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Ilamparthi stuns the first GM of his career

The current under-9 national champion Ilamparthi A R

When Gukesh couldn't break Karjakin's record of becoming the youngest GM ever in the history of the game, people started commenting, "Ilamparthi next!" The talent of this youngster born in 2009 has never been doubt. In fact, ChessBase India wrote a huge article on this boy already two years in when he was just seven years old. As on today Ilamparthi is nine years old and has a rating of 1920. He became the national under-9 champion by scoring 10 wins in the first 10 rounds of the tournament. However, last few events have not been going his way as he lost a huge number of rating points in the Gujarat and Goa GM International. But with these losses and time Ilamparthi is gaining the experience to make it to the next level and he took the first step in that direction as he beat the first GM of his chess career - GM Harsha Bharathakoti.

Technically Harsha Bharathakoti is still an IM as he has not received his title from FIDE. But for all practical reasons he is a GM as he has achieved his Elo of 2500 and also his three GM norms. | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Harsha Bharathakoti vs Ilamparthi, Delhi Chess 2019, Round 1

Harsha began the game with 2.Bg5, the Trompowsky which has been used by him every once in a while

Ilamparthi completed his development, moved his pawn to f5, and activated all his pieces

The game started getting exciting when the knight on c3 was both a strength and a weakness. It was pinned but at the same time, it could jump around and create a lot of tactical opportunities.

Harsha went wrong big time with the move Bg2. How should Ilamparthi finish him off?

The knight came to d1 and the f2 point was extremely sore!

The final blow! The rook on c1 is hanging and there is also a mate on h2. Harsha had to resign the game.

In the presence of 1500 players the 17th Delhi International 2019 kicked off at the Indira Gandhi stadium in New Delhi. The total prize fund of the event is Rs. 1,01,00,000, which makes it the highest prize money tournament ever to be held on Indian soil. The winner of the A group will get Rs.6,00,000.

Secretary of AICF and the mastermind behind the Delhi event Bharat Singh Chauhan welcomed all the players | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Bharat Singh Chauhan speaks about his experience

HDFC head A.K. Sinha being welcomed by the tournament director A.K. Verma | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Three men who have been working extremely hard to make this event possible | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Chief guest of the event A.K. Sinha makes the first move on the top board | Photo: Niklesh Jain

On the top board GM Farrukh Amonatov made a strong start by beating Rajarshi Dutta | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Alexandr Predke is the second seed of the event and apart from Amonatov is the only player above 2600 Elo | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia is the third seed | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Indian challenge will be led by GM Vaibhav Suri. He won his first round against Isha Sharma | Photo: Niklesh Jain

For Abhijeet Gupta, a tournament victory is due. It's highly possible that Abhijeet may win the tournament! | Photo: Niklesh Jain

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Little Pragg gave a simul at the venue! | Photo: Niklesh Jain

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Results of round 1:

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	163		Rajarshi Dutta	1971	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2621	1
2	2	GM	Predke Alexandr	2620	0	1 - 0	0		Ramakrishna Perumalla	1971	164
3	165		Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D	1966	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2597	3
4	4	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2590	0	1 - 0	0	WCM	Isha Sharma	1965	166
5	167		Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki	1963	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Rozum Ivan	2589	5
6	6	GM	Popov Ivan	2588	0	1 - 0	0		Mohammed Dilshad	1956	168
7	169		Arpan Das (Jr)	1955	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Paichadze Luka	2583	7
8	8	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2582	0	1 - 0	0		Sourath Biswas	1954	170
9	171	WFM	Kotepalli Sai Nirupama	1949	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2581	9
10	10	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2575	0	1 - 0	0		Mishra Manoj	1949	172

Round 2 on 2019/01/10 at 09:30 hrs

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2621	1		1	WGM	Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz	2214	86
2	87		Singh S. Vikramjit	2214	1		1	GM	Predke Alexandr	2620	2
3	3	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2597	1		1	WIM	Srija Seshadri	2210	88
4	89		Saurabh Anand	2210	1		1	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2590	4
5	5	GM	Rozum Ivan	2589	1		1		Kulkarni Vinayak	2207	90
6	91		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2197	1		1	GM	Popov Ivan	2588	6
7	7	GM	Paichadze Luka	2583	1		1		Baivab Mishra	2196	92
8	94		Senthil Maran K	2183	1		1	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2582	8
9	9	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2581	1		1	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2176	96
10	95		Nayak Rajesh	2181	1		1	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2575	10
11	11	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2570	1		1	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	2163	100
12	97	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	2175	1		1	IM	Erigaisi Arjun	2548	12
13	13	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2544	1		1	WIM	Vantika Agrawal	2149	102
14	99		Masango Spencer	2168	1		1	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2543	14
15	15	GM	Stupak Kirill	2542	1		1	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2132	106
16	16	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	2541	1		1		Zia Tahsin Tajwar	2125	108
17	17	GM	Debashis Das	2538	1		1		Soham Datar	2122	110
18	101		Patil Pratik	2161	1		1	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	2533	18
19	19	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	2517	1		1		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	2110	112
20	21	GM	Movsziszian Karen	2514	1		1	WIM	Franco Valencia Angela	2107	114

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Delhi GM 2019 Round 1: 9-year-old Ilamparthi stuns the first GM of his chess career