Delhi 2018 R04: Ziaur Rahman is the sole leader

by Sagar Shah - 12/01/2018

GM Ziaur Rahman is an experienced guy. He has his own opening systems and a very unique style of play. Even in his forties he a feared opponent. He proved it, by beating the young Vietnamese opponent Tran Tuan Minh with the white pieces. In the other upset of the day GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury seems to have found his form for this event as he beat GM Hoa Nguyen. We bring you the round four report along with the details of what happened in the Timur Gareyev walkover incident in round two.

Live Commentary of round 4 by ChessBase India:

The entire three hours of live commentary footage

Round 4 of the Delhi International 2018 saw eleven players starting out with 3.0/3. However at the end of it there was only one man standing - Ziaur Rahman!

The experienced Bangladeshi GM Ziaur Rahman is currently the sole leader.

On the top board Abhijeet and Deepan were involved in a tense fight that ended in a draw. Abhijeet was clearly better but could not convert his advantage.

Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury is having a fine tournament. In round three he drew against Alberto David, while in the fourth round he was able to beat GM Hoa Nguyen

Ratnakaran, who drew Arkadij Naiditsch in round 3, was unable to continue his good form and lost to... | Photo: Niklesh Jain

...Sergei Tiviakov. Sergei played a fine game, got an advantage and converted it well. This was good to see, especially in the light of his latest DVD recorded for ChessBase: | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Nobody can distract him! | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Arjun Kalyan managed to hold Yuri Solodovnichenko to a draw | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Timur Gareyev incident:

As promised we bring you the exclusive video of the Timur Gareyev walkover incident. This is what happened:

At the 2nd round of the 16th Delhi International 2018 Blindfold Chess King Timur Gareyev arrived 33 minutes late to the round. The walkover time was 30 minutes. He was late because he was changing his room. His opponent Koustav Chatterjee was already given the win, but the boy wanted to play. When Timur arrived the chief arbiter Vasanth B Handevoor had a word with him. Koustav and Timur then played the game. In the meantime the chief arbiter also took the view of the appeals committee. When Timur won the game and Koustav resigned, the decision was taken that walkover rules should stand and Gareyev was given a loss.

Why was Gareyev allowed to play in the first instance, why the appeals committee approached, and why was the entire game played? We interviewed both Timur Gareyev and Vasanth B.H. and get to the bottom of the entire incident. What is your opinion?

Round 4 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2610	3	½ - ½	3	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2475	22
2	9	GM	Solodovnichenko Yuri	2571	3	½ - ½	3		Arjun Kalyan	2407	36
3	23	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2472	3	1 - 0	3	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	2548	14
4	40	FM	Erigaisi Arjun	2386	3	½ - ½	3	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2542	16
5	42	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2380	3	½ - ½	3	GM	Pruijssers Roeland	2536	18
6	1	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2701	2½	1 - 0	3		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2337	49
7	41	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2382	2½	0 - 1	2½	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2636	2
8	43	IM	Abhishek Kelkar	2378	2½	0 - 1	2½	GM	Sengupta Deep	2586	6
9	7	GM	Tiviakov Sergei	2584	2½	1 - 0	2½	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2372	45
10	53	FM	Hafiz Arif Abdul	2324	2½	0 - 1	2½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2580	8
11	54		Kaustuv Kundu	2324	2½	0 - 1	2½	GM	Tukhaev Adam	2570	10
12	57	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2319	2½	0 - 1	2½	GM	David Alberto	2553	12
13	13	GM	Sivuk Vitaly	2550	2½	½ - ½	2½	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	2309	62
14	15	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2542	2½	½ - ½	2½		Navalgund Niranjan	2312	61
15	19	IM	Karthikeyan P.	2497	2½	½ - ½	2½		Aradhya Garg	2289	70
16	59	GM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi	2318	2½	1 - 0	2½	GM	Nguyen Duc Hoa	2490	20
17	21	GM	Horvath Adam	2484	2½	½ - ½	2½		Lokesh N.	2200	93
18	65		Sankalp Gupta	2303	2½	½ - ½	2½	IM	Vignesh N R	2470	26
19	31	IM	Gusain Himal	2450	2½	1 - 0	2½		Tiwari Arjun	2179	98
20	71		Koustav Chatterjee	2288	2½	1 - 0	2½	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	2434	32

Round 5 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	2636	3½		4	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2472	23
2	22	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2475	3½		3½	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2701	1
3	31	IM	Gusain Himal	2450	3½		3½	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2610	3
4	6	GM	Sengupta Deep	2586	3½		3½	IM	Sindarov Javokhir	2429	33
5	36		Arjun Kalyan	2407	3½		3½	GM	Tiviakov Sergei	2584	7
6	8	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2580	3½		3½	FM	Erigaisi Arjun	2386	40
7	35		Akash Pc Iyer	2415	3½		3½	GM	Solodovnichenko Yuri	2571	9
8	10	GM	Tukhaev Adam	2570	3½		3½	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2380	42
9	12	GM	David Alberto	2553	3½		3½		Koustav Chatterjee	2288	71
10	16	GM	Vaibhav Suri	2542	3½		3½	GM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi	2318	59
11	18	GM	Pruijssers Roeland	2536	3½		3½		Neelash Saha	2105	121