Gujarat GM R05+06: Ivan Rozum and Saptarshi Roy take lead

by Satanick Mukhuty - 26/09/2019

Grandmasters Ivan Rozum and Saptarshi Roy lead the 2nd Gujarat International Grandmaster Open after the completion of rounds five and six yesterday here in Ahmedabad. GM Saptarshi defeated Rathnakaran K in the fifth round and drew Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder in the sixth, while Ivan Rozum beat Maxim Lugovskoy in the sixth round but was held to a draw by Sayantan Das in the fifth. Both Ivan and Saptarshi have 5.5/6 points each and they are being followed closely by nine players who are just half a point behind with 5.0/6. The category B tournament for players rated below 2000 also came to conclusion yesterday with 1818 rated Anurag Jaiswal of West Bengal finishing clear first with 9.0/10 points. In this illustrated report we bring you the latest games, analyses, and much more from the event.

Saptarshi Roy brings down Rathnakaran K with the black pieces!

A match up between the two most aggressive players of the Indian chess community is always a treat to watch. In round five of the 2nd Gujarat Open, Grandmaster Saptarshi Roy (left) was pitted against the man who is dubbed as the Indian Tal, International Master Rathnakaran K | Photo: Lennart Ootes & ChessBase India

The encounter didn't however open with any ultra-sharp aggressive line but rather the calm and positional 4.d3 variation of the Two Knights defense. Rathnakaran had the White pieces but he simply couldn't steer the game into the kind of position he feels comfortable in and on move 17 ended up lashing out a weakening pawn push. Saptarshi immediately took his opportunity to hit the nail on the head and thereafter with almost flawless technique bagged a smooth victory.

Rathnakaran K - Saptarshi Roy, Round 5

17.g4 was the move that weakened the dark squares on White's kingside. Black at once lodged his bishop on h4 and pushed f5-f4.

19...e4 next cleared the e5 square for the black knight jump in and also opened up the e-file.

Suddenly, from what was a clearly equal position, Black's pieces started looking much more dominant that White's. After Nxd2 Kxd2 f3 Rh2 Rfe8 Black seized full control over the open e-file.

Next step was to bring the king into the foray with Kg7-f6-g5-f4 ... All White could do now was wait and watch his own doom!

Obviously Bxe2 wasn't possible because of fxe2 followed by Bxf2, White was simply helpless.

This was the final position on board when White resigned. Clearly after Bb6 and Rb1 there isn't all that much he can do to stop the f-pawn from queening.

Top seed Ivan Rozum on a roll!

Ivan Rozum beat Maxim Lugovskoy to emerge as one of the two leaders after round six of the event | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Untitled Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri beat IM Nikolai Vlassov in round six and drew IM Nguyen Van Huy to stay half a point behind the leaders with 5.0/6. His sixth round victory with black pieces against IM Vlassov is given below | Photo: Rupesh Kumar

Results of round five

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	9	IM	Das Sayantan	2434	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Rozum Ivan	2596	1
2	11	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim	2422	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2529	3
3	27	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2325	4	0 - 1	4	GM	Saptarshi Roy	2480	5
4	6	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2476	3½	1 - 0	3½	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2357	23
5	29		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2304	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	2454	7
6	14	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2408	3½	½ - ½	3½	CM	Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan	1956	79
7	25	IM	Neelash Saha	2334	3½	0 - 1	3½	IM	Eraschenkov Denis	2390	17
8	2	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2539	3	1 - 0	3	IM	Abu Sufian Shakil	2255	34
9	4	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2492	3	1 - 0	3		Nayak Rajesh	2227	37
10	10	GM	Neelotpal Das	2433	3	1 - 0	3	GM	Ziatdinov Raset	2222	38

Results of round six

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	5	GM	Saptarshi Roy	2480	5	½ - ½	4½	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2476	6
2	1	GM	Rozum Ivan	2596	4½	1 - 0	4½	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim	2422	11
3	3	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2529	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	Das Sayantan	2434	9
4	17	IM	Eraschenkov Denis	2390	4½	½ - ½	4	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2539	2
5	31	FM	Shailesh Dravid	2299	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2492	4
6	7	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	2454	4	½ - ½	4		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	2329	26
7	51		Zia Tahsin Tajwar	2142	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Neelotpal Das	2433	10
8	13	GM	Himanshu Sharma	2408	4	1 - 0	4	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2325	27
9	55	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	2102	4	0 - 1	4	GM	Karthikeyan P.	2408	14
10	15	GM	Murshed Niaz	2405	4	½ - ½	4		Pranav V	2308	28

Standings after round six

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	TB1
1	1	GM	Rozum Ivan		RUS	2596	Russia	5,5
	5	GM	Saptarshi Roy		IND	2480	WB	5,5
3	3	GM	Chanda Sandipan		IND	2529	WB	5,0
	6	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo		CHI	2476	Chile	5,0
	9	IM	Das Sayantan		IND	2434	WB	5,0
	13	GM	Himanshu Sharma		IND	2408	Har	5,0
	14	GM	Karthikeyan P.		IND	2408	TN	5,0
	16	GM	Hesham Abdelrahman		EGY	2396	Egypt	5,0
	17	IM	Eraschenkov Denis		RUS	2390	Russia	5,0
	24	FM	Manush Shah		IND	2352	Guj	5,0
	29		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri		IND	2304	AP	5,0

Complete results and standings

Anurag Jaiswal wins category-B (below 2000) event

West Bengal's Anurag Jaiswal clinched the below 2000 category event by scoring an unbeaten 9.0/10 points. Nikhil M of Andhra Pradesh finished half a point behind with 8.5/10 to secure sole second spot. Six players followed next with 8.0/10 points among them Raj D Vyas of Gujarat took the third place on the basis of having the best tie-break score.

Anurag scored an unbeaten 9.0/10 points to finish clear first in the category B event and gained 57.4 rating points.

Final standings of the category B event after ten rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	18		Anurag Jaiswal	IND	1818	WB	9,0	0,0	63,0	67,5	59,50	8
2	10		Nikhil M	IND	1895	AP	8,5	0,0	65,5	70,0	57,00	8
3	41		Raj D Vyas	IND	1731	Guj	8,0	0,0	63,0	68,0	52,00	7
4	2		Sumit Grover	IND	1954	JK	8,0	0,0	62,0	67,0	51,75	6
5	17		Chudasama Ankit	IND	1838	Guj	8,0	0,0	60,0	65,0	50,00	8
6	13	FM	Muhammed Shuaau	MDV	1876	Maldives	8,0	0,0	60,0	64,5	49,25	7
7	43		Falgun D Purohit	IND	1719	Guj	8,0	0,0	54,5	58,5	45,25	7
8	31	AGM	Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat	IND	1766	Raj	8,0	0,0	52,5	55,0	43,75	7
9	23		Chavan Nameet	IND	1795	Mah	7,5	0,0	63,5	68,5	47,50	7
10	8		Kadav Omkar	IND	1898	Mah	7,5	0,0	56,0	61,0	45,50	7

Complete standings

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