Aronyak Ghosh wins Tata Steel Chess Festival 2019 Open Rapid

by Shahid Ahmed - 27/11/2019

IM Aronyak Ghosh scored an unbeaten 6.5/7 to win Tata Steel Chess Festival 2019 All Bengal Open Rapid tournament. Sayan Bose also scored 6.5/7, however he had to settle for second position according to the tie-break score. IM Sayantan Das scored 6.0/7 and he was placed third, bettering three other player who also finished the same score. Total 149 players including four IMs and a WIM participated from various parts across the state of West Bengal. This was the third and final tournament part of Tata Steel Chess Festival, where all participants were given free entry to spectate the world's best in action on the respective days. A pictorial report of the tournament. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Aronyak Ghosh becomes the unbeaten champion

Starting out as the sixth seed of the tournament, Aronyak scored an unbeaten 6.5/7 to win the tournament. He scored six consecutive victories along with Sayan Bose whom he faced in the final round. After a draw in the seventh and last round of the tournament, Aronyak clinched the championship.

Champion IM Aronyak Ghosh receives a beautiful trophy and ₹10000 cash for his efforts | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Aronyak's unbeaten championship run

This is what Aronyak had to say after winning the tournament, "Yeah well it definitely feels good to finish first ahead of players like Sayantan da Mitrabha and others. After the blitz tournament massacre, I am obviously very happy to play better chess at the rapid format. Last game against Sayan da, I had some advantage but agreed to a draw as the position was quite complicated and I had some time pressure."

Runner-up Sayan Bose 6.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Second Runner-up IM Sayantan Das 6.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th Suvradeepta Das 6.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6th Sarbojit Paul 6.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th Niladri Shekhar Bhattacharyya 5.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

8th IM Mitrabha Guha 5.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

9th Praloy Sahoo 5.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

10th Shahid Ahmed | Photo: Sumit Roy

11th Sayantan Chandra 5.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

12th Debarshi Mukherjee 5.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

13th and Best Woman prize winner - WIM Arpita Mukherjee 5.5/7

14th Sumit Kumar 5.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

15th Sumit Roy 5.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

17th Anurag Jaiswal 5.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

19th Ambarish Sharma 5.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

21st Satya Sekhar Mitra 5.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Best Woman 2nd prize 4.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Photo Gallery

Tournament hall | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The World Champion and World's top elite GMs signed autographs at the end of this hall, hours after the completion of this event | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

An interesting position | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

J'adoube | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The 80 and 79-year-old veterans R K Sharma and Nirmal Kumar Bose respectively | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

While C N Pal won the Best Veteran prize, Nirmal Kumar Bose received the Best Veteran second prize. Both of them scored 4.0/7 each and they were placed according to their tie-break score.

Strongest visually challenged player of West Bengal - Yudhajeet De | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Total 149 players including four IMs and a WIM participated from various parts across the state of West Bengal.

Final Standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	6	CM	Aronyak Ghosh			IND	2046	6,5	0,5	30,0	33,0	27,75	6
2	14		Bose Sayan			IND	1912	6,5	0,5	27,5	30,0	27,25	6
3	1	IM	Das Sayantan			IND	2413	6,0	0,0	29,0	33,5	28,50	6
4	32		Utsab Chatterjee			IND	1650	6,0	0,0	29,0	30,5	26,00	6
5	22		Suvradeepta Das			IND	1827	6,0	0,0	24,0	26,5	23,50	5
6	24		Sarbojit Paul			IND	1763	6,0	0,0	22,5	24,0	17,00	6
7	9		Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar			IND	2015	5,5	0,0	30,5	33,5	24,75	5
8	3	IM	Mitrabha Guha			IND	2122	5,5	0,0	30,5	33,5	22,25	5
9	35		Praloy Sahoo			IND	1633	5,5	0,0	28,0	30,5	22,25	5
10	25	AGM	Shahid Ahmed S.K.			IND	1751	5,5	0,0	24,5	27,0	21,00	5
11	36		Sayantan Chandra			IND	1623	5,5	0,0	24,5	27,0	18,50	4
12	7		Debarshi Mukherjee			IND	2027	5,5	0,0	23,5	26,5	20,25	5
13	21	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee		w	IND	1837	5,5	0,0	22,5	25,0	20,75	5
14	13		Sumit Kumar			IND	1916	5,0	0,0	29,0	32,0	18,50	5
15	29		Sumit Roy			IND	1685	5,0	0,0	28,5	32,0	18,00	5
16	19		Samrat Ghorai			IND	1875	5,0	0,0	28,0	31,5	20,25	4
17	10		Anurag Jaiswal			IND	1962	5,0	0,0	28,0	31,0	19,00	5
18	57		Arghya Sen			IND	1475	5,0	0,0	28,0	29,5	15,50	5
19	38		Ambarish Sharma			IND	1598	5,0	0,0	26,0	28,0	18,50	5
20	18		Subhayan Kundu			IND	1882	5,0	0,0	25,0	28,0	19,00	5
21	33		Satya Sekhar Mitra			IND	1634	5,0	0,0	25,0	28,0	16,00	5
22	52		Aditya Bikram Paul			IND	1508	5,0	0,0	24,5	27,0	15,00	5
23	31		Akash Tiwari			IND	1677	5,0	0,0	23,5	26,5	19,00	5
24	43	AIM	Debarghya Samanta			IND	1574	5,0	0,0	23,5	26,5	18,75	4
25	20		Haldar Ajoy			IND	1866	5,0	0,0	23,5	26,0	18,50	5
26	30		Yudhajeet De			IND	1683	5,0	0,0	22,0	24,0	16,75	4
27	16		Subhajit Bhattacharyya			IND	1901	5,0	0,0	21,5	24,0	14,75	4
28	26		Avijit Ghosh			IND	1729	5,0	0,0	20,5	22,5	15,00	5
29	58		Shuvam Roy			IND	1469	4,5	0,0	30,5	31,0	16,75	4
30	87		Dhritabrata Kundu			IND	1297	4,5	0,0	28,0	31,5	18,75	3

Complete standings

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