Venezuela no.1 Eduardo Iturrizaga wins 12th KIIT International 2019

by Shahid Ahmed - 08/06/2019

Top seed of the tournament, Venezuela no.1 GM Eduardo Iturrizaga scored an unbeaten 8.0/10 to win 12th KIIT International 2019. Ukrainian GM Valeriy Neverov and Armenian GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan also finished at 8.0/10, however due to a lower tie-break score, they had to settle for runner-up and second runner-up places. Among the Indians, IM P Shyamnikhil finished the highest by scoring 7.5/9 and secured 6th position. Experienced IM P Konguvel played fantastic after a long time. He scored 7.5/9 and secured 7th position. Undefeated Koustav Chatterjee was the third highest finisher among Indians and he completed his IM title requirements by scoring his final norm. Photo: R Anantharam/KIIT International

Top seed Eduardo dominates the field

Venezuela no.1 GM Eduardo Iturrizaga won the tournament with a score of 8.0/10. He received a beautiful trophy and ₹200000 cash | Photo: R Anantharam/KIIT International

Eduardo's performed at performance rating of 2594 and managed to increase his rating while remaining unbeaten. That speaks a lot about his performance.

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The best game played by the champion was in round 8 when he defeated Farrukh Amonatov.

Black just played 28...Nd4. How should White react here?

It is evident that White has a huge advantage here, but how should White make a progress here?

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IM P Shyamnikhil is the highest finisher among Indians. His best game was against the eventual champion of the tournament, Eduardo Iturrizaga | Photo: R Anantharam

Despite getting a walk over in round 1, Shyam performed to finish with a score of 7.5/10 and securing 6th position

Here is the game where Shyam drew with the top seed and eventual champion of the tournament.

IM P Konguvel delivered a stellar performance to score 7.5/10 and secure 7th position | Photo: ChessBase India archives

Don't let Konguvel's rating fool you. He has tonnes of experience, thus he finished almost a dozen GMs ahead at the 7th place

Konguvel played a very instructive double rook endgame correctly against IM Khusenkhojaev of Tajikistan and beat him in a marathon game.

Koustav Chatterjee secured his final IM-norm and became the latest IM of the country | Photo: R Anantharam

Koustav drew with five GMs and defeated one IM at a performance rating of 2451

In the penultimate round Koustav got a winning position against Petr Kostenko, but of course the norm factor was looming large so he settled for a draw instead which made him the latest IM.

Among the women, WCM Mrudul Dehankar was the highest finisher as she scored 6.5/10, however WIM Arpita Mukherjee performed better despite scoring 6.0/10. Arpita drew with 2 GMs and 2 IMs.

WIM Arpita Mukherjee en route her draw with IM Khusenkhojaev of Tajikistan | Photo: R Anantharam

Photo Gallery:

Chess is the only sport in the world where there is truly no limit of age | Photo: R Anantharam

Chess for all: Local lad Visually Challenged Prachurya Kumar Pradhan was seen in action. He scored 4.0/10 and increased his ELO rating by 7 points | Photo: R Anantharam

Few days ago the boy wonder, reigning National Under-9 Champion Ilamparthi A R created history by becoming the youngest ever to win CUSAT Open. However he did not have the best tournament in Bhubaneswar this time | Photo: R Anantharam

Farrukh Amonatov who is a regular at Indian GM tournaments, scored 7.5/10 and secured 4th position | Photo: R Anantharam

Final Standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	1	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo				VEN	2637	VEN	8,0	0,0	62,0	67,0	52,50	6	10	8	7,59	0,41	10	4,1
2	9	GM	Neverov Valeriy				UKR	2495	UKR	8,0	0,0	59,5	64,5	49,00	6	10	8	6,68	1,32	10	13,2
3	3	GM	Ter-Sahakyan Samvel				ARM	2611	ARM	8,0	0,0	56,0	60,0	48,00	6	10	8	8,63	-0,63	10	-6,3
4	2	GM	Amonatov Farrukh				TJK	2624	TJK	7,5	0,0	62,5	66,5	48,25	6	10	7,5	7,45	0,05	10	0,5
5	4	GM	Turov Maxim				RUS	2579	RUS	7,5	0,0	61,5	65,5	47,75	5	10	7,5	7,70	-0,20	10	-2,0
6	17	IM	Shyaamnikhil P				IND	2440	ICF	7,5	0,0	60,0	64,5	41,25	6	9	6,5	5,76	0,74	10	7,4
7	39	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy				IND	2293	TN	7,5	0,0	58,0	62,5	45,75	5	10	7,5	5,24	2,26	10	22,6
8	13	GM	Kostenko Petr				KAZ	2450	KAZ	7,5	0,0	57,0	61,5	45,00	6	10	7,5	7,30	0,20	10	2,0
9	7	GM	Burmakin Vladimir				RUS	2519	RUS	7,5	0,0	57,0	61,5	40,75	5	10	7,5	7,92	-0,42	10	-4,2
10	5	GM	Petrosyan Manuel				ARM	2573	ARM	7,5	0,0	56,5	61,5	45,50	5	10	7,5	8,16	-0,66	10	-6,6
11	22		Koustav Chatterjee				IND	2404	WB	7,0	0,0	63,0	68,5	46,00	4	10	7	5,65	1,35	10	13,5
12	14	GM	Laxman R.R.				IND	2446	ICF	7,0	0,0	61,0	66,0	45,00	5	10	7	6,74	0,26	10	2,6
13	11	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo				CHI	2476	CHI	7,0	0,0	59,0	64,0	43,50	5	10	7	6,67	0,33	10	3,3
14	12	IM	Nguyen Van Huy				VIE	2456	VIE	7,0	0,0	57,0	61,0	40,75	5	10	7	7,85	-0,85	10	-8,5
15	23	IM	Gusain Himal				IND	2400	W.RLY	7,0	0,0	56,5	61,0	35,75	6	9	6	7,16	-1,16	10	-11,6
16	6	GM	Debashis Das				IND	2544	ODI	7,0	0,0	56,5	60,5	42,00	4	10	7	8,33	-1,33	10	-13,3
17	65		Manish Anto Cristiano F				IND	2099	TN	7,0	0,0	55,5	59,5	39,00	6	9	6	4,88	1,12	40	44,8
18	53		Hari Madhavan N B				IND	2176	TN	7,0	0,0	55,5	59,0	38,50	5	10	7	5,28	1,72	40	68,8
19	19	IM	Das Sayantan				IND	2416	WB	7,0	0,0	54,5	59,0	39,75	6	10	7	7,99	-0,99	10	-9,9
20	30		Saurabh Anand				IND	2351	BIH	7,0	0,0	54,5	58,0	37,75	5	10	7	7,60	-0,60	20	-12,0
21	61	AGM	Rathneesh R				IND	2111	TN	7,0	0,0	54,5	58,0	37,25	6	10	7	3,96	3,04	40	121,6
22	8	GM	Malakhatko Vadim				BEL	2512	BEL	7,0	0,0	54,0	59,0	40,75	5	10	7	8,86	-1,86	10	-18,6
23	10	GM	Rahman Ziaur				BAN	2485	BAN	7,0	0,0	53,5	57,5	39,00	5	10	7	8,82	-1,82	10	-18,2
24	117		Gaurav Rajesh Zagade	SPL			IND	1882	MAH	7,0	0,0	53,5	57,0	39,00	6	9	6	3,91	2,09	40	83,6
25	31		Ajay Krishna S				IND	2335	TN	7,0	0,0	52,5	57,5	39,50	5	10	7	8,14	-1,14	20	-22,8

Complete Standings

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