Bhopal International GM Open Round 2+3: Top ten seeds maintain lead

by Niklesh Jain - 23/12/2019

Top ten seeds maintain their lead with a 100% score 3.0/3 after round 3 of central India's biggest chess tournament Bhopal International GM Open 2019. There were double rounds on day 2 of the event and several upsets took place. 13-year-old Prakhar Bajaj of Madhya Pradesh held experienced GM Manik Mikulas (2379) of Slovakia to a draw. Karnataka's Shriya R Revankar scored the biggest upset of round 2 by defeating IM Denis Eraschenkov of Russia. In round 3, Shivansh Tiwari of Madhya Pradesh defeated Maksad Sapaev of Uzbekistan and he is now among the leaders with a score of 3.0/3. Photo: Niklesh Jain

All top ten seeded players managed to maintain their lead at the conclusion of round 3 of Bhopal International GM Open 2019. There were a few minor upsets too.

67th seeded 13-year-old Prakhar Bajaj of Madhya Pradesh held experienced GM Manik Mikulas (2379) of Slovakia to a draw.

Playing with the white pieces against Mikulas' Sicilian Najdorf, Prakhar played a fine game without giving any chances to his opponent. After 44 moves a draw was agreed in a bishop, knight vs double bishop endgame.

Top seed of the tournament Nodirbek Yakubboev (2592) of Uzbekistan maintained his fine form and defeated Siddhant Gawai and Rathneesh R in round 2 and 3 respectively.

Aeroflot Open 2019 'B' winner, second seeded Stanislav Bogdanovich (2562) of Ukraine defeated Vaibhav Kalpaka and Ayush Mahajan of India in round 2 and 3 respectively.

India's highest rated player of the tournament, former National Challenger and Blitz champion, Venkatesh M R has made his intentions of winning tournament by winning his third consecutive game. He defeated Swapnil Priyadarshi and Harsh Suresh in round 2 and 3 respectively.

Shriya R Revankar (1736) of Karnataka, India scored the biggest upset of round 2, when she defeated IM Denis Eraschenkov (2386) of Russia.

Shivansh Tiwari (1770) of Madhya Pradesh, India defeated Maksad Sapaev (2250) of Uzbekistan to be in the lead with a score of 3.0/3 | Photo: mpchess.com

Azerbaijaini GM Azer Mirzoev is among the leaders with full points 3.0/3

One of the most experienced players of India, IM Anup Deshmukh made a good start by scoring three consecutive victories

GM Maxim Lugovskoy of Russia is also in the lead with 3.0/3

IM Muhammad Khusenkhojaev of Tajikistan made a draw in the second round, he is at 2.5/3

WGM Anda Safranska of France lost to Kushal Jain of Gujarat, India in the third round

There will be only one round on 23rd December 2019. Total 250 players including 10 GMs, 7 IMs, a WGM and a WIM are taking part from 15 countries across the world in this tournament. There will be a blitz rating tournament on 25th December. This tournament has the highest prize money in Madhya Pradesh history which is ₹1414000

Round 3 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Gr	Typ	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Gr	Typ	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	1	GM	Yakubboev Nodirbek			2592	Uzbekistan	2	1 - 0	2	AGM	Rathneesh R		U15	2006	Tamil Nadu - India	32
2	33		Mahajan Ayush		U13	1959	Maharashtra - India	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Bogdanovich Stanislav			2562	Ukraine	2
3	3	GM	Tukhaev Adam			2552	Ukraine	2	1 - 0	2		Trivedi Karan R			1949	Gujarat - India	34
4	37		Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V			1937	Andhra Pradesh - India	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Rios Cristhian Camilo			2505	Colombia	4
5	5	GM	Venkatesh M.R.			2491	Tamil Nadu - India	2	1 - 0	2		Harsh Suresh		U13	1843	Tamil Nadu - India	50
6	41		Nagare Akhilesh			1918	Maharashtra - India	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Nigmatov Ortik			2474	Uzbekistan	6
7	7	IM	Taher Yoseph Theolifus			2469	Indonesia	2	1 - 0	2	AFM	Pawar Harshit		U13	1823	Delhi - India	56
8	43		Sharan Rao			1912	Karnataka - India	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim			2466	Russia	8
9	9	GM	Mirzoev Azer			2457	Azerbaijan	2	1 - 0	2		Darsh Kansal		U15	1793	Madhya Pradesh - India	64
10	55	AIM	Kaushik G Iyer		U15	1824	Karnataka - India	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Nguyen Van Huy			2457	Vietnam	10
11	59		Arnav Kushwaha		U13	1820	Chandigarh - India	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Abdisalimov Abdimalik			2394	Uzbekistan	12
12	67		Bajaj Prakhar		U13	1779	Madhya Pradesh - India	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Manik Mikulas			2379	Slovakia	14
13	17		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan			2329	Odisha - India	2	1 - 0	2	AFM	Nehete Arnav		U13	1778	Maharashtra - India	68
14	70		Phatak Aanjaneya			1776	Maharashtra - India	2	1 - 0	2		Pranav V		U13	2264	Tamil Nadu - India	18
15	73		Tiwari Shivansh			1770	Madhya Pradesh - India	2	1 - 0	2		Sapaev Maksad			2250	Uzbekistan	20
16	21		Varun V			2250	Andhra Pradesh - India	2	1 - 0	2		Abdullaev Rasulbek		U13	1770	Uzbekistan	72
17	113		Mohanty Soyamsree		U13	1639	Odisha - India	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Ziatdinov Raset		S60	2204	United States of America	22
18	23	IM	Deshmukh Anup			2168	Maharashtra - India	2	1 - 0	2		Shriya R Revankar			1736	Karnataka - India	86
19	25	AGM	Madjidov Jasur			2136	Uzbekistan	2	½ - ½	2		Lund Rachit		U15	1625	Maharashtra - India	118
20	123		Jani Kushal R		U13	1611	Gujarat - India	2	1 - 0	2	WGM	Safranska Anda			2112	France	26

Complete results

Translation from Hindi by Shahid Ahmed

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