Good start for a lot of Indians
FM Sharan Rao, FM Jubin Jimmy, 31st National Under-18 champion CM Soham Kamotra, FM Aradhya Garg, WIM Rucha Pujari, Anish Gandhi, IM Manish Anto Cristiano F, CM Aaditya Dhingra and Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri drew their respective games against GM Shardul Gagare, IM Nubairshah Shaikh, IM Rathanvel V S, IM Arash Tahbaz (IRI), IM Arghyadip Das, IM Srihari L R, GM Ziaur Rahman (BAN), IM Siddharth Jagadeesh (SGP) and IM Dushyant Sharma respectively. Sanket is known to cause upsets in the first round. Last year, he drew with GM Michal Krasenkow in Bangladesh. Vatsal Singhania got himself a completely winning position in the final moment of the endgame against GM Deep Sengupta. He was unable to make the most out of his opportunity.
Sanket - Aditya Mittal: 1-0
Sanket Chakravarty (2275) got an early opportunity when his opponent IM Aditya Mittal (2496) went wrong early in the middlegame.
13.Bxd7 Nxd7 14.Nf5 f6 makes Black's position quite uncomfortable. White opted for the solid continuation 13.0-0 and eventually got an opportunity to launch an attack on his opponent's kingside.
29...c4 was the final mistake by Black which turned things completely in White's favor. Find out the winning continuation.
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FM Sharan Rao - GM Shardul Gagare: 0.5-0.5
Sanket Chakravarty - IM Aditya Mittal: 1-0
IM Nubairshah Shaikh - FM Jubin Jimmy: 0.5-0.5
CM Soham Kamotra - IM Rathanvel V S: 0.5-0.5
FM Aradhya Garg - IM Arash Tahbaz (IRI): 0.5-0.5
IM Arghyadip Das - WIM Rucha Pujari: 0.5-0.5
Anish Gandhi - IM Srihari L R: 0.5-0.5
IM Manish Anto Cristiano F - GM Ziaur Rahman (BAN): 0.5-0.5
IM Siddharth Jagadeesh (SGP) - CM Aaditya Dhingra: 0.5-0.5
IM Dushyant Sharma - Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri: 0.5-0.5
A total of 148 players including 43 GMs, 35 IMs, 7 WGMs and 3 WIMs are taking part from 31 countries across the world including India. The tournament is being organized by Abu Dhabi Chess Club & Mind Games from 17th to 25th August 2022 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. The nine-round Swiss league tournament has a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.
