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27th The Telegraph 2018 round 1-3: 37 players share lead with full point

by Shahid Ahmed - 15/12/2018

27th edition of The Telegraph Schools' Chess started 10 months after the previous edition concluded. This time over 425 children from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Philippines are participating. Youngest player of the meet Aayansh Burman of 4 years 9 months 0 days age made the inaugural move of the tournament. Top seeds had smooth sailing except a few upsets. Ninth seed of the tournament, Aditya Bikram Paul arrived late in the hall and he was shocked by unrated Agnivo Chakraborty in round 1, Shresth Mahapatra held Sadnan Hasan Dihan of Bangladesh to a draw in the 2nd round and Arunika Ghosh defeated Sambarta Banerjee in the 3rd round. In this report, we bring you photos, games and videos from round 1-3 of the tournament. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Frequent upsets in each round in the longest running school level tournament of the country

4 years 9 months 0 days old Aayansh Burman is the youngest participant of the tournament | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
Watch little Aayansh make the inaugural move of the tournament | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Ninth seed Aditya Bikram Paul was shocked by unrated Agnivo Chakraborty in round 1

Aditya Bikram Paul did not have a good start as he arrived late for round 1 and lost his game | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Despite gaining an exchange in early middle game, Aditya was unable to maintain advantage and he misplayed his opponent's attack and eventually lost the game.

Kazi Zarin Tasnim of Bangladesh lost to unrated Anshu Mondal | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Among other upsets of round 1:

Parjwal Basnet (1579, NEP) drew with Anurag Ganguly (IND)

Aranya Ghosh (IND) drew with CM Manon Raja Neer (1548, BAN)

Arka Datta Chaudhuri (IND) defeated Sinchan Basnet (1487, Nepal)

Bibhangshu Mandal (IND) defeated AFM Aditya Prasad (1422, IND)

Dahal Mission (1390, NEP) lost to Debankar Banerjee (IND)

Sadnan Hasan of Bangladesh held to a draw by Shresth Mahapatra in round 2

Sadnan Hasan Dihan (BAN) was surprised by much lower rated 11-year old Shresth Mahapatra | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Sadnan got an advantage in the middle game and had a winning position till the endgame when he fell into a perpetual check trap and the game ended up in a draw. 11-year old Shresth did not give up and maintained his perseverance which paid off.

Sadnan missed a win and fell into a perpetual. Can you find the winning continuation for Black?

Ujaan Bhattacharya drew with much higher rated Praloy Sahoo | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Avirup Das Neogi drew with Debarghya Samanta in Closed Sicilian | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
A quick interview with Rajdeep Sarkar at the conclusion of round 2 | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Among other upsets of round 2:

Tushar Bhunya (1134) drew with Arijit Mukherjee (1566)

Gairick Saha (1127) defeated Shounak Mazumder (1528)

Aditya Sinha (1114) defeated Sagnik Saha (1478)

Krish Adhikari (1452, NEP) drew with Saptarshi Talukdar (1109)

Atreya Nandy (1431) lost to Anirin Majumder (1091)

Eighth seeded Sambarta Banerjee suffered a loss against Arunika Ghosh

Sambarta Banerjee blundered against Arunika Ghosh | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Sambarta blundered in a completely drawn position in Rook-Knight vs. Rook-Bishop endgame.

Diya Chowdhury who is in a terrific form was halted to a draw by Soham Bhattacharyya (1290) in a marathon game spanning over 3.5 hours and 92 moves long | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Reigning West Bengal State under-11 champion Alekhya Mukhopadhyay rolled his eyes when he blundered a checkmate against Debaprabho Gorai (1295) | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

White blundered checkmate here with 29.f4. Find out a better continuation for White here

Among other upsets of round 3:

Swarnoj Saha Talukdar (1257) drew with Swapnil Priyadarshi (1559)

Pratyush Mohapatra (1249) drew with Dhritabrata Kundu (1527)

Anubhab Gupta (1491) lost to Oishik Kundu (1244)

Mortuza Muhtadi Islam (1435, BAN) lost to Gairick Saha (1127, IND)

Bratajit Mukherjee (1105) drew with CM Manon Reja Neer (1458, BAN)

Photo Gallery:

Tournament Gate

Youngest participant of the tournament Aayansh Burman of 4 years 9 months 0 days inaugurates with 1.e4

Top seed FM Rajdeep Sarkar picks up three quick wins

Second seed FM Mitrabha Guha is yet to face a stiff challenge. He is also at 3.0/3

Koustav Chatterjee cruised with three straight wins

Samriddhaa Ghosh had some long games but she never seemed to be in danger

The Main Playing Hall which was formerly known as 'House of Friendship' has witnessed the world's who's who in action including Vishy Anand, Viktor Korchnoi, Nigel Short, Daniel King and many more

Over 425 players are playing in six different tournament halls

Even the stage has been converted to a playing arena

Youngest Aayansh after losing his first tournament match

Kids make queue for lunch after round 2

Results of round 3 on 2018/12/15 at 3.00 p.m.

Bo.No. NameRtgPts.ResultPts.NameRtg No.
11
FMRajdeep Sarkar237021 - 02Sayandeep Roy1354
62
261
Uddipan Roy136320 - 12FMMitrabha Guha2351
2
33
Koustav Chatterjee234521 - 02Prayash Adhikari1346
64
463
Mouhurtik Ray135020 - 12Sanket Chakravarty1974
4
565
Sritama Sen134220 - 12Ghosh Samriddhaa1892
6
67
Rupam Mukherjee187521 - 02Shankhodip De1339
66
767
Arunika Ghosh133821 - 02Sambarta Banerjee1874
8
868
Jena Suhana133720 - 12Ayan Pal1827
10
969
Mrittika Mallick132620 - 12Soham Dey1770
12
1013
Bhattacharyya Soham172721 - 02Sayantan Das1325
70
1171
Arkya Chatterjee132120 - 12WCMNoshin Anjum1722
14
1215
Rounak Pathak171921 - 02Rowdrick Saha Talukdar1321
72
1373
Ujan Sarkar131720 - 12Mohanty Soyamsree1706
16
1417
Shuvam Roy168121 - 02Debarpita Ghosh1316
74
1579
Soumalya Mondol129820 - 12Sudipa Haldar1675
18
1619
Soumyajit Das (Jr)166621 - 02Sankalan Shah1314
76
1781
Soham Bhattacharyya12902½ - ½2Diya Chowdhury1652
20
1821
Pratyay Chowdhury164520 - 12Aman Kumar1304
78
1923
Alekhya Mukhopadhyay161720 - 12Debaprabho Gorai1295
80
2083
Rupankar Kundu127520 - 12Mortuza Mahathir Islam1614
24
2185
Ankit Ray126620 - 12Anish Rooj1584
26
2289
Ishika Mondal126120 - 12Rajarshi Mandal1569
28
2391
Swarnoj Saha Talukdar12572½ - ½2Swapnil Priyadarshi1559
30
2431
Soham Pal155421 - 02Projoy Jana1267
84
2593
Mohapatra Pratyush12492½ - ½2Dhritabrata Kundu1527
34
2635
Subhabrata Roy152521 - 02Aarshiya Biswas1258
90
2795
Arshiya Das124220 - 12Supratim Ghosh1519
36
2837
Arijit Ghosh150921 - 02Sayan Biswas1252
92
2997
Yamijala Koulini123720 - 12Akshath Sinha1504
38
3039
Anubhab Gupta149120 - 12Oishik Kundu1244
94

Pairing of Round 4 on 2018/12/16 at 10.00 a.m.

Bo.No. NameRtgPts.ResultPts.NameRtg No.
136
Supratim Ghosh151933FMRajdeep Sarkar2370
1
22
FMMitrabha Guha235133Soham Pal1554
31
338
Akshath Sinha150433Koustav Chatterjee2345
3
44
Sanket Chakravarty197433Subhabrata Roy1525
35
56
Ghosh Samriddhaa189233Arijit Ghosh1509
37
642
Debi Prasad Nayak147033Rupam Mukherjee1875
7
710
Ayan Pal182733Eshan Bhattacharjee1461
43
812
Soham Dey177033Mohammad Shafiqul Islam1458
44
948
Aritrya Pal143933Bhattacharyya Soham1727
13
1014
WCMNoshin Anjum172233Anushka Gupta1455
45
1154
Tushar Barua139633Rounak Pathak1719
15
1216
Mohanty Soyamsree170633Anjishnu Mondal1440
47
1358
Rachishnu Datta138533Shuvam Roy1681
17
1418
Sudipa Haldar167533Debargha Basu1428
51
1578
Aman Kumar130433Soumyajit Das (Jr)1666
19
1624
Mortuza Mahathir Islam161433AGMSrihaan Poddar1383
59
1726
Anish Rooj158433Arunika Ghosh1338
67
1828
Rajarshi Mandal156933Debaprabho Gorai1295
80
19142
Gairick Saha11273Praloy Sahoo1795
11
2098
Jyotisko Sengupta1235Sadnan Hasan Dihan1944
5
2120
Diya Chowdhury1652Swarnoj Saha Talukdar1257
91
22112
Shresth Mahapatra1183AIMDebarghya Samanta1595
25
23116
Ujaan Bhattacharya1179Arijit Mukherjee1566
29
2430
Swapnil Priyadarshi1559Mohapatra Pratyush1249
93
2534
Dhritabrata Kundu1527Ritojoy Mandal1218
101
26134
Avirup Das Neogi1138Ishan Das1315
75
27136
Susovan Dey1136Soham Bhattacharyya1290
81
2886
Rout Yashita1264Shreya Shree Bansal1136
135
29138
Tushar Bhunya1134Anukarssa Dutta1261
87
308
Sambarta Banerjee18742Rishan Debnath1078
173