Five players sharing first place with 8.0 points each
The 1st Orissa International Open was held on 7-14th June at At- Hotel Swosti Plaza in Bhubaneswar. Among nearly 400 participants, there were strong guest Grandmasters from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Netehrlands and Bangladesh. Going into the last round, GM Igor Kurnosov held a half point advantage ahead of rest of the field, but he couldn’t beat GM Georgy Timoshenko’s active defence and had to concede a draw. This allowed Yuriy Kuzubov, Yuri Drozdovsky, Andrey Rychagov and untitled Indian player M S Thejkumar to join Kurnosov on the shared first place.
Top-seeded Sergei Tiviakov of Netherlands won in the last round for the final score of 7 points, but this was sufficient only for 14-40th tie. A selection of replayable games is bellow.
Round 10 top results:
GM Kurnosov Igor – GM Timoshenko Georgy ½ – ½
IM Adhiban B – GM Kuzubov Yuriy 0 – 1
GM Drozdovskij Yuri – GM Zinchenko Yaroslav 1 – 0
GM Gupta Abhijeet – Thejkumar M S 0 – 1
GM Rychagov Andrey – GM Ovetchkin Roman 1 – 0
GM Vorobiov Evgeny E – GM Ismagambetov Anuar ½ – ½
GM Zubarev Alexander – IM Himanshu Sharma ½ – ½
GM Hossain Enamul – IM Prasad Devaki V 1 – 0
GM Neelotpal Das – IM Narayanan Srinath ½ – ½
IM Saptarshi Roy – IM Khusnutdinov Rustam 0 – 1
FM Minhazuddin Ahmed – GM Temirbayev Serikbay ½ – ½
GM Bakre Tejas – FM Shyam Nikil P 1 – 0
Swapnil S Dhopade – IM Sethuraman S P 0 – 1
IM Venkatesh M R – Sangma Rahul 0 – 1
IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy – Jain Shreyansh Daklia 1 – 0
GM Tiviakov Sergei – FM Mohammed Abdul Malek 1 – 0
GM Vokarev Sergey – FM Maheswaran P 1 – 0
IM Laxman R R – IM Lahiri Atanu ½ – ½
WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman – IM Simutowe Amon 1 – 0
Anwesh Upadhyaya – GM Fominyh Alexander ½ – ½
Bitan Banerjee – GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 0 – 1
Final Standings:
1. GM Drozdovskij Yuri UKR 2603 – 8
2. GM Kurnosov Igor RUS 2658 – 8
3. GM Rychagov Andrey RUS 2530 – 8
4. GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2632 – 8
5. Thejkumar M S IND 2420 – 8
6. GM Hossain Enamul BAN 2531 – 7.5
7. GM Timoshenko Georgy UKR 2550 – 7.5
8. IM Sethuraman S P IND 2451 – 7.5
9. IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 2428 – 7.5
10. Sangma Rahul IND 2312 – 7.5
11. IM Khusnutdinov Rustam KAZ 2507 – 7.5
12. GM Ismagambetov Anuar KAZ 2525 – 7.5
13. GM Bakre Tejas IND 2452 – 7.5
14. GM Zubarev Alexander UKR 2566 – 7
15. IM Rathnakaran K IND 2427 – 7
16. GM Ovetchkin Roman RUS 2549 – 7
17. GM Vokarev Sergey RUS 2521 – 7
18. GM Zinchenko Yaroslav UKR 2531 – 7
19. GM Tiviakov Sergei NED 2697 – 7
20. IM Narayanan Srinath IND 2381 – 7
21. GM Vorobiov Evgeny E RUS 2596 – 7
22. IM Sengupta Deep IND 2466 – 7
23. Santu Mondal IND 2140 – 7
24. GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2570 – 7
25. IM Adhiban B IND 2483 – 7
26. GM Neelotpal Das IND 2514 – 7
27. IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2403 – 7
28. IM Saravanan V IND 2391 – 7
29. GM Temirbayev Serikbay KAZ 2458 – 7
30. FM Priyadharshan K IND 2411 – 7
31. IM Deshmukh Anup IND 2299 – 7
32. IM Sriram Jha IND 2453 – 7
33. FM Minhazuddin Ahmed BAN 2382 – 7
34. Shivananda B S IND 2378 – 7
35. WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman IND 2303 – 7
36. IM Suvrajit Saha IND 2380 – 7
37. IM Sareen Vishal IND 2380 – 7
38. WIM Padmini Rout IND 2238 – 7
39. Premnath R IND 2353 – 7
40. GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J IND 2482 – 7 etc
