Upsets galore in the premier group of 14th edition of Parsvnath Delhi International Chess festival as R A Pradeep Kumar caused another flutter, gaining the upped hand over Grandmaster Artur Gabrielian of Russia in the fourth round that just concluded.
Replay all games with analysis
Playing with black pieces, Pradeep Kumar continued the rampage by lesser known Indians in the fray by winning a fine game. The Indian took his tally to an excellent 3.5 points following his third victory in four games and stands a good chance to obtain his International Master norm from here.
Russian Grandmasters Ivan Popov and Anton Demchenko along with VItaly Sivuk of Ukraine emerged as the co-leaders in the premier event with full marks of 4 wins.
As many as 11 players share the fourth spot on 3.5 points apiece and the highest rated Indian among them is local Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri who was victorious over Ankit Gajwa in a neat game.
Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad meanwhile continued his dream run in the tournament. After beating Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Belous in the second round, Chandra Prasad added another victory against Grandmaster to his collection at the expense of Valeriy Neverov of Ukraine and then in the fourth played out a draw with another Ukrianian Grandmaster Vitaliy Bernadskiy. Having beaten two Grandmasters and drawn with one, Chandra Prasad is hot on the heels of the leaders and has an excellent chance to obtain a Grandmaster norm. Given the fact that Chandra Prasad is an untitled player yet, this would be a commendable feat for the 19-year old – almost unthinkable in recent times.
11-year old Nihal Sarin also made it difficult for Vladimir Belous. The Kerala boy nonchalantly held the Russian Grandmaster to a draw.
In another notable result, Srijit Paul split the point with Dutch Grandmaster Sipke Ernst, while Mehar Chinna Reddy defeated Grandmaster-in-waiting Narayanan Srinath.
Important Results Round 4
GM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam (3) lost to GM Ivan Popov of Russia (4)
Himal Gusain (3) v GM Anton Demchenko of Russia (3)
IM Rahul Sangma (3) lost to GM Vitaly Sivuk of Ukraine (4)
Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad (3.5) drew with GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy of Ukraine (3.5)
GM Boris Grachev of Russia (3.5) beat IM Nitin S (2.5)
GM Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine (3.5) beat IM Visakh N R (2.5)
GM Mikhail Mozharov of Russia (3) drew with IM Himanshu Sharma (3)
GM Adam Tukhaev of Ukraine (3.5) beat Rakesh Kulkarni (2.5)
GM Vaibhav Suri (3.5) beat Ankit Gajwa (2.5)
GM Artur Gabrielian of Russia (2.5) lost to Pradeep Kumar R A (3.5)
Srijit Paul (3) drew with GM Sipke Ernst of Netherlands (3)
Mehar Chinna Reddy (3.5) beat IM N Srinath (2.5)
GM Attila Czebe of Hungary (3.5) beat Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (2.5)
IM Rathnakaran K (3) drew with Prince Bajaj (3)
GM Sriram Jha (3.5) beat Rahul Srivatshav P (2.5)
Srija Seshadri (3) drew with IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh R (3)
IM Sayantan Das (3.5) beat Niranjan Navalgund (2.5)
GM Alberto David of Italy (3) beat WIM Michelle Catherina (2)
Nihal Sarin (2.5) drew with GM Vladimir Belous of Russia (2.5)
Santu Mondal (2) lost to GM Lalith Babu M R (3)
Standings after Round 4
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
| 1 | GM | Popov Ivan | RUS | 2650 | 4 |
| GM | Sivuk Vitaly | UKR | 2566 | 4 | |
| 3 | GM | Demchenko Anton | RUS | 2596 | 4 |
| 4 | GM | Bernadskiy Vitaliy | UKR | 2546 | 4 |
| 5 | Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad | IND | 2248 | 4 | |
| 6 | GM | Solodovnichenko Yuri | UKR | 2581 | 4 |
| 7 | GM | Tukhaev Adam | UKR | 2556 | 4 |
| 8 | IM | Das Sayantan | IND | 2411 | 4 |
| 9 | GM | Grachev Boris | RUS | 2652 | 4 |
| 10 | GM | Vaibhav Suri | IND | 2552 | 4 |
| 11 | GM | Sriram Jha | IND | 2416 | 4 |
| 12 | FM | Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H. | IND | 2293 | 4 |
| 13 | GM | Czebe Attila | HUN | 2466 | 4 |
| 14 | Pradeep Kumar R A | IND | 2302 | 4 | |
| 15 | IM | Sangma Rahul | IND | 2303 | 3 |
| 16 | GM | Ernst Sipke | NED | 2536 | 3 |
| 17 | Gusain Himal | IND | 2335 | 3 | |
| 18 | IM | Himanshu Sharma | IND | 2385 | 3 |
| 19 | IM | Palit Somak | IND | 2357 | 3 |
| 20 | GM | Nguyen Duc Hoa | VIE | 2494 | 3 |
| 21 | Lokesh N. | IND | 2255 | 3 | |
| 22 | FM | Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari | IND | 2252 | 3 |
| 23 | IM | Ravi Teja S. | IND | 2385 | 3 |
| IM | Rajesh V A V | IND | 2338 | 3 | |
| 25 | IM | Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R | IND | 2414 | 3 |
| 26 | GM | Mozharov Mikhail | RUS | 2559 | 3 |
| 27 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2553 | 3 |
| 28 | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2316 | 3 | |
| 29 | IM | Krishna C R G | IND | 2387 | 3 |
| 30 | IM | Rathnakaran K. | IND | 2457 | 3 |
| 31 | FM | K. Praneeth Surya | IND | 2429 | 3 |
| 32 | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2238 | 3 | |
| 33 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2428 | 3 |
| Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2362 | 3 | ||
| 35 | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2307 | 3 | |
| 36 | Srijit Paul | IND | 2259 | 3 | |
| 37 | WFM | Srija Seshadri | IND | 2092 | 3 |
| 38 | CM | Prince Bajaj | IND | 2268 | 3 |
| 39 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2448 | 3 |
| 40 | FM | Thakur Akash | IND | 2341 | 3 |
| 41 | GM | David Alberto | ITA | 2597 | 3 |
| 42 | Rahul Srivatshav P | IND | 2086 | 3 | |
| 43 | FM | Gajwa Ankit | IND | 2335 | 3 |
| 44 | IM | Visakh N R | IND | 2388 | 3 |
| 45 | Sahoo Utkal Ranjan | IND | 2297 | 3 | |
| 46 | Kulkarni Rakesh | IND | 2349 | 3 | |
| 47 | IM | Chakravarthi Reddy M | IND | 2176 | 3 |
| 48 | GM | Neverov Valeriy | UKR | 2506 | 3 |
| 49 | IM | Krishna Teja N | IND | 2246 | 3 |
| 50 | GM | Belous Vladimir | RUS | 2557 | 3 |
| 51 | IM | Narayanan Srinath | IND | 2478 | 3 |
| 52 | Iniyan P | IND | 2275 | 3 | |
| 53 | Navalgund Niranjan | IND | 2223 | 3 | |
| 54 | Manush Shah | IND | 2003 | 3 | |
| 55 | GM | Dzhumaev Marat | UZB | 2495 | 3 |
| 56 | Audi Ameya | IND | 2061 | 3 | |
| 57 | WIM | Nandhidhaa Pv | IND | 2111 | 3 |
| 58 | IM | Murali Krishnan B T | IND | 2260 | 3 |
| 59 | Deshpande Aniruddha | IND | 2257 | 3 | |
| 60 | IM | Nitin S. | IND | 2400 | 3 |
| 61 | FM | Matta Vinay Kumar | IND | 2163 | 3 |
| 62 | GM | Gabrielian Artur | RUS | 2545 | 3 |
| 63 | Shailesh Dravid | IND | 2230 | 3 | |
| 64 | Singh S. Vikramjit | IND | 2155 | 3 | |
| 65 | Patil Pratik | IND | 2270 | 3 | |
| 66 | Joshi Govind Ballabh | IND | 2113 | 3 | |
| 67 | IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2463 | 3 |
| 68 | FM | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2217 | 3 |
| 69 | CM | Rathanvel V S | IND | 2099 | 3 |
| 70 | Hirthickkesh Pr | IND | 2187 | 3 | |
| 71 | CM | Gukesh D | IND | 2041 | 3 |
| 72 | Negi D.S. | IND | 1869 | 3 | |
| 73 | Saurabh Anand | IND | 2097 | 3 | |
| Darpan Inani | IND | 1995 | 3 | ||
| 75 | WIM | Ivana Maria Furtado | IND | 2277 | 3 |
| 76 | GM | Esen Baris | TUR | 2530 | 3 |
| 77 | Shreyansh Daklia | IND | 2212 | 3 | |
| 78 | GM | Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy | VIE | 2489 | 3 |
| 79 | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2097 | 3 | |
| 80 | Deepak Katiyar | IND | 2107 | 2 | |
| 81 | Phadke Sohan | IND | 2045 | 2 | |
| 82 | Sankalp Gupta | IND | 2068 | 2 | |
| 83 | Kulkarni Vinayak | IND | 2043 | 2 | |
| 84 | Anilkumar O.T. | IND | 2070 | 2 | |
| 85 | CM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 1960 | 2 |
| 86 | Nishant Malhotra | IND | 2099 | 2 | |
| Gurung Rakesh | IND | 1981 | 2 | ||
| 88 | Didwania Vishal | IND | 2014 | 2 | |
| 89 | Suvradeepta Das | IND | 2060 | 2 | |
| 90 | Bhambure Shantanu | IND | 2120 | 2 | |
| 91 | CM | Sadhwani Raunak | IND | 2104 | 2 |
| 92 | Jain Naveen | IND | 2113 | 2 | |
| 93 | Ojas Kulkarni | IND | 2000 | 2 | |
| 94 | FM | Rajdeep Sarkar | IND | 2267 | 2 |
| 95 | FM | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2174 | 2 |
| 96 | Priyanka K | IND | 1961 | 2 | |
| 97 | Santu Mondal | IND | 2195 | 2 | |
| 98 | Lakshmi Narayanan M V | IND | 2205 | 2 | |
| 99 | Adhithya S | IND | 2018 | 2 | |
| 100 | Snehal Bhosale | IND | 2155 | 2 | |
| 101 | Hemant Sharma (del) | IND | 2242 | 2 | |
| 102 | Harshita Guddanti | IND | 1994 | 2 | |
| 103 | Shweta Gole | IND | 1915 | 2 | |
| 104 | WIM | Michelle Catherina P | IND | 2216 | 2 |
| 105 | Ram S. Krishnan | IND | 2212 | 2 | |
| 106 | Kakumanu Kautil | IND | 2044 | 2 | |
| 107 | Subhayan Kundu | IND | 2069 | 2 | |
| 108 | Nath Rupankar | IND | 2038 | 2 | |
| 109 | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2107 | 2 | |
| Dahale Atul | IND | 2088 | 2 | ||
| Aansh Gupta | IND | 2033 | 2 | ||
| Cholleti Sahajasri | IND | 2002 | 2 | ||
| Ritam Nag | IND | 2000 | 2 | ||
| 114 | Arjun Adappa | IND | 1960 | 2 | |
| 115 | Debashish Dutta | IND | 2111 | 2 | |
| 116 | Joshi Abhijeet | IND | 1895 | 2 | |
| CM | Raja Rithvik R | IND | 1887 | 2 | |
| 118 | CM | Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor | IND | 2053 | 2 |
| 119 | FM | Tiwari Ashwani | IND | 1992 | 2 |
| 120 | Dave Sneh | IND | 1739 | 2 | |
| 121 | IM | Kathmale Sameer | IND | 2306 | 2 |
| 122 | Ambarish Sharma | IND | 1861 | 2 | |
| 123 | Shrutarshi Ray | IND | 2103 | 2 | |
| 124 | IM | Akash G | IND | 2408 | 2 |
| 125 | Harikrishnan.A.Ra | IND | 2172 | 2 | |
| 126 | Barath Kalyan M | IND | 1903 | 2 | |
| 127 | Vijay Keerthi K. | IND | 2248 | 2 | |
| 128 | Debarshi Mukherjee | IND | 2233 | 2 | |
| 129 | Alahakoon Isuru | SRI | 1979 | 2 | |
| 130 | Pardeep Arora | IND | 2054 | 2 | |
| WFM | Arpita Mukherjee | IND | 1934 | 2 | |
| 132 | WIM | Parnali S Dharia | IND | 2002 | 2 |
| 133 | Sa Kannan | IND | 2002 | 2 | |
| 134 | Subba Raju S. | IND | 1789 | 2 | |
| 135 | Sumit Grover | IND | 2028 | 2 | |
| 136 | Vijay Anand M. | IND | 1858 | 2 | |
| 137 | Nayak Rajesh | IND | 2023 | 2 | |
| 138 | Bhanot Stuti | IND | 1767 | 2 | |
| 139 | FM | Mohammad Fahad Rahman | BAN | 2278 | 2 |
| 140 | Bala Kannamma P | IND | 2020 | 2 | |
| 141 | Prithu Gupta | IND | 1803 | 2 | |
| 142 | WCM | Chandreyee Hajra | IND | 2050 | 2 |
| 143 | Harshavardhan G B | IND | 1993 | 2 | |
| 144 | Kumar Gaurav | IND | 2030 | 2 | |
| 145 | Supriya Joshi | IND | 1981 | 2 | |
| Vardan Nagpal | IND | 1930 | 2 | ||
| 147 | Anant Prabhudesai | IND | 1818 | 2 | |
| 148 | Mulay Pratik | IND | 1926 | 2 | |
| 149 | Gavi Siddayya | IND | 1971 | 2 | |
| 150 | Gandhi Anish | IND | 2037 | 2 | |
| 151 | Deepak Rai | IND | 1829 | 2 | |
| 152 | Tiwari Arjun | IND | 2125 | 2 | |
| 153 | CM | Nikhil Magizhnan | IND | 1601 | 2 |
| 154 | Choudhary Jitendra Kumar | IND | 2066 | 1 | |
| 155 | Dushyant Sharma | IND | 1732 | 1 | |
| 156 | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2048 | 1 | |
| 157 | Madhurima Shekhar | IND | 1963 | 1 | |
| 158 | Srikanth K. | IND | 1918 | 1 | |
| 159 | WCM | Salonika Saina | IND | 1926 | 1 |
| 160 | Balkishan A. | IND | 1947 | 1 | |
| 161 | Sanjeet Manohar | IND | 2008 | 1 | |
| 162 | WFM | Tarini Goyal | IND | 1908 | 1 |
| 163 | Elancheralathan P | IND | 1876 | 1 | |
| 164 | Tarun V Kanth | IND | 1871 | 1 | |
| 165 | Pradip Tiwari | IND | 2013 | 1 | |
| 166 | Ovezdurdiyeva Jemal | TKM | 1998 | 1 | |
| 167 | Raahul V S | IND | 1975 | 1 | |
| WCM | Isha Sharma | IND | 1927 | 1 | |
| 169 | Roop Saurav | IND | 1911 | 1 | |
| 170 | Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V | IND | 2011 | 1 | |
| 171 | Negi Virender Singh | IND | 2000 | 1 | |
| 172 | Naveen S Hegde | IND | 1966 | 1 | |
| 173 | WCM | Sapale Saloni | IND | 1892 | 1 |
| 174 | IM | Wazeer Ahmad Khan | IND | 1907 | 1 |
| Archi Agrawal | IND | 1633 | 1 | ||
| 176 | Mishra Anwesha | IND | 1855 | 1 | |
| 177 | Diwan Rajesh | IND | 1820 | 1 | |
| 178 | Vakil Akhtara | IND | 1853 | 1 | |
| 179 | Rajesh Kumar Nath | IND | 1806 | 1 | |
| Sanjit Dutta | IND | 1738 | 1 | ||
| 181 | Kavinda Akila | SRI | 1908 | 1 | |
| 182 | Ganguly Ritabroto | IND | 1946 | 1 | |
| 183 | Yalkanova Maya | TKM | 1896 | 1 | |
| 184 | Doshi Moksh Amitbhai | IND | 1899 | 1 | |
| 185 | Sharma Manoj | IND | 1881 | 1 | |
| 186 | Aditya Basu | IND | 1959 | 1 | |
| 187 | CM | Mendonca Leon Luke | IND | 1859 | 1 |
| 188 | Jadhav Vaibhavi | IND | 1676 | 1 | |
| 189 | Chaudhary Sushil | NEP | 1722 | 1 | |
| 190 | Sahil Tickoo | IND | 1889 | 1 | |
| 191 | Shuban Saha | IND | 1885 | 1 | |
| 192 | Panesar Vedant | IND | 1842 | 1 | |
| 193 | Devansh Ratti | IND | 1846 | 1 | |
| 194 | FM | Shrestha Sujendra Prasad | NEP | 1913 | 1 |
| 195 | Purushothaman T | IND | 1955 | 0 | |
| Ashutosh Kumar | IND | 1907 | 0 | ||
| 197 | Joy Antony | IND | 1872 | 0 | |
| 198 | Kunal Kakumanu | IND | 1924 | 0 | |
| Saksham Rautela | IND | 1826 | 0 | ||
| 200 | Prasant N Nayagam | IND | 1747 | 0 |
