Four Indian players in the top 10

At this very strong event with a rating average of 2203, 4 Indian players managed to get into the top 10 rankings after the final round. GM Lalit Babu MR secured second place with 7.5/9 points, GM Pranav Anand, GM Raja Rithvik R, and GM Pranesh M scored 7/9 points to finish in 8th to 10th positions, respectively. All these players were also unbeaten in the event.

In the last round, Lalit Babu drew against Loic Travadon, Raja Rithvik drew against Dehtiarov Roman, and the top 2 seeded Pranesh M and Pranav Anand won their respective games.

Champion: IM Loic Travadon (France) secured the first place and prize money of €1500

Runner up: GM Lalit Babu MR (India) increased his rating by 17 points and played with the performance rating of 2667

Second Runner up: Dehtiarov Roman (Ukraine)

Top 3 finishers with the Tournament director (IO Mag. Andrea Schmidbauer) and the Chief Arbiter (IA Manfred Mussnig)

GM Lalit Babu MR before the start of the last round
GM Lalit Babu MR scored an unbeaten 7.5/9 points to secure second place, and he also increased his rating by 20 points

Round 7: Lalit Babu MR vs Socko Bartosz (1-0)

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And the final round starts..

GM Pranav Anand scored an unbeaten 7/9 points to secure 8th place

GM Raja Rithvik R also scored an unbeaten 7/9 points to secure 9th place

GM Pranesh M was not available for starting 2 rounds, and he scored 6.5 in his next 7 games to secure 10th place

IM Vantika Agrawal scored 6/9 points

British sensation Bodhana Sivanandan scored 5/9 points to increase her rating by 102 points!

A total of 275 players, including 31 Indian players, took part in this event, and the time control was 90 minutes plus 15 minutes from the 40th move for the entire game, with a time bonus of 30 seconds per move from the 1st move.

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Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.

SNo

 

Name

Typ

sex

FED

RtgI

Club/City

Pts.

 TB1 

 TB2 

 TB3 

Rp

K

rtg+/-

1

11

IM

Travadon, Loic

FRA

2483

7,5

0

49,5

53,5

2666

10

19,8

2

7

GM

Lalit, Babu M R

IND

2511

7,5

0

48,5

51,5

2667

10

16,9

3

21

IM

Dehtiarov, Roman

U18

UKR

2430

7,5

0

44,5

48,5

2623

10

20,6

4

10

GM

Shengelia, David

AUT

2487

Sk Austria Wien

7

0

50

53

2584

10

10,6

5

3

GM

Socko, Bartosz

POL

2580

7

0

48,5

52,5

2580

10

1

6

6

IM

Chasin, Nico

USA

2523

7

0

47,5

51

2520

10

2,7

7

40

IM

Martins, Bruno Andre Leite

POR

2376

7

0

46,5

50,5

2595

20

50,2

8

2

GM

Pranav, Anand

IND

2606

7

0

46,5

49

2559

10

-3,8

9

4

GM

Raja, Rithvik R

IND

2535

7

0

45,5

49,5

2531

10

0,3

10

1

GM

Pranesh, M

IND

2627

7

0

40,5

47,5

2694

10

5,6

11

5

GM

Klimkowski, Jan

POL

2532

6,5

0

47

52

2458

10

-6,4

12

49

FM

Oktem, Ege Tuna

U18

TUR

2356

6,5

0

45,5

49,5

2505

20

36,8

13

35

FM

Sherman, Raem

ISR

2388

6,5

0

42,5

46,5

2421

20

9

14

19

GM

Hamitevici, Vladimir

MDA

2433

6,5

0

41,5

45,5

2432

10

0,5

15

45

WGM

Nurman, Alua

w

KAZ

2363

6,5

0

41,5

45,5

2419

20

15

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