The 1st Maharashtra International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2022 took place from 31 May to 8 June in Pune, India.
More than 140 players from 13 countries participated in the event which was played in 11 swiss system rounds. Three players tied for the top scoring 8.5 points each and the tiebreak criteria determined the distribution of gold, silver and bronze. GM Farrukh Amonatov had the best tiebreaks and won his second consecutive open tournament after a triumph in the 13th KIIT Chess Festival. GM Aleksej Aleksandrov was second and GM Kalyan Arjun claimed third place. (scroll down for final rankings)

In the interview after the event, GM Farrukh Amonatov said he is very happy to win two consecutive open tournaments: “I am very glad I won one more tournament. It is pleasure, what else to say“. Being asked how he approaches different tournaments and games Amonatov answered: “In my opinion, if you are playing well never mind who is playing against you. You can play against a super GM and show a good result, and next round you can play against a weak player and lose the game. So it all depends on you. I am always trying to show my best“. See the interview below.
The event gathered more than 25 women players, together with the Indian National Women’s Chess Team members: IM Bhakti Kulkarni, IM Swaminathan Soumya, WGM Mary Ann Gomes and WGM Divya Deshmukh. IM Bhakti Kulkarni had the best result among female participants with 6.5 points and 32nd place on the overall rankings. WGM Divya Deshmukh was just behind with 36th place and the same score but slightly lower tiebreaks.

Final rankings – The 1st Maharashtra International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2022:
Rk | Name | sex | FED | RtgI | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | Rp | |
1 | GM | Amonatov Farrukh | TJK | 2622 | 8.5 | 73 | 79 | 60.3 | 2606 | |
2 | GM | Aleksandrov Aleksej | BLR | 2492 | 8.5 | 72 | 78 | 57.5 | 2613 | |
3 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2477 | 8.5 | 72 | 77 | 56.3 | 2623 | |
4 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2526 | 8 | 73 | 77 | 53.3 | 2576 | |
5 | GM | Paichadze Luka | GEO | 2567 | 8 | 72 | 77 | 55 | 2592 | |
6 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2404 | 8 | 68 | 72 | 50.8 | 2552 | |
7 | GM | Stupak Kirill | BLR | 2440 | 8 | 64 | 69 | 48.5 | 2449 | |
8 | GM | Savchenko Boris | RUS | 2524 | 7.5 | 74 | 80 | 52.3 | 2557 | |
9 | GM | Venkatesh M.R. | IND | 2490 | 7.5 | 66 | 71 | 46.8 | 2477 | |
10 | IM | Neelash Saha | IND | 2439 | 7.5 | 65 | 70 | 45 | 2474 | |
11 | GM | Nguyen Van Huy | VIE | 2405 | 7.5 | 62 | 66 | 43.5 | 2383 | |
12 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2478 | 7.5 | 61 | 65 | 43.8 | 2391 | |
13 | IM | Gusain Himal | IND | 2396 | 7.5 | 61 | 65 | 42.3 | 2367 | |
14 | IM | Krishna Teja N | IND | 2374 | 7.5 | 57 | 61 | 41 | 2299 | |
15 | GM | Nikitenko Mihail | BLR | 2479 | 7 | 71 | 75 | 44.5 | 2478 | |
16 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2480 | 7 | 70 | 75 | 45.3 | 2446 | |
17 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2274 | 7 | 70 | 74 | 44.8 | 2505 | |
18 | FM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2433 | 7 | 68 | 73 | 43.8 | 2413 | |
19 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2490 | 7 | 68 | 72 | 42.8 | 2468 | |
20 | Kaustuv Kundu | IND | 2327 | 7 | 66 | 70 | 40.8 | 2446 | ||
21 | CM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2343 | 7 | 66 | 70 | 38 | 2392 | |
22 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2364 | 7 | 65 | 69 | 40.3 | 2322 | |
23 | GM | Fedorov Alexei | BLR | 2529 | 7 | 64 | 68 | 40.3 | 2365 | |
24 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | IND | 2356 | 7 | 64 | 67 | 39 | 2335 | |
25 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2071 | 7 | 63 | 68 | 41.3 | 2457 | |
26 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | UZB | 2463 | 7 | 62 | 66 | 37.5 | 2382 | |
27 | IM | Konguvel Ponnuswamy | IND | 2331 | 7 | 60 | 64 | 38.8 | 2320 | |
28 | GM | Karthikeyan P. | IND | 2361 | 7 | 59 | 63 | 39 | 2222 | |
29 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2563 | 6.5 | 72 | 77 | 44 | 2453 | |
30 | GM | Nguyen Duc Hoa | VIE | 2398 | 6.5 | 70 | 74 | 40.5 | 2475 | |
31 | IM | Audi Ameya | IND | 2389 | 6.5 | 68 | 74 | 42.3 | 2373 | |
32 | IM | Kulkarni Bhakti | w | IND | 2370 | 6.5 | 68 | 72 | 38.5 | 2373 |
33 | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | IND | 2437 | 6.5 | 68 | 72 | 40.3 | 2386 | |
34 | Srihari L | IND | 2178 | 6.5 | 65 | 69 | 37.5 | 2354 | ||
35 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2042 | 6.5 | 63 | 68 | 39 | 2407 | |
36 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | w | IND | 2317 | 6.5 | 63 | 66 | 34 | 2317 |
37 | Prasannaa.S | IND | 2164 | 6.5 | 63 | 65 | 31.8 | 2324 | ||
38 | GM | Mirzoev Azer | AZE | 2476 | 6.5 | 62 | 67 | 38 | 2286 | |
39 | IM | Kulkarni Vikramaditya | IND | 2311 | 6.5 | 62 | 66 | 35.3 | 2291 | |
40 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2443 | 6.5 | 61 | 65 | 37 | 2305 | |
41 | IM | Saravana Krishnan P. | IND | 2269 | 6.5 | 58 | 62 | 36 | 2289 | |
42 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2371 | 6.5 | 58 | 62 | 33.5 | 2233 | |
43 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2337 | 6.5 | 57 | 62 | 34.3 | 2237 | |
44 | Ritviz Parab | IND | 2329 | 6.5 | 57 | 61 | 32.5 | 2204 | ||
45 | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2352 | 6.5 | 52 | 56 | 33.8 | 2161 | |
46 | Bharadia Yash | IND | 1924 | 6 | 66 | 71 | 36 | 2344 | ||
47 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2116 | 6 | 66 | 71 | 37.5 | 2421 | |
48 | Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi | IND | 2074 | 6 | 64 | 70 | 35.5 | 2391 | ||
49 | IM | Sangma Rahul | IND | 2232 | 6 | 63 | 67 | 31.3 | 2332 | |
50 | WIM | Priyanka Nutakki | w | IND | 2303 | 6 | 63 | 66 | 31.5 | 2315 |
51 | FM | Jubin Jimmy | IND | 2259 | 6 | 61 | 65 | 30 | 2242 | |
52 | Utsab Chatterjee | IND | 2403 | 6 | 60 | 65 | 32.8 | 2209 | ||
53 | GM | Hossain Enamul | BAN | 2413 | 6 | 60 | 64 | 30 | 2270 | |
54 | FM | Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali | UZB | 2308 | 6 | 59 | 63 | 32.8 | 2207 | |
55 | Gandhi Anish | IND | 2166 | 6 | 59 | 63 | 28.5 | 2223 | ||
56 | WGM | Gomes Mary Ann | w | IND | 2349 | 6 | 58 | 63 | 31.8 | 2148 |
57 | IM | Praveen Kumar C | IND | 2150 | 6 | 58 | 62 | 29.5 | 2235 | |
58 | IM | Saravanan V. | IND | 2324 | 6 | 57 | 61 | 28 | 2177 | |
59 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | IND | 2308 | 6 | 55 | 59 | 29.3 | 2221 | |
60 | WGM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | w | IND | 2098 | 6 | 52 | 54 | 25.8 | 2152 |
61 | Koustav Chakraborty | IND | 1945 | 6 | 52 | 55 | 27.3 | 2182 | ||
62 | Godbole Atharva | IND | 2210 | 5.5 | 65 | 69 | 30.3 | 2263 | ||
63 | IM | Deshmukh Anup | IND | 2178 | 5.5 | 64 | 66 | 27.3 | 2266 | |
64 | Gaurav Rajesh Zagade | IND | 2120 | 5.5 | 61 | 64 | 27 | 2268 | ||
65 | Ilamparthi A R | IND | 2121 | 5.5 | 60 | 64 | 28.3 | 2270 | ||
66 | Praloy Sahoo | IND | 2065 | 5.5 | 60 | 63 | 27.3 | 2257 | ||
67 | Kumar Gaurav | IND | 1998 | 5.5 | 59 | 63 | 29.5 | 2265 | ||
68 | CM | Borgaonkar Akshay | IND | 2026 | 5.5 | 59 | 63 | 29 | 2229 | |
69 | Aishwin Daniel | IND | 2014 | 5.5 | 59 | 62 | 27.5 | 2288 | ||
70 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2271 | 5.5 | 58 | 60 | 26 | 2160 | |
71 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | w | IND | 2241 | 5.5 | 57 | 61 | 26.5 | 2121 |
72 | IM | Mohota Nisha | w | IND | 2148 | 5.5 | 56 | 60 | 24.8 | 2158 |
73 | Aniruddh Chatterjee | IND | 2205 | 5.5 | 56 | 59 | 25 | 2147 | ||
74 | Arhan Chethan Anand | IND | 2112 | 5.5 | 55 | 59 | 26.3 | 2183 | ||
75 | CM | Nayak Rajesh | IND | 2179 | 5.5 | 55 | 58 | 27 | 2167 | |
76 | CM | Snehal Bhosale | IND | 2237 | 5.5 | 53 | 57 | 23.8 | 2124 | |
77 | FM | Deshpande Aniruddha | IND | 2238 | 5.5 | 52 | 53 | 21 | 2117 | |
78 | CM | Daakshin Arun | IND | 2016 | 5.5 | 51 | 53 | 24.3 | 2158 | |
79 | FM | Panesar Vedant | IND | 2337 | 5 | 63 | 67 | 27.3 | 2254 | |
80 | Phatak Aanjaneya | IND | 2145 | 5 | 61 | 65 | 27.3 | 2258 | ||
81 | Anustoop Biswas | IND | 2202 | 5 | 57 | 61 | 24.3 | 2105 | ||
82 | IM | Abdyjapar Asyl | KGZ | 2346 | 5 | 57 | 61 | 21.5 | 2160 | |
83 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | w | IND | 2108 | 5 | 57 | 59 | 22 | 2102 |
84 | Rohit S | IND | 2141 | 5 | 56 | 60 | 22 | 2148 | ||
85 | Shaik Sumer Arsh | IND | 1999 | 5 | 56 | 59 | 24.5 | 2178 | ||
86 | CM | Mayank Chakraborty | IND | 2015 | 5 | 55 | 60 | 25.8 | 2181 | |
87 | Barath Kalyan M | IND | 2232 | 5 | 54 | 56 | 21.3 | 2123 | ||
88 | AGM | Vignesh B | IND | 2072 | 5 | 53 | 57 | 21.8 | 2166 | |
89 | Joshua A P | IND | 2163 | 5 | 52 | 56 | 23.8 | 2136 | ||
90 | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2208 | 5 | 52 | 55 | 21 | 2090 | |
91 | IM | Weerawardane Romesh | SRI | 2027 | 5 | 52 | 54 | 19.3 | 2103 | |
92 | Nagare Kaivalya Sandip | IND | 1993 | 5 | 52 | 56 | 23.5 | 2117 | ||
93 | IM | Azaladze Shota | GEO | 2420 | 5 | 50 | 54 | 22.8 | 2114 | |
94 | WFM | Allahverdiyeva Ayan | w | AZE | 2120 | 5 | 50 | 53 | 18.5 | 2062 |
95 | Sudarshan Bhat | IND | 1975 | 5 | 49 | 53 | 23.5 | 2079 | ||
96 | Morvekar Kedar | IND | 2127 | 5 | 49 | 52 | 22.3 | 2003 | ||
97 | CM | Kavinda Akila | SRI | 1996 | 5 | 47 | 50 | 20.8 | 2115 | |
98 | Priyankara Chamil | SRI | 1938 | 5 | 44 | 47 | 17.5 | 1753 | ||
99 | IM | Ramnathan Balasubramaniam | IND | 2119 | 4.5 | 60 | 64 | 24 | 2197 | |
100 | WIM | Michelle Catherina P | w | IND | 2148 | 4.5 | 58 | 62 | 21.3 | 2136 |
101 | WGM | Swati Ghate | w | IND | 2089 | 4.5 | 57 | 60 | 21.3 | 2175 |
102 | WIM | Franco Valencia Angela | w | COL | 2061 | 4.5 | 53 | 57 | 20 | 2099 |
103 | CM | Garv Gaur | IND | 2062 | 4.5 | 53 | 57 | 21.5 | 2065 | |
104 | Jaeel Atharva | IND | 2083 | 4.5 | 52 | 56 | 20 | 2148 | ||
105 | WIM | Priyanka K | w | IND | 2134 | 4.5 | 52 | 56 | 18.3 | 2036 |
106 | Krishnan Ritvik | IND | 2023 | 4.5 | 51 | 55 | 19.5 | 2108 | ||
107 | Mushini Ajay | IND | 2142 | 4.5 | 50 | 53 | 18.5 | 2027 | ||
108 | GM | Ziatdinov Raset | USA | 2224 | 4.5 | 47 | 50 | 17.3 | 1991 | |
109 | WIM | Nguyen Thanh Thuy Tien | w | VIE | 1996 | 4.5 | 46 | 47 | 15.8 | 2008 |
110 | Arnav Maheshwari | IND | 2093 | 4 | 61 | 65 | 22 | 2172 | ||
111 | AIM | Md Imran | IND | 2122 | 4 | 58 | 60 | 16.5 | 2187 | |
112 | CM | Kadam Om Manish | IND | 2144 | 4 | 57 | 61 | 18.5 | 2049 | |
113 | Arya Bhakta | IND | 2130 | 4 | 52 | 56 | 16 | 1985 | ||
114 | WIM | Tejaswini Sagar | w | IND | 2162 | 4 | 51 | 54 | 16 | 1987 |
115 | Deodhar Vrushali Umesh | w | IND | 2020 | 4 | 50 | 52 | 14 | 1989 | |
116 | Garv Rai | IND | 2033 | 4 | 50 | 53 | 16.8 | 2073 | ||
117 | Boramanikar Tanisha S | w | IND | 1716 | 4 | 47 | 48 | 14.8 | 1938 | |
118 | FM | Gaikwad Siddhant | IND | 1999 | 4 | 45 | 48 | 15 | 1989 | |
119 | WFM | Bhagyashree Patil | w | IND | 1977 | 4 | 45 | 48 | 16.5 | 2002 |
120 | Kabhilan S | IND | 2018 | 4 | 43 | 45 | 11.5 | 1972 | ||
121 | IM | Hegde Ravi Gopal | IND | 2001 | 4 | 40 | 42 | 10.5 | 1904 | |
122 | Pattnayak Nilsu | IND | 1992 | 3.5 | 56 | 61 | 20 | 2087 | ||
123 | Pimpalkhare Vedant | IND | 2073 | 3.5 | 54 | 57 | 15.8 | 2029 | ||
124 | Sreekumar P. | IND | 1940 | 3.5 | 48 | 49 | 11.3 | 1957 | ||
125 | WIM | Chandreyee Hajra | w | IND | 1983 | 3.5 | 45 | 48 | 12 | 1957 |
126 | Bakliwal Gaurav | IND | 2192 | 3.5 | 38 | 40 | 8.75 | 1757 | ||
127 | Akshit Kumar J | IND | 2145 | 3 | 50 | 54 | 12.5 | 1954 | ||
128 | WFM | Pandey Srishti | w | IND | 2123 | 3 | 50 | 52 | 10.8 | 2035 |
129 | Meenal Gupta | w | IND | 1845 | 3 | 50 | 53 | 13.3 | 1993 | |
130 | Dahale Atul | IND | 2153 | 3 | 45 | 49 | 11.8 | 1943 | ||
131 | Soboleva Anastasia | w | RUS | 1744 | 3 | 42 | 44 | 8.75 | 1714 | |
132 | FM | Ramakrishna J. | IND | 2070 | 2.5 | 57 | 61 | 14.8 | 2133 | |
133 | IM | Abhishek Kelkar | IND | 2308 | 2.5 | 49 | 53 | 12.3 | 2011 | |
134 | Mrittika Mallick | w | IND | 1982 | 2.5 | 44 | 47 | 8.25 | 1795 | |
135 | Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U | IND | 2064 | 2 | 46 | 49 | 5.5 | 2048 | ||
136 | Lohana Kapil | IND | 2007 | 2 | 43 | 46 | 8.5 | 1980 | ||
137 | WFM | Baghirova Khatun | w | AZE | 1866 | 2 | 42 | 44 | 4.5 | 1664 |
138 | WIM | Rakshitta Ravi | w | IND | 2212 | 1.5 | 46 | 48 | 7.75 | 1906 |
139 | IM | Chakravarthi Reddy M | IND | 2349 | 1 | 44 | 46 | 4 | 1866 | |
140 | WFM | Toshali V | w | IND | 2130 | 1 | 43 | 45 | 5 | 1913 |
141 | IM | Soumya Swaminathan | w | IND | 2358 | 1 | 43 | 45 | 5.25 | 1913 |
142 | Rashitov Rustem | UZB | 2136 | 0 | 38 | 39 | 0 | 0 |
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