Asian Individual 2025 R2: Ilamparthi trounces Tabatabaei

by Shahid Ahmed - 09/05/2025

IM Ilamparthi A R crushed the second seeded, GM M Amin Tabatabaei (IRI) in Round 2 of Asian Individual Men 2025. The former World Under-14 champion, launched a devastating attack on the kingside and did not allow his opponent to get back in the game. IM Srihari L R drew with the UAE no.1, GM Salem Saleh. GM Pranesh M, the reigning National Rapid 2025 champion, GM Iniyan Pa and GM Prraneeth Vuppala are also at 2/2 each. In the Women's event, WGM Srija Seshadri seized her opportunity in the endgame against IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen (VIE). Srija, IM Vantika Agrawal, WGM Rakshitta Ravi and WGM Priyanka Nutakki have won two games each. Round 3 starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Asian Chess Federation

Srija outplays Pham Le Thao

The top seed, GM Nihal Sarin scored his first win of the event against GM Nikita Matinian. Third round will witness to All-Indian clashes - GM Karthikeyan Murali vs GM Iniyan Pa and GM Pranesh M vs IM Ilamparthi A R.

IM Ilamparthi A R crushed GM M Amin Tabatabaei (IRI) | Photo: asianchess.com

Ilamparthi - Tabatabaei: 1-0

Last year, IM Ilamparthi A R (2469) faced GM M Amin Tabatabaei (IRI, 2670) faced for the first time. The teenager lost that encounter. A year and two days later, the former World Under-14 Champion, avenged his loss.

Position after 27...g6

Find out the winning combination which Ilamparthi executed after 27...g6 in an already winning position.

GM Karthikeyan Murali seized his opportunity in the endgame against IM Yiping Lou (CHN) | Photo: asianchess.com

IM Srihari L R (pictured) held UAE no.1, GM Salem Saleh to a draw | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Xiangrui Kong's knight sacrifice went in vain against GM Pranesh M

Iniyan - Shixu

Position after 38.Nce6!

After missing a combination a few moves ago, GM Iniyan Pa (2573) came up with another interesting combination of his own 38.Nce6! Bxe6 39.Qxf6 Rxc1+ 40.Rxc1 Ng8

Position after 41.Rc8

How many pins are there on the above diagram? The queen is doing an absolute pin on the g7-rook and also a relative pin on the e6-bishop, utilizing that fact, White played 41.Rc8 and created another absolute pin on the g8-knight. The position liquidated into a rook and knight endgame which White had no trouble converting into full point.

The reigning National Rapid 2025 Champion - GM Iniyan Pa won two games in-a-row | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Harshavardhan G B (pictured) - GM Sethuraman S P: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Prraneeth Vuppala defeated Grigory Fedorov to move to 2/2 | Photo: FA Lana Afanadiyeva

The top seed - GM Nihal Sarin scored his first win of the event against GM Nikita Matinian

IM P Saravana Krishnan got the better of GM Savva Vetokhin | Photo: Mark Livshitz

India's third GM in history - Pravin Thipsay made the ceremonial first move on WGM Yana Zhapova and GM Valentina Gunina's board | Photo: asianchess.com

Pham - Srija

Position after 33...Qd3

IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen (VIE, 2388) made the mistake of retreating her queen 33.Qc2? Her opponent, WGM Srija Seshadri found the correct move Qd3 forcing the queen trade 34.Qxd3 Rxd3 35.Rc2 Rd1 White's backrank issue, combined with the fact that the knight does not have a lot of safe squares, did not help White.

WGM Srija Seshadri got the better of IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen (VIE) | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Vantika Agrawal won her second game in-a-row | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

WGM Rakshitta Ravi 2/2

WGM Priyanka Nutakki 2/2 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

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Round 2 Open results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
2	1	58	IM	Ilamparthi A R	2469	1	1 - 0	1	GM	Tabatabaei M. Amin	2670	2
2	2	60	IM	Lou Yiping	2467	1	0 - 1	1	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2658	4
2	4	7	GM	Salem A.R. Saleh	2631	1	½ - ½	1	IM	Srihari L R	2468	59
2	8	66		Kong Xiangrui	2461	1	0 - 1	1	GM	Pranesh M	2576	18
2	9	19	GM	Iniyan Pa	2573	1	1 - 0	1	IM	Wang Shixu B	2462	63
2	10	21	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2569	1	½ - ½	1	IM	Begmuratov Khumoyun	2461	65
2	11	68	IM	Mahdavi Reza	2445	1	1 - 0	1	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2565	22
2	14	28	GM	Pranav Anand	2555	1	½ - ½	1		Meng Yihan	2443	71
2	15	72	IM	Harshavardhan G B	2441	1	½ - ½	1	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2552	29
2	19	74		Jiang Haochen	2439	1	½ - ½	1	IM	Aswath S	2515	41

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Standings after Round 2

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	58	IM	Ilamparthi, A R	IND	2469	2	2670	1	1
2	68	IM	Mahdavi, Reza	IRI	2445	2	2565	1	2
3	5	GM	Vokhidov, Shamsiddin	UZB	2641	2	2471	1	2
4	4	GM	Karthikeyan, Murali	IND	2658	2	2467	1	2
5	12	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	IRI	2621	2	2464	1	2
6	11	GM	Xu, Xiangyu	CHN	2623	2	2464	1	1,5
7	19	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2573	2	2462	1	2
8	18	GM	Pranesh, M	IND	2576	2	2461	1	2
9	27	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2556	2	2443	1	2
10	38	GM	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	UZB	2520	2	2437	1	2

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Round 3 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
3	1	4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2658	2	2	GM	Iniyan Pa	2573	19
3	3	55	GM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2474	2	2	GM	Xu Xiangyu	2623	11
3	5	18	GM	Pranesh M	2576	2	2	IM	Ilamparthi A R	2469	58
3	6	1	GM	Nihal Sarin	2693	1½	2	IM	Mahdavi Reza	2445	68
3	10	52	IM	Agmanov Zhandos	2480	1½	1½	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2630	9
3	11	10	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2624	1½	1½	GM	Megaranto Susanto	2477	54
3	13	59	IM	Srihari L R	2468	1½	1½	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2577	17
3	14	64	GM	Quizon Daniel	2461	1½	1½	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2569	21
3	16	67	GM	Zhalmakhanov Ramazan	2456	1½	1½	GM	Pranav Anand	2555	28
3	17	29	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2552	1½	1½		Jiang Haochen	2439	74

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Round 2 Women results

2	3	5	IM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	2388	1	0 - 1	1	WGM	Srija Seshadri	2226	38
2	5	7	IM	Vantika Agrawal	2377	1	1 - 0	1	WIM	Serikbay Assel	2223	40
2	8	41	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2215	1	0 - 1	1	WIM	Khamdamova Afruza	2344	14
2	12	19	WGM	Rakshitta Ravi	2324	1	1 - 0	1	WFM	Arshiya Das	2174	46
2	14	21	WGM	Balabayeva Xeniya	2311	1	½ - ½	1	IM	Mohota Nisha	2161	48
2	16	25	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki	2277	1	1 - 0	1	WGM	Rouda Essa Alserkal	2147	50
2	19	31	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	2258	1	½ - ½	1	WCM	Buyankhishig Batpelden	2081	63
2	23	9	WGM	Nandhidhaa P V	2363	½	1 - 0	½	WFM	Dorokhina Elizaveta	2135	53
2	24	11	IM	Padmini Rout	2359	½	0 - 1	½	WIM	Kaldarova Ayaulym	2115	59
2	25	15	WGM	Alinasab Mobina	2342	½	1 - 0	½	WIM	Vishwa Vasnawala	2090	61

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Standings after Round 2

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	38	WGM	Srija, Seshadri	IND	2226	2	2388	1	1
2	37	WFM	Nurgaliyeva, Zarina	KAZ	2235	2	2359	1	1
3	42	WFM	Mohammadi, Melika	IRI	2205	2	2338	1	1
4	43	WGM	Tomilova, Elena	FID	2203	2	2330	1	1,5
5	2	GM	Gunina, Valentina	FID	2425	2	2258	1	2
6	12	IM	Kamalidenova, Meruert	KAZ	2345	2	2224	1	2
7	7	IM	Vantika, Agrawal	IND	2377	2	2223	1	1
8	14	WIM	Khamdamova, Afruza	UZB	2344	2	2215	1	2
9	17	IM	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	FID	2332	2	2202	1	2
10	19	WGM	Rakshitta, Ravi	IND	2324	2	2174	1	2

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Round 3 pairings

3	1	2	GM	Gunina Valentina	2425	2	2	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki	2277	25
3	2	28	WCM	Bayasgalan Khishigbaatar	2265	2	2	IM	Vantika Agrawal	2377	7
3	6	38	WGM	Srija Seshadri	2226	2	2	WGM	Rakshitta Ravi	2324	19
3	10	4	IM	Song Yuxin	2397	1½	1½	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	2258	31
3	12	48	IM	Mohota Nisha	2161	1½	1½	WGM	Nandhidhaa P V	2363	9
3	18	10	IM	Batkhuyag Munguntuul	2359	1	1	WIM	Priyanka K	2087	62
3	21	24	IM	Savitha Shri B	2298	1	1	WIM	Gunawardhana Devindya Oshini	2068	66
3	24	69	WGM	Swati Ghate	2035	1	1	WIM	Latifah Laysa	2262	29
3	25	71		Arya G Mallar	2014	1	1	WGM	Zhapova Yana	2258	32
3	28	75	WIM	Galas Bernadette	1984	1	1	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2215	41

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