Asian 2019: Karthikeyan, Sethuraman, S.L.Narayanan, Abhijeet Gupta qualify for the World Cup

by Satanick Mukhuty - 16/06/2019

The Asian continental open and women's championship came to conclusion on 15th of June. Four out of five spots for the World Cup 2019 were taken up by Indians. The open section of the event was won by the Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem, who finished with a score of 7.0/9, while the women's title was clinched by Kazakhstani IM Dinara Saduakassova who dominated with 7.5/9. Among the Indians in the open section, Murali Karthikeyan and Sethuraman S.P. took the second and third places with 6.5/9 each. In the women's section, Vaishali R. finished fifth with a magnificent final round game and Bhakti Kulkarni, even though she started off with three wins, ended up seventh after 7th and 8th round losses. A final report from Xingtai, China by Satanick Mukhuty.

Sethuraman falters, Karthikeyan fights back

Sethuraman S.P. was up against the second-seed Le Quang Liem in the final round of the tournament. The former with the black pieces went for the super solid Berlin but his unusual 7th move allowed White to take the initiative early on and liquidate into a favourable endgame.

Le Quang Liem - Sethuraman S.P., Round 9

White has just played 7.d4

In the above position 7...Bg4 would have been a decent choice for Black but Sethuraman went for the dubious 7...Qe7?! here, after 8.dxe5 Bxe5 9.Nxe5 Qxe5 10.Qf3 0-0 11.Nc3 Re8 12.Bf4 White's pieces developed swiftly and his position already started to feel a touch better than Black's.

With 12.Bf4 White completes his development with a tempo, Black lags behind

Going ahead, the queens were traded off on move 18 and the following position was reached:

Position after 18.Rxg3

White is much better here, his rook and bishop hit the g7 pawn, forcing 18...g6 which makes the dark squares on Black's king-side irrevocably weak.

After 18...g6 Black's dark-square weaknesses are tangible. It only remains to be seen how White exploits them

The game further continued 19.Bf6 a5 20.a4 c5 21.Rd1 c4 22.Rg5 Ra6 23.Re5 and White slowly and systematically kept improving his pieces.

After 23.Re5: White's pieces look in very good shape but what is next on the cards?

Fast forward to 31...Rab8, White's pieces are optimally placed and Black is snubbed to passivity.

After 31...Rab8, White has achieved everything he wants, now all he needs is a break!

White is done with positional maneuvering now and it is time for him to do something decisive. Here came 32.f4!, strongly threatening f5!

Position after 32.f4!: If White gets f5 in Black will be stifled to death!

The game followed 32...c4 33.bxc4 Rec8 34.c5 bxc5 35.Ke3. At this point it is pretty clear that Black's queen-side pawns are falling, counter-play too is out of question as Black faces back-rank issues thanks to the white bishop on f6!

After 35.Ke3: black pawns on the queen-side are all loose

Sethuraman soon resigned the game on move 38 and thus Le Quang Liem became the Asian Continental Champion 2019 finishing with an unbeaten 7.0/9!

Sethuraman missed his chance to repeat his performance from 2016 and become the Asian continental champion this year. He finished third instead with 6.5/9 | Photo: imsa.cn

Sethuraman receives the second runner-up award from Tian Hongwei | Photo: imsa.cn

After losing two consecutive games in rounds 7 and 8, Murali Karthikeyan made a surprising come back in the final round by beating the World junior chess champion Parham Maghsoodloo and climbing up the leader-board to the second spot.

Parham Maghsoodloo - Murali Karthikeyan, Round 9

White has just made the move 19.Qb3 ... What would you do if you were in Black's shoes?

Karthikeyan bravely went ahead with 19...Rxf3 here, sacrificing the exchange. But what's the point? Well, with the white knight on f3 it was difficult to find a suitable developing square for the black queen but now not anymore, 20.gxf3 Kh8 21.Re4 Qg5+ 22.Rg4 Qf5 was played and Black had sufficient activity as compensation for the exchange.

After 22...Qf5: Black is looking at Nf4, Qxf3,dxc5 etc, and his king is safely tucked away on h8, while White's king-side pawns are messed up.

23.Rg3 dxc5 24.b5 Rd8 25.Re1 was played and Black followed it up with the interesting move 25...g6. The idea here is to go Ng7-Nh5 and next Bh6 is also coming!

Position after 25...g6: Once white gets in Nh5 all sorts of threats would open up!

26.h4 Ng7 27.b6 axb6 28.Nxb6 Nh5 was played and now the rook on g3 was en prise!

Position after 28...Nh5: The f3 pawn is falling

29.Rg5 Qxf3 was on board and now Nf4 eyeing Nh3+ (and if Rg3 then Ne2+) is a devastating threat.

Position after 29...Qxf3: How should Black parry the threat of Nf4?

The game continued 30.Qd1 Qh3 31.Nc4 Bh6 32.Nxe5 (eyeing Nf7+) 32...Rf8 and now 33.Rg2 would have been just fine but White blundered here with 33.Rxg6+

33.Rxg6 is a blunder ... What would you play if you were Black?

Black rightly played 33...Be3! and White immediately resigned!

33...Be3 is the winning move!

The threat here is Bxf2# and if White plays 34.fxe3 then 34...Ng3 threatening Qh1# is simply game over!

Karthikeyan over all put up a commendable performance, leading the tournament for the most part. His brilliant game against Alireza Firouzja from round 5 is something that will be cherished by fans for years | Photo: imsa.cn

Karthikeyan Receiving the runner-up award from Xie Jun | Photo: imsa.cn

Le Quang Liem won 5 games and drew 4, a solid unbeaten performance to become the Asian continental champion 2019 | Photo: imsa.cn

Le Quang Liem receives his award from Hisham Al Tahir | Photo: imsa.cn

S.L. Narayanan finished fourth and booked a spot for the World Cup 2019. He drew his final round game quickly, but he had already done his hard work in the penultimate round by beating Vidit | Photo: Niklesh Jain

There were only five spots for the World Cup 2019, but as Le Quang Liem and Rinat Jumabayev had qualified via other continental championships, two more spots were opened up.

Alireza firouzja finished sixth and made it to the World Cup 2019

Abhijeet Gupta finished seventh and also made it to the World Cup 2019 | Photo; imsa.cn

Vidit showed flashes of brilliance in some of his games, but losses to Praggnanandhaa and S.L. Narayanan proved to be costly. He missed out on the World Cup berth by a whisker.| photo: imsa.cn

Lalith has been very consistent this year and has already climbed a live Elo of 2580. He was tenth.

For Nihal to finish unbeaten in such a strong event is in itself an achievement. He gained four Elo points, reached 2610 and stood 11th

Results of round 9

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	GM	Le Quang Liem	2694	6	1 - 0	6½	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2613	9
2	7	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	2625	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2603	12
3	10	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2606	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Lu Shanglei	2624	8
4	5	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	2665	5	0 - 1	5½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2593	16
5	1	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2707	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Idani Pouya	2597	15
6	3	GM	Firouzja Alireza	2682	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Aryan Chopra	2553	22
7	4	GM	Adhiban B.	2676	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Dai Changren	2480	38
8	21	GM	Sengupta Deep	2559	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	2639	6
9	19	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2571	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Liu Yan	2504	32
10	11	GM	Nihal Sarin	2606	5	1 - 0	4½	IM	Yakubboev Nodirbek	2587	17

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	2	GM	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2694	7,0	2576	44,5	49,0	0,0	9	7	6,06	0,94	10	9,4
2	16	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	2593	6,5	2610	44,5	48,5	0,0	9	6,5	4,55	1,95	10	19,5
3	9	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2613	6,5	2604	47,0	51,0	0,0	9	6,5	4,82	1,68	10	16,8
4	12	GM	Narayanan.S.L	IND	2603	6,5	2561	42,5	45,5	0,0	9	6,5	5,20	1,30	10	13,0
5	7	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	KAZ	2625	6,5	2539	42,5	46,5	0,0	9	6,5	5,68	0,82	10	8,2
6	3	GM	Firouzja Alireza	IRI	2682	6,0	2591	45,0	49,0	0,0	9	6	5,75	0,25	10	2,5
7	10	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2606	6,0	2565	44,5	47,0	0,0	9	6	5,25	0,75	10	7,5
8	1	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2707	6,0	2554	41,0	44,5	0,0	9	6	6,41	-0,41	10	-4,1
9	8	GM	Lu Shanglei	CHN	2624	6,0	2536	42,0	46,0	0,0	9	6	5,72	0,28	10	2,8
10	19	GM	Lalith Babu M R	IND	2571	6,0	2534	43,0	47,0	0,0	9	6	5,12	0,88	10	8,8
11	11	GM	Nihal Sarin	IND	2606	6,0	2530	39,5	44,0	0,0	9	6	5,58	0,42	10	4,2
12	41	IM	Vignesh N R	IND	2459	5,5	2579	38,5	40,5	0,0	9	5,5	3,36	2,14	10	21,4
13	14	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2598	5,5	2549	40,5	44,5	0,0	9	5,5	5,27	0,23	10	2,3
14	6	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2639	5,5	2544	40,0	44,0	0,0	9	5,5	5,76	-0,26	10	-2,6
15	27	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	2526	5,5	2519	38,5	40,5	0,0	9	5,5	4,97	0,53	10	5,3
16	4	GM	Adhiban B.	IND	2676	5,5	2512	43,0	47,0	0,0	9	5,5	6,56	-1,06	10	-10,6
17	30	GM	Chanda Sandipan	IND	2511	5,5	2495	39,5	42,5	0,0	9	5,5	5,03	0,47	10	4,7
18	38	IM	Dai Changren	CHN	2480	5,5	2490	37,5	40,5	0,0	9	5,5	4,63	0,87	10	8,7
19	21	GM	Sengupta Deep	IND	2559	5,5	2474	37,5	41,5	0,0	9	5,5	5,63	-0,13	10	-1,3
20	32	GM	Liu Yan	CHN	2504	5,0	2632	46,0	49,5	0,0	9	5	3,41	1,59	10	15,9

Four out of the five qualification spots for World Cup 2019 from the Asian Continental 2019 went to Indians. This is a huge success for the country! The World Cup 2019 will be held later this year in September in Khanty Mansisyk, Russia.

Vaishali R. repeats her brother's amazing line, wins the final round game!

Vaishali R. won her final round encounter against Li Xueyi of China to climb up to the fifth place on the rank list. Curiously, this game was an echo of Praggnanandhaa R. versus Ravi S. Teja from the Isle of Man international tournament 2018!

Vaishali R. - Li Xueyi, Round 9

Position after 10.Bxc4

The above came out of a Caro-Kann advanced, the solid way of playing here is 10...Nd7 11.0-0 0-0-0 but Black decided to become adventurous here and went 10...Qxb2, what followed next was a crushing sequence of events! Below we present this to you as a series of puzzles (and solutions), have fun working through them!

Puzzle 1

Black has just taken the pawn on b2, the c3 knight is hanging. What should white do?

White went 11.Nce4! this eyes the d6 square. Black can never think of 11...Qb4+ 12. Qd2 Qxc4 because of 13.Nd6+ fork! So now what does Black do here? 11...Bxe4 12.Nxe4 Nf5 is a possible way but in the game Black kept the bishop and went 11...Nf5 right away.

Puzzle 2

With 11...Nf5 Black is putting pressure on d4. What should White do?

One valid possibility is 12.Rb1 after 12...Qxd4 13.0-0 White is much ahead in development. In the game however, 12.0-0 was played directly and Black replied 12...Nxg3

Puzzle 3

13.Nxg3 might seem like an automatic here ... But think again!

If White goes 13.Nxg3 then after a move like 13...Be7 Black is already safe to a great extent. The right continuation, which also happened in the game, is 13.Rb1! a nice little intermezzo that hits at the weak b7 pawn. Black went 13...Qa3

Puzzle 4

Now, how should White continue? Note, the knight on g3 is hanging

White went 14.fxg3 here! Yes, he gave a whole piece on e4!

Puzzle 5

Black graciously took the knight with 14...Bxe4! How do you, as white, keep the attack going?

You probably guessed it right! Yes, White went 15.Rxf7!! The idea is after 15...Kxf7 White has 16.Rxb7+ and now Black is in real danger. If he goes 16...Ke8 then 17.Qf1 Bf5 18.Qxf5 exf5 19.Bf7# is a spectacular mate. And if he goes 16...Kg6 then 17.Bxe6 with the threat of Bf7+ next move is also decisive. In the game 15...Qxg3 was played.

Puzzle 6

With 15...Qxg3 Black is threatening mate on g2 ... White has to be very careful, what's the best move?

Kudos if you found 16.Rf2 that's the move that was played in the game. Note 16.Qf1 doesn't work because 16...Bxg2 17.Qxg2 Qxg2+ 18.Kxg2 Kxf7 and Black simply wins. So, retreating the rook with 16.Rf2 and defending g2 is the right move. Black here went 16...b5

Puzzle 7

Challenges the bishop on c4 but White has a very strong resource, can you spot it?

The right move, the move that was played in the game, is 17.Qe1 - this is very strong, threatens the bishop on e4 and also a discovery with Rxf8. Black replied 17...Bf5 Note 17...Bxb1 and 17...bxc4 are replied by 18.Qxb1 and 18.Qxe4 respectively after which Qg6+ is a deadly threat.

Puzzle 8

Black blocks the f-file but White can break in a different way. Can you see it?

White played the spectacular 18.Bxe6!! The point is Black can't take 18...Bxe6 because of 19.Rxf8+ Rxf8 20.Qxg3, Black decided to play here 18...Qxf2 and after 19.Qxf2 Bxe6 we have the next puzzle.

Puzzle 9

White is already winning now... but still what's the best way to finish Black off?

Yes, the correct move is 20. d5!! the final blow to rip Black off completely. If 20...Bxd5 then 21.Qf5 is demolishing. In the game 20...cxd5 was played and here's the final question for you.

Puzzle 10

20...cxd5 has been played ... What should be the most incisive move for White?

21.Qc2 was played in the game, intending to infiltrate with either Qc7 or Qg6+ and now Black is completely lost.

The game was resigned on move 26. The full game with detailed annotations is presented below:

In the following video IM Sagar Shah explains Pragg's game against Ravi S. Teja from Isle of Man 2018 and the above game is surprisingly an exact copy of this!

And here we have the Vaishali versus Li Xueyi game:

Thanks to her final round win Vaishali finished fifth at the event | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Bhakti Kulkarni began by leading the Women's section of the tournament but finished seventh with a sombre 5.5/9 | Photo: imsa.cn

Dinara Saduakassova finished with a spectacular 7.5/9 and became the Asian Women's champion 2019 | Photo: imsa.cn

Dinara Saduakassova receives her award from Deng Suxue | photo: imsa.cn

Results of the final round

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	5	WFM	Munkhzul Turmunkh	2371	5½	½ - ½	7	IM	Saduakassova Dinara	2458	1
2	7	IM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	2370	5½	½ - ½	6½	IM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	2378	4
3	9	WGM	Vaishali R	2338	5	1 - 0	5½		Li Xueyi	2305	12
4	2	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2420	5	½ - ½	5	WGM	Kulkarni Bhakti	2380	3
5	15	WGM	Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz	2259	4½	1 - 0	4½	WGM	Zhai Mo	2358	8
6	20		Zhang Xiao	2234	4½	½ - ½	4½	WGM	Vo Thi Kim Phung	2337	10
7	13	WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	2293	4½	1 - 0	4½	WFM	Li Yunshan	2264	14
8	25	WIM	Pham Bich Ngoc	2167	4	1 - 0	4½		Ren Xiaoyi	2255	16
9	23	WIM	Gu Tianlu	2183	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Karavade Eesha	2370	6
10	18	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	2245	4	½ - ½	4	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	2314	11
11	26	WGM	Frayna Janelle Mae	2157	4	1 - 0	4	WIM	Dauletova Gulmira	2252	17
12	29	WIM	San Diego Marie Antoinette	2080	3½	½ - ½	3½	WGM	Swati Ghate	2220	21
13	24	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	2171	3½	½ - ½	3½	WIM	Galas Bernadette	2073	31
14	32	WFM	Tan Li Ting	2066	3½	1 - 0	3		Xia Ri Feng	1991	34
15	19	IM	Mohota Nisha	2236	3	1 - 0	3	WIM	Mordido Kylen Joy	2133	27
16	30	WFM	Mahdian Anousha	2078	3	1 - 0	3	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	2090	28
17	36	WCM	Kojima Natsumi	1711	1½	½ - ½	3		Yan Tianqi	2036	33
18	22	WIM	Wang Doudou	2188	2½	1 - 0	0	WIM	Hamid Rani	1929	35

Standings after the final round

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	1	IM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	2458	7,5	2351	43,0	47,0	0,0	9	7,5	5,93	1,57	10	15,7
2	4	IM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	INA	2378	7,0	2339	43,5	47,0	0,0	9	7	5,18	1,82	10	18,2
3	5	WFM	Munkhzul Turmunkh	MGL	2371	6,0	2322	43,0	47,0	0,0	9	6	5,27	0,73	20	14,6
4	7	IM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	VIE	2370	6,0	2288	40,5	44,5	0,0	9	6	5,72	0,28	10	2,8
5	9	WGM	Vaishali R	IND	2338	6,0	2250	36,0	39,0	0,0	9	6	5,72	0,28	20	5,6
6	12		Li Xueyi	CHN	2305	5,5	2354	46,0	50,0	0,0	9	5,5	4,26	1,24	20	24,8
7	3	WGM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2380	5,5	2341	47,0	51,0	0,0	9	5,5	5,11	0,39	20	7,8
8	15	WGM	Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz	UZB	2259	5,5	2332	40,0	43,5	0,0	9	5,5	3,99	1,51	20	30,2
9	2	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	MGL	2420	5,5	2281	42,5	46,5	0,0	9	5,5	6,27	-0,77	10	-7,7
10	13	WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	VIE	2293	5,5	2261	36,0	39,0	0,0	9	5,5	5,08	0,42	10	4,2
11	10	WGM	Vo Thi Kim Phung	VIE	2337	5,0	2292	42,5	45,5	0,0	9	5	5,29	-0,29	10	-2,9
12	20		Zhang Xiao	CHN	2234	5,0	2283	37,0	40,5	0,0	9	5	4,25	0,75	40	30,0
13	26	WGM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI	2157	5,0	2218	32,5	34,5	0,0	9	5	4,30	0,70	20	14,0
14	25	WIM	Pham Bich Ngoc	VIE	2167	5,0	2185	36,5	40,0	0,0	9	5	4,56	0,44	20	8,8
15	18	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	2245	4,5	2331	39,5	41,5	0,0	9	4,5	3,98	0,52	20	10,4
16	8	WGM	Zhai Mo	CHN	2358	4,5	2310	45,0	49,0	0,0	9	4,5	5,28	-0,78	10	-7,8
17	16		Ren Xiaoyi	CHN	2255	4,5	2296	45,5	49,5	0,0	8	3,5	3,56	-0,06	20	-1,2
18	14	WFM	Li Yunshan	CHN	2264	4,5	2272	43,0	47,0	0,0	9	4,5	4,65	-0,15	40	-6,0
19	6	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2370	4,5	2253	39,0	42,5	0,0	9	4,5	6,01	-1,51	10	-15,1
20	23	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN	2183	4,5	2250	40,0	43,0	0,0	9	4,5	3,99	0,51	20	10,2
21	11	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2314	4,5	2242	39,0	43,0	0,0	9	4,5	5,56	-1,06	10	-10,6
22	32	WFM	Tan Li Ting	MAS	2066	4,5	2175	32,5	35,5	0,0	9	4,5	3,44	1,06	20	21,2
23	17	WIM	Dauletova Gulmira	KAZ	2252	4,0	2290	39,5	39,5	0,0	9	4	4,46	-0,46	20	-9,2
24	29	WIM	San Diego Marie Antoinette	PHI	2080	4,0	2278	38,5	42,0	0,0	9	4	2,37	1,63	20	32,6
25	24	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI	2171	4,0	2237	37,0	37,0	0,0	9	4	4,12	-0,12	20	-2,4
26	31	WIM	Galas Bernadette	PHI	2073	4,0	2208	36,0	40,0	0,0	9	4	3,09	0,91	20	18,2
27	30	WFM	Mahdian Anousha	IRI	2078	4,0	2176	33,0	33,0	0,0	9	4	3,66	0,34	40	13,6
28	19	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2236	4,0	2174	37,5	40,5	0,0	9	4	5,48	-1,48	10	-14,8
29	21	WGM	Swati Ghate	IND	2220	4,0	2174	35,5	37,5	0,0	9	4	5,40	-1,40	20	-28,0
30	22	WIM	Wang Doudou	CHN	2188	3,5	2155	31,0	31,0	0,0	9	3,5	5,27	-1,77	20	-35,4
31	33		Yan Tianqi	CHN	2036	3,5	2137	33,5	33,5	0,0	9	3,5	3,82	-0,32	40	-12,8
32	28	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2090	3,0	2164	33,0	33,0	0,0	9	3	4,14	-1,14	20	-22,8
33	27	WIM	Mordido Kylen Joy	PHI	2133	3,0	2156	33,0	33,0	0,0	9	3	4,68	-1,68	40	-67,2
34	34		Xia Ri Feng	CHN	1991	3,0	2133	33,0	33,0	0,0	8	3	3,23	-0,23	20	-4,6
35	36	WCM	Kojima Natsumi	JPN	1711	2,0	2133	30,0	30,0	0,0	9	2	1,00	1,00	20	20,0
36	35	WIM	Hamid Rani	BAN	1929	0,0	2117	28,5	30,5	0,0	9	0	2,88	-2,88	20	-57,6

Nihal Sarin is the Asian Blitz 2019 champion

Asian 2019 blitz champion - Nihal Sarin

After the Asian Continental 2019, the Asian blitz event was held. Blitz for many is a tiring event. After 9 rounds of classical chess there isn't any stamina left. But for young Nihal, chess is something he can play 24x7. He enjoys the thrill of blitz and he once again proved that when it comes to blitz he can give the best in the business a run for their money. Nihal scored 8.0/9, and won the Asian blitz 2019 gold with one full point.

En route to his victory he beat Deep Sengupta, Sandipan Chanda, Yakkuboev Nodirbek, Praggnanandhaa and Alireza Firouzja!

This takes Nihal's live blitz rating to 2685! Nihal is now breathing down Vidit's neck as far as blitz rankings are concerned. Vidit's live Elo is 2694. Nine more Elo points and Nihal would be India no.2 in blitz. Second place went to Le Quang Liem and third was S.L.Narayanan. In the women's section Zhai Mo won the gold, Vo Thi Kim Phung won silver and Gu Tianlu bronze.

Final standings in Open Blitz

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	5	GM	Nihal Sarin	IND	2654	8,0	2505	45,5	49,5	0,0
2	2	GM	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2674	7,0	2494	46,5	51,0	0,0
3	7	GM	Narayanan.S.L	IND	2597	7,0	2435	38,5	41,5	0,0
4	3	GM	Firouzja Alireza	IRI	2660	6,5	2565	47,0	50,0	0,0
5	22	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	2464	6,5	2445	41,5	46,0	0,0
6	9	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	2587	6,5	2422	38,0	40,0	0,0
7	15	GM	Chanda Sandipan	IND	2505	6,0	2602	48,0	52,0	0,0
8	12	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	2554	6,0	2560	48,5	51,5	0,0
9	13	IM	Yakubboev Nodirbek	UZB	2515	6,0	2533	44,5	46,5	0,0
10	28	IM	Sadhwani Raunak	IND	2435	6,0	2525	42,0	44,5	0,0

Final standings in Women Blitz

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	7	WGM	Zhai Mo	CHN	2321	7,5	2169	47,5	51,0	0,0
2	8	WGM	Vo Thi Kim Phung	VIE	2291	6,5	2197	45,0	48,0	0,0
3	23	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN	2068	6,0	2310	47,5	51,5	0,0
4	5	IM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	2337	6,0	2266	46,0	48,0	0,0
5	21	WIM	Song Yuxin	CHN	2114	6,0	2216	45,5	49,5	0,0
6	4	WGM	Vaishali R	IND	2339	6,0	2157	39,0	41,5	0,0
7	9	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	MGL	2284	6,0	2151	40,5	42,5	0,0
8	15		Ren Xiaoyi	CHN	2175	6,0	2135	37,0	39,0	0,0
9	22	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2095	5,5	2211	35,0	36,0	0,0
10	26		Zhang Xiao	CHN	1990	5,5	2185	33,5	35,5	0,0

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