Covid stricken India out as Asian Chess Championship is set to begin

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The Asian Individual Chess Championship 2021 will take place 21-30 May. 87 players (21 GMs and 21 IMs) will fight for 8 qualification spots for the FIDE World Chess Cup 2021.

This time the qualification event for the World Cup will not feature any Indian participants. The Covid-19 crisis that is unfolding in the country has prevented the India Chess Federation to field any players.

#AsianContinentalchess: Indian players miss out due to lockdown arising out of #COVIDSecondWave #COVID19India #COVID19 https://t.co/IRjZSkZO0r

— Prasad Ramasubramanian (@PrasadrsTOI) May 20, 2021

We had earlier slotted Chennai and Pune as the two cites which would host the players. But the lockdown meant that players from other cities couldn’t make it.

Bharat Singh Chauhan, AICF secretary in an interview with Prasad Ramasubramanian

Asian Continental 2021 is a hybrid event

The Asian Continental will be a hybrid format, with 9 rounds, Swiss system. The so-called “hybrid competition” is a new format where the games are played online, but the participants are physically present in a public place like a club, federation headquarters, hotel, etc. No fewer than two arbiters, a local chief arbiter, and a local technical arbiter must be present. If more than 10 players are in the playing venue, then additional arbiters are required one extra arbiter for each increase of one to 10 players. Cameras will be installed to give a panoramic view of the playing hall, and each player will be supervised by an individual camera as well. If the computers on which the games are played are not provided by the local organizer, a Zoom call with screen sharing is mandatory.

Hybrid chess is the new normal

Hybrid chess is thriving all around the world. Another two hybrid continental events – the European Qualification Chess Tournament (follow live here) and the American Continental Championship – are starting parallel to the Asian Continental event. Earlier this month we saw the hybrid version of Mitropa Cup 2021, where Italy impressed not only with quality chess, but also with their amazing venue.

Hybrid chess is a fantastic way to keep the community going through the difficult to travel times. At the same time over the board chess is making a slow comeback. We see the African Chess Championship 2021 being played OTB. Several children events in Serbia, Andorra, Romania, Nicaragua, etc are also making their way. Bulgaria impressed with an event with 262 players in the same hall.

Asian Continental 2021 participants

Top seeded are GM Parham Maghsoodloo (IRI), GM Lu Shanglei (CHN) and GM Amin Tabatabaei (IRI). The prize fund of the event is 16.000$, with 5.000$ reserved for the 2021 Asian Champion. Here is the full list of players.

1	GM	MAGHSOODLOO Parham	IRI	2698
2	GM	LU Shanglei	CHN	2615
3	GM	TABATABAEI M.Amin	IRI	2613
4	GM	YAKUBBOEV Nodirbek	UZB	2605
5	GM	XU Yinglun	CHN	2554
6	GM	MEGARANTO Susanto	INA	2550
7	GM	KUYBOKAROV Temur	AUS	2549
8	GM	GHAEM MAGHAMI Ehsan	IRI	2547
9	GM	SINDAROV Javokhir	UZB	2544
10	GM	BATCHULUUN Tsegmed	MGL	2536
11	GM	VAKHIDOV Jakhongir	UZB	2533
12	GM	VOKHIDOV Shamsiddin	UZB	2529
13	GM	GHOLAMI Aryan	IRI	2513
14	IM	MOUSAVI Seyed Khalil	IRI	2510
15	GM	LEI Tingjie	CHN	2505
16	GM	PRIASMORO Novendra	INA	2502
17	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	2486
18	IM	SONG Raymond	TPE	2485
19	IM	TIN Jingyao	SGP	2482
20	GM	ATABAYEV Maksat	TKM	2475
21	IM	LOU Yiping	CHN	2472
22	GM	NASANJARGAL Urtnasan	MGL	2460
23		SATTAROV Bobir	UZB	2459
24	IM	TAHER Yoseph Theolifus	INA	2455
25	GM	BILGUUN Sumiya	MGL	2454
26		Gholami Orimi Mahdi	IRI	2430
27	IM	URAZAYEV Arystanbek	KAZ	2429
28	IM	MUNGUNTUUL Batkhuyag	MGL	2428
29	IM	ATABAYEV Saparmyrat	TKM	2425
30	IM	GAN-ERDENE Sugar	MGL	2419
31	IM	AGIBILEG Uurtsaikh	MGL	2413
32	GM	MURSHED Niaz	BAN	2404
33	IM	ABDYJAPAR Asyl	KGZ	2403
34	GM	HOSSAIN Enamul	BAN	2402
35	IM	ALI Muhammad Lutfi	INA	2399
36	IM	SETYAKI Azarya Jodi	INA	2389
37	IM	Assaubayeva Bibisara	KAZ	2381
38	IM	ERVAN Mohamad	INA	2356
39	FM	AMARTUVSHIN Ganzorig	MGL	2350
40	FM	SIDDHARTH Jagadeesh	SGP	2331
41	WIM	NING Kaiyu	CHN	2327
42	IM	QUIZON Daniel	PHI	2319
43	FM	Atakhan Abtin	IRI	2319
44	IM	Miciano John Marvin	PHI	2316
45	IM	MOHAMMAD FAHAD Rahman	BAN	2314
46	FM	Lim Zhuo Ren	MAS	2311
47	IM	CONCIO Michael Jr.	PHI	2297
48	WGM	DAULETOVA Gulmira	KAZ	2285
49	FM	KAKABAYEV Mergen	TKM	2285
50	WIM	MUNKHZUL Turmunkh	MGL	2278
51	FM	ANDYKA Pitra	INA	2276
52	CM	ARFAN Aditya Bagus	INA	2274
53	FM	CHINGUUN Sumiya	MGL	2269
54	FM	SUBROTA Biswas	BAN	2268
55		ASUELA Ellan	PHI	2248
56	IM	ABU SUFIAN Shakil	BAN	2242
57		ZHUKENOV Aituar	KAZ	2241
58	FM	BAASANSUREN Erdene	MGL	2229
59	WIM	SERIKBAY Assel	KAZ	2228
60	WIM	NURGALI Nazerke	KAZ	2217
61	CM	LIYANAGE Ranindu Dilshan	SRI	2203
62		ITGELT Khuyagtsogt	MGL	2184
63	IM	TARIGAN Gilbert Elroy	INA	2149
64	FM	DOLUWEERA Minul Sanjula	SRI	2129
65	AGM	Lopez Henry	PHI	2107
66	FM	DE SILVA L M S T	SRI	2085
67	FM	Navaratnam Rohan Shan Tze	MAS	2071
68	WFM	OVEZDURDIYEVA Jemal	TKM	2061
69		THEEKSHANA H G Denuwan	SRI	2045
70	FM	AMILAL Munkhdalai	MGL	2033
71		ANAND Batsukh	MGL	1965
72		Moulic Alfred	PHI	1960
73	CM	BATBOLD Nyamsuren	MGL	1954
74		Bacojo Mark Jay	PHI	1926
75		TSOGZOLMAA Nanjid	MGL	1895
76		AL IBRAHIM Abdulrahman	KUW	1776
77		LORENZO Kimuel Aaron O.	PHI	1769
78	CM	TENUUNBOLD Battulga	MGL	1753
79	AGM	Arca Christian Gian Karlo	PHI	1705
80		MARTICIO Jeremy	PHI	1695
81	WCM	BAYASGALAN Khishigbaatar	MGL	1640
82		ROMERO Gladimir Chester	PHI	1519
83		ALJADI Hussain	KUW	1257
84		AGAPAY Apollo P.	PHI	1003
85		AL-ZAATARI Fares Thamer	KUW	1002
86		Bayangat Arjie	PHI	1001
87		Dano Jimmy	PHI	1000

More information:

Asian Continental Chess Championship 2021 will be played in a hybrid format, 9 rounds, swiss system. The time control will be 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

Each round of the event will be played through Tornelo online platform, starting from 11:00 CEST.
Live games from the top boards will be daily on Chessdom.com.