MPL 59th National Senior R10: Abhijeet joins Koustav at the top

by Shahid Ahmed - 01/01/2023

IM Koustav Chatterjee made a great escape against GM Mitrabha Guha in the tenth round of MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022. Mitrabha missed a good opportunity to push for a win in the bishop vs knight endgame. IM Srihari L R continues his unbeaten streak as he drew with GM Sethuraman S P. GM Abhijeet Gupta registered his third win in-a-row. This time it was against IM Vignesh N R who tried to do too much after Abhijeet's strategic exchange sacrifice. Half a dozen players are in pursuit at 7.5/10 each. Abhijeet and Koustaav are currently sharing the lead 8/10. Round 11 starts today at 2 p.m. IST today. Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Koustav escapes against Mitrabha

Six players - GM Sethuraman S P (PSPB), IM Aronyak Ghosh (RSPB), GM Mitrabha Guha (WB), IM Srihari L R (TN), GM Karthik Venkataraman (AP) and untitled Hari Madhavan N B (TN) are at 7.5/10 each. Hari defeated GM Sandipan Chanda (WB) in Round 10. Koustav Chatterjee became India's 78th, Kolkata and West Bengal's tenth Grandmaster. We will have a detailed article on Koustav's journey towards the GM title, once the tournament concludes.

GM Abhijeet Gupta is back in the lead again 8/10 | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Koustav - Mitrabha

Position after 40.Bd3

GM Mitrabha Guha (WB, 2487) had a great opportunity to push for a win against IM Koustav Chattterjee (WB, 2508). 40...Nc4 would have been completely winning for Black. However, he went first 40...fxe3 41.Kg3 Nc4 42.b3 Nb2 and the game ended in a draw.

GM Mitrabha Guha (WB) had a good opportunity to get back in the lead | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Vignesh - Abhijeet

Position after 28.Qxf4

GM Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB, 2601) made a strategic exchange sacrifice 22.Bxf4 exf4 23.Rg2 Kh7 24.Nf2 Bh6 25.Rhg1 Rg8 26.e5 Qxe5 27.Nd3 Qf6 28.Qxf4 and we reach the above position. White need not take the f4-pawn. 28...Bf5 29.Qd4 Qe7 30.Qh4 Qe3 31.Qd4 Nh3 and soon White landed in a lot of trouble.

Final position after 39...b3

Black's bishops are piercing on the queenside. 40.a3 runs into Qxb5 41.cxb5 Rxa3#

A total of 196 players including 18 GMs and 27 IMs are taking part in this tournament organized by Delhi Chess Association. The event is taking place in New Delhi from 22nd December 2022 to 3rd January 20233. The 13-round Swiss league tournament has a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes with an increment of 30 seconds from move no.1

Replay Round 10 games

Round 10 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	8	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2508	7½	½ - ½	7	GM	Mitrabha Guha	2487	14	PGN
2	1	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2642	7	½ - ½	7	IM	Srihari L R	2429	25	PGN
3	12	IM	Vignesh N R	2493	6½	0 - 1	7	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2601	3	PGN
4	19	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2459	6½	½ - ½	6½	GM	Visakh N R	2544	5	PGN
5	26	IM	Anuj Shrivatri	2414	6½	0 - 1	6½	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	2521	7	PGN
6	10	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2503	6½	1 - 0	6½		Dhananjay S	2199	66	PGN
7	32		Hari Madhavan N B	2385	6½	1 - 0	6½	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2475	17	PGN
8	15	GM	Sengupta Deep	2486	6	1 - 0	6½	GM	Iniyan P	2507	9	PGN
9	4	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2566	6	½ - ½	6	IM	Utsab Chatterjee	2350	42	PGN
10	52	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2316	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	2526	6	PGN
11	58		Varun V	2250	6	0 - 1	6	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2490	13	PGN
12	59	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2244	6	0 - 1	6	IM	Das Sayantan	2475	18	PGN
13	82		Bharadia Yash	2117	6	0 - 1	6	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2457	20	PGN
14	22	IM	Harshavardhan G B	2434	6	½ - ½	6	CM	Soham Kamotra	2329	48	PGN
15	23	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2433	6	½ - ½	6		Nagare Kaivalya Sandip	2124	80	PGN
16	27	IM	Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H.	2405	6	1 - 0	6		Subhayan Kundu	2319	51	PGN
17	30	FM	Panesar Vedant	2387	6	½ - ½	6		Sanjay S Pillai	1799	128	PGN
18	34	IM	Ajay Krishna S	2383	6	1 - 0	6		Adireddy Arjun	1980	99	PGN
19	21	IM	Das Arghyadip	2438	5½	½ - ½	5½	IM	Ratnakaran K.	2304	55	PGN
20	28	IM	Audi Ameya	2401	5½	1 - 0	5½	IM	Praveen Kumar C	2212	65	PGN

Details

Round 11 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2601	8		7½	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2503	10
2	25	IM	Srihari L R	2429	7½		8	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2508	8
3	7	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	2521	7½		7½	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2642	1
4	14	GM	Mitrabha Guha	2487	7½		7½		Hari Madhavan N B	2385	32
5	5	GM	Visakh N R	2544	7		7	GM	Sengupta Deep	2486	15
6	13	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2490	7		7	IM	Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H.	2405	27
7	18	IM	Das Sayantan	2475	7		7	IM	Ajay Krishna S	2383	34
8	20	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2457	7		7	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2459	19
9	48	CM	Soham Kamotra	2329	6½		6½	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2566	4
10	37	IM	Nitin S.	2372	6½		6½	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	2526	6
11	9	GM	Iniyan P	2507	6½		6½	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2316	52
12	42	IM	Utsab Chatterjee	2350	6½		6½	IM	Vignesh N R	2493	12
13	17	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2475	6½		6½	FM	Aradhya Garg	2312	54
14	45	GM	Sriram Jha	2337	6½		6½	IM	Harshavardhan G B	2434	22
15	46		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	2333	6½		6½	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2433	23
16	66		Dhananjay S	2199	6½		6½	IM	Anuj Shrivatri	2414	26
17	53	IM	Rajesh V A V	2314	6½		6½	IM	Audi Ameya	2401	28
18	73		Surendran N	2168	6½		6½	FM	Panesar Vedant	2387	30
19	128		Sanjay S Pillai	1799	6½		6½	GM	Laxman R.R.	2372	36
20	80		Nagare Kaivalya Sandip	2124	6½		6		Sanket Chakravarty	2367	38

Details

Links

Delhi Chess Association

Tournament Regulations

Related news:

	Karthik Venkataraman dominates MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022 @ 04/01/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	Can Karthik Venkataraman win MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship? @ 03/01/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R11: Karthik, Aronyak and Hari Madhavan score superb victories @ 02/01/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R9: Koustav subdues Sethuraman @ 31/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R8: Sethuraman emerges sole leader @ 30/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R7: Venkatesh makes it a three-way race @ 29/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R6: Sethuraman topples Abhijeet, joins Mitrabha in the lead @ 28/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R5: Abhijeet Gupta gains sole lead @ 27/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R4: Abhijeet Gupta and Koustav Chatterjee emerge early coleaders @ 26/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R3: The Systematic Pawn Structure Fragmentation @ 25/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R2: The Deep Queen sac @ 24/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	MPL 59th National Senior R1: Take my Queen if you can @ 23/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)
	Sethuraman is the top seed at MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022 @ 22/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en)