Karan Trivedi holds GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly to a draw in the first round of 38th National Team Chess Championship 2018
Karan Trivedi of Gujarat starts the game with 1.e4 against GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly of PSPB | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
The game started in a long theoretical line of French Defense where both players had chances to gain the upper hand but neither capitalized. Eventually Ganguly used his experience and settled for a draw in a King-Pawn endgame which arose from Queen and Bishop vs. Two Rooks and then Bishop vs Rook endgame. Here is the game:
Inaugural move 1.e4 made by Prof. Achyuta Samanta in presence of AOCA President IM Sekhar Sahu | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Prof. Achyuta Samanta lights up the ceremonial lamp | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Prof. Achyuta Samanta delivers his inaugural speech | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
AOCA President IM Sekhar Sahu delivers his inaugural speech | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Open section:
GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly did not have the perfect start but he is always known to bounce back | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
After having a not-so-impressive Tata Steel 2018, GM B Adhiban is ready to unleash the beast | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM G N Gopal had an easy first round | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
After winning the Hastings Masters for the second consecutive year, GM Deep Sengupta will look forward to continue his momentum | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Team Gujarat went down 0.5-3.5 against top seed team PSPB in the first round | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM S L Narayanan defeated his opponent rated over 1000 lower without any difficulty | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM M Shyam Sundar made a quick work of his opponent in just 32 moves in the Italian Opening | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Team Airport Authority of India whitewashed Services Sports Control Board with a score of 4-0 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM Himanshu Sharma won his opening round game comfortably | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
IM P Karthikeyan smashed his opponent in just 24 moves | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM Swapnil Dhopade played a fantastic endgame and won his game | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
India's 50th Grandmaster M S Thejkumar outplayed his opponent in just 34 moves | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Results:
| Round 1 on 2018/02/08 at 15:00 | ||||||||||||
| Bo. | 18 | Gujarat | Rtg | - | 1 | Petroleum Sports Promotion Board | Rtg | ½ :3½ | ||||
| 1.1 |
| 1880 | - | GM |
| 2650 | ½ - ½ | |||||
| 1.2 |
| 1775 | - | GM |
| 2643 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 1.3 |
| 1819 | - | GM |
| 2593 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 1.4 |
| 1890 | - | GM |
| 2572 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| Bo. | 2 | Airport Authority of India | Rtg | - | 19 | Services Sports Control Board | Rtg | 4 : 0 | ||||
| 2.1 | GM |
| 2573 | - |
| 1552 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 2.2 | GM |
| 2521 | - |
| 1918 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 2.3 | IM |
| 2457 | - |
| 1744 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 2.4 | IM |
| 2315 | - |
| 1699 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| Bo. | 20 | Odisha-MCF-3 | Rtg | - | 3 | Railway Sports Promotion Board - A | Rtg | 0 : 4 | ||||
| 3.1 |
| 1771 | - | GM |
| 2425 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 3.2 |
| 1389 | - | IM |
| 2464 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 3.3 |
| 1822 | - | GM |
| 2531 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 3.4 |
| 1576 | - | GM |
| 2500 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| Bo. | 4 | Air India | Rtg | - | 21 | Odisha-MCF-2 | Rtg | 3½: ½ | ||||
| 4.1 | GM |
| 2530 | - |
| 1454 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 4.2 | IM |
| 2439 | - |
| 1578 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 4.3 | GM |
| 2444 | - |
| 1775 | ½ - ½ | |||||
| 4.4 | IM |
| 2398 | - |
| 1710 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| Bo. | 22 | Andhra Pradesh | Rtg | - | 5 | Railway Sports Promotion Board - B | Rtg | 0 : 4 | ||||
| 5.1 |
| 1370 | - | IM |
| 2402 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 5.2 |
| 1715 | - | GM |
| 2456 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 5.3 |
| 1795 | - | IM |
| 2416 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 5.4 |
| 1388 | - | IM |
| 2394 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| Bo. | 6 | Life Insurance Corporation | Rtg | - | 23 | Reserve Bank of India | Rtg | 4 : 0 | ||||
| 6.1 | GM |
| 2388 | - |
| 1863 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 6.2 | IM |
| 2238 | - | AIM |
| 1487 | 1 - 0 | ||||
| 6.3 | IM |
| 2284 | - |
| 1495 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 6.4 |
| 1899 | - | AFM |
| 1403 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| Bo. | 24 | Odisha-MCF-4 | Rtg | - | 7 | Bengal Chess-A | Rtg | ½ :3½ | ||||
| 7.1 |
| 1571 | - |
| 2303 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| 7.2 |
| 1638 | - |
| 2191 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| 7.3 |
| 1338 | - |
| 2192 | ½ - ½ | ||||||
| 7.4 |
| 1487 | - |
| 2108 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| Bo. | 8 | Odisha-KiiT | Rtg | - | 25 | Maharashtra-A | Rtg | 4 : 0 | ||||
| 8.1 | IM |
| 2389 | - |
| 1413 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 8.2 | IM |
| 2387 | - |
| 1518 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 8.3 |
| 2252 | - |
| 1591 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| 8.4 |
| 1706 | - |
| 1442 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| Bo. | 26 | Odisha-B | Rtg | - | 9 | Bengal Chess-B | Rtg | 1 : 3 | ||||
| 9.1 |
| 1421 | - |
| 2336 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| 9.2 |
| 1471 | - |
| 2164 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| 9.3 |
| 1581 | - |
| 1962 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| 9.4 |
| 1447 | - |
| 1854 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| Bo. | 10 | Odisha-A | Rtg | - | 27 | Telangana | Rtg | 2 : 2 | ||||
| 10.1 |
| 2139 | - |
| 1427 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| 10.2 |
| 2047 | - |
| 1512 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| 10.3 |
| 1573 | - |
| 1700 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| 10.4 |
| 2263 | - |
| 0 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
Women's section:
Uttar Pradesh lost to top seed PSPB (Clockwise from top left: IM Eesha Karavade, WGM Mary Ann Gomes, IM Nisha Mohota and IM Padmini Rout) with a score of 0-4 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Air India (Clockwise from top left: IM Tania Sachdev, WGM Bhakti Kulkarni, WGM Subbaraman Meenakshi and WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy) made a clean sweep of Telengana 4-0
Results:
| Round 1 on 2018/02/08 at 15:00 | ||||||||||||
| Bo. | 7 | Uttar Pradesh | Rtg | - | 1 | Petroleum Sports Promotion Board | Rtg | 0 : 4 | ||||
| 1.1 |
| 1600 | - | IM |
| 2386 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 1.2 |
| 1502 | - | WGM |
| 2329 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 1.3 |
| 1430 | - | IM |
| 2325 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 1.4 |
| 1175 | - | IM |
| 2256 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| Bo. | 2 | Air India | Rtg | - | 8 | Telangana | Rtg | 4 : 0 | ||||
| 2.1 | IM |
| 2402 | - | AFM |
| 1302 | 1 - 0 | ||||
| 2.2 | WGM |
| 2290 | - |
| 1112 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 2.3 | WGM |
| 2193 | - |
| 1813 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 2.4 | WGM |
| 2023 | - |
| 0 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| Bo. | 9 | Odisha-MCF-5 | Rtg | - | 3 | Airport Authority of India | Rtg | 0 : 4 | ||||
| 3.1 |
| 1452 | - | WIM |
| 2171 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 3.2 |
| 1052 | - | WIM |
| 2144 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 3.3 |
| 0 | - | WIM |
| 2089 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 3.4 |
| 1073 | - | WIM |
| 2252 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| Bo. | 4 | Tamilnadu | Rtg | - | 10 | Punjab | Rtg | 4 : 0 | ||||
| 4.1 |
| 1848 | - |
| 1222 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| 4.2 |
| 1966 | - |
| 1036 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| 4.3 |
| 1926 | - |
| 0 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| 4.4 |
| 1634 | - |
| 1167 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| Bo. | 11 | Himachal Pradesh | Rtg | - | 5 | Odisha-KIIT | Rtg | 0 : 4 | ||||
| 5.1 |
| 1439 | - |
| 1814 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| 5.2 |
| 0 | - | WFM |
| 2151 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| 5.3 |
| 0 | - |
| 1564 | 0 - 1 | ||||||
| 5.4 |
| 0 | - | CM |
| 1740 | 0 - 1 | |||||
| Bo. | 6 | Life Insurance Corporation | Rtg | - | 12 | Himachal Pradesh-A | Rtg | 4 : 0 | ||||
| 6.1 | WGM |
| 2222 | - |
| 0 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 6.2 | WGM |
| 2101 | - |
| 0 | 1 - 0 | |||||
| 6.3 |
| 1174 | - |
| 0 | 1 - 0 | ||||||
| 6.4 | WFM |
| 1565 | - |
| 0 | 1 - 0 | |||||
Round 2 pairings:
Open category:
| Bo. | 1 | Petroleum Sports Promotion Board | Rtg | - | 9 | Bengal Chess-B | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 1.1 | GM |
| 2643 | - |
| 2336 | ||||||
| 1.2 | GM |
| 2593 | - |
| 2164 | ||||||
| 1.3 | GM |
| 2585 | - |
| 2087 | ||||||
| 1.4 | GM |
| 2572 | - |
| 1854 | ||||||
| Bo. | 11 | Tamilnadu | Rtg | - | 2 | Airport Authority of India | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 2.1 |
| 1913 | - | IM |
| 2500 | ||||||
| 2.2 |
| 2127 | - | GM |
| 2521 | ||||||
| 2.3 |
| 2086 | - | IM |
| 2457 | ||||||
| 2.4 |
| 1922 | - | IM |
| 2315 | ||||||
| Bo. | 3 | Railway Sports Promotion Board - A | Rtg | - | 12 | Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 3.1 | GM |
| 2425 | - |
| 2073 | ||||||
| 3.2 | GM |
| 2516 | - |
| 2197 | ||||||
| 3.3 | IM |
| 2464 | - |
| 1737 | ||||||
| 3.4 | GM |
| 2531 | - |
| 1875 | ||||||
| Bo. | 13 | Odisha-MCF-1 | Rtg | - | 4 | Air India | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 4.1 |
| 2022 | - | GM |
| 2530 | ||||||
| 4.2 |
| 1987 | - | IM |
| 2439 | ||||||
| 4.3 |
| 1856 | - | GM |
| 2444 | ||||||
| 4.4 |
| 1721 | - | IM |
| 2398 | ||||||
| Bo. | 5 | Railway Sports Promotion Board - B | Rtg | - | 14 | Assam | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 5.1 | IM |
| 2402 | - |
| 1989 | ||||||
| 5.2 | IM |
| 2443 | - |
| 1969 | ||||||
| 5.3 | IM |
| 2416 | - |
| 1951 | ||||||
| 5.4 | IM |
| 2394 | - |
| 1794 | ||||||
| Bo. | 15 | Uttar Pradesh | Rtg | - | 6 | Life Insurance Corporation | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 6.1 |
| 2257 | - | GM |
| 2388 | ||||||
| 6.2 |
| 1854 | - | IM |
| 2238 | ||||||
| 6.3 |
| 1761 | - | IM |
| 2284 | ||||||
| 6.4 |
| 1661 | - |
| 1899 | |||||||
| Bo. | 7 | Bengal Chess-A | Rtg | - | 16 | Bihar | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 7.1 |
| 1963 | - |
| 1707 | |||||||
| 7.2 |
| 2303 | - |
| 1866 | |||||||
| 7.3 |
| 2191 | - |
| 1861 | |||||||
| 7.4 |
| 2192 | - |
| 2088 | |||||||
| Bo. | 17 | Defence Accounts Sports Control Board | Rtg | - | 8 | Odisha-KiiT | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 8.1 |
| 1838 | - | IM |
| 2389 | ||||||
| 8.2 |
| 1836 | - |
| 2252 | |||||||
| 8.3 |
| 1948 | - |
| 1706 | |||||||
| 8.4 |
| 1859 | - |
| 1719 | |||||||
| Bo. | 27 | Telangana | Rtg | - | 35 | UP-Kaushambi Academy | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 9.1 |
| 1427 | - |
| 0 | |||||||
| 9.2 |
| 1512 | - |
| 0 | |||||||
| 9.3 |
| 1700 | - |
| 0 | |||||||
| 9.4 |
| 0 | - |
| 0 | |||||||
| Bo. | 18 | Gujarat | Rtg | - | 10 | Odisha-A | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 10.1 |
| 1880 | - |
| 2139 | |||||||
| 10.2 |
| 1775 | - |
| 2047 | |||||||
| 10.3 |
| 1819 | - |
| 2085 | |||||||
| 10.4 |
| 1890 | - |
| 2263 |
Women's category:
| Bo. | 1 | Petroleum Sports Promotion Board | Rtg | - | 4 | Tamilnadu | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 1.1 | IM |
| 2386 | - |
| 1848 | ||||||
| 1.2 | WGM |
| 2349 | - |
| 1966 | ||||||
| 1.3 | WGM |
| 2329 | - |
| 1926 | ||||||
| 1.4 | IM |
| 2256 | - | WFM |
| 2077 | |||||
| Bo. | 5 | Odisha-KIIT | Rtg | - | 2 | Air India | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 2.1 |
| 1167 | - | IM |
| 2402 | ||||||
| 2.2 |
| 1814 | - | WGM |
| 2290 | ||||||
| 2.3 | WFM |
| 2151 | - | IM |
| 2352 | |||||
| 2.4 | CM |
| 1740 | - | WGM |
| 2193 | |||||
| Bo. | 3 | Airport Authority of India | Rtg | - | 6 | Life Insurance Corporation | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 3.1 | WIM |
| 2171 | - | WGM |
| 2222 | |||||
| 3.2 | WIM |
| 2144 | - | WGM |
| 2101 | |||||
| 3.3 | WIM |
| 2089 | - |
| 1174 | ||||||
| 3.4 | WFM |
| 2103 | - | WFM |
| 1565 | |||||
| Bo. | 8 | Telangana | Rtg | - | 13 | Karnataka | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 4.1 | AFM |
| 1302 | - |
| 0 | ||||||
| 4.2 |
| 1112 | - |
| 0 | |||||||
| 4.3 |
| 1813 | - |
| 0 | |||||||
| 4.4 |
| 0 | - |
| 0 | |||||||
| Bo. | 10 | Punjab | Rtg | - | 7 | Uttar Pradesh | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 5.1 |
| 1222 | - |
| 1600 | |||||||
| 5.2 |
| 1036 | - |
| 1502 | |||||||
| 5.3 |
| 0 | - |
| 1430 | |||||||
| 5.4 |
| 1047 | - |
| 1175 | |||||||
| Bo. | 12 | Himachal Pradesh-A | Rtg | - | 9 | Odisha-MCF-5 | Rtg | 0 : 0 | ||||
| 6.1 |
| 0 | - |
| 1452 | |||||||
| 6.2 |
| 0 | - |
| 1052 | |||||||
| 6.3 |
| 0 | - |
| 0 | |||||||
| 6.4 |
| 0 | - |
| 1073 |
Director of Sports of both KIIT and KISS, Mr. Gaganendu Dash | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
View of the tournament hall | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
The tournament will go on from 8th - 14th February 2018 at KIIT University in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, organized by All Odisha Chess Association.
