Grandmaster Mikhail Mozharov of Russia stayed ahead with a hard fought draw with compatriot Ivan Popov in the ninth and penultimate round of 13th Parsvnath International Grandmasters chess tournament now drawing to a close here.
C R G Krishna, Aniruddha Deshpande, Abhishek Kelkar and Ravi Teja continued with their fine run in the tournament and secured their International Master norm with one round to spare. The other norm hopefuls will have to wait for the final round for now.
Mozharov played a nearly crazy game before he could force a draw with Popov. Although room-mates and friends, the two Russians came up with some exemplary chess that kept the audience on the web guessing for a long time.
Popov sacrificed as many as three pawns in the opening but eventually took the draw after Mozharov steered his king to safety.
It turned out to be a bad outing for GM norm seekers as both N Srinath and S Nitin ended on the losing side against Grandmaster opposition. It was heartbreak for Srinath after doing exceptionally well in the tournament as he was grinded by Alberto David of Italy in a long drawn game while Nitin never found the going easy against Duc Hoa Nguyen of Vietnam.
With just one round to come, Mozharov on 7.5 points is now followed by as many as five players on seven points each. They are Popov, Van Huy Nguyen of Vietnam, Andrey Baryshpolets of Ukraine, David and Deepan Chakkravarthy. These five are followed by another pack of 11 players on 6.5 points each.
Round 9 standings:
1 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 2557 – 7.5
2 GM Baryshpolets Andrey UKR 2541 – 7
3 GM Popov Ivan RUS 2622 – 7
4 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 2445 – 7
5 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2484 – 7
6 GM David Alberto ITA 2572 – 7
7 GM Demchenko Anton RUS 2611 – 6.5
8 Krishna C.R.G. IND 2350 – 6.5
9 GM Cruz Cristhian PER 2546 – 6.5
10 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 2448 – 6.5
11 GM Debashis Das IND 2503 – 6.5
12 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2486 – 6.5
13 GM Neelotpal Das IND 2437 – 6.5
14 Gusain Himal IND 2322 – 6.5
15 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 2387 – 6.5
16 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 2518 – 6.5
17 GM Rombaldoni Axel ITA 2509 – 6.5
18 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2631 – 6
19 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 2477 – 6
20 Ravi Teja S IND 2338 – 6
21 GM Grover Sahaj IND 2528 – 6
22 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND 2410 – 6
23 IM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan IND 2437 – 6
24 IM Shivananda B.S. IND 2305 – 6
25 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2507 – 6
26 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 2405 – 6
27 IM Prasanna Raghuram Rao IND 2436 – 6
28 GM Brunello Sabino ITA 2552 – 6
29 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 2435 – 6
30 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 2424 – 6
31 IM Nitin S. IND 2355 – 5.5
32 Abhishek Kelkar IND 2280 – 5.5
33 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2427 – 5.5
34 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 2354 – 5.5
35 Pradeep Kumar R.A. IND 2291 – 5.5
36 Krishna Teja N IND 2158 – 5.5
37 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2501 – 5.5
38 Vignesh Nr IND 2340 – 5.5
39 Visakh Nr IND 2346 – 5.5
40 FM Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari IND 2285 – 5.5
IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 2283 – 5.5
42 IM Thejkumar M. S. IND 2459 – 5.5
43 IM Gagare Shardul IND 2437 – 5.5
44 GM Gasanov Eldar UKR 2520 – 5.5
45 Navalgund Niranjan IND 2309 – 5.5
46 GM Shyam Sundar M. IND 2489 – 5.5
47 IM Kathmale Sameer IND 2304 – 5.5
48 IM Anurag Mhamal IND 2446 – 5.5
49 GM Lazarev Vladimir FRA 2379 – 5.5
50 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 2455 – 5.5
51 Arvind Shastry IND 2261 – 5.5
52 Kunal M. IND 2336 – 5
53 Deshpande Aniruddha IND 2157 – 5
54 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 2188 – 5
55 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 2239 – 5
56 Nishant Malhotra IND 2167 – 5
57 Ajay Krishna S IND 2187 – 5
58 Aradhya Garg IND 2158 – 5
59 GM Evdokimov Alexander A. RUS 2538 – 5
60 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 2247 – 5
61 Nath Rupankar IND 2077 – 5
62 Shashikant Kutwal IND 2189 – 5
63 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 2241 – 5
64 IM Del Rey Diego ESP 2390 – 5
65 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 2100 – 5
66 Dodeja Pawan IND 2172 – 5
67 Kumar Gaurav IND 1986 – 5
68 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2515 – 5
69 IM Sangma Rahul IND 2289 – 5
70 Patil Pratik IND 2139 – 5
71 CM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 2278 – 5
72 IM Cruz Jonathan PER 2454 – 5
73 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 2281 – 5
74 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 2309 – 5
75 Pratyusha Bodda IND 2192 – 5
76 WFM Vaishali R IND 2100 – 5
77 Tiwari Arjun IND 2179 – 5
78 Dhar Rajib IND 2151 – 5
79 Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H. IND 2281 – 5
80 Dhananjay IND 2071 – 5
81 Ritviz Parab IND 2187 – 5
82 Arjun K. IND 2081 – 5
83 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 2200 – 4.5
84 Michelle Catherina P IND 2061 – 4.5
85 WFM Saranya J IND 2111 – 4.5
86 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 2404 – 4.5
87 Senthil Maran K IND 2104 – 4.5
88 Iniyan P IND 2131 – 4.5
89 Madhurima Shekhar IND 2012 – 4.5
90 FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 2084 – 4.5
91 Harini S. IND 2046 – 4.5
92 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv IND 2215 – 4.5
93 Ashwath R. IND 2216 – 4.5
94 Surendran N. IND 2197 – 4.5
95 Niraj Saripalli IND 2121 – 4.5
96 Pranav Shetty IND 2217 – 4.5
97 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 2116 – 4.5
98 IM Rajesh V A V IND 2397 – 4.5
99 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar IND 2254 – 4.5
100 Vasli Aref IRI 2125 – 4.5
101 WGM Safranska Anda FRA 2261 – 4.5
102 Imocha Laishram IND 2179 – 4.5
103 Thing Bibek NEP 1979 – 4
104 Jyothilal N. IND 2009 – 4
105 Abhilash Reddy M.L. IND 2251 – 4
106 WIM Andrenko Irina UKR 2228 – 4
107 Pradip Tiwari IND 2030 – 4
108 Pranavananda V IND 2115 – 4
109 Sa Kannan IND 1908 – 4
110 FM Ortega Ruiz Jose Miguel ESP 2339 – 4
111 Gahan M.G. IND 2295 – 4
112 Bhambure Shantanu IND 2087 – 4
113 Gajwa Ankit IND 2215 – 4
114 Neelash Saha IND 2010 – 4
115 Lama Himal NEP 1937 – 4
116 Saurabh Anand IND 1892 – 4
117 Srinath Rao S.V. IND 2095 – 4
118 Prajesh R IND 2058 – 4
119 Sudarshan Malga IND 2089 – 4
120 Godbole Atharva IND 2065 – 4
121 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 2055 – 4
122 Raja Harshit IND 2144 – 4
123 Kulkarni Vinayak IND 2000 – 4
124 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 2123 – 4
125 Upadhyay R IND 1942 – 4
126 WFM Varshini V IND 2071 – 3.5
127 Sumit Grover IND 1952 – 3.5
128 Gavi Siddayya IND 1938 – 3.5
129 Mirzaad S.Wahabuddin AFG 2065 – 3.5
130 Santu Mondal IND 2178 – 3.5
131 Dahale Atul IND 2078 – 3.5
132 Snehal Bhosale IND 2087 – 3.5
133 Yohan J. IND 2124 – 3.5
134 Chakravarthi Y.V.K. IND 2062 – 3.5
135 Jayakumaar S IND 2053 – 3.5
136 Vikas R Sharma IND 2077 – 3.5
137 WFM Tarini Goyal IND 1966 – 3.5
138 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 2206 – 3.5
139 Kranti Kumar P. IND 1954 – 3.5
140 Priyanka Nutakki IND 1946 – 3.5
141 Mulay Pratik IND 1957 – 3.5
142 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 2058 – 3.5
143 Joshi Abhijeet IND 1883 – 3.5
144 CM Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor IND 1999 – 3.5
145 Adhithya S IND 1925 – 3.5
146 Badavath Anand IND 1896 – 3.5
147 Gandhi Anish IND 2118 – 3.5
148 Niklesh Kumar Jain IND 1866 – 3.5
149 FM Shrestha Sujendra Prasad NEP 1927 – 3.5
150 CM Aronyak Ghosh IND 2065 – 3
151 FM Tiwari Ashwani IND 2037 – 3
152 Negi Virender Singh IND 1962 – 3
153 De Silva Osheen SRI 1886 – 3
154 CM Govindasamy Nashlen RSA 1960 – 3
155 Rahul Srivatshav P IND 2093 – 3
156 Negi D.S. IND 1912 – 3
157 Deepak Rai IND 1855 – 3
158 Vantika Agrawal IND 1989 – 3
159 Rajesh Kumar Nath IND 1783 – 3
160 Alahakoon Isuru SRI 2042 – 2.5
161 Abdul Khaliq Wais AFG 2010 – 2.5
162 Nyland Thomas NOR 2013 – 2.5
163 Iasman Inna FRA 1950 – 2.5
164 Randil Lakshitha SRI 1924 – 2.5
165 Hemanth Raam IND 2015 – 2.5
166 WCM Govindasamy Seshni RSA 1608 – 2.5
167 Khadka Govinda NEP 1690 – 2.5
168 Aansh Gupta IND 1786 – 2.5
169 Ektova Elena RUS 1813 – 2.5
170 Ruiz Casado Francisco Javier ESP 2012 – 2
171 Rai Suman NEP 1761 – 2
172 Dave Shiv Shankar IND 1690 – 2
173 Mohammad Manik BAN 2011 – 1.5
174 Rishi Thariani IND 2027 – 1.5
175 Kavinda Akila SRI 1954 – 1.5
176 Jatinder Kapoor IND 1867 – 1.5
177 Mahajan Ritesh HKG 1649 – 1.5
