1st ever FIDE rated tournament in Silchar begins!

by Nongsha Angom - 27/09/2018

The Cachar District Chess Association (CDCA) is hosting its first international chess tournament in Silchar. The event kicked off on 26th September 2018. GM Dibyendu Barua is the top seed of the tournament followed by IM Sayantan Das of West Bengal and Australian IM Rishi Sardana. The event is a 10 round Swiss League and has attracted the participation of players from four countries. Moreover, the 209-player-field includes one Grandmaster, four International Masters and one Woman International Master. Below is a detailed report of Day 1 and 2 with a game annotated by Ravi Kant Tiwari.

Island of Peace hosted its first open rated chess tournament

Silchar, AKA the "Island of Peace", is the headquarters of Cachar district of the state of Assam in India. It is also the place where the world's first polo club was formed. In recent time, Silchar has conducted a lot of state events successfully and this has encouraged its district association to hold it's first ever open rated event.

GM Dibyendu Barua inaugurating the event along with Deputy Commissioner of Cachar District Dr. S.Lakshamana.

The event is organized by the Cachar District Chess Association (C.D.C.A) in the spacious and beautiful premises of Hotel Ellora, which is in the heart of the city. In total, the tournament has attracted a total of 209 players from 4 different countries with as many as 111 rated players.

Muskan Debnath of Tripura faced her first GM opponent in the first round.

9th Kandy Open Champion IM Suvrajit Shah against Princess of Tripura Arshiya Das.

IM Sayantan Das of West Bengal (left) is in joint lead after round 3 with 3.0/3 points.

IM Rishi Sardana from Australia had a tough time reaching the venue in time as his flight from Guwahati had an unexpected delay of more than 2 hours.

IM Neeraj K. Mishra has also joined the leaders after 3rd round with 3.0/3 points.

Former Asian Champion WIM Saheli Dhar-Barua was last seen in action in the recently concluded Diamond Cement GM Open in Bangladesh.

One of the best thing about the event is that the oldest and youngest player are both ladies.

73 years old Anju Sarkar from Tripura (Left) and 5 years old Niranjana Achyut Borah from Assam (Right) are the oldest and the youngest player of the event!

A major upset of round three was National U-9 runners up Mayank Chakraborty drew against WIM Saheli Dhar-Barua, Ravi Kant Tiwari has annotated the game for us.

Mayank Chakraborty has recently secured the runner up position in the 32nd National U-9 Championship held in Ranchi.

The glittering trophies of the Championship!

CM Aronyak Ghosh of West Bengal (Left) outplayed first rated player of Assam, Chingkhei Singh (Right) to maintain his lead with 3.0/3 points.

At the end of round 3 there as 21 players leading the event with 3.0/3 points.

Starting Ranking:

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg	sex	Typ	Gr
1	GM	Barua Dibyendu	5000025	IND	2443
2	IM	Das Sayantan	5034426	IND	2425
3	IM	Sardana Rishi	25004301	AUS	2407
4	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	25072846	IND	2331		U15
5	IM	Mishra Neeraj-Kumar	5000106	IND	2272
6	IM	Suvrajit Saha	5002532	IND	2224
7		Singh S. Vikramjit	5006090	IND	2192
8		Arpan Das	5007208	IND	2164
9		Singh Y. Dhanabir	5009723	IND	2098
10		Apollosana Mangang Rajkumar	5010349	IND	2082

Standing list after 3rd round:

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	8		Arpan Das				IND	2164	3,0	0,0	6,0	4,0	6,00
	15		Sharma Aribam M.				IND	1968	3,0	0,0	6,0	4,0	6,00
3	6	IM	Suvrajit Saha				IND	2224	3,0	0,0	5,5	4,0	5,50
4	2	IM	Das Sayantan				IND	2425	3,0	0,0	5,0	4,0	5,00
	4	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	U15			IND	2331	3,0	0,0	5,0	4,0	5,00
	10		Apollosana Mangang Rajkumar				IND	2082	3,0	0,0	5,0	4,0	5,00
	11		Singh Bhogen R K				IND	2033	3,0	0,0	5,0	4,0	5,00
	13	CM	Thapa Krishna				NEP	2026	3,0	0,0	5,0	4,0	5,00
	14		Majumdar Shankar				IND	2023	3,0	0,0	5,0	4,0	5,00
	19		Subedi Rajan				NEP	1896	3,0	0,0	5,0	4,0	5,00

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