Mumbai IIFLW U-13 and Open Round 3: A day of many upsets!

by Sagar Shah - 02/01/2018

The accelerated pairings ended in the open section. The games were supposed to be one-sided, but it didn't turn out that way. The higher seeds had to work really hard against players rated 500 to 600 points below them to win their games. In the under-13 section, the ratings don't really matter. On every other board, you can see the lower rated player holding or beating the higher rated opponents. We bring you some of the upsets that took place at the third round of the tournament. Apart from this ChessBase India founders Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal are at the venue, and this is your chance to analyze your game with them.

Under - 13:

There are three things that Eka by IIFLIM 3rd Mumbai International 2017-18 does that makes it different from other events:

1. It gives a chance to the upcoming youngsters to play with some of the best under-13 players of our country.

2. The best under-13 players are able to take home a hefty sum of prize money. For eg. Rs.1,50,000 to the winner can really help him/her take their game to the next level.

3. The indefatigable youngsters get a chance to play in the evening in the open section and many of them will be able to fight it out against the grandmasters.

D. Gukesh the top seed of the event tries to meditate before the start of the third round | Photo: Niklesh Jain

WFM Divya Deshmukh lost to Om Kadam. Quite an upset. | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Divya (black) was doing fine until she played Qb7. Om, who is the reigning under-9 champion took the queen, gave a check on d8 and was able to penetrate with his rook into the position. His technique was quite good as he brought home the full point

Khushi Hombal (1446) managed to get the better of Pranesh (1977):

Aryan Polakhare (1947) was unable to navigate his way through the complications and lost to Rahul Krishna (1565) :

Iniyan Sivakumar (1538) beat Thrish Karthik (1895):

These are the upsets just in the top 15 boards. There were many more. These results only prove one thing: Rating is just a number for these kids. It doesn't matter who is the higher rated, or who is the lower rated player. You just fight hard and because they are all so young, their ratings do not really indicate their actual strength.

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	CM	Gukesh D	2362	2	1 - 0	2		Adane Narayani	1691	38
2	35		Dinesh Rajan M	1717	2	½ - ½	2		Pranav V	2263	2
3	3		Anuj Shrivatri	2149	2	1 - 0	2		Shah Jeet	1671	42
4	5	CM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2130	2	½ - ½	2		Chandratreya Prachiti	1621	48
5	45		Kadam Om Manish	1652	2	1 - 0	2	WFM	Divya Deshmukh	2128	6
6	7		Pranav Anand	2106	2	½ - ½	2	AIM	Bhavik Ahuja	1611	50
7	49		Aryan Ranjan	1618	2	0 - 1	2	AGM	Tarun Kanyamarala	2069	8
8	53		Ved Shubham	1589	2	0 - 1	2		Aaryan Varshney	2026	10
9	11	CM	Nikhil Magizhnan	2017	2	1 - 0	2		Savitha Shri B	1594	52
10	65	AFM	Nehete Arnav	1533	2	1 - 0	2	AGM	Siddharth Jagadeesh	1953	14
11	15		Polakhare Aryan	1947	2	0 - 1	2		Rahul Krishna Viswanathan	1565	58
12	17	AGM	Srihari L R	1924	2	1 - 0	2		Mhatre Rahat Rahul	1557	60
13	19		Banerjee Ashutosh	1914	2	1 - 0	2		Shirodkar Aayush	1545	62
14	67		Boramanikar Tanisha S	1527	2	½ - ½	2		Jain Nityata	1912	20
15	21		Thrish Karthik	1895	2	0 - 1	2		Iniyan Sivakumar	1538	64

Open:

Today was the day when the accelerated system of pairing came to an end. From that respect a lot of the games were pretty easy ones for the higher seeds. Yet, there were quite a few upsets, most notably Czebe Attila losing to a 1846 rated player Shyam Kumar M.

Abhijeet Gupta's opponent had come in an inspired mood and had sacrificed a piece, but Abhijeet gobbled it up, defended well and brought home the full point | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Ivan Rozum maintained his position on the stage by getting the better of Om Kharola | Photo: Niklesh Jain

After draws in the first two rounds Ziaur Rahman scored his first win of the tournament, and it was by no means easy! | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Angela Franco (2108) travelled for 55 hours to reach India from Columbia! She won her third round, but had a very lucky escape in round two against Darpan Inani | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Darpan Inani is one of India's finest visually challenged players. Did you know he is giving his Chartered Accountancy Final examinations? I have absolutley no doubt he will crack it very soon. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Suat Atalik struggled big time against Lakshmi C.H. before the young girl blundered under time pressure on exactly the 40th move. | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Life of a 2600+ GM! | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Lye Lik Zang came from Malaysia to India for ten days for the World Youth Olympiad in Ahmedabad. Then he went back home in Malaysia for ten days! And now he is back again! He is on 2.5/3. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Harsha Bharathakoti the recently minted strong International Master from Hyderabad, was made to struggle quite hard by Sneh Dave before he could take home the full point. | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Dhairya Ghelani had a tough game against... | Photo: Amruta Mokal

...GM Deepan Chakkravarthy. But this tournament is a blessing for these youngsters. Where else would they get to play against such strong GMs | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Dibyendu Barua is getting into his stride. He is now on 2.5/3 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Arbiters at the event ensuring that two rounds a day are conducted without any issues | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Trisha Kanyamarala is currently on 4.5/6 (3.0/3 in the under-13 section and 1.5/3 in the open!) | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Results of round 3

1	158		Om Kharola	IND	1884	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Rozum Ivan	RUS	2595	3
2	4	GM	Tukhaev Adam	UKR	2575	2	1 - 0	2		Sarvesh Kumar A	IND	1877	159
3	162		Randil Lakshitha	SRI	1860	2	0 - 1	2	GM	David Alberto	ITA	2571	5
4	6	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	2570	2	1 - 0	2		Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki	IND	1834	168
5	14	IM	Yeoh Li Tian	MAS	2480	2	1 - 0	2	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	IND	1829	169
6	174		Ghelani Dhairya	IND	1809	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	IND	2473	15
7	16	GM	Horvath Adam	HUN	2473	2	1 - 0	2		Mahitosh Dey	IND	1820	173
8	176		Rohit S	IND	1808	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Deviatkin Andrei	RUS	2471	17
9	178		Dave Sneh	IND	1805	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	2451	19
10	22	IM	Nitin S.	IND	2441	2	1 - 0	2		Kanishk S K	IND	1808	175
11	180		Karthik Gopal G	IND	1805	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Laxman R.R.	IND	2413	25
12	184		Aditya Guhagarkar	IND	1791	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Ravi Teja S.	IND	2378	29
13	32	FM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	2359	2	1 - 0	2	CM	Prraneeth Vuppala	IND	1806	177
14	36	IM	Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	2334	2	1 - 0	2		Sriram B	IND	1783	187
15	38	IM	Kulkarni Vikramaditya	IND	2325	2	1 - 0	2		Ayushh Ravikumar	IND	1780	189

Get your (chess!) problems sorted by IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal:

IM Sagar Shah (That's me!) and Amruta Mokal are at the venue covering the event. For all the under-13 kids who would like their games to be analyzed can meet us. We will look through your game and try to help you in taking the next step towards improvement.