Bhopal GM Open 2019: Yakubboev beats Bogdanovich in just 18 moves

by Niklesh Jain - 26/12/2019

Top seed of the tournament GM Nodirbek Yakubboev defeated overnight sole leader GM Stanislav Bogdanovich in just 18 moves to take sole lead at the conclusion of round 7 in Central India's biggest tournament Bhopal GM Open 2019. It will be interesting to see if Yakubboev will be able to maintain his lead in the last three rounds of the tournament. Among other matches, Colombia's Cristhian Rios saved his game from a difficult situation against Ukrainian GM Adam Tukhaev and managed to salvage a draw. Indian GM Venkatesh M R was held to a draw by Slovakian GM Manik Mikulas. Only three rounds left in the tournament and everyday one round will be played. Photo: Niklesh Jain

Top seed Yakubboev takes sole lead

After winning six consecutive games, Ukrainian GM Stanislav Bogdanovich took sole lead with a score of 6.0/6. In a game arising out of Queen's Gambit Accepted, Bogdanovich misplayed by moving his king to e7 on the thirteenth move and then resigned the game in just another 5 moves.

On board no.2, the game between Ukraine's Adam Tukhaev and Colombia's Cristhian Rios was quite an exciting one. At one point, Tukhaev was completely winning but Rios somehow managed to salvage a draw. Now he is at the second position according to his tie-break score.

Indian GM Venkatesh M R was held to a draw by Slovak GM Manik Mikulas. The game witnessed a draw after 30 moves in a game out of Sicilian Rossolimo.

Uzbekistan's IM Ortik Nigmatov made a comeback by defeating GM Azer Mirzoev of Azerbaijan with black pieces and now he is at 6.0/7

India's new sensation Shivansh Tiwari suffered second consecutive defeat against IM Nguyen Van Huy after a brilliant start of five consecutive wins. His brilliant start allowed him to face strong players continuously and this created an opportunity for him to score an IM-norm.

Standings after Round 7

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	1	GM	Yakubboev Nodirbek				UZB	2592	Uzbekistan	6,5	0,0	29,5	33,5	31,25	6
2	4	GM	Rios Cristhian Camilo				COL	2505	Colombia	6,0	0,0	30,5	34,0	28,50	5
3	2	GM	Bogdanovich Stanislav				UKR	2562	Ukraine	6,0	0,0	30,0	33,0	26,50	6
4	7	IM	Taher Yoseph Theolifus				INA	2469	Indonesia	6,0	0,0	29,5	32,5	26,50	6
5	6	IM	Nigmatov Ortik				UZB	2474	Uzbekistan	6,0	0,0	28,5	32,5	27,50	6
6	10	IM	Nguyen Van Huy				VIE	2457	Vietnam	6,0	0,0	26,5	30,0	24,50	6
7	5	GM	Venkatesh M.R.				IND	2491	Tamil Nadu - India	5,5	0,0	32,0	35,5	26,75	5
8	3	GM	Tukhaev Adam				UKR	2552	Ukraine	5,5	0,0	30,0	33,5	26,25	4
9	8	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim				RUS	2466	Russia	5,5	0,0	30,0	33,5	25,75	5
10	21		Varun V				IND	2250	Andhra Pradesh - India	5,5	0,0	29,0	32,5	23,50	5
11	16		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri				IND	2337	Andhra Pradesh - India	5,5	0,0	29,0	32,0	22,75	5
12	14	GM	Manik Mikulas				SVK	2379	Slovakia	5,5	0,0	28,5	32,0	25,00	4
13	17		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan				IND	2329	Odisha - India	5,5	0,0	28,5	31,5	22,75	5
14	15	GM	Czebe Attila				HUN	2374	Hungary	5,5	0,0	28,0	31,5	23,50	5
15	29		Mahindrakar Indrajeet				IND	2042	Maharashtra - India	5,5	0,0	28,0	31,5	23,00	5
16	31		Anadkat Kartavya	U15			IND	2023	Gujarat - India	5,5	0,0	27,5	30,5	23,00	5
17	22	GM	Ziatdinov Raset	S60			USA	2204	United States of America	5,5	0,0	26,5	29,5	21,50	5
18	118		Lund Rachit	U15			IND	1625	Maharashtra - India	5,5	0,0	25,5	27,0	19,75	5
19	73		Tiwari Shivansh				IND	1770	Madhya Pradesh - India	5,0	0,0	31,0	33,0	21,50	5
20	9	GM	Mirzoev Azer				AZE	2457	Azerbaijan	5,0	0,0	29,0	32,5	22,25	4

Complete standings

Top seed Nodirbek Yakubboev took sole lead with a score of 6.5/7 after seven rounds. Cristhian Rios, Stanislav Bogdanovich, Taher Yoseph Theolifus, Ortik Nigmatov and Nguyen Van Huy are at shared second position with a score of 6.0/7. Among the Indians, Venkatesh M R, V Varun, Bharat Reddy, Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, Indrajeet Mahindrakar, Kartavya Anadkat and Rachit Lund are at 5.5/7.

Translation from Hindi by Shahid Ahmed

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