Vizag Grandmasters International Open Chess Tournament was held from 25th October to 4th November at the Swarna Bharathi AC Indoor Stadium in Visakhapatnam, state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
The tournament was played over 11 rounds of Swiss system and for the prize fund of 14,700 EUR.
Grandmasters Enamul Hossain (Bandgladesh), B Adhiban (India) and Davit G Petrosian (Armenia) shared the first place with 8,5 points each. Hossain took the winner’s trophy on superior tie-break.
This is another excellent result for Bangladesh as GM Ziaur Rahman previously won the NIT International Grandmasters Open in Nagpur.
Final standings:
1 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 2481 – 8.5
2 GM Adhiban B. IND 2564 – 8.5
3 GM Petrosian Davit G. ARM 2459 – 8.5
4 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2602 – 8
5 GM Vovk Andrey UKR 2564 – 8
6 FM Ghosh Diptayan IND 2415 – 8
7 IM Stany G.A. IND 2404 – 8
8 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 2588 – 8
9 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2540 – 8
10 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2502 – 8
11 GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 2592 – 7.5
12 IM Swayams Mishra IND 2393 – 7.5
13 FM Gagare Shardul IND 2366 – 7.5
14 IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2445 – 7.5
15 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 2439 – 7.5
16 GM Iuldachev Saidali UZB 2458 – 7.5
17 IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 2480 – 7.5
18 GM Harutjunyan Gevorg ARM 2446 – 7.5
19 GM Fominyh Alexander RUS 2490 – 7
20 Joshi G B IND 2226 – 7
21 IM Shivananda B.S. IND 2358 – 7
22 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 2450 – 7
23 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 2359 – 7
24 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2523 – 7
25 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2393 – 7
26 IM Suvrajit Saha IND 2362 – 7
27 Raghunandan K S IND 2022 – 7
28 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 2401 – 7
29 FM Chatterjee Debaraj BAN 2318 – 7
30 Abhishek Kelkar IND 2234 – 7
31 IM Minhazuddin Ahmed BAN 2407 – 7
32 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 2373 – 7
33 GM Laxman R.R. IND 2474 – 7
34 GM Abdulla Al-Rakib BAN 2513 – 6.5
35 Chandra Akshat USA 2269 – 6.5
36 Deepak Katiyar IND 2241 – 6.5
37 CM Prince Bajaj IND 2305 – 6.5
38 Gusain Himal IND 2340 – 6.5
39 FM Das Sayantan IND 2330 – 6.5
40 Hemant Sharma (del) IND 2255 – 6.5
41 Abhilash Reddy M.L. IND 2242 – 6.5
42 IM Nitin S. IND 2386 – 6.5
43 Ashwath R. IND 2254 – 6.5
44 IM Praveen Kumar C. IND 2330 – 6.5
45 Krishna C.R.G. IND 2326 – 6.5
46 Deepthamsh Reddy. M IND 2139 – 6.5
47 Pranavananda V IND 2051 – 6.5
48 Vignesh Nr IND 2199 – 6.5
49 Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad IND 2038 – 6.5
50 Yogesh Gautam IND 1954 – 6.5
51 Iskandar Bin Abdullah SIN 1960 – 6.5
52 Sahu Vikramaditya IND 2128 – 6.5
53 IM Sangma Rahul IND 2345 – 6
54 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 2242 – 6
55 Padhya Saumil IND 2236 – 6
56 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 2329 – 6
57 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 2384 – 6
58 FM Ramakrishna J. IND 2224 – 6
59 Tiwari Arjun IND 2227 – 6
60 Visakh Nr IND 2121 – 6
61 WIM Shamima Akter Liza BAN 2151 – 6
62 Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar IND 2125 – 6
63 Chakravarthi Y.V.K. IND 2117 – 6
64 Grahesh Y IND 1894 – 6
65 Karthik V. Ap IND 2009 – 6
66 Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 1978 – 6
67 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 2295 – 6
68 Pavan B N B IND 1957 – 6
69 Niraula Niraj NEP 2065 – 6
70 Negi V. S. IND 2107 – 6
71 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D IND 1928 – 6
72 Krishna Teja N IND 2053 – 6
73 Thapa Krishna NEP 2031 – 6
74 Malla Nooka Raju IND 1975 – 6
75 IM Abu Sufian Shakil BAN 2393 – 5.5
76 FM Rahman Md. Taibur BAN 2324 – 5.5
77 Matta Vinay Kumar IND 2179 – 5.5
78 FM Hasan Mehdi BAN 2320 – 5.5
79 Harikrishna. S. R. IND 1980 – 5.5
80 Trinadh Virothi IND 1766 – 5.5
81 Ramana Babu B. IND 2064 – 5.5
82 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J IND 1920 – 5.5
83 Anusha N L V IND 1946 – 5.5
84 Nagaraju J IND 1997 – 5.5
85 Cheela Naga Sampath IND 1655 – 5.5
86 Krishna Karthik N IND 1750 – 5.5
87 Krishna Madhava Rao P IND 1475 – 5.5
88 Sandhya G IND 1769 – 5.5
89 Anshul Kaushik IND 1621 – 5.5
90 Sreenivasarao D IND 0 – 5.5
91 N Madhumitha IND 1555 – 5.5
92 D.K. Chopra IND 1704 – 5.5
93 Erigaisi Arjun IND 1669 – 5
94 Nepal Prakash NEP 1919 – 5
95 Raghav Srivathsav V IND 1827 – 5
96 Akshay V Halagannavar IND 1766 – 5
97 Anand Naik B IND 1907 – 5
98 Singh Soram Rahul IND 1928 – 5
99 Rajeev V.M. IND 1767 – 5
100 Toshali V IND 1526 – 5
101 Srinivasa Rao Bayya IND 1654 – 5
102 Shaik Sydulu IND 1696 – 5
103 Kaushik Shubham IND 1703 – 5
104 My Aditya IND 1563 – 5
105 Srinivasa Raju S IND 0 – 5
106 Ch Gopalakrishna Rao IND 1554 – 5
107 Koshtu Varaha Prem Sai IND 1339 – 5
108 Srinivasa Rao P R V IND 0 – 5
109 Bheri Yaswanth IND 1349 – 5
110 Sarada K.V.L.S. IND 1451 – 5
111 Kalyani B IND 0 – 5
112 WCM Savant Riya IND 1893 – 4.5
113 Polavarapu Ramakrishna IND 2032 – 4.5
114 M Tulasi Ram Kumar IND 1732 – 4.5
115 Harshavardhan Bhaskar IND 1590 – 4.5
116 Raga Jyothsna R IND 0 – 4.5
117 Prasad Das K IND 1715 – 4.5
118 Avyay G IND 1544 – 4.5
119 Yesu Babuk IND 1316 – 4.5
120 Lokesh M IND 0 – 4.5
121 Sarma K S R IND 0 – 4.5
122 Gowtham K IND 0 – 4.5
123 Mallikarjun Katakam IND 0 – 4.5
124 Krishna Prudhvi P IND 1510 – 4
125 Srimannarayana K S S IND 0 – 4
126 Seshagiri Rao P N IND 0 – 4
127 Koteswara Rao K. IND 0 – 4
128 Siva Rama Rao P IND 0 – 4
129 Sai Rama Kausthub IND 1335 – 4
130 Kodanda Raman P IND 0 – 4
131 Srinivas V V S IND 0 – 4
132 Subrahmanyam Duvvuri IND 0 – 4
133 Chinni Ajit IND 0 – 4
134 Raju N I IND 0 – 4
135 Jagadeeswara Rao G IND 1574 – 4
136 Alekhya B IND 0 – 4
137 Jayesh Kumar C H IND 1497 – 4
138 Rama Devi B IND 0 – 4
139 C B Surya Bangaru Raju IND 1573 – 3.5
140 Rasesh Jes Ashok IND 0 – 3.5
141 Bheri Chinna Rao IND 1293 – 3.5
142 Asritha Vatsal P IND 0 – 3.5
143 Srinivasa Rao S IND 0 – 3.5
144 Sesha Giri Rao S.R. IND 1424 – 3.5
145 Krishna Reddy R V IND 0 – 3.5
146 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 0 – 3
147 Jagarapu Trilodhar IND 0 – 3
148 Gayatri K V S IND 0 – 3
149 Surya Dhanush G IND 0 – 3
150 Boddeda Jagga Appa Rao IND 0 – 3
151 Jatin J IND 0 – 3
152 Tanmay B IND 0 – 3
153 Surya Narayana L IND 1629 – 2.5
154 Manas M IND 0 – 2.5
155 Sai Akhila M IND 0 – 2.5
156 Madhuri A IND 0 – 2.5
157 Siddhartha P IND 0 – 2
158 Rama Kumara Teja K IND 0 – 1.5
159 Vishnu S IND 0 – 1
