Rating favorites with tough start at Asian Continental 2022

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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

1	IM	Atabayev Saparmyrat	TKM	2433	½ – ½	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	2687
2	GM	Narayanan.S.L	IND	2663	1 – 0	IM	Harshavardhan G B	IND	2433
3	IM	Nigmatov Ortik	UZB	2433	½ – ½	GM	Yakubboev Nodirbek	UZB	2663
4	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2645	1 – 0		Sattarov Bobir	UZB	2433
5	IM	Moksh Amit Doshi	IND	2430	½ – ½	GM	Aryan Chopra	IND	2629
6	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2625	1 – 0	IM	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	2408
7	IM	Anuj Shrivatri	IND	2407	0 – 1	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	2623
8	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	KAZ	2620	½ – ½	IM	Nitin S.	IND	2407
9	IM	Amartuvshin Ganzorig	MGL	2406	1 – 0	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2607
10	GM	Adhiban B.	IND	2603	1 – 0	GM	Neelotpal Das	IND	2400
11	IM	Shahil Dey	IND	2395	½ – ½	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	IND	2603
12	GM	Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	2582	½ – ½	GM	Hossain Enamul	BAN	2390
13	IM	Tologon Tegin Semetei	KGZ	2382	0 – 1	GM	Vokhidov Shamsiddin	UZB	2568
14	GM	Visakh N R	IND	2566	0 – 1	FM	Nurmamedov Azat	TKM	2382
15	FM	Singh Ojasva	IND	2382	0 – 1	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	IND	2558
16	GM	Iniyan P	IND	2541	½ – ½	GM	Laxman R.R.	IND	2378
17	FM	Saydaliev Saidakbar	UZB	2376	1 – 0	IM	Pranav V	IND	2530
18	GM	Arjun Kalyan	IND	2526	0 – 1		Sanket Chakravarty	IND	2372
19	IM	Dushyant Sharma	IND	2370	0 – 1	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	IND	2518
20	IM	De Silva L M S T	SRI	2516	½ – ½	FM	Panda Sambit	IND	2362
21	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND	2359	1 – 0	GM	Sankalp Gupta	IND	2502
22	IM	Pranav Anand	IND	2502	1 – 0	FM	Wagh Suyog	IND	2351
23	FM	Sharan Rao	IND	2350	1 – 0	GM	Sengupta Deep	IND	2497
24	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	IND	2496	+ – –		Utsab Chatterjee	IND	2345
25	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	IND	2343	½ – ½	IM	Suleymenov Alisher	KAZ	2491
26	IM	Atabayev Yusup	TKM	2490	0 – 1	IM	Viani Antonio Dcunha	IND	2342
27	IM	Avinash Ramesh	IND	2338	½ – ½	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	IND	2489
28	GM	Batchuluun Tsegmed	MGL	2487	1 – 0	FM	Ritviz Parab	IND	2337
29	IM	Raahul V S	IND	2333	½ – ½	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	2486
30	IM	Aditya Mittal	IND	2486	1 – 0	IM	Manish Anto Cristiano F	IND	2332
31	IM	Ratnakaran K.	IND	2329	½ – ½	IM	Vignesh N R	IND	2486
32	GM	Atabayev Maksat	TKM	2475	1 – 0	FM	Aaryan Varshney	IND	2312
33	FM	Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan	SRI	2310	0 – 1	GM	Chanda Sandipan	IND	2474
34	GM	Mitrabha Guha	IND	2474	1 – 0	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	2301
35	FM	Jain Kashish Manoj	IND	2300	0 – 1	GM	Raja Rithvik R	IND	2470
36	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	IND	2470	1 – 0	FM	Kakabayev Mergen	TKM	2285
37	FM	Aradhya Garg	IND	2284	0 – 1	GM	Bilguun Sumiya	MGL	2467
38	IM	Samant Aditya S	IND	2467	½ – ½	FM	Ayush Sharma	IND	2267
39	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	IND	2242	0 – 1	IM	Urazayev Arystanbek	KAZ	2458
40	IM	Abdisalimov Abdimalik	UZB	2457	0 – 1	CM	Muradov Soltan	TKM	2233
41	FM	Winkelman Albert	AUS	2229	1 – 0	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	IND	2451
42	IM	Vaishali R	IND	2451	0 – 1	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	IND	2197
43		Schain Randolph	CAM	2165	0 – 1	IM	Pranesh M	IND	2442
44	IM	Ajay Karthikeyan	IND	2441	½ – ½	FM	Jaiswal Rupesh	NEP	2135
45		Dang Vu Dung	VIE	2017	0 – 1	IM	Srihari L R	IND	2436
46	IM	Nitish Belurkar	IND	2435	1 – 0	FM	Muhammed Shuaau	MDV	2010

Asian Continental Chess 2022 Women section round 1

1	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND	2208	½ – ½	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2406
2	IM	Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel	MGL	2404	0 – 1	FM	Kurmangaliyeva Liya	KAZ	2199
3	WGM	Srija Seshadri	IND	2187	½ – ½	IM	Padmini Rout	IND	2390
4	IM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2376	1 – 0	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2181
5	WIM	Mrudul Dehankar	IND	2168	½ – ½	WGM	Vantika Agrawal	IND	2362
6	WGM	Yakubbaeva Nilufar	UZB	2350	½ – ½	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	IND	2162
7	WIM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	IND	2160	0 – 1	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	IND	2338
8	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2336	½ – ½	WFM	Harshini A	IND	2149
9	WGM	Varshini V	IND	2137	½ – ½	WGM	Vo Thi Kim Phung	VIE	2335
10	IM	Soumya Swaminathan	IND	2326	1 – 0	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND	2136
11	WIM	Tejaswini Sagar	IND	2112	0 – 1	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki	IND	2326
12	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2324	1 – 0	WIM	Priyanka K	IND	2096
13	WIM	Makhija Aashna	IND	2090	½ – ½	WGM	Nandhidhaa P V	IND	2309
14	WGM	Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii	MGL	2295	0 – 1	WGM	Swati Ghate	IND	2086
15	WFM	Ovezdurdyyeva Jemal	TKM	2061	½ – ½	WGM	Dauletova Gulmira	KAZ	2260
16	WIM	Cholleti Sahajasri	IND	2246	0 – 1	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2030
17		Veliyeva Hurma	TKM	2003	½ – ½	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	IND	2238
18	WIM	Sharma Isha	IND	2234	½ – ½	WFM	Lakshmi C	IND	1965
19		Ishvi Aggarwal	IND	1964	0 – 1	WIM	Kairbekova Amina	KAZ	2231
20	WIM	Balabayeva Xeniya	KAZ	2230	1 – 0	WFM	Zairbek Kyzy Begimai	KGZ	1930
21	WIM	Nguyen Thanh Thuy Tien	VIE	1910	0 – 1	WIM	Rakshitta Ravi	IND	2219
22	WFM	Munkhzul Davaakhuu	MGL	2218	0 – 1	WCM	Jannatul Ferdous	BAN	1861
23	WFM	Shohradova Lala	TKM	1856	0 – 1	WGM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	VIE	2217
24	WFM	Pandey Srishti	IND	2213	+ – –	WFM	Lohani Sujana	NEP	1716
25	WIM	Ranasinghe S D	SRI	1675	0 – 1	WIM	Salonika Saina	IND	2209