Asian Continental 2022 R1: A tough start for the top seeds
Top seeds GM R Praggnanandhaa and IM Tania Sachdev did not have it easy in the first round. Turkmenistan no.3 IM Saparmyrat Atabayev and WGM-elect WIM Sakshi Chitlange, both gave their respective higher rated opponents zero chance, earned a half point for themselves. Untitled Sanket Chakravarty and double IM-norm holder FM Sharan Rao scored big wins against GM Arjun Kalyan and GM Deep Sengupta. Both games were quite intriguing. In the Women's event, former Asian Continental Women's champion, IM Padmini Rout escaped a tough position against WGM Srija Seshadri. Round 2 starts today at 2:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Shahid Ahmed
Sanket and Sharan score big upsets
Apart from Sanket and Sharan, IM N Krishna Teja defeated GM Sankalp Gupta after the latter miscalculated and blundered a piece. IM Nitin S drew with the Kazakhstan no.1 GM Rinat Jumabayev. IM Moksh Amit Doshi, IM Shahil Dey, FM Sambit Panda, IM Raahul V S and FM Ayush Sharma drew with GM Aryan Chopra, GM Abhimanyu Puranik, IM L M S T De Silva (SRI), GM Karthik Venkataraman and IM Aditya S Samant respectively. In the Women's event, WIM Mrudul Dehankar, WIM Aakanksha Hagawane, WFM Harshini A, WIM Aashna Makhija and WFM Lakshmi C drew with WGM Vantika Agrawal, WGM Nilufar Yakubbaeva (UZB), IM Eesha Karavade, WGM Nandhidhaa P V and WIM Isha Sharma respectively.
Open: Arjun Kalyan - Sanket: 0-1
Sanket Chakravarty (2372) used his two-year-old preparation against GM Arjun Kalyan (2526). He sacrificed his knight on the twelfth move.
Would you take the knight at d5 ? What transpired is a very complicated game 12.cxd5 cxd5 13.Ng5 d6 14.Qd3 g6 15.a3 Ba5 16.Kd1 e5 17.fxe5 Qxe5. Computer might say the position is equal, but only a human mind can comprehend that it certainly is not.
It is still not over. White can save the game after 31...Qxg2+. Find out how.
Sharan - Deep: 1-0
FM Sharao Rao (2350) defeated GM Deep Sengupta (2497) in an exciting game.
21...Rh4 needed to followed through with 22...Bxh3 to keep things interesting for Black. Instead, 22...a4 allowed White to force the exchange of queens 23.Qa5 Qxa5 25.Nxa5 and White eventually regained his decisive advantage after a bunch of kingside pawns got exchanged in time trouble.
Women: Sakshi - Tania: 0.5-0.5
The 47th National Women runner-up, WGM-elect WIM Sakshi Chitlange (2208) held the top seed and former Asian Continental Women's champion, IM Tania Sachdev (2406) to a draw.
A total of 91 players including 31 GMs and 39 IMs in the Open, 49 players including 7 IMs, 14 WGMs and 17 WIMs in the Women, are taking part from 13 countries across the world including India. The nine-round Swiss League tournament will take place from 26th October to 3rd November 2022 at The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, Delhi. It is organized by Delhi Chess Association. The time control of the tournament is 90 Minutes for 40 moves + 30 Minutes with increment of 30 second from move 1.
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Replay Round 1 Women games
Round 1 Open results
Round 2 Open pairings
| Bo. | No. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 37 | GM | Bilguun Sumiya | MGL | 2467 | 1 | 1 | GM | Narayanan.S.L | IND | 2663 | 2 | |||
| 2 | 39 | IM | Urazayev Arystanbek | KAZ | 2458 | 1 | 1 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2645 | 4 | |||
| 3 | 43 | IM | Pranesh M | IND | 2442 | 1 | 1 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2625 | 6 | |||
| 4 | 7 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2623 | 1 | 1 | GM | Venkatesh M.R. | IND | 2470 | 36 | |||
| 5 | 45 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2436 | 1 | 1 | GM | Adhiban B. | IND | 2603 | 10 | |||
| 6 | 13 | GM | Vokhidov Shamsiddin | UZB | 2568 | 1 | 1 | IM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 2435 | 46 | |||
| 7 | 15 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | IND | 2558 | 1 | 1 | IM | Amartuvshin Ganzorig | MGL | 2406 | 55 | |||
| 8 | 19 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | IND | 2518 | 1 | 1 | FM | Saydaliev Saidakbar | UZB | 2376 | 63 | |||
| 9 | 60 | FM | Nurmamedov Azat | TKM | 2382 | 1 | 1 | IM | Pranav Anand | IND | 2502 | 22 | |||
| 10 | 24 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2496 | 1 | 1 | IM | Krishna Teja N | IND | 2359 | 67 | |||
| 11 | 64 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2372 | 1 | 1 | GM | Batchuluun Tsegmed | MGL | 2487 | 28 | ||||
| 12 | 72 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2342 | 1 | 1 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2486 | 30 | |||
| 13 | 86 | CM | Muradov Soltan | TKM | 2233 | 1 | 1 | GM | Atabayev Maksat | TKM | 2475 | 32 | |||
| 14 | 33 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | IND | 2474 | 1 | 1 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2350 | 69 | |||
| 15 | 88 | IM | Saravana Krishnan P. | IND | 2197 | 1 | 1 | GM | Mitrabha Guha | IND | 2474 | 34 |
Round 1 Women results
| Bo. | No. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | No. | PGN | ||||
| 1 | 26 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | IND | 2208 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | IM | Tania Sachdev | IND | 2406 | 1 | PGN | ||
| 2 | 2 | IM | Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel | MGL | 2404 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | FM | Kurmangaliyeva Liya | KAZ | 2199 | 27 | PGN | ||
| 3 | 28 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | IND | 2187 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2390 | 3 | PGN | ||
| 4 | 4 | IM | Kulkarni Bhakti | IND | 2376 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | IM | Mohota Nisha | IND | 2181 | 29 | PGN | ||
| 5 | 30 | WIM | Mrudul Dehankar | IND | 2168 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | WGM | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2362 | 5 | PGN | ||
| 6 | 6 | WGM | Yakubbaeva Nilufar | UZB | 2350 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | WIM | Aakanksha Hagawane | IND | 2162 | 31 | PGN | ||
| 7 | 32 | WIM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | IND | 2160 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2338 | 7 | PGN | ||
| 8 | 8 | IM | Karavade Eesha | IND | 2336 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | WFM | Harshini A | IND | 2149 | 33 | PGN | ||
| 9 | 34 | WGM | Varshini V | IND | 2137 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | WGM | Vo Thi Kim Phung | VIE | 2335 | 9 | PGN | ||
| 10 | 10 | IM | Soumya Swaminathan | IND | 2326 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | WIM | Parnali S Dharia | IND | 2136 | 35 | PGN |
Round 2 Women pairings
| Bo. | No. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 21 | WIM | Rakshitta Ravi | IND | 2219 | 1 | 1 | IM | Kulkarni Bhakti | IND | 2376 | 4 | |||
| 2 | 7 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2338 | 1 | 1 | WGM | Nguyen Thi Mai Hung | VIE | 2217 | 23 | |||
| 3 | 25 | WIM | Salonika Saina | IND | 2209 | 1 | 1 | IM | Soumya Swaminathan | IND | 2326 | 10 | |||
| 4 | 11 | WGM | Priyanka Nutakki | IND | 2326 | 1 | 1 | WFM | Pandey Srishti | IND | 2213 | 24 | |||
| 5 | 27 | FM | Kurmangaliyeva Liya | KAZ | 2199 | 1 | 1 | WGM | Gomes Mary Ann | IND | 2324 | 12 | |||
| 6 | 19 | WIM | Kairbekova Amina | KAZ | 2231 | 1 | 1 | WGM | Swati Ghate | IND | 2086 | 39 | |||
| 7 | 41 | WGM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | IND | 2030 | 1 | 1 | WIM | Balabayeva Xeniya | KAZ | 2230 | 20 | |||
| 8 | 47 | WCM | Jannatul Ferdous | BAN | 1861 | 1 | ½ | WGM | Yakubbaeva Nilufar | UZB | 2350 | 6 | |||
| 9 | 1 | IM | Tania Sachdev | IND | 2406 | ½ | ½ | WGM | Srija Seshadri | IND | 2187 | 28 | |||
| 10 | 3 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2390 | ½ | ½ | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | IND | 2208 | 26 |
