India hosts an individual Asian championship after almost two decades

The last individual Asian Continental Women's championship took place in Kozhikode 2003. Koneru Humpy won that event. It was the year 2001 when the last Asian Individual Open championship took place in Kolkata. Xu Jun (CHN) became the champion then. Asian Continental championship is one of the few events where India had more women who won this event that men. One of the reasons could be, the Open (then Men's) event started in 1998, while the women's event started in 1981.

GM Praggnanandhaa is the top seed in the Open event

IM Tania Sachdev is the top seed in the Women's event | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Day 0, Draw of Lots and Players' meeting

The players attending the Draw of Lots and Players' meeting | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The Draw of Lots was conducted by (L to R) - Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, Treasurer, Asian Chess Federation, IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran, Chief Arbiter and A K Verma, Head of Organizing Team | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Sethuraman S P drew the color for Open event | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The top seed in the Open event will get Black pieces in Classical event and White in the Blitz.

Mongolia no.2 woman and the second seed of the Women's event, IM Davaademberel Nomin-Erdene drew the color for the Women's event | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Same as the Open event, the top seed in the Women section will get Black pieces in Classical event and White in the Blitz.

The flags of the participating countries along with FIDE and Asian Chess Federation flag | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Who will rise up to the challenge and who will shine? | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Those who watched 'The Queen's Gambit' know how important the roof is. The architecture of the Leela Ambience Hotel is certainly impressive | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

007 is not there, 07 will have to do | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Asian Continental 2022 standee | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

A selfie cutout for players to capture their memories | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
Day 0 overview | Video: ChessBase India

Past champions

A total of five former Asian Continental champions including four Indians are taking part in this event.

Asian Continental 2016 Open champion - GM Sethuraman S P | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Asian Continental 2007 Women champion - IM Tania Sachdev | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Asian Continental 2016 Women champion - IM Bhakti Kulkarni | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Asian Continental 2017 Women champion - WGM Vo Thi Kim Phung (VIE)

Asian Continental 2018 Women champion - IM Padmini Rout | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Stats and facts

• First Asian Continental Open championship to take place in India since 2001 and first Asian Individual Women's championship since 2003 which was won by Koneru Humpy.

• Open event witnessed champions from only four countries - Uzbekistan (1), China (9), India (5) and Vietnam (1).

• Women's event had champions from - India (10 times 8 players), Indonesia (3 times 2 players), China (5), Iran (2). 

• Open - 31 GMs and 39 IMs, a total of 93 players are taking part from 13 countries.

• Women - 7 IMs, 14 WGMs and 17 WIMs are taking part from 10 countries.

• The top seed of the Open section, Praggnanandhaa has played only one Asian Continental championship in 2019. The top seed in the Women's section, IM Tania Sachdev won the Asian Continental Women's title in 2007.

• IM Vaishali R is the sole female player participating in the Open section.

Schedule

Everyday round starts at 2:30 p.m. IST from 26th October to 2nd November 2022. The final round on 3rd November starts at 9 a.m. IST. The Blitz event is slated to start at 3 p.m. IST on 3rd November 2022.

Open teams list

No. NameFideIDFEDRtgsex
1
GMPraggnanandhaa R25059530IND2687
2
GMNarayanan.S.L5058422IND2663
3
GMYakubboev Nodirbek14203987UZB2663
4
GMSethuraman S.P.5021596IND2645
5
GMAryan Chopra5084423IND2629
6
GMAravindh Chithambaram Vr.5072786IND2625
7
GMKarthikeyan Murali5074452IND2623
8
GMJumabayev Rinat13702661KAZ2620
9
GMGupta Abhijeet5010608IND2607
10
GMAdhiban B.5018471IND2603
11
GMPuranik Abhimanyu5061245IND2603
12
GMHarsha Bharathakoti5078776IND2582
13
GMVokhidov Shamsiddin14204223UZB2568
14
GMVisakh N R25012223IND2566
15
GMMendonca Leon Luke35028561IND2558
16
GMIniyan P25002767IND2541
17
IMPranav V25060783IND2530
18
GMArjun Kalyan35018701IND2526
19
GMShyam Sundar M.5019141IND2518
20
IMDe Silva L M S T9953698SRI2516
21
GMSankalp Gupta5097010IND2502
22
IMPranav Anand46626786IND2502
23
GMSengupta Deep5008352IND2497
24
IMKoustav Chatterjee25073060IND2496
25
IMSuleymenov Alisher13707833KAZ2491

Details

Women

No. NameFideIDFEDRtg
1
IMTania Sachdev5007844IND2406
2
IMNomin-Erdene Davaademberel4900782MGL2404
3
WGMVantika Agrawal25050389IND2396
4
IMPadmini Rout5029295IND2390
5
IMKulkarni Bhakti5019516IND2376
6
IMKaravade Eesha5012600IND2336
7
WGMVo Thi Kim Phung12401838VIE2335
8
WGMDivya Deshmukh35006916IND2330
9
IMSoumya Swaminathan5016193IND2326
10
WGMPriyanka Nutakki25049615IND2326
11
WGMGomes Mary Ann5013623IND2324
12
WGMNandhidhaa P V5050847IND2309
13
WIMKairbekova Amina13712799KAZ2305
14
WGMYakubbaeva Nilufar14204487UZB2303
15
WIMSharma Isha35006665IND2298
16
WGMEnkhtuul Altan-Ulzii4901444MGL2295
17
WIMArpita Mukherjee5056403IND2293
18
WGMNguyen Thi Mai Hung12401676VIE2258
19
WIMMrudul Dehankar25096990IND2256
20
WIMChitlange Sakshi35002899IND2252

Details

Links

Delhi Chess Association

Tournament Regulations

 

Stats and facts - Chess-results and Wikipedia