Deepan Chakkravarthy Scores 6/6 after 1st Loss at Athens of The East

by Devansh Singh - 28/12/2025

Things are heating up at the Athens of the East after 7 rounds. GM Deepan Chakkravarthy, who suffered a loss in the first round of the event against CM Aarav A, is now leading the event with 6/7 points and is half a point ahead of the field. For second place, it's a tie between 6 players right now: GM Srihari L R, GM Aleksandrov Aleksej, GM Fedorov Alexei, Sri Sai Baswanth P, GM Laxman, R.R., and FM Jai Sankar Subramanian. All the mentioned players are on 5.5/7 points. The hero of the starting rounds, Sharnarthi Shlok suffered a Loss against Sri Sai Baswanth P in the 6th round, but he held a draw with IM Srihari L in the 7th round, and now he is on 5/7 points. Aarit Kapil from Delhi won his 7th round against IM Gochelashvili David, and he will be facing GM Vladimir Burmakin in round 8. The action of round 8 will start from tomorrow at 10 am IST, and now only 1 round will be played on each day in the last 3 days. Photo credit: IA Vijayaraghavan V/Ananthi Chess Academy

Deepan Chakkravarthy's Comeback, Aarit is playing with a 2429 Rating Performance

After suffering the surprising loss in the starting round of the event, Deepan bounced back in style with 6/6 points, and tomorrow he will be playing against GM Aleksandrov Aleksej on board 1 with the black pieces. On board 2, we are going to witness Sri Sai Baswanth P taking on GM Fedorov Alexei with the white pieces, and on board 3, GM Laxman R.R and FM Jai Sankar Subramanian will be playing against each other. While on the other hand, Aarit will be playing against GM Vladimir Burmakin but he already increased his rating by 105.6 points and will be hoping to get more out of this event. Sharnarthi Shlok also increased his rating by 128 points, and he is playing with a performance rating of 2437.

Some Interesting Games with pictures from Round 5:

Deepan is taking on Balakishan with the white pieces

Aarit played a nice draw against Rohith Krishna S

Sharnarthi played a draw against Fedorov

Round 6 Games

Round 7 Games

Ranking after Round 7

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	4	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2426	TN	6	24,5	26,5	22,5	6
2	2	GM	Srihari, L R		IND	2472	TN	5,5	27	30	22,5	5
3	5	GM	Aleksandrov, Aleksej		BLR	2409	BLR	5,5	27	29,5	22	4
4	6	GM	Fedorov, Alexei		BLR	2377	BLR	5,5	26,5	29	21,25	4
5	26		Sri, Sai Baswanth P		IND	2268	AP	5,5	26,5	29	20,5	5
6	23	GM	Laxman, R.R.		IND	2273	I C F	5,5	25	28	21,5	4
7	20	FM	Jai, Sankar Subramanian		IND	2283	TN	5,5	24,5	27,5	21,5	4
8	1	GM	Rohith, Krishna S		IND	2489	TN	5	29,5	33,5	23	3
9	48	CM	Aarit, Kapil	U10	IND	2133	DEL	5	28,5	32	21,75	4
10	39	FM	Prasannaa.S,		IND	2167	TN	5	28	30,5	20,75	3
11	71		Sharnarthi, Shlok		IND	2073	MAH	5	27,5	29,5	18,75	4
12	134		Boggarapu, Kritan		SCO	1980	SCO	5	27	31	22,25	4
13	117		Naveen, K S		IND	2011	TN	5	25,5	28,5	19	4
14	8	IM	Srihari, L		IND	2358	PUD	5	25,5	28	19,25	3
15	32		Ahaz, E U		IND	2194	KER	5	25	27,5	18,25	3

Details

Pairings of round 8

Bo.		White	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	Rtg	Club/City
1	GM	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	2409	BLR	5½		6	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.	2426	TN
2		Sri, Sai Baswanth P	2268	AP	5½		5½	GM	Fedorov, Alexei	2377	BLR
3	FM	Jai, Sankar Subramanian	2283	TN	5½		5½	GM	Laxman, R.R.	2273	I C F
4	IM	Tologon Tegin, Semetei	2322	KGZ	5		5½	GM	Srihari, L R	2472	TN
5	GM	Rohith, Krishna S	2489	TN	5		5		Boggarapu, Kritan	1980	SCO
6		Ahaz, E U	2194	KER	5		5	IM	Srihari, L	2358	PUD
7	FM	Madhesh, Kumar S	2324	PUD	5		5	FM	Prasannaa.S,	2167	TN
8		Sharnarthi, Shlok	2073	MAH	5		5		Bhoir, Paras Dilip	2272	MAH
9		Naveen, K S	2011	TN	5		5	FM	Sekar, B	2218	TN
10	GM	Burmakin, Vladimir	2428	RUS	4½		5	CM	Aarit, Kapil	2133	DEL