The 1st Maharashtra International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2022 kicked off yesterday in Pune, India, simultaneously with the 1st Pune Open.
The tournament is played in 11 rounds, swiss system, with participation of more than 140 players from 13 countries. The event gathers 20 grandmasters with: GM Farrukh Amonatov, GM Luka Paichadze and GM Babu Lalith as the top seeds, as well as the Indian National Chess Team members: IM Kulkarni Bhakti, IM Swaminathan Soumya, WGM Mary Ann Gomes and WGM Divya Deshmukh The total prize fund of the event is Rs 20,00,000 (around 24.000 euros). (scroll down for starting rank list of participants)
The grand opening of the 1st Maharashtra International Open GM Chess Tournament:
1st Maharashtra International Open GM Chess Tournament – Starting rank list:
| No. | Name | FED | RtgI | |
| 1 | GM | Amonatov Farrukh | TJK | 2622 |
| 2 | GM | Paichadze Luka | GEO | 2567 |
| 3 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2563 |
| 4 | GM | Fedorov Alexei | BLR | 2529 |
| 5 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2526 |
| 6 | GM | Savchenko Boris | RUS | 2524 |
| 7 | GM | Aleksandrov Aleksej | BLR | 2492 |
| 8 | GM | Venkatesh M.R. | IND | 2490 |
| 9 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2490 |
| 10 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2480 |
| 11 | GM | Nikitenko Mihail | BLR | 2479 |
| 12 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2478 |
| 13 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2477 |
| 14 | GM | Mirzoev Azer | AZE | 2476 |
| 15 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | UZB | 2463 |
| 16 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2443 |
| 17 | GM | Stupak Kirill | BLR | 2440 |
| 18 | IM | Neelash Saha | IND | 2439 |
| 19 | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | IND | 2437 |
| 20 | FM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2433 |
| 21 | IM | Azaladze Shota | GEO | 2420 |
| 22 | GM | Hossain Enamul | BAN | 2413 |
| 23 | GM | Nguyen Van Huy | VIE | 2405 |
| 24 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2404 |
| 25 | Utsab Chatterjee | IND | 2403 | |
| 26 | GM | Nguyen Duc Hoa | VIE | 2398 |
| 27 | IM | Gusain Himal | IND | 2396 |
| 28 | IM | Audi Ameya | IND | 2389 |
| 29 | IM | Krishna Teja N | IND | 2374 |
| 30 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2371 |
| 31 | IM | Kulkarni Bhakti | IND | 2370 |
| 32 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2364 |
| 33 | GM | Karthikeyan P. | IND | 2361 |
| 34 | IM | Soumya Swaminathan | IND | 2358 |
| 35 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | IND | 2356 |
| 36 | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2352 |
| 37 | IM | Chakravarthi Reddy M | IND | 2349 |
| 38 | WGM | Gomes Mary Ann | IND | 2349 |
| 39 | IM | Abdyjapar Asyl | KGZ | 2346 |
| 40 | CM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2343 |
| 41 | FM | Panesar Vedant | IND | 2337 |
| 42 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2337 |
| 43 | IM | Konguvel Ponnuswamy | IND | 2331 |
| 44 | Ritviz Parab | IND | 2329 | |
| 45 | Kaustuv Kundu | IND | 2327 | |
| 46 | IM | Saravanan V. | IND | 2324 |
| 47 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2317 |
| 48 | IM | Kulkarni Vikramaditya | IND | 2311 |
| 49 | IM | Abhishek Kelkar | IND | 2308 |
| 50 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | IND | 2308 |
| 51 | FM | Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali | UZB | 2308 |
| 52 | WIM | Priyanka Nutakki | IND | 2303 |
| 53 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2274 |
| 54 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2271 |
| 55 | IM | Saravana Krishnan P. | IND | 2269 |
| 56 | FM | Jubin Jimmy | IND | 2259 |
| 57 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | IND | 2241 |
| 58 | FM | Deshpande Aniruddha | IND | 2238 |
| 59 | CM | Snehal Bhosale | IND | 2237 |
| 60 | IM | Sangma Rahul | IND | 2232 |
| 61 | Barath Kalyan M | IND | 2232 | |
| 62 | GM | Ziatdinov Raset | USA | 2224 |
| 63 | WIM | Rakshitta Ravi | IND | 2212 |
| 64 | Godbole Atharva | IND | 2210 | |
| 65 | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2208 |
| 66 | Aniruddh Chatterjee | IND | 2205 | |
| 67 | Anustoop Biswas | IND | 2202 | |
| 68 | Bakliwal Gaurav | IND | 2192 | |
| 69 | CM | Nayak Rajesh | IND | 2179 |
| 70 | IM | Deshmukh Anup | IND | 2178 |
| 71 | Srihari L | IND | 2178 | |
| 72 | Gandhi Anish | IND | 2166 | |
| 73 | Prasannaa.S | IND | 2164 | |
| 74 | Joshua A P | IND | 2163 | |
| 75 | WIM | Tejaswini Sagar | IND | 2162 |
| 76 | Dahale Atul | IND | 2153 | |
| 77 | IM | Praveen Kumar C | IND | 2150 |
| 78 | IM | Mohota Nisha | IND | 2148 |
| 79 | WIM | Michelle Catherina P | IND | 2148 |
| 80 | Akshit Kumar J | IND | 2145 | |
| 81 | Phatak Aanjaneya | IND | 2145 | |
| 82 | CM | Kadam Om Manish | IND | 2144 |
| 83 | Mushini Ajay | IND | 2142 | |
| 84 | Rohit S | IND | 2141 | |
| 85 | Rashitov Rustem | UZB | 2136 | |
| 86 | WIM | Priyanka K | IND | 2134 |
| 87 | WFM | Toshali V | IND | 2130 |
| 88 | Arya Bhakta | IND | 2130 | |
| 89 | Morvekar Kedar | IND | 2127 | |
| 90 | WFM | Pandey Srishti | IND | 2123 |
| 91 | AIM | Md Imran | IND | 2122 |
| 92 | Ilamparthi A R | IND | 2121 | |
| 93 | WFM | Allahverdiyeva Ayan | AZE | 2120 |
| 94 | Gaurav Rajesh Zagade | IND | 2120 | |
| 95 | IM | Ramnathan Balasubramaniam | IND | 2119 |
| 96 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2116 |
| 97 | Arhan Chethan Anand | IND | 2112 | |
| 98 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | IND | 2108 |
| 99 | WGM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | IND | 2098 |
| 100 | Arnav Maheshwari | IND | 2093 | |
| 101 | WGM | Swati Ghate | IND | 2089 |
| 102 | Jaeel Atharva | IND | 2083 | |
| 103 | Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi | IND | 2074 | |
| 104 | Pimpalkhare Vedant | IND | 2073 | |
| 105 | AGM | Vignesh B | IND | 2072 |
| 106 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2071 |
| 107 | FM | Ramakrishna J. | IND | 2070 |
| 108 | Praloy Sahoo | IND | 2065 | |
| 109 | Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U | IND | 2064 | |
| 110 | CM | Garv Gaur | IND | 2062 |
| 111 | WIM | Franco Valencia Angela | COL | 2061 |
| 112 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2042 |
| 113 | Garv Rai | IND | 2033 | |
| 114 | IM | Weerawardane Romesh | SRI | 2027 |
| 115 | CM | Borgaonkar Akshay | IND | 2026 |
| 116 | Krishnan Ritvik | IND | 2023 | |
| 117 | Deodhar Vrushali Umesh | IND | 2020 | |
| 118 | Kabhilan S | IND | 2018 | |
| 119 | CM | Daakshin Arun | IND | 2016 |
| 120 | CM | Mayank Chakraborty | IND | 2015 |
| 121 | Aishwin Daniel | IND | 2014 | |
| 122 | Lohana Kapil | IND | 2007 | |
| 123 | IM | Hegde Ravi Gopal | IND | 2001 |
| 124 | FM | Gaikwad Siddhant | IND | 1999 |
| 125 | Shaik Sumer Arsh | IND | 1999 | |
| 126 | Kumar Gaurav | IND | 1998 | |
| 127 | WIM | Nguyen Thanh Thuy Tien | VIE | 1996 |
| 128 | CM | Kavinda Akila | SRI | 1996 |
| 129 | Nagare Kaivalya Sandip | IND | 1993 | |
| 130 | Pattnayak Nilsu | IND | 1992 | |
| 131 | WIM | Chandreyee Hajra | IND | 1983 |
| 132 | Mrittika Mallick | IND | 1982 | |
| 133 | WFM | Bhagyashree Patil | IND | 1977 |
| 134 | Sudarshan Bhat | IND | 1975 | |
| 135 | Koustav Chakraborty | IND | 1945 | |
| 136 | Sreekumar P. | IND | 1940 | |
| 137 | Priyankara Chamil | SRI | 1938 | |
| 138 | Bharadia Yash | IND | 1924 | |
| 139 | WFM | Baghirova Khatun | AZE | 1866 |
| 140 | Meenal Gupta | IND | 1845 | |
| 141 | Soboleva Anastasia | RUS | 1744 | |
| 142 | Boramanikar Tanisha S | IND | 1716 |
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