2nd elllobregat Open R8: Abdusattorov surges ahead

by Shahid Ahmed - 08/12/2021

Top seed of the tournament Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) has claimed sole lead 6.5/8 for the first time as he beat Eltaj Safarli (AZE) in the penultimate round of 2nd elllobregat Open 2021. IM Aditya Mittal continues his good form as he drew with GM Jaime Santos Latasa (ESP) to score his second GM-norm with a round to spare. Arjun Erigaisi drew with Nikita Meshkovs (LAT) after the former's opening mistake went unnoticed. Karthikeyan Murali scored a win in a tumultuous game. Eleven players are at 6.0/8 including four Indians - Karthikeyan, Arjun Erigaisi, Sethuraman and Aditya Mittal. Round 9 starts today at 2:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Aditya Mittal scores a GM-norm

Six out of top ten boards ended decisively which definitely shows how competitive the tournament is getting. IM Bharath Subramaniyam H and FM Aditya S Samant drew with GM Alexandr Fier (BRA) and GM Gudmundur Kjartansson (ISL). WIM Isha Sharma defeated IM Marta Garcia Martin (ESP).

Abdusattorov might have claimed sole lead but Aditya Mittal maintains his chase | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

Abdusattorov - Safarli: 1-0

Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) got a better position out of the opening against Eltaj Safarli (AZE). The latter could not make a comeback for the rest of the game.

Jaime - Aditya Mittal: 0.5-0.5

IM Aditya Mittal continues his good form as he played solid against GM Jaime Santos Latasa (ESP) to draw the game. The better part of the game featured a double rook ending, Aditya defended his position well despite being down by a pawn.

Nikita - Arjun Erigaisi: 0.5-0.5

Arjun Erigaisi erred early in the opening which was not punished by his opponent Nikita Meshkovs (LAT).

Position after 8...b6

Black should have done 8...0-0 here. Instead, 8...b6 opens a can of worms as 9.Nd4 forces Black to give up a pawn to hold the position from falling apart. Find out how. The game continued 9.Nfd2 Rb8 and Black did not give any more chances for the remainder of the game.

Karthikeyan - Marcin: 1-0

Karthikeyan Murali defeated Marcin Krzyzanowski (POL) which could have gone either player's way.

Karthikeyan scored an important win | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

IM Bharath Subramaniyam H (pictured) - GM Alexandr Fier (BRA) | Photo: Rupali Mullick

GM Gudmundur Kjartansson (ISL) - FM Aditya S Samant (pictured): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Patricia Claros Aguilar

IM Marta Garcia Martin (ESP) - WIM Isha Sharma (pictured): 0-1 | Photo: Rupali Mullick

Replay Round 8 games

The tournament is taking place at Hotel Playafels, at Castelldefels, Barcelona in Spain from 30th November to 8th December 2021. Every day game starts at 9:30 p.m. IST, except the last round, which starts at 2:30 p.m. IST. Time control is 90 minutes/40 moves + 30 minutes/end + 30 seconds increment per move starting from move 1.

Round 8 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2646	5½	1 - 0	5½	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2579	11
2	3	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2633	5½	½ - ½	5½	IM	Aditya Mittal	2459	43
3	14	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	2557	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2627	5
4	27	IM	Muradli Mahammad	2501	5½	½ - ½	5	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2604	8
5	21	GM	Vetoshko Volodymyr	2525	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2633	2
6	4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2630	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Krzyzanowski Marcin	2510	25
7	75	IM	Suarez Uriel Adrian	2343	5	0 - 1	5	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2620	6
8	12	GM	Yuffa Daniil	2567	5	1 - 0	5	IM	Pantzar Milton	2441	53
9	17	IM	Sosa Tomas	2542	5	1 - 0	5	IM	Das Sayantan	2436	54
10	29	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2491	5	0 - 1	5	GM	Van Foreest Lucas	2532	20
11	36	IM	Garriga Cazorla Pere	2477	5	1 - 0	4½	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	2606	7
12	9	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	2594	4½	1 - 0	4½	IM	Vrolijk Liam	2470	38
13	10	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	2592	4½	1 - 0	4½	IM	Das Arghyadip	2453	46
14	35	IM	Bharath Subramaniyam H	2479	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Fier Alexandr	2563	13
15	39	IM	Kacharava Nikolozi	2469	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Stocek Jiri	2557	15

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Round 9 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2633	6		6½	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2646	1
2	17	IM	Sosa Tomas	2542	6		6	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2630	4
3	5	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2627	6		6	IM	Muradli Mahammad	2501	27
4	6	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2620	6		6	IM	Garriga Cazorla Pere	2477	36
5	43	IM	Aditya Mittal	2459	6		6	GM	Yuffa Daniil	2567	12
6	20	GM	Van Foreest Lucas	2532	6		6	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	2557	14
7	2	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2633	5½		5½	GM	Arjun Kalyan	2537	19
8	8	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2604	5½		5½	GM	Vetoshko Volodymyr	2525	21
9	11	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2579	5½		5½	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	2594	9
10	24	GM	Visakh N R	2515	5½		5½	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	2592	10
11	33	IM	Beerdsen Thomas	2484	5½		5	GM	Iniyan P	2554	16
12	13	GM	Fier Alexandr	2563	5		5	IM	Sankalp Gupta	2468	41
13	15	GM	Stocek Jiri	2557	5		5	IM	Minzer Claudio Javier	2442	52
14	18	GM	Suleymanli Aydin	2541	5		5	IM	Suarez Uriel Adrian	2343	75
15	40	IM	Quintiliano Pinto Renato R.	2469	5		5	GM	Narciso Dublan Marc	2519	23

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