Saturday, November 16, 2013

International Grandmaster Open in Chennai

Chennai boy N R Visakh stunned fellow Grandmaster S P Sethuraman, while fifth seeded Borovikov Vladislav of Ukraine was held to a draw by India's Arjun Tiwari in the first round of the Chennai Grand Master International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai here today.

118 players, including 71 titled players, from 17 countries complete the list of players in this GM tournament. This 11 round Swiss event concludes on 23rd Nov, 2013.

Results Round 1 (Indians unless specified):

Ivan Popov (Rus) bt Aniruddha Deshpande, Chinmay Kulkarni lost to Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, M R Lalith Babu bt C Praveen Kumar, Muminova Nafisa (Uzb) lost to Ter-Sahakyan Samvel (Arm), Borovikov Vladislav (Ukr) drew with Arjun Tiwari, N R Visakh bt S P Sethuraman, M Shyam Sundar bt Pratik Patil, G B Prakash drew with S Arun Prasad, Mirozev Azer (Aze) drew with Kathmale Sameer, Babu N Sudhakar lost to Levon Babujian (Arm)


International Grandmaster Open in Chennai

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