Rishi Sardana takes sole lead at DCA Open 2019 after round 6

by Shahid Ahmed - 25/03/2019

IM Rishi Sardana took sole lead at the conclusion of round 6 by defeating IM Anup Deshmukh in DCA Open 2019. Five other leaders IM Somak Palit, CM Aronyak Ghosh, N Lokesh, Arindam Mukherjee and Bharat Kumar Reddy Potluri who were at 5.0/5, drew their respective games. Top seed IM Sayantan Das was shocked by Maulik Raval as Sayantan suffered the first loss of the tournament. Over 610 players from five different country Australia, Germany, Nepal, Turkey and India are participating including 10 IMs in this five-day 9-round Swiss League tournament with a total prize of ₹1818000 in 136 different prizes including separate rating category championship prizes. We bring you a pictorial report from round 6. Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Indian Origin Australian IM Rishi Sardana takes sole lead

IM Rishi Sardana took sole lead by defeating IM Anup Deshmukh in round 6. He is at a 100% score till now. Tomorrow he will face... | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

...IM Ra A Harikrishnan who is at 5.5/6. He was held to a draw in round 3 by Aditya P Melani of Gujarat | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

IM Somak Palit had to settle for a draw against Bharat Kumar Reddy Potluri of Andhra Pradesh in round 6 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

After a podium finish in 1st DD-DBCA All Bengal Rating, CM Aronyak Ghosh continues his momentum and he is at 5.5/6. In the sixth round he drew with his state mate... | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

...Arindam Mukherjee who is also at 5.5/6, playing his first Classical Rating tournament of the year | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Top seed of the tournament IM Sayantan Das suffered his first loss of the tournament against Maulik Raval of Gujarat in round 6 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

IM V A V Rajesh of Tamil Nadu is at 5.5/6 who will face his state-mate Lokesh N who is also at the same point | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Budding talent of Maharashtra, 10-year old Om Kadam is at 4.5/6 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Atul Dahale made an undefeated start. He is at 5.0/6 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

IIFLW Mumbai International Open 2019 winner Samrat Ghorai is at 4.5/6 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Round 6 results:

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	IM	Sardana Rishi	2417	5	1 - 0	5	IM	Deshmukh Anup	2257	13
2	15		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2218	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Palit Somak	2330	8
3	9	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	2326	5	½ - ½	5		Arindam Mukherjee	2121	22
4	17		Lokesh N.	2157	5	½ - ½	4½		Manigandan S S	2157	18
5	41		Maulik Raval	1971	4½	1 - 0	4½	IM	Das Sayantan	2435	1
6	5	IM	Harikrishnan.A.Ra	2413	4½	1 - 0	4½		Shah Jeet	1965	44
7	55		Shintre Neel	1936	4½	0 - 1	4½	IM	Rajesh V A V	2413	6
8	7	IM	Vardaan Nagpal	2378	4½	1 - 0	4½		Saranya Y	1955	48
9	19	FM	Matta Vinay Kumar	2146	4½	1 - 0	4½		Stanley Samson P.	1951	50
10	29		Pimpalkhare Vedant	2046	4½	1 - 0	4½		Chudasama Ankit	1853	88
11	83		Vijay Anand M.	1866	4	0 - 1	4	IM	Muthaiah Al	2426	2
12	89		Srivastava Mithilesh Kumar	1852	4	0 - 1	4	FM	Gajwa Ankit	2286	10
13	11	FM	Sauravh Khherdekar	2272	4	0 - 1	4		Joy Lazar M.A.	1861	86
14	95		Uttam Prakash Sharma	1838	4	0 - 1	4	CM	Kushagra Mohan	2258	12
15	98		Aditya P Melani	1819	4	½ - ½	4		Prakash Ram	2126	20
16	99		Arjun Gupta	1818	4	0 - 1	4		Soham Kamotra	2110	23
17	105		Kothari Pranit	1807	4	0 - 1	4		Dahale Atul	2102	26
18	27	FM	Dutta Joydeep	2097	4	1 - 0	4		Nanda Kumar T.S.	1846	94
19	107		Rohit Ramanan T G	1801	4	½ - ½	4		Sudhanshu Ranjan	2056	28
20	109		Soham Dey	1789	4	½ - ½	4		Pradip Ghosh	2022	30

Round 6 complete results

Round 7 pairings:

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	5	IM	Harikrishnan.A.Ra	2413	5½		6	IM	Sardana Rishi	2417	3
2	6	IM	Rajesh V A V	2413	5½		5½		Lokesh N.	2157	17
3	19	FM	Matta Vinay Kumar	2146	5½		5½	IM	Vardaan Nagpal	2378	7
4	8	IM	Palit Somak	2330	5½		5½		Pimpalkhare Vedant	2046	29
5	9	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	2326	5½		5½		Maulik Raval	1971	41
6	22		Arindam Mukherjee	2121	5½		5½		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2218	15
7	2	IM	Muthaiah Al	2426	5		5		Shubham Shukla	1948	52
8	10	FM	Gajwa Ankit	2286	5		5		Arun Rathi	1939	54
9	12	CM	Kushagra Mohan	2258	5		5		Sumit Grover	1931	57
10	13	IM	Deshmukh Anup	2257	5		5		Rishabh Nishad	1903	68
11	18		Manigandan S S	2157	5		5		Awadh Chaitanya	1882	77
12	78		Vijay Kumar	1882	5		5		Soham Kamotra	2110	23
13	26		Dahale Atul	2102	5		5		Deepak Rai	1761	120
14	80		Selvamurugan B	1875	5		5	FM	Dutta Joydeep	2097	27
15	86		Joy Lazar M.A.	1861	5		5		Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar	2000	33
16	136		K Ashleesh	1732	5		5		Aishwin Daniel	1971	40
17	42		Sinha Santosh Kumar	1970	5		5		Aaditya Dhingra	1742	131
18	45		Vinay Raj Bhatt	1965	5		5		Tamhankar Siddhant	1696	151
19	76		Sarthak Rawat	1883	4½		4½	IM	Das Sayantan	2435	1
20	14		Patil Pratik	2219	4½		4½		Shubham	1880	79

Round 7 complete pairings

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