Thanks to the accelerated pairing in the first two rounds we have seen quite a few interesting match-ups in the Mumbai International 2017-18 tournament. In the first round itself the game between Abhijeet Gupta and Kiran Manisha Mohanty reached a very interesting stage:
The perfect handshake captured by Niklesh Jain | Photo: Niklesh Jain
Black (Abhijeet Gupta) has just moved his knight to f4 and he seems to be in control. However, Kiran shocked everyone by taking the pawn on a6. Do you see the point of her move?
IM Vishal Sareen explains the point behind the move Bxa6
Kiran Manisha Mohanty played an inspired game to very nearly beat Abhijeet Gupta
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This is the first time that ChessBase India is bringing you live coverage of the event. In the first round Abhijeet Gupta joined us after his game: | Photo: Niklesh Jain
Abhijeet explains the point behind his moves in his game against Kiran Manisha Mohanty
Abhijeet also made it a point to visit our studio when he won his game in the second round against Atul Dahale. Gupta sacrificed a pawn for compensation and was able to outplay his opponent in a complicated position:
Abhijeet Gupta shows his win over Atul Dahale
Atul Dahale did lose to Abhijeet, but he played quite well to split the point against experienced GM Suat Atalik in round one. In fact Atul was winning against Atalik. However, he wasn't able to break through. The Duo came to the analysis room after the game and created a very instructive chess session.
Atalik and Dahale analyze their crazy Grunfeld game
In the second round Adham Kandil of Egypt played a fine game to beat Timur Gareyev
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Rajnikanth of chess Deepan Chakkravarthy is in great form. He recently won the Open rating tournament that was held in Ahmedabad along with the World Youth Olympiad 2017 and now he is on 2.0/2
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Tarini Goyal won her first round against IM Aditya Udeshi scoring a big upset. Aditya is playing a competitive tournament after a long. He works at the IIFLW itself, so this is a tournament where he would easily get leave from work!
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Parham Maghsoodloo, the talented Iranian grandmaster, is playing in India for the first time. It would be interesting to keep a track of his progress.
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IPCA World Champion Shashikant Kutwal is currently on 1.5/2
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Harsha Bharathakoti and Snehal Bhosale realize that chess is not an easy game!
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GM Dibyendu Barua is playing in a rating tournament after 2014. He began with 1.5/2
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Barua's wife Saheli Dhar is also playing after a big gap and is currently on 0.0/2. Barua's have also come with their son Dishan who is playing here and has scored a half point after two rounds.
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Kriti Patel won the first round against an opponent who rated 300 points above her. She came to the studio to show us her win:
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The prodigious young talent Divya Deshmukh lost her second round to Swapnil Dhopade, but it was not before she had snatched half a point from Hoa Nguyen - the winner of Bhopal International 2017 | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Saurabh Anand shows his win over GM Attila Czebe
A small capsule that gives you a feel of what happened in round one
Aditya Mittal played an exciting game to draw against GM Shyam Sundar in the second round. We bring you the live feed of the game:
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Results of round one
| Bo. | No. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 78 | WGM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | IND | 2159 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2610 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 2 | GM | Gareyev Timur | USA | 2606 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | Goswami Vedant | IND | 2157 | 80 | |||
| 3 | 81 | Manush Shah | IND | 2148 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | Rozum Ivan | RUS | 2595 | 3 | |||
| 4 | 4 | GM | Tukhaev Adam | UKR | 2575 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | Balasubramaniam H | IND | 2147 | 82 | |||
| 5 | 83 | Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri | IND | 2141 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | David Alberto | ITA | 2571 | 5 | |||
| 6 | 6 | GM | Maghsoodloo Parham | IRI | 2570 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | WFM | Jishitha D | IND | 2140 | 84 | ||
| 7 | 85 | Dahale Atul | IND | 2140 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Atalik Suat | TUR | 2545 | 7 | |||
| 8 | 8 | GM | Tran Tuan Minh | VIE | 2544 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | CM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2139 | 86 | ||
| 9 | 87 | Dixit Nikhil | IND | 2132 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Swapnil S. Dhopade | IND | 2533 | 9 | |||
| 10 | 10 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | IND | 2527 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | CM | Mendonca Leon Luke | IND | 2130 | 88 |
Results of round two
| Bo. | No. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 45 | IM | Kandil Adham | EGY | 2312 | 1 | 1 - 0 | 1 | GM | Gareyev Timur | USA | 2606 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 3 | GM | Rozum Ivan | RUS | 2595 | 1 | 1 - 0 | 1 | Navalgund Niranjan | IND | 2312 | 46 | |||
| 3 | 47 | IM | Rathnakaran K. | IND | 2307 | 1 | 0 - 1 | 1 | GM | Tukhaev Adam | UKR | 2575 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 5 | GM | David Alberto | ITA | 2571 | 1 | 1 - 0 | 1 | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2288 | 52 | |||
| 5 | 49 | FM | Shailesh Dravid | IND | 2306 | 1 | 0 - 1 | 1 | GM | Maghsoodloo Parham | IRI | 2570 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 51 | CM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2288 | 1 | ½ - ½ | 1 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | IND | 2527 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 53 | IM | Deshmukh Anup | IND | 2283 | 1 | ½ - ½ | 1 | IM | Karthikeyan P. | IND | 2497 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 55 | WGM | Swati Ghate | IND | 2277 | 1 | 0 - 1 | 1 | IM | Yeoh Li Tian | MAS | 2480 | 14 | ||
| 9 | 15 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2473 | 1 | 1 - 0 | 1 | Pranav V | IND | 2263 | 56 | |||
| 10 | 57 | Singh S. Vikramjit | IND | 2256 | 1 | 0 - 1 | 1 | GM | Horvath Adam | HUN | 2473 | 16 |
Pairings of round three:
Round 3 on 2018/01/01 at 04.00 PM
| Bo. | No. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 158 | Om Kharola | IND | 1884 | 2 | 2 | GM | Rozum Ivan | RUS | 2595 | 3 | ||||
| 2 | 4 | GM | Tukhaev Adam | UKR | 2575 | 2 | 2 | Sarvesh Kumar A | IND | 1877 | 159 | ||||
| 3 | 162 | Randil Lakshitha | SRI | 1860 | 2 | 2 | GM | David Alberto | ITA | 2571 | 5 | ||||
| 4 | 6 | GM | Maghsoodloo Parham | IRI | 2570 | 2 | 2 | Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki | IND | 1834 | 168 | ||||
| 5 | 14 | IM | Yeoh Li Tian | MAS | 2480 | 2 | 2 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | IND | 1829 | 169 | |||
| 6 | 174 | Ghelani Dhairya | IND | 1809 | 2 | 2 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2473 | 15 | ||||
| 7 | 16 | GM | Horvath Adam | HUN | 2473 | 2 | 2 | Mahitosh Dey | IND | 1820 | 173 | ||||
| 8 | 176 | Rohit S | IND | 1808 | 2 | 2 | GM | Deviatkin Andrei | RUS | 2471 | 17 | ||||
| 9 | 178 | Dave Sneh | IND | 1805 | 2 | 2 | IM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2451 | 19 | ||||
| 10 | 22 | IM | Nitin S. | IND | 2441 | 2 | 2 | Kanishk S K | IND | 1808 | 175 |
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