57-year-old Michal Krasenkow wins Sheikh Russel GM 2021

by Shahid Ahmed - 28/10/2021

The legendary Polish GM Michal Krasenkow beat GM Vugar Rasulov (AZE) in the final round to win Sheikh Russel International GM 2021. He scored 7.0/9, finished a half point ahead of the competition at the age of 57 years. Six players finished at 6.5/9. GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (UKR), GM Srinath Narayanan, IM Mitrabha Guha, GM Shyam Sundar M, IM Seyed Khalil Mousavi (IRI) and GM Vugar Rasulov were placed second to seventh respectively according to the tie-breaks. Three IMs finished in top ten, and they all scored a GM-norm each. They are - Mitrabha, Mousavi and Koustav Chatterjee. Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation

Mitrabha and Koustav score GM-norms

Tournament champion Krasenkow won US$ 10000, Bernadskiy got $7000 and Srinath won $5000 cash prize. To understand the strength of the tournament, apart from the fact of tournament average rating of players being 2268 and the participation of enormous number of titled players, here is another interesting fact - only two players remained undefeated throughout the tournament among top 20. They are - GM Vugar Asadli (AZE) - 9th and IM Aditya Mittal - 14th.

Michal Krasenkow once again showed his class| Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation

Rasulov - Krasenkow: 0-1

GM Vugar Rasulov (AZE) was already in a precarious position against GM Michal Krasenkow (POL).

Position after 26...d2

While both players are trying to push their isolated passed pawns to the farthest, it is White who is in a relatively difficult position, because of the lack of space on the queenside. 27.d7 allowed Black to change the diagonal of the bishop 27...Bg7 28.Rab1 Bc3 and now 29.Rxd2 seems to be the only way to end the suffocation momentarily. However, it probably would not have changed the outcome anyway.

3rd - GM Srinath Narayanan 6.5/9 and 2nd GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (UKR) 6.5/9 | Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation

4th IM Mitrabha Guha 6.5/9, scored his second GM-norm | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Mitrabha performed at 2632, gained 19.1 Elo rating points taking his live rating to 2498.2

5th GM Shyam Sundar M 6.5/9 | Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation

10th IM Koustav Chatterjee 6.0/9 | Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation

Koustav performed at 2597 to score his maiden GM-norm and gained 21.1 Elo rating points

Tiviakov - Laxman: 0-1

GM Laxman R R beat the top seed of the tournament, GM Sergei Tiviakov (NED) after the latter made a big mistake in the final moments of the endgame.

Position after 58.Kd6

Both 58.Nd5+ and c6 leads to a draw, the former being an easier one. However, 58.Kd6 turns things completely in Black's favor. Find out how.

13th GM Laxman R R scored 6.0/9 and gained 18.8 Elo rating points | Photo:Shahid Ahmed

14th IM Aditya Mittal scored an unbeaten 6.0/9 to gain 11.6 Elo rating points | Photo: Niklesh Jain

16th GM Visakh N R 6.0/9 | Photo: Amruta Mokal

17th IM Aronyak Ghosh 6.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Enamul Hossain (BAN) got outplayed by IM Pranav V who scored 6.0/9 and secured 20th position | Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation

Highlights

A few interesting finishes from Round 9

GM Misratdin Iskandarov (AZE) defeated GM Ziaur Rahman (BAN)

GM Vadim Malakhatko (BEL) won against GM Alexander Zubarev (UKR)

Replay Round 9 games

The tournament is taking place at Hotel Purbani International, Dhaka in Bangladesh from 19th to 27th October 2021. Time control is 90'/40 + 30' + 30" per move. All round starts at 3 p.m. local time (2:30 p.m. IST)

Round 9 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Gr	Typ	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Gr	Typ	FED	Rtg	No.
1	22	GM	Rasulov Vugar			AZE	2452	6½	0 - 1	6	GM	Krasenkow Michal		S50	POL	2578	4
2	3	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy			UKR	2580	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Shyam Sundar M.			IND	2518	10
3	7	GM	Narayanan Srinath			IND	2540	6	½ - ½	6	IM	Mitrabha Guha		U20	IND	2479	18
4	13	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil			IRI	2510	5½	1 - 0	6	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud			IRI	2486	17
5	2	GM	Asadli Vugar		U20	AZE	2585	5½	½ - ½	5½	IM	Aronyak Ghosh		U18	IND	2445	24
6	23	IM	Aditya Mittal		U16	IND	2447	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Rios Cristhian Camilo			COL	2457	20
7	9	GM	Stany G.A.			IND	2522	5	½ - ½	5½	IM	Koustav Chatterjee		U18	IND	2431	33
8	1	GM	Tiviakov Sergei			NED	2600	5	0 - 1	5	GM	Laxman R.R.			IND	2411	38
9	30	GM	Haznedaroglu Kivanc			TUR	2438	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Solodovnichenko Yuri			UKR	2577	5
10	6	GM	Iskandarov Misratdin			AZE	2552	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Rahman Ziaur			BAN	2431	32
11	39	GM	Murshed Niaz		S50	BAN	2410	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.			IND	2535	8
12	40	IM	Abdisalimov Abdimalik		U20	UZB	2406	5	0 - 1	5	GM	Visakh N R			IND	2515	12
13	15	GM	Sumets Andrey			UKR	2497	5	1 - 0	5	IM	Girinath P.D.S.		S50	IND	2335	48
14	43	GM	Hossain Enamul			BAN	2396	5	0 - 1	5		Pranav V		U16	IND	2489	16
15	25	GM	Malakhatko Vadim			BEL	2444	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Zubarev Alexander			UKR	2395	44

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	Rp	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	4	GM	Krasenkow Michal	S50			POL	2578	2578	7,0	0,0	43,5	47,0	2429	2626	9	7	6,44	0,56	10	5,6
2	3	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy				UKR	2580	2580	6,5	0,0	50,0	54,5	2490	2636	9	6,5	5,82	0,68	10	6,8
3	7	GM	Narayanan Srinath				IND	2540	2540	6,5	0,0	48,5	52,5	2501	2641	9	6,5	5,25	1,25	10	12,5
4	18	IM	Mitrabha Guha	U20			IND	2479	2479	6,5	0,0	46,5	51,0	2506	2632	9	6,5	4,59	1,91	10	19,1
5	10	GM	Shyam Sundar M.				IND	2518	2518	6,5	0,0	46,0	50,0	2454	2595	9	6,5	5,53	0,97	10	9,7
6	13	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil				IRI	2510	2510	6,5	0,0	46,0	49,5	2485	2622	9	6,5	5,11	1,39	10	13,9
7	22	GM	Rasulov Vugar				AZE	2452	2452	6,5	0,0	44,5	49,0	2461	2589	9	6,5	4,79	1,71	10	17,1
8	17	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud				IRI	2486	2486	6,0	0,0	50,0	53,5	2529	2615	9	6	4,38	1,62	10	16,2
9	2	GM	Asadli Vugar	U20			AZE	2585	2585	6,0	0,0	49,0	54,0	2472	2579	9	6	6,05	-0,05	10	-0,5
10	33	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	U18			IND	2431	2431	6,0	0,0	47,5	51,0	2524	2597	9	6	3,89	2,11	10	21,1
11	6	GM	Iskandarov Misratdin				AZE	2552	2552	6,0	0,0	46,0	50,5	2463	2566	9	6	5,82	0,18	10	1,8
12	25	GM	Malakhatko Vadim				BEL	2444	2444	6,0	0,0	45,0	48,5	2443	2530	9	6	4,90	1,10	10	11,0
13	38	GM	Laxman R.R.				IND	2411	2411	6,0	0,0	44,5	47,0	2483	2556	9	6	4,12	1,88	10	18,8
14	23	IM	Aditya Mittal	U16			IND	2447	2447	6,0	0,0	42,0	45,5	2450	2538	9	6	4,84	1,16	10	11,6
15	15	GM	Sumets Andrey				UKR	2497	2497	6,0	0,0	42,0	45,5	2425	2526	9	6	5,59	0,41	10	4,1
16	12	GM	Visakh N R				IND	2515	2515	6,0	0,0	42,0	45,5	2404	2509	9	6	6,02	-0,02	10	-0,2
17	24	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	U18			IND	2445	2445	6,0	0,0	41,5	45,5	2427	2517	9	6	5,08	0,92	10	9,2
18	39	GM	Murshed Niaz	S50			BAN	2410	2410	6,0	0,0	41,5	45,0	2389	2472	9	6	5,09	0,91	10	9,1
19	20	GM	Rios Cristhian Camilo				COL	2457	2457	6,0	0,0	40,5	44,0	2376	2474	9	6	5,74	0,26	10	2,6
20	16		Pranav V	U16			IND	2489	2489	6,0	0,0	39,5	42,0	2346	2452	9	6	6,33	-0,33	10	-3,3

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