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Koustav and Srishti take sole lead heading into the final round

by Shahid Ahmed - 09/11/2019

Aradhya Garg brought Mitrabha's momentum to screeching halt. Koustav Chatterjee scored a win over Saurabh Anand with ease after the latter kept giving away his pawns for no compensation. Aaryan Varshney made third consecutive short draw, this time against Soham Kamotra. Srijit Paul beat Kumar Gaurav quite comfortably, aiming for a strong finish. In the girls section, Srishti Pandey scored an emphatic victory against Aakanksha Hagawane and took a full point sole lead heading into the final round. Srishti will require only a draw in the final round to win the championship. Akshaya and Priyanka K made a draw in a topsy-turvy game. Arpita made a short work of Priyanka Nutakki who played some strange chess. Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Aradhya stops Mitrabha's momentum

Aradhya Garg of Delhi brought Mitrabha's fantastic run to a screeching halt as defeated the tournament leader with the black pieces in QGD.

Aradhya is hitting the right notes | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

In the later part of the middlegame, things started to become an intense and Mitrabha was at the junction to make a critical choice. He made a difficult call which made things more entangled.

Mitrabha - Aradhya

How should white respond to black's skewer 27...Bd3 ?

Mitrabha opted for 28.Qb2 which is clearly not the optimum choice. White needs to play sharp here to maintain decisive advantage. After a few moves, Black tried to intensify its grip on the position with 31...Nd3

Find out the best continuation for white after 31...Nd3

White went with 32.Rb1 and after a couple of moves, to avoid repetition, Mitrabha blundered.

How should white continue here?

White played 34.Bxd5 and it all went downhill for him.

Koustav is back at the top with sole lead | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Top seed Koustav Chatterjee won his game against Saurabh Anand with ease after the latter kept blundering his pawns in a Double Rook and Bishop endgame.

Aaryan Varshney made his third consecutive short draw, this time against Soham Kamotra in just 24 moves. Srijit Paul beat Kumar Gaurav with ease in French Defence in just 30 moves.

Srishti Pandey takes sole lead

Srishti Pandey played a fine game to beat one of the tournament leader Aakanksha Hagawane convincingly to take a full point sole lead heading into the final round.

Srishti is well on her to become champion | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

A topsy-turvy game between Bommini Mounika Akshaya and Priyanka K ended up in a draw.

Top seed Priyanka Nutakki played some strange chess against Arpita Mukherjee by delaying her own king safety, retreating knight and moving the queen twice unnecessarily. She lost the game in the opening only and the entire game finished in just 26 moves.

Arpita is looking for a strong finish | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Round 10 results in Open

Bo.No.NameRtgPts.ResultPts.NameRtgNo.
12IMMitrabha Guha244380 - 17Aradhya Garg216520
210Saurabh Anand227870 - 1IMKoustav Chatterjee24491
316Soham Kamotra21897½ - ½7FMAaryan Varshney223615
428Kumar Gaurav203870 - 1IMSrijit Paul23178
534Akshit Kumar J20140 - 1FMSrihari L R22869
619Gaurav Rajesh Zagade2173½ - ½Selvamurugan B197937
790Avinash Ramesh16861 - 0Grahesh Y202631
832Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi2017½ - ½Hemanth Raam199236
952Dere Pushkar18761 - 06FMWagh Suyog227311
1018Dhananjay S218060 - 16FMAnuj Shrivatri23763
114IMRajdeep Sarkar23626- - +6CMBhavesh Mahajan218717
1222Abinandhan R208960 - 16Harshavardhan G B23605
1312Subhayan Kundu226960 - 16Barath Kalyan M206923
1413FMJeet Jain226461 - 06Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki204825
1527Jain Kashish Manoj204160 - 16Sibi Visal R223814

Complete results

Round 10 results in Girls

Bo.No.NameRtgPts.ResultPts.NameRtgNo.
16WFMPandey Srishti21401 - 0WIMAakanksha Hagawane22273
29WFMBommini Mounika Akshaya20877½ - ½7Priyanka K206710
31WIMPriyanka Nutakki227270 - 1WIMArpita Mukherjee22342
417WFMJain Nityata19271 - 0WFMMakhija Aashna21914
55WIMChitlange Sakshi21851 - 0AGMRenganayaki V175626
613Bhagyashree Patil1970½ - ½WFMSalonika Saina21008
722Poorna Sri M.K18480 - 1WFMPotluri Supreetha196814
819Shah Vishwa189260 - 16WCMSharma Isha21397
920Meenal Gupta18796½ - ½6Toshali V205711
1015Ghosh Samriddhaa19646½ - ½6Garima Gaurav171928
1123WFMGreeshma Anand Dhumal183761 - 06WFMBidhar Rutumbara194216
1256Sai Mahati A141260 - 1WFMSavitha Shri B200412
1318WFMTanishka Kotia19091 - 0Swara Lakshmi S Nair168431
1434Kiruthika B16451 - 0Nanditha V182824
1525WCMArushi Kotwal17561 - 0Rebecca Jesumarian156840

Complete results

Round 11 pairings in Open

Bo.No.NameRtgPts.ResultPts.NameRtgNo.
11IMKoustav Chatterjee24498Aradhya Garg216520
29FMSrihari L R22868IMMitrabha Guha24432
38IMSrijit Paul2317Dere Pushkar187652
415FMAaryan Varshney2236Avinash Ramesh168690
514Sibi Visal R22387Soham Kamotra218916
63FMAnuj Shrivatri237677Gaurav Rajesh Zagade217319
75Harshavardhan G B236077Kumar Gaurav203828
823Barath Kalyan M206977Saurabh Anand227810
936Hemanth Raam199277FMJeet Jain226413
1037Selvamurugan B197977CMBhavesh Mahajan218717
117FMNitish Belurkar23257Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi201732
1229Mahindrakar Indrajeet2034Aditya Varun Gampa190844
1355Sreekar J S S1850Pattnayak Nilsu203030
1431Grahesh Y2026Aaditya Dhingra189646
1545Sibi Srinivas Einstein1898Akshit Kumar J201434

Complete pairings

Round 11 pairings in Girls

Bo.No.NameRtgPts.ResultPts.NameRtgNo.
19WFMBommini Mounika Akshaya2087WFMPandey Srishti21406
23WIMAakanksha Hagawane2227WFMJain Nityata192717
310Priyanka K2067WIMChitlange Sakshi21855
414WFMPotluri Supreetha1968WIMArpita Mukherjee22342
58WFMSalonika Saina210077WIMPriyanka Nutakki22721
67WCMSharma Isha213977Bhagyashree Patil197013
712WFMSavitha Shri B20047WFMGreeshma Anand Dhumal183723
84WFMMakhija Aashna2191Divyabharathi Masanam174327
911Toshali V2057Kiruthika B164534
1015Ghosh Samriddhaa1964WCMArushi Kotwal175625
1126AGMRenganayaki V1756WFMTanishka Kotia190918
1228Garima Gaurav1719Meenal Gupta187920
1329WCMChinnam Vyshnavi1689Poorna Sri M.K184822
1416WFMBidhar Rutumbara194266Tanisha A R Som147550
1560Anjitha Krishnakumar138466Shah Vishwa189219

 

Complete pairings