Harsh Suresh and Mayank Chakraborty survive a scare
All the games in the first round of the event showed the fighting spirit of all the players taking part in the event. The game between IM Harsh Suresh and GM Girel Joseph ended in a draw, but at one point, Girel was having a clear advantage in the Rook pawn endgame, but Harsh showed great resistance and held the game for a draw. Something similar happened in the game of GM Delgado Ramirez Neuris and IM Mayank Chakraborty, where Mayank showed his defensive skills and held the draw with black pieces.
GM Mahel Boyer vs IM Audi Ameya (0-1)
This is the moment where Mahel could have played 26.Qd8+ followed by Qd3 next to stop black's Idea of putting the queen on a8-h1 diagonal, but he decided to play Bc4? instead that turned out to be a big mistake, and Audi Ameya converted the game easily in the next 5 moves
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Round 1 Results
Bo. | FED | Rtg |
| White | Result | Black |
| FED | Rtg | PGN | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | FRA | 2499 | GM | ½ - ½ | IM | IND | 2443 | |||||
2 | PAR | 2511 | GM | ½ - ½ | IM | IND | 2473 | |||||
3 | KAZ | 2500 | GM | ½ - ½ | IM | IND | 2533 | |||||
4 | FRA | 2486 | GM | 0 - 1 | IM | IND | 2418 | |||||
5 | IND | 2518 | IM | ½ - ½ | IM | IND | 2381 |
Rank after Round 1
Rk. | SNo |
| Name | sex | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | IM | IND | 2418 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
2 | 1 | GM | FRA | 2499 | 0,5 | 0 | 0,25 | 0 | 0 | |||
2 | GM | PAR | 2511 | 0,5 | 0 | 0,25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
3 | GM | KAZ | 2500 | 0,5 | 0 | 0,25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
5 | IM | IND | 2518 | 0,5 | 0 | 0,25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
6 | IM | IND | 2381 | 0,5 | 0 | 0,25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
8 | IM | IND | 2533 | 0,5 | 0 | 0,25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
9 | IM | IND | 2473 | 0,5 | 0 | 0,25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
10 | IM | IND | 2443 | 0,5 | 0 | 0,25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
10 | 4 | GM | FRA | 2486 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Round 2 Pairings
Bo. | FED | Rtg |
| White | Result | Black |
| FED | Rtg | PGN | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | IND | 2443 | IM | IM | IND | 2381 | ||||||
2 | IND | 2418 | IM | IM | IND | 2518 | ||||||
3 | IND | 2533 | IM | GM | FRA | 2486 | ||||||
4 | IND | 2473 | IM | GM | KAZ | 2500 | ||||||
5 | FRA | 2499 | GM | GM | PAR | 2511 |
