NCTCC & Reykjavik - Updates

Ratings updated by considering the below tournaments.......

• Reykjavik - Rd 6
• Harika is doing well and is in joint 4th position with a score of 4.5/6 and is currently gaining almost 15 ELO with a performance rating of 2647
• Abhijeet Gupta & Eesha karavade are also in joint 4th position with 4.5/6
• National Club Team Chess Championship
• Air India won the tournament by winning all the 9 rounds
• PSPB finished 2nd by winning all the rounds except for the round against Air India
• Air India & PSPB qualify for the World Club Cup to be organized by Fide in July 2010
• Tejas Bakre was the best performance for Air India with a score of 7.0/8 and Rating Performance of 2673

Note: I was in hibernate mode last week :) Hence, no updates........

National Club Team Chess Championship 2010 - Rd 3 Live

• National Club Team Chess Championship 2010 - Rd 3 Live Games
• Sasikiran & Negi are playing in Rd 3
• Sasikiran has already won his game against C Praveen Kumar (2421)
• Negi's game against IM Sriram Jha (2511) is in progress

• National Club Team Chess Championship 2010 - Rd 2
• Arun Prasad won his game to help PSPB to joint lead along with LIC with full points
• Ratings updated after Rd 2

National Club Team Chess Championship 2010 - Rd 1 Live

Sasikiran & Negi aren't back from their respective overseas tournaments yet to participate in Rd 1

Live games

Cappelle la Grande - Final Rd

Ratings updated.......

• Cappelle la Grande - Final Rd (Final Standings)
• Negi, Chanda & Gopal drew their games while Gupta won his game
• Negi finished joint 2nd and 4th on tie-breaks with a score of 7.0/9 (Rating Performance: 2663)
• Chanda finished 21st with a score of 6.5/9 (Rating Performance: 2613)
• Gopal finished 34th with a score of 6.0/9 (Rating Performance: 2622)
• Gupta finished 75th with a score of 6.0/9 (Rating Performance: 2423)

Cappelle la Grande - Rd 7, Rd 8 & World Blitz Preliminaries

Ratings updated.......

• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 7
• Gopal (5.0/7) lost his game while Negi (5.5/7), Chanda (5.0/7) & Gupta (4.0/7) won their games
• Negi is sharing 4nd spot with 7 other players, half a point behind the leaders

• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 8
• Gopal (5.5/7) drew his game while Negi (6.5/8), Chanda (6.0/8) & Gupta (5.0/8) won their games
• Negi is sharing 2nd spot with 1 other player, half a point behind the leader
• Negi is up against the current leader and has white pieces and has a chance to finish top if he can win this round

• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 9 pairings (Games will start at 9 AM GMT - Live Games - Top 20 boards)
• Parimarjan Negi (2621) - Yaroslav Zherebukh (2527)
• Sandipan Chanda (2622) - Grzegorz Gajewski (2568)
• Sebastian Bogner (2494) - GN Gopal (2584)
• Gerhard Lorscheid (2348) - Abhijeet Gupta (2577)
 
• World Blitz Preliminaries
• Vachier-Lagrave, Bu Xiangzhi, Nepomniachtchi, Rauf Mamedov, Boris Savchenko & Boris Grachev qualified for the finals
• Sasikiran was sharing 2nd spot after 5 rounds, but finished 30th after the 9th round with a score of 11.0/18
• Sasi won 2.0-0.0 against Azat Sharafiev (2439) in Rd 2, Ivan Salgado Lopez (2584) in Rd 4 & Alexei Gubajdullin (2296) in Rd 5
• Sasi won 1.5-0.5 against Roman Nechepurenko (2509) in Rd 1
• Sasi tied with 1.0-1.0 against Evgeniy Najer (2665) in Rd 6 & Dmitry Andreikin (2635) in Rd 8
• Sasi lost 0.5-1.5 to Maxim Rodshtein (2622) in Rd 3, Loek Van Wely (2641) in Rd 7 & Mikhail Kobalia (2637) in Rd 9

Aeroflot - Rd 9 (Completed) & Cappelle la Grande - Rd 6

Ratings updated.......

• Aeroflot - Rd 8
• Sasikiran lost to GM Alexander Motylev (2697)
• Sasikiran's live rating after this tournament is 2686.1 and most likely this will be his rating for the March List

• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 6
• Gopal (5.0/6) & Negi (4.5/6) won their games, Chanda (4.0/6) drew his game while Gupta (3.0/6) lost his game
• Gopal is performing at 2762 and is sharing the 2nd spot with 5 other players while Negi is performing at 2633
• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 7 pairings (Games will start at 1 PM GMT - Live Games - Top 20 boards)
• Julian Radulski (2577) - GN Gopal (2584)
• Parimarjan Negi (2621) - Kamil Dragun (2300)
• Sandipan Chanda (2622) - Jean Hebert (2418)
• Abhijeet Gupta (2577) - Jean-Paul Maupin (2108)

Aeroflot - Rd 8 & Cappelle la Grande - Rd 5

Ratings updated........

• Aeroflot - Rd 8
• Sasikiran drew with GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2730)
• Sasikiran's live rating after this draw is 2690.5
• Aeroflot - Rd 9 pairings (Games will start at 12 Noon GMT - Live Games) 
• Krishnan Sasikiran - GM Alexander Motylev (2697)
• Sasikiran will gain 5.6 Elo to get to 2696.1, if he can win this round

• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 5
• Gopal (4.0/5) & Negi (3.5/5) drew while Chanda (3.5/5) & Gupta (3.0/5) won their games
• Gopal is sharing 2nd spot with 25 other players
• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 6 pairings (Games will start at 1 PM GMT - Live Games - Top 20 boards)
• GN Gopal - Alexandr Kharitonov (2538)
• Sandipan Chanda - Jorge Cori (2483)
• Igor Naumkin (2484) - Parimarjan Negi
• David Klein (2262) - Abhijeet Gupta

Cappelle la Grande - Rd 4

Ratings updated...........

• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 4
• Gopal (3.5/4), Negi (3.0/4) & Chanda (2.5/4) won their games while Gupta (2.0/4) drew his game
• Gopal is sharing 2nd spot with 7 other players
• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 5 pairings (Games will start at 1 PM GMT - Live Games - Top 20 boards)
• Amin Bassem (2544) - GN Gopal
• Parimarjan Negi - Jean-Luc Chabanon (2445)
• Jusefs Petkevich (2392) - Sandipan Chanda
• Abhijeet Gupta - Felix Stips (2209)

Aeroflot - Rd 7 & Cappelle la Grande - Rd 3

Ratings updated...........

• Aeroflot - Rd 7
• Sasikiran drew with GM Bacrot (2713)
• Sasikiran's live rating after round 7 is 2689.4
• Aeroflot - Rd 8 pairings (Games will start at 12 Noon GMT - Live Games)
• Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2730) - Krishnan Sasikiran
• Sasikiran will gain 6.1 Elo to get to 2695.5, if he can win this round
• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 3
• Gopal & Negi drew their games while Chanda & Gupta lost to lowly rated opponents
• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 4 pairings (Games in progress - Live Games - Top 20 boards)
• GN Gopal - Nils Grandelius (2515)
• Sampsa Nyysti (2363) - Parimarjan Negi
• Sandipan Chanda - Arthur Guenthner (1858)
• Arlette Van Weersel (2179) - Abhijeet Gupta

Aeroflot - Rd 6 & Cappelle la Grande - Rd 2

Ratings updated...........

• Aeroflot - Rd 6
• Sasikiran drew with GM Boris Savchenko (2638)
• 4.0/6 with a Performance rating of 2726
• Sasikiran's current live rating is 2688.6
• Aeroflot - Rd 7 pairings (Games will start at 12 Noon GMT - Live Games)
• Krishnan Sasikiran - Etienne Bacrot
• A win for Sasi will see him gain 5.8 Elo taking his live rating to 2694.4
• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 2
• Chanda, Negi & Gupta drew with lowly rated opponents
• Gopal won his game and is in joint lead with 2.0/2 along with 21 other players 
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   Cappelle la Grande - Rd 3 pairings (Games will start at 8 AM GMT - Live Games - Top 20 boards)
• Manuel Rivas Pastor (2531) - GN Gopal
• Sebastian Bogner (2494) - Sandipan Chanda
• Parimarjan Negi - Bogdan Lalic (2494)
• Abhijeet Gupta - David Housieaux (2423)

Cappelle la Grande - Rd 1

Ratings updated.....

• Chanda, Negi, Gopal & Gupta won their Rd 1 games and are in the lead with 81 other players
• Gopal has crossed the 2600 mark for the first time in the live ratings.
• Round 2 pairings (Games will start at 3 PM GMT)
• Sandipan Chanda - Reynaldo Vera Gonzalez-Queved 2499
• Jean-Pierre Le Roux 2497 - Parimarjan Negi
• GN Gopal - Vasile Sanduleac 2466
• Jean-Luc Chabanon 2445 - Abhijeet Gupta

(Indian) National Club Team Chess Championship from 21-Feb-2010

The (Indian) National Club Team Chess Championship will be held from 21-Feb-2010 to 28-Feb-2010.

The top 2 teams from this Championship (since there are less than 20 GMs participating) will be eligible to participate in the World Club Cup to be held from 11th to 20th July in Dubai

Below is the list of Grand Masters scheduled to participate in this tournament:

• Sasikiran
• Parimarjan Negi
• Arun Prasad
• Abhijit Kunte
• S Kidambi
• Deepan Chakarvarthy
• RR Laxman
• Sriram Jha
• Tejas Bakre

More information & schedule is available at the below links....

http://haryanachess.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=55

http://www.indianchessfed.org/News/2010/nationals2010/nationalteam/Confirmedlistofparticipants.asp

Aeroflot - Rd 5 & Cappelle la Grande - Rd 1 Live

Ratings updated.........

• Aeroflot - Rd 5
• Sasikiran drew his game with GM Cheparinov (2660) and is at 3.5/5 still half a point behind the leaders
• Sasikiran's live rating after Rd 5 is 2688.8, still 4 rounds to go and if Sasi can win 2 of those rounds, he has a chance to touch the 2700 mark for the March rating list.....
• Cappelle la Grande - Rd 1 Live games here
• Vladimir Sveshnikov (2381) - Sandipan Chanda (2622)
• Parimarjan Negi (2621) - Cor Van Dongen (2380)
• Stefan Kuipers (2340) - G N Gopal (2584)
• Abhijeet Gupta (2577) - Ivan Kuhlmann Nogueira (2335)

Aeroflot - Rd 4

Ratings updated......

Sasikiran won and is at 3.0/4 and is sharing the 3rd spot with 5 others, half a point behind the 2 leaders....

Aeroflot - Rd 3

Ratings updated.......

• Sasikiran drew his game with GM Weiqi Zhou (2600) and has a score of 2.0/3

Aeroflot Open - Rd 2

Ratings Updated......

• Sasikiran won his game against GM Ghaem Maghami (2589)

Aeroflot Open - Live

Games will start in 30 minutes from now...

Live games

Rd 1 pairings involving Indians

• A1 Group
• GM Melkumyan, Hrant 0.0 ARM 2583 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan 0.0 IND 2653
• A2 Group
• IM Ashwin, Jayaram 0.0 IND 2434 GM Nikolenko, Oleg 0.0 RUS 2536
• WGM Karavade, Eesha w 0.0 IND 2405 GM Glek, Igor 0.0 GER 2483
• Arslanov, Shamil 0.0 RUS 2403 IM Harika, Dronavalli w 0.0 IND 2471

Moscow Rd 9

Ratings updated........

Sasikiran drew his game with GM Bareev (2643) in an opposite color bishop ending and finished with a score of 6.5/9 for joint 5th position....

Next up, he will be playing in the A1 group of Aeroflot Open. The games will start from 9th Feb here

Moscow Rd 8

Ratings updated........

Sasikiran lost his game to GM Le Quang Liem (2647)

Moscow Rd 7 - Sasikiran in sole lead

Sasikiran won his Rd 7 game against GM Dmitry Andreikin (2635) and is in sole lead with a score of 6.0/7 and a Rating Performance of 2841. He is scheduled to play GM Le Quang Liem (2648) in the penultimate round of the tournament. With just 2 rounds to go he is half a point ahead of the other contenders and it is his tournament to lose from here.

Sasikiran had an amazing run of success during the last 2 months where he played Asian Team Championship, World Team Championship & is now playing in Moscow Open. Sasikiran will continue his Russa trip by playing in the A1 Group of the Aeroflot Open.

Sasikiran's current live rating is 2688.1 which is a gain of 35.1 over his Jan rating and he has gained 13.8 elo from the Moscow open so far.

All the best Sasi, to touch that 2700 mark again, which is possible before the March rating list if he can finish this tournament and contine the good form he is in into the Aeroflot Open.......

Keep watching this space for more updates....

Update: Chennai Open Rd 11, Moscow Open Rd 6, Gibraltar Rd 10

Ratings have been updated....

• Chennai Open Rd 11
• Arun Prasad drew his last round game with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury and finished with 7.5/11 to share 23-50 position
• M R Lalith Babu drew his last round with Richard Bitoon (PHI, 2458) and finished for shared 2-4 position along with R Siddharth & Ziaur Rahman with a score of 9.0/11
• Moscow Open Rd 6
• Sasikiran won his game against GM Denis Khismatullin (2651) and is in joint lead with 4 others with a score of 5.0/6. Sasikiran is up against GM Dmitry Andreikin (2635) in the 7th round
• Gibraltar Rd 10
• Sandipan Chanda won his last round game against IM Lela Javakhishvili (2493) and finished joint first with 8 others with a score of 7.5/10
• Sandipan lost to GM Vallejo Pons (2705) in the semi final of the play-offs (4 players with the highest Rating Performance qualified) and ended up 4th in the final standings
• Koneru Humpy drew with IM Drasko Boskovic (2454) and finished shared 10-20 position with a score of 7.0/10
• Humpy finished 2nd behind WGM Natalia Zhukova (2462) in the Women's players on performance rating
• G N Gopal defeated GM Antoneta Stefanova (2545) finished joint first with 8 others with a score of 7.5/10
• D Harika won against Andre Gordon (2308) and finished with a score of 6.5/10
• Tania Sachdev lost to GM Vinay Bhat (2540) and finished with a score of 5.5/10
• Eesha Karavade won against Chukwuka Allor (2100) and finished with a score of 6.5/10
• Saravanan won against Michael Tscharotshkin and finished with a score of 6.0/10
• Kruttika Nadig won against Alan Byron and finished with a score of 5.0/10

Ratings Updated....

Ratings have been updated after Chennai Open Rd 11, Moscow Open Rd 5 & Gibraltar Rd 10.

• Gibraltar
• Chanda, Humpy & Gopal are tied for 5-18 positions with 6.5/10, half-a-point behind the leaders before the last round
• 6 of the top board games of Gibraltar Rd 11 will be starting at 10:00 AM local time
• Other boards will start at the regular time
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   Moscow Open
• Sasikiran is tied for 2-15 position with 4.0/5

Update: Chennai Open Rd 9, Moscow Open Rd 3, Gibraltar Rd 7

Ratings have been updated....

• Chennai Open Rd 9
• Arun Prasad lost to Vikramaditya Kamble
• M R Lalith Babu came back into contention with a win against Shyam Nikil after his last round loss to the leader Maxim Turov

• Moscow Open Rd 3
• Sasikiran won his game against Andrei Belozerov (2488) and is up against GM Aleksandr Shimanov (2535) in the 4th round

• Gibraltar Rd 7
• Sandipan Chanda drew with GM Jan Gustafsson (2627) and is in joint lead with 5.5/7
• Koneru Humpy won against GM Namig Guliyev (2516) and is in joint lead with 5.5/7
• G N Gopal drew his game with GM Michael Hoffman (2508) and has 5.0/7
• D Harika lost to GM Stelios Halkias (2566) and has 4.5/7
• Tania Sachdev won and has 4.5/7
• Eesha Karavade drew her game and is at 4.0/7
• Saravanan lost and is at 4.0/7
• Kruttika Nadig won and is at 3.5/7