The 1st Sivakasi Chess Sparklers (SCS) FIDE Rated Tournament took place from 17-24th May, 2015, in Sivakasi, a town in Virudhunagar District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The event was a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″.
Former Asian Junior champion GM Deepan Chakkaravarthy took the trophy in a 493-player competition. Deepan shared the first place with IM Rajesh V A V and Kunal M on 8/9 points each but emerged a winner on a superior tie-break score.
Rajesh V A V got second, while Kunal M remained third.
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Final standings:
1 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2487 8
2 IM Rajesh V A V IND 2343 8
3 Kunal M. IND 2323 8
4 GM Laxman R.R. IND 2424 7,5
5 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 2411 7,5
6 Hemanth Raam IND 1903 7,5
7 FM Maheswaran P. IND 2293 7,5
8 GM Karthikeyan Murali IND 2502 7,5
9 IM Praveen Kumar C IND 2235 7,5
10 Shakthi Vishal J IND 1837 7,5
11 Phoobalan P. IND 2258 7
12 Prajesh R IND 2161 7
13 Barath L IND 1987 7
14 Bala Kannamma.P IND 1913 7
15 Dileep Kumar R IND 1830 7
16 Subramanian Pl IND 1965 7
17 Karmukilan S IND 1864 7
18 Varsha C R IND 1618 7
19 Nanda Kumar T.S. IND 1937 7
20 Divya Lakshmi R IND 1880 7
21 Girinath B S IND 1788 7
22 Hari Madhavan N B IND 1799 7
23 Lokesh P. IND 2264 6,5
24 Prasath K R IND 1523 6,5
25 Prakashram R IND 1996 6,5
26 Syed Anwar Shazuli IND 2218 6,5
27 Uma Maheswaran P IND 1924 6,5
28 Barath Kalyan M IND 1946 6,5
29 Clifford Flair IND 1785 6,5
30 Nitin Shankar Madhu IND 1713 6,5
31 Ajay Karthikeyan IND 1716 6,5
32 Akil A S J IND 1947 6,5
33 Prathish A IND 1827 6,5
34 Yuvan Bharathi K S IND 1795 6,5
35 Dhanush Ragav IND 1630 6,5
36 Balachandar E IND 1693 6,5
37 Siddharth Sabharishankar IND 1722 6,5
38 Karthick Narayanan S IND 1914 6,5
39 Prasant N Nayagam IND 1656 6,5
40 Ashwin R IND 1701 6,5
41 Dheekshith Kumar R IND 1700 6,5
42 Dharani Sree R IND 1691 6,5
43 Jai Aditya D IND 1673 6,5
44 Natarajan M IND 1272 6,5
45 Chujeeth Vignesh A IND 1667 6,5
46 Arjun Kalyan IND 1888 6,5
47 Bhuvaneshwari.R IND 1717 6,5
48 Merryston David Scanny IND 1906 6,5
49 Aravind S IND 1357 6,5
50 Vadivel A IND 1567 6,5
51 Yutesh P IND 1631 6
52 Poluri Kumaraswamy IND 1631 6
53 Prakash V R IND 0 6
54 Shankarasubbu B IND 1511 6
55 Mohamed Anees M IND 1691 6
56 Bharkavi S IND 1572 6
57 Palani Kumar D. IND 1505 6
58 Siddharth M IND 1475 6
59 Suresh Kumar G IND 1879 6
60 Subramanian V IND 1700 6
61 Anup Shankar R IND 1678 6
62 Vijay Shreeram P IND 1649 6
63 Gnanasekar .G IND 1679 6
64 Aasha.C R. IND 1608 6
65 Aravindaswami T IND 1687 6
66 Dhanasekar K. IND 1753 6
67 Vishwak S IND 1463 6
68 Thamaraiselvi P IND 1633 6
69 Baskar P IND 1545 6
70 Kannan.V IND 1618 6
71 WCM Ananya Suresh IND 1974 6
72 Selvamurugan B IND 1658 6
73 Muniraj K IND 1423 6
74 Sowjanya Sowrirajan IND 1536 6
75 Hirthik Rajan B P IND 1493 6
76 Ram Kumar G M IND 1601 6
77 Sai Krishna S IND 1466 6
78 Koushik Sarun Reddy Y IND 1478 6
79 Reshma C R IND 1216 6
80 Rahul Bharadwaj B IND 1738 6
81 Shreyas M IND 1673 6
82 Vijay Raghav J S IND 1382 6
83 Shivani Madhu IND 1316 6
84 Sandeep Santhosh IND 1405 6
85 Aditya Somasundaram IND 1211 6
86 Surya Thangavel IND 1200 6
87 Pranav Ram Hariharan IND 1412 6
88 Gowthaman Alagar IND 1280 6
89 Sa Kannan IND 2015 5,5
90 Saughanthika As IND 1600 5,5
91 Poojakanth M. IND 1652 5,5
92 Haricharann D V IND 1635 5,5
93 Rajashakkthivel K K IND 1509 5,5
94 Mugesh B IND 1504 5,5
95 Suryakanth C IND 1423 5,5
96 Santhosh Kumar G IND 1418 5,5
97 Suganthan S IND 1524 5,5
98 Aswin Kumar B S IND 1583 5,5
99 Rathish T.J. IND 1592 5,5
100 Jayasangar T IND 1790 5,5
101 Balaji Narayanan IND 1394 5,5
102 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar IND 1586 5,5
103 Yashwanth Babu P IND 1615 5,5
104 Krithigga K IND 1657 5,5
105 Dhivyashree J IND 1543 5,5
106 Atul Srivatsa IND 1576 5,5
107 Gokul Sathyan IND 1433 5,5
108 Thirunaga Sundaram S IND 1586 5,5
109 Balaji V IND 1320 5,5
110 Vishnu Viswanathan P IND 1444 5,5
111 Shankar Ramakrishnan IND 1430 5,5
112 Neha Srinibash D IND 1294 5,5
113 Kalidass C. IND 1551 5,5
114 Praveen R IND 1438 5,5
115 Sivaprakash N IND 1062 5,5
116 Lokesh R IND 1303 5,5
117 Surya Prakash Murugesan IND 1236 5,5
118 Saroj Naraynan K IND 1218 5,5
119 Rudhraa S IND 1022 5,5
120 Arunachalam Shivaa T V IND 1336 5,5
121 Subramanian T.V. IND 1483 5,5
122 Shriman K IND 1360 5,5
123 Eswar Theagarajan IND 1374 5,5
124 Arunraj Muniandi IND 1346 5,5
125 Jayasurya IND 1255 5,5
126 Arunkumar Mutthukumar IND 1272 5,5
127 Shyam Kumar M IND 1275 5,5
128 Vikram K A IND 1373 5,5
129 Abhay Selva N IND 1269 5,5
130 Sriram G IND 1320 5,5
131 Sathya Naarayanan S IND 1326 5,5
132 Naveen Kumar T IND 1369 5,5
133 Subbhu Karthick S M IND 1286 5,5
134 Sanjairam S IND 1234 5,5
135 Sankar P IND 1221 5,5
136 Srijan J IND 1242 5,5
137 Barath Kumar K M IND 1353 5
138 Vigneshwaran N. IND 1975 5
139 Sriram B IND 1649 5
140 Gokula Kannan R S IND 1373 5
141 Merithraj M IND 1349 5
142 Arivu Selvan A S IND 1388 5
143 Vignesh Kasi P L IND 1588 5
144 Suudhan S IND 1427 5
145 Shyaam M IND 1317 5
146 Thirumurugan R IND 1630 5
147 Sai Balaji E IND 1444 5
148 Koushik Muthesh P IND 1465 5
149 Pranav Senthil Kumar IND 1228 5
150 Abineshwar Gnanamurtthy IND 1311 5
151 Gokul S IND 1308 5
152 Arun R U IND 1445 5
153 Nagarajan P IND 0 5
154 Abirama Srinithi G IND 1509 5
155 Selvaraj Yesudasan V IND 1401 5
156 Nithin A V IND 1327 5
157 Manoj Guru R IND 1336 5
158 Deepak Kumar R IND 1515 5
159 Venkataramanan Chandrasekaran IND 1254 5
160 Edwin P F S IND 1396 5
161 Lenin A G IND 1406 5
162 Doraiswamy L IND 1372 5
Ruban Sanjay M IND 1307 5
164 Vignesh N IND 1362 5
165 Ragesh Sarma.M IND 1299 5
166 Kabil S IND 1473 5
167 Madhesh Thimmarayan IND 1334 5
168 Meyyappan M IND 1309 5
169 Thaga Sheriff M IND 1192 5
170 Kishan Chand IND 1477 5
171 Jayashri K K IND 1235 5
172 Swarnamala B IND 1392 5
173 Murukaananth A IND 1317 5
174 Bala Murugan G IND 1426 5
175 Gokul Pandiyan S IND 1254 5
176 Arputha Jasmine B A IND 1418 5
177 Annamalai Raja C IND 1286 5
178 Anirudh Shiva S IND 1255 5
179 Kovarthan Logaratchagan IND 1349 5
180 Rohit Sanjay G IND 1206 5
181 Vigneshwaran K IND 0 5
182 Karthikeyan Pandiyan IND 0 5
183 Rahul Vetha Edison J IND 1218 5
184 Antony Jesumarian Leslie IND 1179 5
185 Yukash Ram E IND 1265 5
186 Suryaa S S IND 1218 5
187 Sidharth Balaji Sridharan IND 1285 5
188 Tarunika P IND 1164 5
189 Hrishikesan Sundararajan IND 1214 5
190 Sasankan M Surendran IND 1098 5
191 Nandhini R IND 1356 5
192 Sriram G IND 1064 5
193 Manikanda Prabhu B V IND 1199 5
194 Karthick Raj P IND 1321 5
195 Vidhyth Narain Selvam IND 1283 5
196 Narendiran Raveendiran IND 1196 5
197 Girish G IND 1203 5
198 Sanjiv Kumar J IND 1127 5
199 Srimathi R IND 1462 5
200 Mohan Sundar S IND 1157 5
201 Jerwin Titus D IND 1180 5
202 Bhava Chakra Narayanan K IND 1302 5
203 Selvam D IND 1196 5
204 Kumaresh A IND 1235 5
205 Aravindh Srinivasan IND 1281 5
206 Navaneeth B IND 1222 5
207 Prabhakaran K IND 1233 5
Sai Harshavardhan Sai Jagadees IND 1203 5
209 Vimal Arul Francis S IND 0 5
210 Asmitaa S IND 1105 5
211 Krishnakumar Arulraj IND 1129 5
212 Yogaraj K IND 0 5
213 Harrish A IND 1134 5
214 Angappan A IND 1266 5
215 Midhun Karthick B IND 0 5
216 Dakshinya T R S IND 1606 4,5
217 Kanishk S K IND 1430 4,5
218 Rohith N D IND 0 4,5
219 Karunakaran M IND 1617 4,5
Binesh Pravin R IND 1102 4,5
221 Marimuthu K IND 1339 4,5
222 Khrithick Raja R A IND 1131 4,5
223 Sekar S. IND 1421 4,5
224 Sudhakar K IND 0 4,5
225 Shanmuga Sundaram R S IND 1159 4,5
226 Anand R IND 1656 4,5
227 Sachjith M IND 0 4,5
228 Mohith R IND 1325 4,5
229 Manoj Shiyam IND 0 4,5
230 Kishore V IND 1268 4,5
231 Hariharan S IND 1254 4,5
232 Muneeswaran D IND 0 4,5
233 Krishna Raaju J IND 1099 4,5
234 Nitin M Pai IND 1414 4,5
235 Sakthi Subash A S IND 1172 4,5
236 Pradnesh A IND 1195 4,5
237 Abhishek S IND 1119 4,5
238 Sri Hari Haran M K IND 1180 4,5
239 Pranesh Kumar K IND 1359 4,5
240 Karunakaran V IND 1581 4,5
241 Deepika M C IND 1374 4,5
242 Hari Ganesh R IND 1174 4,5
243 Akshaya P IND 1251 4,5
244 Narendran Gouthaman IND 1102 4,5
245 Rathinam Gurumurthy * IND 0 4,5
246 Jeyam Subbaiah C IND 0 4,5
247 Dhruv Easwar ENG 1095 4,5
248 Aishwarya Natarajan IND 1074 4,5
249 Arnold P IND 0 4,5
250 Adithya C J IND 1144 4,5
251 Nitin S N IND 1211 4,5
252 Allen Chryso J IND 1218 4,5
253 Sai Sujan S IND 1137 4,5
254 Harikrishna R IND 1269 4,5
255 Shalini R IND 1044 4,5
256 Sanjita S IND 1246 4,5
257 Rishi Raghav Karthik T IND 0 4,5
258 Sivanandha V IND 1106 4,5
259 Jeyanth Adithya G IND 1242 4,5
260 Hariharan A C G IND 1126 4,5
261 Dharineesh R P IND 0 4,5
262 Dhanaviswanathan C T IND 1187 4,5
263 Akash Sakthivel IND 1095 4,5
264 Santhosh Sivam M IND 1174 4,5
265 Ferosh S IND 1331 4,5
266 Manraja A IND 0 4,5
267 Balaji Devaraj IND 1081 4,5
268 Muthukrishnan K IND 1088 4,5
269 Sree Nithish B IND 0 4
270 Mani Bharathy IND 1929 4
271 Solomon Rathna Sekaran IND 1629 4
272 Praveen Kumar Gunasekaran IND 1180 4
273 Kathir Balaji K IND 1469 4
274 Sai Aravindh Sridhar IND 1093 4
275 Kalyana Kumar K IND 1404 4
276 Suresh Kumar Ashok IND 1185 4
277 Raja Sanakonda IND 0 4
278 Adithyan G IND 1192 4
279 Yugesh Maitreyan S IND 1200 4
280 Siva Shanmugam S IND 1180 4
281 Ari Jaya Balan SA IND 0 4
282 Sudhir Vanarase IND 1285 4
283 Ram Arcot Mohanarangam IND 1177 4
284 Mareeshwaran P IND 0 4
285 Vivek P IND 1145 4
286 Pramesh P IND 1139 4
287 Femil Chelladurai IND 1086 4
288 Daejuswaram G IND 1255 4
289 Vasudeva Reddy Menati IND 1087 4
290 Sadhes Raja D IND 1037 4
291 Pragatheesh Muthukumaran IND 1133 4
292 Saran S IND 0 4
293 Shanmugham Kumaran IND 1127 4
294 Dawood.K IND 1271 4
295 Suraj A IND 0 4
296 Moorthy R IND 1511 4
297 Prawin K IND 1318 4
298 Sujith V IND 1146 4
Nithish Muthukumaran IND 1031 4
300 Sharan P IND 0 4
301 Sibi Roopan E IND 1057 4
302 Anandh Murugeswaran B IND 1255 4
303 Thirumalai Rajan M IND 1223 4
304 Honnesh Sankaran IND 1147 4
305 Eyal Amuthan Gb IND 1236 4
306 Akash Madhavan IND 1077 4
307 Manooneeth B IND 1126 4
308 Alagu Sundaram J IND 0 4
309 Dhaanesh S IND 1129 4
310 Sajan J IND 1040 4
311 Jegan Sakthi N IND 1167 4
312 Vaishag P V IND 1140 4
313 Deepak Kumar J IND 1086 4
314 Kamali B IND 1151 4
315 Ragul Arul Dass IND 1133 4
316 Jaya Suriyah Ayyappan IND 1241 4
Nelson Pandian T IND 0 4
318 Kishore S V IND 0 4
319 Sri Hari S IND 1107 4
320 Sivashankar M IND 1233 4
321 Shivani S IND 1154 4
322 Vinodh Madhusudhanan MP IND 0 4
323 Sriram S IND 1083 4
324 Tharshan M K IND 1022 4
325 Pooja V IND 1049 4
326 Ramakrishnan S IND 1207 4
327 Gokul Rajakalappan IND 1051 4
328 Boopesh Kumar M IND 0 4
329 Jothi Sankari M IND 1148 4
330 Desing Rajan R IND 0 4
331 Ravivarman A IND 0 4
332 Baraneedharan S IND 0 4
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340 Anandha Ganesh M IND 0 4
341 Siddhesvarajith P S IND 0 4
342 Lokesh Varmaa K IND 0 4
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344 Vinayaka Moorthy B IND 0 4
345 Chandrasekaran G * IND 0 4
346 Allin Anishvica IND 0 4
347 Krishna Kumar G IND 1131 3,5
348 Swaminathan K IND 1241 3,5
349 Sundara Pandian A IND 0 3,5
350 Vinay R Jumani IND 1057 3,5
351 Nithish Suresh Kumar IND 1189 3,5
352 Varadharajan S IND 1283 3,5
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358 Adhava Prakash S IND 1125 3,5
359 Cheenu Sathyanarayana IND 1138 3,5
360 Jayaprakash M IND 1083 3,5
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362 Adithya Krishna H R IND 0 3,5
363 Akash Somasundaram IND 0 3,5
364 Shasrajitth PS IND 0 3,5
365 Narendiran V IND 1114 3,5
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384 Teebikaa S IND 0 3,5
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430 Dinesh Mani IND 0 3
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Sai Shivam V IND 0 2,5
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