#iiflwchess 01-03 Open: "We want to make the royal game accessible to everyone"
Three rounds have come to close at the 2nd IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Open 2016-17 with a host of minor upsets. The third round even saw some grandmasters take a beating against Indian youngsters. But it is not just about the youngsters. Players of all ages are competing and enjoying the chess infrastructure that is par excellence with the best in the world. Illustrated report with lots of pictures and videos.
#iiflwchess 01-03 Open: "We want to make the royal game accessible to everyone"
"We want to make the royal game accessible to everyone," says a hoarding at the playing arena. The boards are set, the pieces in place—20 DGT boards with a sleek finish and the remaining boards all in wood. The playing hall is tidily arranged in an air conditioned atmosphere.
Nineteen-year-old Sanjeev Nair from Mumbai sat across a grandmaster for the first time in his life in one of the top tables. On the other side of the playing arena sat an 80-year-old man who had become the Indian National Champion four decades back and has beaten the best grandmasters of his time—Nasir Ali Syed. On the third board, 12-year-old Divya Deshmukh, former category world champion from nagpur in Maharashtra, was playing a grandmaster.
The royal game has truly become accessible to all.
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.28"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Nair, Sanjeev"]
[Black "Hesham, Abdelrahman"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "1899"]
[BlackElo "2408"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
[WhiteClock "0:08:54"]
[BlackClock "0:02:34"]
Nc3 {4} a6 {4} 6. h3 {31} e5 {216} 7. Nde2 {28} h5 {36} 8. g3 {74} b5 {79} 9.
Bg2 {120} Bb7 {25} 10. Bg5 {107} Be7 {186} 11. O-O {269} Nbd7 {61} 12. a3 {439}
O-O {433} 13. Bxf6 {655} Nxf6 {63} 14. Nd5 {77} Nxd5 {474} 15. exd5 {120} h4 {
39} 16. f4 {1006} exf4 {447} 17. Nxf4 {251} hxg3 {99} 18. Qh5 {134} Qb6+ {1022}
19. Kh1 {41} Qd4 {71} 20. Rae1 {772} Rfe8 {1347} 21. Be4 {1185} g6 {88} 22.
Nxg6 {309} g2+ {444} 23. Bxg2 {48} fxg6 {7} 24. Qxg6+ {17} Qg7 {54} 25. Qe6+ {
22} Kh8 {20} 26. Rf5 {74} Bg5 27. Qxe8+ {42} Rxe8 {309} 28. Rxe8+ {5} Kh7 {10}
29. Be4 {21} Kh6 {212} 30. Re6+ {34} Kh5 {54} 31. Bf3+ {88} Kh4 {2} 32. Kh2 {
233} 1-0
In the biggest upset of the tournament so far, Deviatkin played an Anti-Sicilian but later on misplayed his position to end up an exchange down and eventually lose. Nasybullina was rated close to 300 points below Deviatkin.
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.26"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Deviatkin, Andrei"]
[Black "Nasybullina, Alfia"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "2499"]
[BlackElo "2190"]
[PlyCount "144"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2003.06.08"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
[WhiteClock "0:13:17"]
[BlackClock "0:00:46"]
123} 5. Bxc6 {294} bxc6 {38} 6. Nf3 {62} Rb8 {182} 7. Rb1 {435} d6 {392} 8. O-O
{137} Nf6 {50} 9. d3 {81} O-O {8} 10. Bd2 {343} Be6 {211} 11. c4 {756} Ne8 {769
} 12. b3 {336} Nc7 {139} 13. Nc2 {396} Bg4 {129} 14. Ne3 {5} Bxf3 {17} 15. Qxf3
{73} Ne6 {19} 16. f5 {118} Nd4 {17} 17. Qh3 {132} e6 {134} 18. Rf2 {172} exf5 {
439} 19. exf5 {19} Be5 {361} 20. Rbf1 {776} f6 {393} 21. fxg6 {311} hxg6 {8}
22. Ng4 {194} Rb7 {279} 23. Qh6 {123} Rg7 {227} 24. Nxe5 {246} dxe5 {17} 25.
Qh4 {60} f5 {223} 26. Qg3 {226} f4 {35} 27. Qg4 {17} Rf5 {281} 28. Bc3 {125}
Rg5 {247} 29. Qd1 {6} Rd7 {473} 30. Qe1 {195} Qf6 {361} 31. Qe4 {18} Qf5 {18}
32. Re1 {40} Qxe4 {114} 33. Rxe4 {5} Rf5 {47} 34. g4 {114} fxg3 {24} 35. hxg3 {
8} Nf3+ {45} 36. Kg2 {177} Rxd3 {8} 37. Ba5 {7} Rd4 {151} 38. Re3 {54} e4 {32}
39. Bc3 {4} Rd1 {64} 40. Kh3 {0} Rh1+ {0} 41. Kg4 {0} Nh2+ {0} 42. Rxh2 {0}
Rxh2 {0} 43. Rxe4 {0} Kf7 {0} 44. a4 {0} Rh1 {0} 45. Re3 {0} Rb1 {0} 46. Be5 {0
} Rd1 {0} 47. a5 {0} a6 {0} 48. Bc7 {0} Rd7 {0} 49. Bb8 {0} Re7 {0} 50. Rd3 {0}
Re4+ {0} 51. Bf4 {0} Ke7 {0} 52. Rd1 {0} Rd4 {0} 53. Rh1 {0} Rh5 {0} 54. Re1+ {
0} Kf7 {0} 55. Re3 {0} Rh1 {0} 56. Re5 {0} Rd6 {0} 57. Rxc5 {168} Re6 {0} 58.
b4 {112} Rb1 {0} 59. Bd2 {150} Rb2 {0} 60. Bc3 {21} Rc2 {0} 61. Be5 {48} Rc1 {
74} 62. Kg5 {43} Rb1 {58} 63. Bc3 {103} Rb3 {8} 64. Be5 {35} Rxb4 {13} 65. Bf4
{102} Rb1 {34} 66. Kg4 {20} Rh1 {51} 67. Bd2 {59} Rh5 {93} 68. Bg5 {27} Ke8 {30
} 69. Kf3 {57} Kd7 {13} 70. g4 {10} Rh3+ {22} 71. Kg2 {43} Rc3 {23} 72. Bf4 {51
} Re4 {44} 0-1
There were a host of other minor upsets—strong Indian lower rated players holding grandmasters. But that is what the IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Open is about. The competition provides the Indian youngsters a platform to grow as players.
ChessBase India will be awarding prizes in both the Open and Junior Categories. We have prizes ranging from ChessBase products signed by Vishy Anand to ChessBase Accounts for all the players.
| Round 4 on 2016/12/29 at 04:00 pm | |||||||||||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | Pts | Res. | Pts | Name | Rtg | FED | ||||||
| 1 | WGM | Toma Katarzyna | F | 2322 | POL | 3 | - | 3 | GM | Tukhaev Adam | 2516 | UKR | |||
| 2 | GM | Neverov Valeriy | 2478 | UKR | 3 | - | 3 | Pranav V | 2040 | IND | |||||
| 3 | CM | Aditya Mittal | 2068 | IND | 3 | - | 3 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | 2451 | IND | ||||
| 4 | Gusain Himal | 2448 | IND | 3 | - | 3 | Tarun V Kanth | 1943 | IND | ||||||
| 5 | Boricha Ketan | 1963 | IND | 3 | - | 3 | IM | Saptarshi Roy | 2418 | IND | |||||
| 6 | Siddharth Sabharishankar | 1962 | IND | 3 | - | 3 | IM | Das Sayantan | 2371 | IND | |||||
| 7 | GM | Bernadskiy Vitaliy | 2540 | UKR | 2½ | - | 3 | Nair Sanjeev | 1899 | IND | |||||
| 8 | GM | Sandipan Chanda | 2593 | IND | 2½ | - | 2½ | CM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2309 | IND | ||||
| 9 | IM | Kathmale Sameer | 2313 | IND | 2½ | - | 2½ | GM | Ghosh Diptayan | 2570 | IND | ||||
| 10 | GM | Malakhatko Vadim | 2507 | BEL | 2½ | - | 2½ | Sidhant Mohapatra | 2267 | IND | |||||