161		7,0	47,0	51,0	38,50	0,0	6
10	26		Bhattacharyya Soham			IND	1430		7,0	47,0	49,0	35,50	0,0	7
11	54		Sinthia Sarkar		w	IND	1225		7,0	45,0	48,0	37,00	0,0	7
12	1		Kaustuv Kundu			IND	2102		7,0	45,0	46,5	34,00	0,0	7
13	88		Subhrajit Dey			IND	1103		7,0	43,0	47,0	37,00	0,0	5
14	6		Mallick Anjan			IND	2002		6,5	54,5	59,0	40,00	0,0	6
15	3		Arindam Mukherjee			IND	2072		6,5	53,0	57,0	38,75	0,0	5
16	14		Tuhin Dutta			IND	1640		6,5	52,0	54,5	36,75	0,0	6
17	8	IM	Rajdeep Sarkar			IND	1985		6,5	51,5	54,5	37,25	0,0	5
18	20		Sourath Biswas			IND	1511		6,5	50,0	54,0	37,25	0,0	6
19	83		Snehil Raj Singh	U13		IND	1114		6,5	50,0	53,0	37,00	0,0	5
20	13		Mukherjee Dyutimoy	S60		IND	1706		6,5	47,5	51,0	34,50	0,0	6

Complete standings

Links

South Dumdum Municipality

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