Kartavya Anadkat scores a hat-trick of tournament triumphs in Classical, Rapid and Blitz

by Shahid Ahmed - 10/12/2021

National Amateur 2019 champion Kartavya Anadkat won Shri Harbans Singh and Smt. Ranjeet Kaur Memorial Rapid Rating Open on 28th November. Then he won the TCC Blitz tournament on 5th December and Tirth Chess Club FIDE Rating Open on the following day, 6th December. He scored 8.0/9, 9.0/9 and 8.5/9 respectively which means he scored 25.5/27 in the last three events he won and remained undefeated. This does not come as a surprise as he won National School Online U-17, Gujarat State Online Junior U-20 and State Senior Online consecutively in July. How did he manage to do that? Check out his games annotated by him from the events he won. Photo: Palak Patel/Tirth Chess Club

Kartavya wins three tournaments in eight days

"Obviously, winning any championship is a fantastic feeling. I worked hard in quarantine for about 3-4 hours daily. It improved my confidence for the Classical tournament after winning the fast event. I was paired against lower-rated players in the blitz event, so it wasn't too difficult. I'm also thankful to my coach Hemal Thanki for the guidance and support." - Kartavya shared his thoughts on winning three tournaments consecutively.

Tirth Chess Club Classical Rating and Blitz Open champion - Kartavya Anadkat won ₹15000 cash and a trophy | Photo: Palak Patel/Tirth Chess Club

Tirth Chess Club Rating Open: Top five (L to R) - 4th Kushal Jani, 3rd Shaikh Sohil, 1st Kartavya Anadkat, 2nd IM Rahul Sangma and 5th Ankit Chudasama | Photo: Palak Patel/Tirth Chess Club

Shri Harbans Singh and Smt. Ranjeet Kaur Memorial Rapid Rating: Champion - Kartavya Anadkat 8.0/9 won ₹21000 cash and a trophy

Kartavya scored an unbeaten 8.0/9 and gained 49 Elo rating points

Kartavya Anadkat scored 8.0/9, remained undefeated to win Shri Harbans Singh & Smt. Ranjeet Kaur Memorial All India Rapid Rating Open. Ayush Sharma also finished with the same score, however Kartavya defeated him in the penultimate round which gave him an edge in the tie-breaks. The 17-year-old boy from Gujarat also drew with the top seed of the tournament IM Himal Gusain in the fifth round. Check out Kartavya's final round win over Indrajeet Mahindrakar, annotated by the champion himself.

Kartavya was in sole lead 7.5/8 at Tirth Chess Club Rating Open, when he played TCC Blitz Open on 5th December and scored a massive 9.0/9 to win the tournament. He finished 1.5 points ahead of the competition. On the following day, 6th December, Kartavya won the final round game to win the Classical Rating tournament 8.5/9, where he remained undefeated and finished a full point ahead of the field. He beat the eventual runner-up IM Rahul Sangma in the penultimate round and then defeated Sanjeev Mishra in the final round. Check out those two wins, annotated by Kartavya.

Kartavya scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 and gained 30.4 Elo rating points

Kartavya won the TCC Blitz Open with a 100% score 9.0/9

Runner-up - IM Rahul Sangma 7.5/9 | Photo: Palak Patel/Tirth Chess Club

Youngest player of the tournament - Dhairya Amit Shroff is 4 years 11 months old | Photo: Palak Patel/Tirth Chess Club

All prize winners with the organizers of the tournament | Photo: Palak Patel/Tirth Chess Club

The tournament hall | Photo: Palak Patel/Tirth Chess Club

Top seed IM Rahul Sangma (right) in action against Rushil Raval in Round 3 | Photo: Palak Patel/Tirth Chess Club

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Shri Harbans Singh & Smt. Ranjeet Kaur Memorial All India Rapid Rating Open was organized by Edwel Educational & Welfare Society on 27th and 28th November 2021 at Jagmeet Dhaba & Garden, Raisen, Madhya Pradesh. A total of 117 players including an IM took part in the nine-round Swiss league event which had a time control of 15 minutes + 10 seconds increment from move no.1. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹100000.

Rapid Rating Final Standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	10		Anadkat Kartavya				IND	1871	Gujarat	8,0	54,0	58,0	47,00	8	7	4,55	2,45	20	49,0
2	8		Ayush Sharma				IND	1910	Mp	8,0	52,5	56,5	49,00	8	7	5,37	1,63	20	32,6
3	1	IM	Gusain Himal				IND	2394	Wr	7,5	51,0	54,5	44,00	9	7,5	8,85	-1,35	20	-27,0
4	3		Sharma Harish				IND	2060	Del	7,5	48,0	51,5	41,50	9	7,5	7,90	-0,40	20	-8,0
5	15	AFM	Choubey Saurabh				IND	1719	Mp	7,0	48,5	53,5	39,00	8	6	4,69	1,31	20	26,2
6	12		Mahindrakar Indrajeet				IND	1760	Maharashtra	7,0	48,5	50,5	35,50	8	6	4,98	1,02	20	20,4
7	28		Mishra Kamad	U15			IND	1460	Mp	6,5	47,5	48,5	29,75	6	3,5	0,50	3,00	20	60,0
8	29		Dilip Kumar Pedda				IND	1445	Karnataka	6,5	46,5	48,5	29,75	6	3,5	1,33	2,17	20	43,4
9	13		Aishwin Daniel				IND	1752	Mp	6,5	45,5	48,0	32,25	8	5,5	6,05	-0,55	20	-11,0
10	18		Vedant Bhardwaj				IND	1637	Mp	6,5	44,5	46,0	30,75	7	4,5	4,89	-0,39	20	-7,8
11	54		Kunal Vyas				IND	1208	Mp	6,5	44,0	46,5	28,75	5	2,5	0,33	2,17	20	43,4
12	7		Singh Sukhpal				IND	1936	Mp	6,5	43,0	46,5	31,25	9	6,5	8,26	-1,76	20	-35,2
13	107		Rajendra Kumar Tripathi	S60			IND	0	Mp	6,5	43,0	46,0	27,25	9	6,5
14	91		Harshit Saraf				IND	0	Mp	6,5	40,5	43,5	29,75	8	5,5
15	14	AGM	Sikka Sumit				IND	1727	Mp	6,0	45,5	49,0	29,50	7	5	5,54	-0,54	20	-10,8
16	32		Gourav Nigam				IND	1426	Mp	6,0	45,5	48,5	30,00	3	0	1,15	-1,15	20	-23,0
17	9		Hitesh S. Jariya				IND	1883	Mp	6,0	43,5	47,5	27,75	9	6	8,33	-2,33	20	-46,6
18	6		Mishra Manoj				IND	1967	Mp	6,0	42,5	46,0	26,50	9	6	8,05	-2,05	20	-41,0
19	4		Gopal Rathod				IND	2008	Maharashtra	6,0	42,0	46,0	28,50	8	6	7,90	-1,90	20	-38,0
20	22		Batham Avinash				IND	1565	Mp	6,0	42,0	45,5	28,25	5	3	3,78	-0,78	20	-15,6

Complete standings

Tirth Chess Club Open FIDE Rating tournament was organized by Joy Chauhan from 1st to 6th December 2021 at Rifle Club, Khanpur, Ahmedabad. A total of 228 players including 2 IMs from various states across the country participated in the nine-round Swiss League Classical Rating event which had a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1. The Blitz Open took place on 5th December which drew 145 participants across the country. The total prize fund for the Classical Rating tournament was ₹100000 and for the Blitz Open ₹10000.

Classical Rating Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	2		Anadkat Kartavya	IND	2211	8,5	0,0	52,0	56,0
2	1	IM	Sangma Rahul	IND	2289	7,5	0,0	55,0	60,0
3	34		Shaikh Sohil	IND	1592	7,5	0,0	50,5	54,0
4	28		Jani Kushal R	IND	1666	7,5	0,0	48,0	51,5
5	10		Chudasama Ankit	IND	1844	7,5	0,0	47,0	50,5
6	8		Garv Rai	IND	1894	7,0	0,0	49,5	53,5
7	11		Raj D Vyas	IND	1832	7,0	0,0	49,0	53,5
8	12		Vrashank Chouhan	IND	1795	7,0	0,0	49,0	52,5
9	3	IM	Sahu Sekhar Chandra	IND	2054	7,0	0,0	49,0	52,5
10	4		Bhatt Jalpan	IND	1970	7,0	0,0	48,5	51,0
11	13	AGM	Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat	IND	1787	7,0	0,0	48,0	52,0
12	33		Mishra Sanjeev	IND	1605	7,0	0,0	47,5	51,0
13	29		Arun Kataria	IND	1632	7,0	0,0	44,5	48,5
14	20		Mhamane Sourabh	IND	1720	7,0	0,0	41,0	43,5
15	15		Deepak Rai	IND	1750	6,5	0,0	51,5	55,5
16	23		Makwana Devam	IND	1680	6,5	0,0	49,5	53,5
17	200		Jihan Tejas Shah	IND	0	6,5	0,0	48,5	54,0
18	56		Guru Prakash	IND	1387	6,5	0,0	47,0	49,0
19	21		Sunny Bedi	IND	1718	6,5	0,0	46,5	50,5
20	74		Roy Aanya	IND	1329	6,5	0,0	44,5	47,0

Complete standings

Blitz Open Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	3		Anadkat Kartavya	IND	1982	9,0	0,0	46,0	49,5
2	19		Jani Kushal R	IND	1666	7,5	0,0	47,0	50,5
3	1		Maulik Raval	IND	2076	7,5	0,0	45,5	49,5
4	16		Mishra Sanjeev	IND	1683	7,0	0,0	49,5	53,0
5	31		Bardoliwala Nirmal	IND	1547	7,0	0,0	46,5	49,5
6	54		Vivaan Vishal Shah	IND	1327	7,0	0,0	46,5	49,0
7	13		Mhamane Sourabh	IND	1720	7,0	0,0	43,0	46,5
8	10	AGM	Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat	IND	1792	7,0	0,0	41,0	43,5
9	43		Guru Prakash	IND	1402	6,5	0,0	52,0	56,5
10	50		Agarwal Mukund H	IND	1349	6,5	0,0	51,5	56,0
11	24		Shaikh Sohil	IND	1592	6,5	0,0	46,5	51,0
12	6	WFM	Dhyana Patel	IND	1886	6,5	0,0	46,0	50,0
13	14		Sunny Bedi	IND	1718	6,5	0,0	46,0	49,0
14	38		Gada Om	IND	1427	6,5	0,0	44,0	47,5
15	18		Hriday Panchal	IND	1672	6,5	0,0	40,0	44,0

Complete standings

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