Nils Grandelius triumphs at Reykjavik Open 2023, Abhijeet Gupta third

by Shahid Ahmed - 06/04/2023

GM Nils Grandelius defeated IM Quentin Loiseau in the final round to win Reykjavik Open 2023. The Sweden no.1 scored an unbeaten 7.5/9 to win the tournament on his eleventh attempt. He finished a half point ahead of the competition. Seven players scored 7/9. Out of them, Turkey no.1 GM Mustafa Yilmaz and GM Abhijeet Gupta were placed second and third respectively according to tie-breaks. Abhijeet defeated GM Kjetil A Lie in the final round to finish third and gained a valuable 10 Elo rating points. Apart from Abhijeet, GM Pranav Venkatesh is the only other Indian to make a top ten finish. He scored 6.5/9 to finish tenth. IM Sidhant Mohapatra earned his maiden GM-norm scoring 6.5/9. Photo: Official site

Sidhant earns his maiden GM-norm

IM Sidhant Mohapatra drew with GM Sebastian Maze (FRA) in the final round to secure his maiden GM-norm. He scored an impressive 6.5/9 to finish tied eleventh with GM Emre Can (TUR). His sole loss of the event was against the eventual second runner-up GM Abhijeet Gupta. The Odisha lad is now two GM-norms and 98.3 Elo rating points away from becoming India's next Grandmaster.

Top 3 (L to R) - 2nd GM Mustafa Yilmaz (TUR), 1st GM Nils Grandelius (SWE) and 3rd GM Abhijeet Gupta | Photo: Official site

Sweden no.1 GM Nils Grandelius tweeted on his triumph

Abhijeet - Kjetil

Position after 27...Nbd7

27...Kg7 would have been fine for Black. However, 27...Nbd7 ends the game prematurely due to the fact that the f7-pawn is no longer protected by the queen. Hence, 28.e5 becomes deadly. 28... Qc7 29.g3 h6 30.Nxe6+ fxe6 31.Qxh6+ and it's over for Black.

GM Abhijeet Gupta is now at 14th place with 12.48 points in the FIDE Circuit 2023 standings | Source: FIDE Circuit

Rating category 2201-2400 (L to R): 2nd IM Ludvig Carlsson (SWE), 1st IM Sidhant Mohapatra and 3rd FM Vedant Panesar (absent) | Photo: Official site

IM Sidhant Mohapatra not only won the first prize in the rating category 2201-2400, he also earned his maiden GM-norm.

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IM Sidhant Mohpatra scored 6.5/9, performed at 2581 and gained 25.7 Elo rating points

IM Nisha Mohota won two prizes - third in rating category 2001-2200 and in Women's category.

Rating category 2001-2200 (L to R): 2nd CM Neeraj Harish (USA) 6/9, 1st Sebastian Hoffman (GER) 6.5/9 and 3rd IM Nisha Mohota 6/9 | Photo: Official site

Women Top 3 (L to R): 2nd WGM Sarah Papp (GER) 6/9, 1st IM Irene Kharisma Sukandar (INA) 6/9 and 3rd IM Nisha Mohota 6/9 | Photo: Official site

A total of 401 players including 34 GMs, 34 IMs, 5 WGMs and 5 WIMs took part from 45 countries across the world. The seven day nine-round Swiss League Rating tournament was organized by Icelandic Chess Federation from 29th March to 4th April 2023 at Harpa Conference Center in Reykjavik, Iceland. The time control of the tournament was 40 moves in 90 minutes + 30 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move no.1. Accelerated pairings were used in all rounds.

Replay Round 9 games

Round 9 results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
9	4	20	GM	Visakh N R	2538	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Tari Aryan	2649	3
9	5	5	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2620	6	1 - 0	6	GM	Lie Kjetil A.	2515	22
9	9	18	GM	Maze Sebastien	2542	6	½ - ½	6	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2376	54
9	10	15	GM	Pranav V	2545	5½	1 - 0	6	IM	Papadiamandis Elliot	2323	73
9	16	24	IM	Vignesh N R	2513	5½	0 - 1	5½	IM	Carlsson Ludvig	2375	55
9	17	28	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2477	5½	1 - 0	5½	WIM	Gaal Zsoka	2320	75
9	18	68	FM	Panesar Vedant	2348	5½	1 - 0	5½	IM	Korley Kassa	2468	31
9	19	35	GM	Panchanathan Magesh Chandran	2460	5½	1 - 0	5½	IM	Sarkar Justin	2338	71
9	31	38	GM	Knaak Rainer	2455	5	½ - ½	5	WIM	Sharma Isha	2197	109
9	36	106		Cornelisse John	2203	5	0 - 1	5	IM	Ajay Krishna S	2382	51
9	40	62	FM	O`Gorman Tom	2357	5	0 - 1	5	IM	Mohota Nisha	2177	117
9	43	42	IM	Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	2441	5½	1 - 0	5½	WGM	Belenkaya Dina	2300	83
9	50	198		Pozimski Szymon	1972	5	½ - ½	5	FM	Karthik Rajaa	2302	82
9	57	161		Hari Charan Sai Kalluri	2066	4½	0 - 1	4½	FM	Trimitzios Petros	2358	60
9	64	92	FM	Sahithi Varshini M	2262	4½	0 - 1	4½	FM	George Samir David	1993	188
9	76	120	WIM	Pandey Srishti	2156	4½	1 - 0	4½		Frank Anton 2006	1857	237
9	154	359		Lokeswara Rao M	1218	3	½ - ½	3		Ingason Sigurdur	1756	273

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	Rp	n	K	rtg+/-
1	2	GM	Nils Grandelius			SWE	2658	7,5	0	9	41,5	2676	9	10	3,7
2	4	GM	Mustafa Yilmaz			TUR	2629	7	0	9	46,5	2708	9	10	9,4
3	5	GM	Abhijeet Gupta			IND	2620	7	0	9	45	2700	9	10	10
4	11	GM	Maxime Lagarde			FRA	2581	7	0	9	45	2713	9	10	15,7
5	16	GM	Gabor Papp			HUN	2544	7	0	9	41,5	2598	9	10	7,1
6	13	GM	Matthieu Cornette			FRA	2563	7	0	9	41	2671	9	10	12,6
7	6	GM	Tamas Banusz			HUN	2616	7	0	8	40,5	2648	8	10	3,8
8	12	GM	Leon Livaic			CRO	2569	7	0	7	42	2715	7	10	10,8
9	1	GM	Vasyl Ivanchuk			UKR	2664	6,5	0	9	45	2634	9	10	-1,4
10	15	GM	V Pranav			IND	2545	6,5	0	9	43,5	2611	9	10	9,2
11	8	GM	Emre Can			TUR	2600	6,5	0	9	41	2577	9	10	-1
	54	IM	Mohapatra Sidhant			IND	2376	6,5	0	9	41	2581	9	10	25,7
13	18	GM	Sebastien Maze			FRA	2542	6,5	0	9	41	2508	9	10	-1,6
14	39	IM	Quentin Loiseau			FRA	2449	6,5	0	9	40	2508	9	10	10,8
15	42	IM	Bala Chandra Prasad Dhulipalla			IND	2441	6,5	0	9	40	2498	9	10	10
16	43	IM	Matthew J Wadsworth			ENG	2439	6,5	0	9	39,5	2461	9	10	5,2
17	40	IM	Fy Antenaina Rakotomaharo			MAD	2448	6,5	0	9	39	2475	9	10	5,1
18	20	GM	N R Visakh			IND	2538	6,5	0	9	39	2535	9	10	1,2
19	28	IM	P Shyaamnikhil			IND	2477	6,5	0	9	38,5	2471	9	10	0,7
20	35	GM	Magesh Chandran Panchanathan			IND	2460	6,5	0	9	38	2497	9	10	5,6
21	55	IM	Ludvig Carlsson			SWE	2375	6,5	0	9	37	2367	9	10	6,2
22	68	FM	Vedant Panesar			IND	2348	6,5	0	9	35	2380	9	20	20,4
23	76	FM	Aleksandr Domalchuk-Jonasson			ISL	2318	6,5	0	9	33	2194	9	20	-15,6
24	142		Sebastian Hoffmann			GER	2108	6,5	0	9	32,5	2277	9	20	42,6
25	23	GM	Leon Mons			GER	2514	6,5	0	8	40	2526	8	10	6,3

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