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Rating favorites with tough start at Asian Continental 2022

The Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022 got off to a rousing start at Leela Ambience Convention Hotel on Wednesday. 140 players from 13 Asian countries which include 31 Grandmasters, 46 International Masters, 14 Women Grandmasters and 17 Women International Masters (see all participants Open section / all participants Women section) are participating in this nine day long prestigious championship to decide the Asian champion. Apart from Asian supremacy, the event serves as qualification for the next year’s World Cup as the top four players in the Open and two players in the women’s category will secure their berth in the World cup.

Replay games day 1

On the opening day, top seeds and favourites Praggnandhaa and Tania Sachdev started their championship campaign with draws while ninth seed Abhijeet Gupta and women’s second seed Nomin Erdene Davaademberel of Mongolia suffered shock defeats to be the biggest casualties. Turkmenistan’s Saparmyrat Atabayev forced Pragganandhaa to sign the peace treaty after 47 moves while Tania settled for half point against Sakshi Chitlange after 26 moves that ended with three-fold repetition of moves. Gupta suffered a shock defeat by the hand of Amartuvshin Ganzorig of Mongolia and Liya Kurmangaliyeva got the better of Davaademberel.

In other upsets of the day, untitled Sanket Chakravarthy outwitted Grandmaster Arjun Kalyan while Sharan Rao outwitted Grandmaster Deep Sengupta. S Nitin and Moksh Amit Doshi held Kazakh Grandmaster Rinat Jumabayev and fifth seed Aryan Chopra respectively in the first round. 

Asian Continental Chess 2022 Open section round 1

1IMAtabayev SaparmyratTKM2433½ – ½GMPraggnanandhaa RIND2687
2GMNarayanan.S.LIND26631 – 0IMHarshavardhan G BIND2433
3IMNigmatov OrtikUZB2433½ – ½GMYakubboev NodirbekUZB2663
4GMSethuraman S.P.IND26451 – 0Sattarov BobirUZB2433
5IMMoksh Amit DoshiIND2430½ – ½GMAryan ChopraIND2629
6GMAravindh Chithambaram Vr.IND26251 – 0IMSammed Jaykumar SheteIND2408
7IMAnuj ShrivatriIND24070 – 1GMKarthikeyan MuraliIND2623
8GMJumabayev RinatKAZ2620½ – ½IMNitin S.IND2407
9IMAmartuvshin GanzorigMGL24061 – 0GMGupta AbhijeetIND2607
10GMAdhiban B.IND26031 – 0GMNeelotpal DasIND2400
11IMShahil DeyIND2395½ – ½GMPuranik AbhimanyuIND2603
12GMHarsha BharathakotiIND2582½ – ½GMHossain EnamulBAN2390
13IMTologon Tegin SemeteiKGZ23820 – 1GMVokhidov ShamsiddinUZB2568
14GMVisakh N RIND25660 – 1FMNurmamedov AzatTKM2382
15FMSingh OjasvaIND23820 – 1GMMendonca Leon LukeIND2558
16GMIniyan PIND2541½ – ½GMLaxman R.R.IND2378
17FMSaydaliev SaidakbarUZB23761 – 0IMPranav VIND2530
18GMArjun KalyanIND25260 – 1Sanket ChakravartyIND2372
19IMDushyant SharmaIND23700 – 1GMShyam Sundar M.IND2518
20IMDe Silva L M S TSRI2516½ – ½FMPanda SambitIND2362
21IMKrishna Teja NIND23591 – 0GMSankalp GuptaIND2502
22IMPranav AnandIND25021 – 0FMWagh SuyogIND2351
23FMSharan RaoIND23501 – 0GMSengupta DeepIND2497
24IMKoustav ChatterjeeIND2496+ – –Utsab ChatterjeeIND2345
25IMSidhant MohapatraIND2343½ – ½IMSuleymenov AlisherKAZ2491
26IMAtabayev YusupTKM24900 – 1IMViani Antonio DcunhaIND2342
27IMAvinash RameshIND2338½ – ½IMShyaamnikhil PIND2489
28GMBatchuluun TsegmedMGL24871 – 0FMRitviz ParabIND2337
29IMRaahul V SIND2333½ – ½GMKarthik VenkataramanIND2486
30IMAditya MittalIND24861 – 0IMManish Anto Cristiano FIND2332
31IMRatnakaran K.IND2329½ – ½IMVignesh N RIND2486
32GMAtabayev MaksatTKM24751 – 0FMAaryan VarshneyIND2312
33FMLiyanage Ranindu DilshanSRI23100 – 1GMChanda SandipanIND2474
34GMMitrabha GuhaIND24741 – 0IMChakravarthi Reddy MIND2301
35FMJain Kashish ManojIND23000 – 1GMRaja Rithvik RIND2470
36GMVenkatesh M.R.IND24701 – 0FMKakabayev MergenTKM2285
37FMAradhya GargIND22840 – 1GMBilguun SumiyaMGL2467
38IMSamant Aditya SIND2467½ – ½FMAyush SharmaIND2267
39IMSharma Dinesh K.IND22420 – 1IMUrazayev ArystanbekKAZ2458
40IMAbdisalimov AbdimalikUZB24570 – 1CMMuradov SoltanTKM2233
41FMWinkelman AlbertAUS22291 – 0IMPrraneeth VuppalaIND2451
42IMVaishali RIND24510 – 1IMSaravana Krishnan P.IND2197
43Schain RandolphCAM21650 – 1IMPranesh MIND2442
44IMAjay KarthikeyanIND2441½ – ½FMJaiswal RupeshNEP2135
45Dang Vu DungVIE20170 – 1IMSrihari L RIND2436
46IMNitish BelurkarIND24351 – 0FMMuhammed ShuaauMDV2010

Asian Continental Chess 2022 Women section round 1

1WIMChitlange SakshiIND2208½ – ½IMTania SachdevIND2406
2IMNomin-Erdene DavaademberelMGL24040 – 1FMKurmangaliyeva LiyaKAZ2199
3WGMSrija SeshadriIND2187½ – ½IMPadmini RoutIND2390
4IMKulkarni BhaktiIND23761 – 0IMMohota NishaIND2181
5WIMMrudul DehankarIND2168½ – ½WGMVantika AgrawalIND2362
6WGMYakubbaeva NilufarUZB2350½ – ½WIMAakanksha HagawaneIND2162
7WIMBommini Mounika AkshayaIND21600 – 1WGMDivya DeshmukhIND2338
8IMKaravade EeshaIND2336½ – ½WFMHarshini AIND2149
9WGMVarshini VIND2137½ – ½WGMVo Thi Kim PhungVIE2335
10IMSoumya SwaminathanIND23261 – 0WIMParnali S DhariaIND2136
11WIMTejaswini SagarIND21120 – 1WGMPriyanka NutakkiIND2326
12WGMGomes Mary AnnIND23241 – 0WIMPriyanka KIND2096
13WIMMakhija AashnaIND2090½ – ½WGMNandhidhaa P VIND2309
14WGMEnkhtuul Altan-UlziiMGL22950 – 1WGMSwati GhateIND2086
15WFMOvezdurdyyeva JemalTKM2061½ – ½WGMDauletova GulmiraKAZ2260
16WIMCholleti SahajasriIND22460 – 1WGMKiran Manisha MohantyIND2030
17Veliyeva HurmaTKM2003½ – ½WIMArpita MukherjeeIND2238
18WIMSharma IshaIND2234½ – ½WFMLakshmi CIND1965
19Ishvi AggarwalIND19640 – 1WIMKairbekova AminaKAZ2231
20WIMBalabayeva XeniyaKAZ22301 – 0WFMZairbek Kyzy BegimaiKGZ1930
21WIMNguyen Thanh Thuy TienVIE19100 – 1WIMRakshitta RaviIND2219
22WFMMunkhzul DavaakhuuMGL22180 – 1WCMJannatul FerdousBAN1861
23WFMShohradova LalaTKM18560 – 1WGMNguyen Thi Mai HungVIE2217
24WFMPandey SrishtiIND2213+ – –WFMLohani SujanaNEP1716
25WIMRanasinghe S DSRI16750 – 1WIMSalonika SainaIND2209

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