MPL 59th National Chess Championship of India commenced on Thursday in New Delhi. The event takes place from 22nd December 2022 to 3rd January 2023 with 200 participants competing over 13 rounds. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move one.
After four played rounds, GM Abhijeet Gupta and IM Chatterjee Koustav tie for top with perfect score of 4/4 points. A group of 10 players follow trailing by half a point: GM Iniyan P, IM Gnosh Aronyak, FM Vedant Panesar, GM Deep Sengupta, GM Guha Mitrabha, GM Sethuraman, GM Visakh N R, IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh, IM Kushagra Mohan and GM Neelotpal Das.
MPL 59th Indian Chess Championship – LIVE games
MPL 59th Indian Chess Championship – Rankings after 4 played rounds:
| Rk. | Name | sex | FED | Rtg | Club/City | Pts. | |
| 1 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2601 | PSPB | 4 | |
| 2 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2508 | West Bengal | 4 | |
| 3 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2507 | Tamil Nadu | 3.5 | |
| 4 | IM | Aronyak Ghosh | IND | 2521 | RSPB | 3.5 | |
| 5 | FM | Panesar Vedant | IND | 2387 | Maharashtra | 3.5 | |
| 6 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2486 | PSPB | 3.5 | |
| 7 | GM | Mitrabha Guha | IND | 2487 | West Bengal | 3.5 | |
| 8 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2642 | PSPB | 3.5 | |
| 9 | GM | Visakh N R | IND | 2544 | RSPB | 3.5 | |
| 10 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2433 | Maharashtra | 3.5 | |
| 11 | IM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2390 | Telangana | 3.5 | |
| 12 | GM | Neelotpal Das | IND | 2384 | PSPB | 3.5 | |
| 13 | IM | Nitin S. | IND | 2372 | RSPB | 3 | |
| 14 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2503 | Andhra Pradesh | 3 | |
| 15 | Subhayan Kundu | IND | 2319 | West Bengal | 3 | ||
| Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri | IND | 2243 | Telangana | 3 | |||
| 17 | IM | Harshavardhan G B | IND | 2434 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | |
| 18 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2367 | West Bengal | 3 | ||
| 19 | Sahoo Utkal Ranjan | IND | 2333 | Odisha | 3 | ||
| 20 | Dere Pushkar | IND | 2114 | Maharashtra | 3 | ||
| 21 | IM | Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H. | IND | 2405 | RSPB | 3 | |
| 22 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | IND | 2475 | West Bengal | 3 | |
| IM | Praveen Kumar C | IND | 2212 | RSPB | 3 | ||
| 24 | IM | Krishna C R G | IND | 2480 | RSPB | 3 | |
| 25 | IM | Saravana Krishnan P. | IND | 2244 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | |
| 26 | Anadkat Kartavya | IND | 2147 | Gujarat | 3 | ||
| 27 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2429 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | |
| 28 | FM | Mohamed Anees M | IND | 2237 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | |
| 29 | GM | Karthikeyan P. | IND | 2316 | RSPB | 3 | |
| 30 | FM | Sekar B | IND | 2358 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | |
| 31 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | IND | 2526 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | |
| 32 | Sai Vishwesh.C | IND | 2219 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | ||
| 33 | GM | Venkatesh M.R. | IND | 2459 | PSPB | 3 | |
| 34 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | IND | 2414 | Madhya Pradesh | 3 | |
| 35 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2490 | RSPB | 3 | |
| 36 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | IND | 2566 | Goa | 3 | |
| Garv Rai | IND | 2181 | Delhi | 3 | |||
| 38 | IM | Rajesh V A V | IND | 2314 | RSPB | 3 | |
| 39 | Shet Prajwal P | IND | 2064 | Karnataka | 3 | ||
| 40 | GM | Sriram Jha | IND | 2337 | LIC | 3 | |
| 41 | IM | Ratnakaran K. | IND | 2304 | RSPB | 3 | |
| 42 | Hari Madhavan N B | IND | 2385 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | ||
| 43 | IM | Audi Ameya | IND | 2401 | Goa | 3 | |
| 44 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2372 | RSPB | 3 | |
| Bharadia Yash | IND | 2117 | Rajasthan | 3 | |||
| 46 | CM | Soham Kamotra | IND | 2329 | Jammu and Kashmir | 3 | |
| 47 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2325 | Tamil Nadu | 2.5 | |
| 48 | FM | Krishnan Ritvik | IND | 2266 | Maharashtra | 2.5 | |
| 49 | Ujjawal Bansal | IND | 1574 | Gujarat | 2.5 | ||
| 50 | IM | Utsab Chatterjee | IND | 2350 | West Bengal | 2.5 | |
| IM | Vardaan Nagpal | IND | 2329 | Haryana | 2.5 | ||
| 52 | Gandhi Anish | IND | 2197 | Maharashtra | 2.5 | ||
| 53 | IM | Avinash Ramesh | IND | 2327 | Tamil Nadu | 2.5 | |
| Badamundi Tapan | IND | 1736 | Odisha | 2.5 | |||
| 55 | Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni | IND | 2177 | Telangana | 2.5 | ||
| 56 | Shreyansh Daklia | IND | 2165 | Chhattisgarh | 2.5 | ||
| 57 | Nagare Kaivalya Sandip | IND | 2124 | Maharashtra | 2.5 | ||
| 58 | Pattnayak Nilsu | IND | 1956 | Odisha | 2.5 | ||
| 59 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2493 | RSPB | 2.5 | |
| 60 | Badrinath S. | IND | 1938 | Puducherry | 2.5 | ||
| 61 | Akshit Kumar J | IND | 2158 | Andhra Pradesh | 2.5 | ||
| 62 | FM | Ayushh Ravikumar | IND | 1994 | Tamil Nadu | 2.5 | |
| 63 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | IND | 2346 | Delhi | 2.5 | |
| 64 | Nirgun Keval | IND | 1785 | Maharashtra | 2.5 | ||
| 65 | Dhananjay S | IND | 2199 | Chhattisgarh | 2.5 | ||
| 66 | Imocha Laishram | IND | 2054 | PSPB | 2.5 | ||
| 67 | IM | Das Sayantan | IND | 2475 | RSPB | 2.5 | |
| IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2438 | RSPB | 2.5 | ||
| 69 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2312 | Delhi | 2.5 | |
| Varun V | IND | 2250 | Telangana | 2.5 | |||
| CM | Mayank Chakraborty | IND | 2179 | Assam | 2.5 | ||
| 72 | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2341 | Madhya Pradesh | 2.5 | |
| 73 | Santanu Borpatra Gohain | IND | 1909 | Assam | 2.5 | ||
| 74 | Koustuv Dash | IND | 1929 | Odisha | 2.5 | ||
| 75 | CM | Borgaonkar Akshay | IND | 2135 | Maharashtra | 2.5 | |
| 76 | Manigandan S S | IND | 2074 | Tamil Nadu | 2.5 | ||
| 77 | AFM | Pawar Harshit | IND | 2110 | Delhi | 2.5 | |
| 78 | Sudarshan Bhat | IND | 2100 | Karnataka | 2.5 | ||
| 79 | Amit Dhoundiyal | IND | 1475 | Uttarakhand | 2.5 | ||
| 80 | CM | Sahib Singh | IND | 2034 | Delhi | 2.5 | |
| 81 | Adireddy Arjun | IND | 1980 | Telangana | 2.5 | ||
| 82 | IM | Shahil Dey | IND | 2381 | Assam | 2 | |
| 83 | Srihari L | IND | 2356 | Puducherry | 2 | ||
| 84 | IM | Ajay Krishna S | IND | 2383 | Tamil Nadu | 2 | |
| 85 | CM | Bagwe Gaurang | IND | 2131 | Maharashtra | 2 | |
| 86 | Surendran N | IND | 2168 | Tamil Nadu | 2 | ||
| 87 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2387 | Karnataka | 2 | |
| 88 | Sanjay S Pillai | IND | 1799 | Kerala | 2 | ||
| 89 | Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy | IND | 1725 | Uttar Pradesh | 2 | ||
| 90 | Sharsha Backer | IND | 2008 | Kerala | 2 | ||
| 91 | FM | Srinivasa Rao M. | IND | 2142 | Andhra Pradesh | 2 | |
| 92 | Barath Kalyan M | IND | 2061 | Tamil Nadu | 2 | ||
| 93 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2172 | Haryana | 2 | |
| 94 | Kishan Gangolli | IND | 2059 | Karnataka | 2 | ||
| 95 | Mahindrakar Indrajeet | IND | 1957 | Maharashtra | 2 | ||
| 96 | Nagare Akhilesh | IND | 2119 | Maharashtra | 2 | ||
| Daaevik Wadhawan | IND | 1780 | Delhi | 2 | |||
| 98 | CM | Garv Gaur | IND | 1973 | Haryana | 2 | |
| 99 | Gautam Kataria | IND | 1666 | Rajasthan | 2 | ||
| 100 | Lad Mandar Pradip | IND | 1727 | Goa | 2 | ||
| 101 | IM | Sharma Dinesh K. | IND | 2239 | LIC | 2 | |
| 102 | Peter Anand A | IND | 1916 | Puducherry | 2 | ||
| Nawin M S | IND | 1856 | Tamil Nadu | 2 | |||
| FM | Venkata Krishna Karthik K | IND | 1839 | Andhra Pradesh | 2 | ||
| Aakash G | IND | 1830 | Tamil Nadu | 2 | |||
| Umashankar A | IND | 1814 | Puducherry | 2 | |||
| 107 | Ajit Singh | IND | 1749 | Jammu and Kashmir | 2 | ||
| 108 | Gurung Rahul | IND | 2028 | Sikkim | 2 | ||
| 109 | Devansh Singh | IND | 1613 | Madhya Pradesh | 2 | ||
| 110 | Gajendra Singh | IND | 1801 | LIC | 2 | ||
| 111 | Arun Kataria | IND | 1913 | Rajasthan | 2 | ||
| 112 | Mithun Anand V | IND | 1848 | Tamil Nadu | 2 | ||
| 113 | Tamojit Chakraborty | IND | 1881 | West Bengal | 2 | ||
| 114 | Nirnay Garg | IND | 1784 | Haryana | 2 | ||
| 115 | Barbith M Sangma | IND | 1664 | Meghalaya | 2 | ||
| 116 | Uddipan Roy | IND | 1762 | West Bengal | 2 | ||
| 117 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2457 | RSPB | 2 | |
| 118 | Mohit Kumar Soni | IND | 1773 | Bihar | 2 | ||
| 119 | Kumar Gaurav | IND | 2012 | Bihar | 2 | ||
| 120 | Mukesh Kumar | IND | 1586 | Bihar | 2 | ||
| 121 | Khalid Amin | IND | 1753 | Jammu and Kashmir | 2 | ||
| 122 | Iftikar Alom Mazumdar | IND | 1714 | Assam | 1.5 | ||
| 123 | Grahesh Y | IND | 2078 | Andhra Pradesh | 1.5 | ||
| 124 | GM | Swapnil S. Dhopade | IND | 2499 | RSPB | 1.5 | |
| Vivaan Vishal Shah | IND | 1873 | Gujarat | 1.5 | |||
| 126 | AGM | Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat | IND | 1782 | Rajasthan | 1.5 | |
| 127 | Abhash Roimya Saikia | IND | 1760 | Assam | 1.5 | ||
| Arshiya Das | w | IND | 1640 | Tripura | 1.5 | ||
| 129 | AFM | Shubhi Gupta | w | IND | 1762 | Uttar Pradesh | 1.5 |
| 130 | FM | Singh Ojasva | IND | 2366 | Madhya Pradesh | 1.5 | |
| 131 | Nambiar Vivek | IND | 1969 | Karnataka | 1.5 | ||
| 132 | Yuvraj Singh | IND | 1516 | Punjab | 1.5 | ||
| 133 | Prithvvi Singh | IND | 1779 | Uttar Pradesh | 1.5 | ||
| 134 | Dubey Sanchay | IND | 1909 | Uttar Pradesh | 1.5 | ||
| 135 | Gurung Rohit | IND | 1948 | Sikkim | 1.5 | ||
| 136 | AGM | Sparsh Khandelwal | IND | 1858 | Chhattisgarh | 1.5 | |
| 137 | Kulkarni Vinayak | IND | 2052 | Karnataka | 1.5 | ||
| 138 | Rupam Mukherjee | IND | 1838 | West Bengal | 1.5 | ||
| 139 | Aarav Sinha | IND | 1854 | Delhi | 1.5 | ||
| 140 | IM | Neelash Saha | IND | 2429 | West Bengal | 1.5 | |
| 141 | CM | Nayak Rajesh | IND | 2184 | Odisha | 1.5 | |
| Mishra Kamad | IND | 1653 | Madhya Pradesh | 1.5 | |||
| 143 | Suryansh Verma | IND | 1370 | Himachal Pradesh | 1.5 | ||
| 144 | Goel Pratyaksh | IND | 1717 | Chandigarh | 1.5 | ||
| Sachi Jain | w | IND | 1617 | Delhi | 1.5 | ||
| 146 | Ali Amanat | IND | 1277 | Goa | 1.5 | ||
| 147 | Avigyan Ghosh | IND | 1739 | Tripura | 1.5 | ||
| 148 | Bhoopnath | IND | 1707 | Bihar | 1.5 | ||
| 149 | Koneru Charan Kumar | IND | 1488 | Andhra Pradesh | 1.5 | ||
| 150 | Chandar Raju | IND | 1918 | Kerala | 1.5 |
