SREI International Grandmasters Chess Tournament, Kolkata

Monday, 09 December 2013 12:14

Popov - Visakh

The SREI International Grandmasters Chess Tournament, comprising 22 grandmasters and 24 international masters and two WGMs (in a field of 96 players) kicked off at Kolkata, India today, with an upset galore. In the tournament organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy, headed by Dubyendu Barua, the second grandmaster from India (after Anand), fifteen year old NR Vignesh from Chennai upset the third seeded GM Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia and top seeded Surya Sekhar Ganguly from the host city had to concede half a point to RA Pradeep Kumar, also from Chennai.

In the Benoni opening, Levan sacrificed a pawn on the queen side to create an attack. Vignesh defended well and his resultant passed pawn was helpful to him to pocket a point in 56 moves. Though Ganguly, a former second to Vishy Anand had an extra pawn in the end game, his opponent Pradeep extricated half a point from him, playing with precision. Sixteen year old girl G. Lasya of India caused another upset by defeating veteran grandmaster Praveen Thipsay and former Indian women champion IM Nisha Mohota held GM Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia. Vignesh’s brother NR Visakh was outplayed in the end game by second seeded Ivan Popov of Russia.

Prandeep - Ganguly

Results of Round 1

	Pradeep Kumar R.A.	2325	IND	0.5	drew with	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2646	IND	0.5
GM	Popov Ivan	2644	RUS	1	beat		Visakh Nr	2303	IND	0.5
	Vignesh Nr	2293	IND	1	beat	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2605	GEO	0.5
GM	Sengupta Deep	2570	IND	1	beat		Kunal M.	2277	IND	0.5
FM	Chatterjee Debaraj	2273	BAN	0	lost to	GM	Ter-Sahakyan Samvel	2562	ARM	0.5
GM	Borovikov Vladislav	2557	UKR	1	beat		Roy Prantik	2272	IND	0.5
	Ram S. Krishnan	2267	IND	0	lost to	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	2557	UZB	0.5
GM	Sanikidze Tornike	2553	GEO	1	beat		Patil Pratik	2265	IND	0.5
IM	Mohota Nisha	2257	IND	0.5	drew with	GM	Gagunashvili Merab	2546	GEO	0.5
IM	Mozharov Mikhail	2535	RUS	1	beat		Kumaran B	2255	IND	0.5
	Chatterjee K.K.	2250	IND	0.5	drew with	GM	Mirzoev Azer	2518	AZE	0.5
GM	Neverov Valeriy	2514	UKR	1	beat		Akash Pc Iyer	2248	IND	0
	Lokesh P.	2241	IND	0	lost to	GM	Babujian Levon	2512	ARM	1
IM	Stopa Jacek	2488	POL	1	beat	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	2240	IND	0
	Arindam Mukherjee	2224	IND	0	lost to	IM	Das Arghyadip	2472	IND	1
GM	Murshed Niaz	2465	BAN	1	beat		Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad	2213	IND	0
	Mithil Ajgaonkar	2212	IND	0.5	drew with	IM	Rzayev Bahruz	2465	AZE	0.5
GM	Hayrapetyan Hovik	2458	ARM	1	beat		Harsha Bharathakoti	2208	IND	0
	Singh S. Vikramjit	2208	IND	0.5	drew with	IM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2458	IND	0.5
GM	Bakre Tejas	2455	IND	0.5	drew with	FM	Matta Vinay Kumar	2199	IND	0.5
	Krishna Teja N	2178	IND	0	lost to	GM	Neelotpal Das	2445	IND	1
IM	Udeshi Aditya	2444	IND	0	lost to	WFM	Gevorgyan Maria	2177	ARM	1
GM	Drazic Sinisa	2441	SRB	0.5	drew with		Phadke Sohan	2160	IND	0.5
	Linda Rangarajan	2142	IND	1	beat	IM	Swayams Mishra	2440	IND	0
	Yohan J.	2130	IND	1	beat	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	2435	IND	0
IM	Karthikeyan Murali	2431	IND	1	beat		Md. Sharif Hossain	2128	BAN	0
	Lakshmi Narayanan Mv	2110	IND	1	beat	GM	Yagupov Igor	2427	RUS	0
WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	2423	IND	0.5	drew with		Karthik V.   Ap	2097	IND	0.5
	Lasya.G	2069	IND	1	beat	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	2419	IND	0
IM	Anurag Mhamal	2416	IND	1	beat	FM	Hamal Manish	2068	NEP	0
	Arjun K.	2055	IND	0.5	drew with	IM	Baghdasaryan Vahe	2395	ARM	0.5
IM	Ravichandran Siddharth	2395	IND	1	beat		Ganesh Babu S.	2051	IND	0
	Harini S.	2046	IND	0	lost to	IM	Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R	2393	IND	1
IM	Prasanna Raghuram Rao	2392	IND	1	beat		Thapa Krishna	2046	NEP	0
	Arpan Das	2038	IND	0	lost to	IM	Prathamesh Sunil Mokal	2392	IND	1
IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2386	IND	1	beat	FM	Harshal Shahi	2034	IND	0
FM	Mitrabha Guha	2024	IND	0	lost to	FM	Petrosyan Tigran S.	2383	ARM	1
	Sardana Rishi	2373	AUS	1	beat		Siva Mahadevan	2017	IND	0
IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	2358	IND	1	beat		Saidul Islam	1999	BAN	0
	Godbole Atharva	1980	IND	0	lost to	IM	Sangma Rahul	2358	IND	1
	Rajdeep Sarkar	1960	IND	0.5	drew with	IM	Saravanan V.	2352	IND	0.5
	Sagar Shah	2346	IND	1	beat		Anshuman K	1954	IND	0
	Shetye Siddhali	1945	IND	0	lost to	IM	Karthikeyan P.	2343	IND	1
IM	Shivananda B.S.	2337	IND	1	beat		Kishor Shazzad	1917	BAN	0
	Zoar Haque Prodhan	1909	BAN	0	lost to		Ravi Teja S.	2335	IND	1
IM	Suvrajit Saha	2326	IND	1	beat		Rahman Saimon Siddiqur	1860	BAN	0