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The Hindu
22 minutes ago
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- The Hindu
Abhijeet Gupta triumphs in Delhi Open chess tournament
Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta executed a quick draw in the tenth round against Aronyak Ghosh and clinched the title with 8.5 points in the 21st Delhi GM Open chess tournament at the Tivoli Gardens, Chhattarpur, on Saturday. It was a 12-move draw following a repetition of the position thrice that ensured the fourth title in the tournament for the 35-year-old Abhijeet. The title fetched a cash prize of Rs.7,00,000 for Abhijeet who won seven matches and drew the other three. There were five players tied on eight points, but as per the tie-break score, Mihail Nikitenko, Diptayan Ghosh, Aronyak Ghosh, Aditya Samant and Duc Hoa Nguyen were placed second to sixth in that order. The second placing was worth Rs.6,00,000 while the reduction of prize money by Rs.1,00,000 every spot meant Rs.2,00,000 for the sixth place. There were as many as 16 players tied on 7.5 points, but the tie-break rule categorised them in order, fetching Rs.1,00,000 for the seventh to tenth place. Top seed SL Narayanan finished seventh and pocketed Rs.1,00,000. There was cash prize up to the 55th spot in the tournament that carried an overall prize purse of Rs.1.21 crore, spread over three sections. In the category of the lowest rated players, Dinesh Kumar won the first prize of Rs.4,00,000. He was followed by Naitik Sethi and M Sibi who won Rs.3,00,000 and Rs.2,00,000 respectively. The results (tenth round): Abhijeet Gupta 8.5 drew with Aronyak Ghosh 8; S.L. Narayanan 7.5 drew with Aditya Samant 8; Diptayan Ghosh 8 bt Adarsh Sriram 7; Semetei Tegin 7.5 drew with Karthik Venkataraman 7.5; Manuel Petrosyan 7.5 drew with Mamikon Gharibyan 7.5; Luka Paichadze 7.5 drew with Neelash Saha 7.5; Duc Hoa Nguyen 8 bt Vitaly Sivuk 7; S. Nitin lost to Mihail Nikitenko 8; Deepan Chakkravarthy 7 drew with Van Huy Nguyen 7.5; Levan Pantsulaia 6.5 lost to Saravana Krishnan 7.5; David Gochelashvili 6.5 lost to Arsen Davtyan 7.5; P. Karthikeyan 7 drew with Harsh Suresh 7; Mikulas Manik 7 drew with Hari Madhavan 7; Uurtsaikh Agibileg 7.5 bt Viresh Sharnarthi 6.5; Alexander Slizhevsky 6.5 lost to Paras Bhoir 7.5.
The Hindu
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
Abhijeet Gupta in sole lead after spectacular win
Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta scored a spectacular victory over Grandmaster Mihail Nikitenko to grab the sole lead at the end of the ninth and penultimate round with eight points in the 21st Delhi GM Open chess tournament at the Tivoli Gardens, Chhattarpur, on Friday. Abhijeet came up with a flurry of sacrifices, including a fresh minted queen, to light up the end game, forcing the overnight joint leader to resign after 48 moves. International Master Aronyak Ghosh of the Railways was up by three pawns in the end game against Viresh Sharnarthi to secure full points. With 7.5 points, Aronyak was in joint second place with Grandmaster Aditya Samant. Aronyak will challenge Abhijeet in the tenth and final round of the tournament on Saturday. Aditya rallied his forces nicely with the black to have a rook and three minor pieces against two rooks of Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov. Aditya will play top seed S.L. Narayanan in the final round. There were 13 players with seven points including Narayanan who drew with Grandmaster Mamikon Gharibyan. The results (ninth round): Abhijeet Gupta 8 bt Mihail Nikitenko 7; Mamikon Gharibyan 7 drew with S.L. Narayanan 7; Van Huy Nguyen 7 drew with Diptayan Ghosh 7; Neelash Saha 7 drew with Manuel Petrosyan 7; Vitaly Sivuk 7 drew with S Nitin 7; Aronyak Ghosh 7.5 bt Viresh Sharnarthi 6.5; Aleksej Aleksandrov 6.5 lost to Aditya Samant 7.5; Karthik Venkataraman 7 bt Shahil Dey 6; Manish Cristiano 6 lost to Luka Paichadze 7; Adarsh Sriram 7 bt Samyak Dharewa 6; Boris Savchenko 6 lost to Semetei Tegin 7; David Gochelashvili 7 drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy 6.5; Harsh Suresh 6.5 drew with MIkulas Manik 6.5; Paras Bhoir 6.5 drew with Uurtsaikh Agibileg 6.5; Duc Hoa Nguyen 7 bt Arnav Agrawal 6; Raset Zlatdinov 5.5 lost to Levan Pantsulaia 6.5.
