Deep beats Short, Gustafsson in the sole lead heading into the final round of 19th BCC Open 2019

by Shahid Ahmed - 13/04/2019

Gustafsson halted Duong The Anh's dream run when the latter blundered early in English Opening Flohr-Mikenas system. Duong's misplayed opening put Gustafsson in control and he won with ease in just 25 moves. Short gave up a piece for two pawns in the endgame which backfired as Deep capitalized and eventually scored a full point. Swapnil Dhopade defeated Villamayor Buenaventura to face Jan Gustafsson at the top board in the final round. Lalith Babu suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of IM Pascua Haridas of Philippines. The report contains photos, positions and games from the penultimate round 8. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Deep and Swapnil inches closer to the title

Deep got his revenge after two years at the same tournament at the exact same round | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

In Ruy Lopez, Short equalized with Black pieces easily. However, he made only one questionable decision in the entire game which turned things against him.

If Short feels like questioning any of his decisions from the penultimate round game, then the question will be, "Why did I play 33...Ne5? "

Duong The Anh's dream run gets stopped by Gustafsson

Unfortunately for Duong, he never got off to a proper start and started crumbling early in the opening in English Opening Flohr-Mikenas variation.

Gustaffson is already looking ahead for his next opponent whom he will face in the final round | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Duong The Anh fell early into trouble when he played 11...Be6. What should he have played instead?

Swapnil Dhopade defeated Villamayor Buenaventura of Philippines to set a date with Gustafsson in the final round | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Haridas Pascua shocked reigning National Rapid Champion GM Lalith Babu | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Lalith Babu played 23...fxe4. Find out the best continuation for White here

Round 8 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	6	1 - 0	6	IM	Duong The Anh	2302	24
2	4	GM	Sengupta Deep	2551	5½	1 - 0	6	GM	Short Nigel D	2636	1
3	14	IM	Pascua Haridas	2426	5½	1 - 0	5½	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2577	3
4	12	IM	Lou Yiping	2482	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2505	7
5	16	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	2398	5½	0 - 1	5½	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2488	9
6	10	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2487	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Schebler Gerhard	2385	17
7	19	IM	Roy Prantik	2374	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Kunte Abhijit	2485	11
8	5	GM	Zhao Zong-Yuan	2529	5	1 - 0	5½		Salvador Louie	2270	27
9	6	GM	Stella Andrea	2512	5	1 - 0	5	WFM	Cholleti Sahajasri	2232	31
10	8	GM	Ly Moulthun	2490	5	½ - ½	5	WIM	Varshini V	2182	35
11	18	GM	Sriram Jha	2381	5	½ - ½	5	FM	Habla Jony	2146	37
12	32	IM	Damia Angelo	2215	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	2345	20
13	48		Saptorshi Gupta	2051	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Bellon Lopez Juan Manuel	2343	21
14	62		Sarbojit Paul	1984	5	1 - 0	5		Neelash Saha	2303	23
15	30	FM	Sauravh Khherdekar	2247	5	½ - ½	5		Sanket Chakravarty	1887	84
16	43		Sonkalan Bharati	2092	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Horvath Jozsef	2479	13
17	45	CM	Laine Panu	2076	4½	0 - 1	4½	FM	Menkinoski Riste	2306	22
18	55		Eng Jia Qian	2033	4½	0 - 1	4½	FM	Susilodinata Andrean	2296	25
19	26	WIM	Luong Phuong Hanh	2273	4½	1 - 0	4½		Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar	1998	59

Complete round 8 results

Round 9 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	9	GM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2488	6½		7	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	2
2	14	IM	Pascua Haridas	2426	6½		6½	GM	Sengupta Deep	2551	4
3	1	GM	Short Nigel D	2636	6		6	IM	Lou Yiping	2482	12
4	11	GM	Kunte Abhijit	2485	6		6	GM	Zhao Zong-Yuan	2529	5
5	17	GM	Schebler Gerhard	2385	6		6	GM	Stella Andrea	2512	6
6	7	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2505	6		6	IM	Roy Prantik	2374	19
7	24	IM	Duong The Anh	2302	6		6	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2487	10
8	3	GM	Lalith Babu M R	2577	5½		6		Sarbojit Paul	1984	62
9	37	FM	Habla Jony	2146	5½		5½	GM	Ly Moulthun	2490	8
10	35	WIM	Varshini V	2182	5½		5½	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	2398	16
11	65		Mohd Saprin Amir Ghaazi	1971	5½		5½	GM	Sriram Jha	2381	18
12	20	IM	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	2345	5½		5½	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2197	34
13	21	GM	Bellon Lopez Juan Manuel	2343	5½		5½	IM	Damia Angelo	2215	32
14	22	FM	Menkinoski Riste	2306	5½		5½		Looi Xin Hao	2145	38
15	25	FM	Susilodinata Andrean	2296	5½		5½		Saptorshi Gupta	2051	48
16	84		Sanket Chakravarty	1887	5½		5½	WIM	Luong Phuong Hanh	2273	26
17	27		Salvador Louie	2270	5½		5½		Razali Muhd Syukur	1792	112
18	67		Sibi Visal R	1955	5½		5½	FM	Sauravh Khherdekar	2247	30
19	13	GM	Horvath Jozsef	2479	5		5		Tantipura Noppakorn	1945	70
20	15	GM	Barua Dibyendu	2409	5		5		Meenal Gupta	1878	88

Complete round 9 pairings

Round 6 Challengers results

Bo.	No.	Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	4	Chirananthavat Theemathas	2042	5	0 - 1	4½		Portugalera Ric	2075	3
2	13	Shahid Ahmed S.K.	1900	4½	0 - 1	4½	WFM	Nguyen Thi Thuy Trien	2002	5
3	16	Loyaga Nathaniel	1865	4	0 - 1	4		Sacar Mohamad	2092	1
4	20	Calacday Henry	1820	4	0 - 1	4		Lozano Arvie	1989	7
5	77	Catayas Rodrigo	0	4	1 - 0	4		Samrat Ghorai	1933	11
6	14	Lovejoy David	1877	4	½ - ½	4		Borigas Edgardo	1745	22
7	2	Manaog Stewart	2080	3½	1 - 0	4		Hong Ian	1144	64
8	19	Bolduan Michael	1820	3½	0 - 1	3½		Tushar Anand	1953	9
9	26	Kapoor Satvik	1674	3½	½ - ½	3½		Naudin Yvan	1937	10
10	17	Nguyen Trong Hung	1853	3½	1 - 0	3½		De Jesus Normel Benigno	1648	27

Round 6 Challengers results

Round 7 pairings

Bo.	No.	Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	Portugalera Ric	2075	5½		5½	WFM	Nguyen Thi Thuy Trien	2002	5
2	1	Sacar Mohamad	2092	5		5		Lozano Arvie	1989	7
3	77	Catayas Rodrigo	0	5		5		Chirananthavat Theemathas	2042	4
4	14	Lovejoy David	1877	4½		4½		Manaog Stewart	2080	2
5	9	Tushar Anand	1953	4½		4½		Nguyen Trong Hung	1853	17
6	22	Borigas Edgardo	1745	4½		4½		Shahid Ahmed S.K.	1900	13
7	6	Mahendran T.	2000	4		4		Kapoor Satvik	1674	26
8	8	Lysakov Anton	1987	4		4		Sushrutha Reddy	1627	28
9	10	Naudin Yvan	1937	4		4		Wong Zi Yue	1619	29
10	11	Samrat Ghorai	1933	4		4		Rohan Nag Chowdhury	1598	31

Complete round 7 pairings

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