8th Sharjah Masters R3: Visakh draws with Indjic, stays in the lead

by Shahid Ahmed - 20/05/2025

GM Visakh N R drew with GM Aleksandar Indjic (SRB) in Round 3 to maintain his lead at 8th Sharjah Masters 2025. GM Visakh N R is the only Indian at 2/2. GM Pranav Anand went wrong in the double rook and knight endgame against GM Anish Giri (NED). Anish also moved to 2.5/3. GM Aditya Mittal seized his opportunity against GM Gabriel Sargissian (ARM). GM Bharath Subramaniyam H saved a half point in a tough queen vs double rook endgame against GM Samuel Sevian (USA). IM S Rohith Krishna outplayed GM Sethuraman S P. Round 4 starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST. Photos: Himank Ghosh

S Rohith Krishna outplays Sethuraman

Indjic - Visakh: 0.5-0.5

GM Visakh N R (2507) faced GM Aleksandar Indjic (SRB, 2637) three times in Classical rated games. All three of them were in team events. Twice it ended in a draw and Visakh won once. This time, Visakh also drew with the former European Individual champion.

GM Aleksandar Indjic (SRB) - GM Visakh N R: 0.5-0.5

Anish - Pranav

Position after 26.Rxf5

GM Pranav Anand (2555) needed to decide on how he would defend the f6-pawn. 26...Rh5 is the best way to do so. Instead, he played 26...Ne7? 27.Rf3 fxg5 28.Rxg5 g6 29.Rf7 Kd7? 30.Rxg6 things fell apart in a hurry and GM Anish Giri (NED, 2738) won the game eventually.

GM Anish Giri (NED) - GM Pranav Anand: 1-0

Aditya - Gabriel

Position after 32...Reb8?

GM Gabriel Sargissian (ARM, 2641) made a mistake 32...Reb8? GM Aditya Mittal (2547) seized his opportunity 33.h4 h5 34.Qc2 Rxd4 35.Qc7 Qxc7 36.Rcxc7 gained his opponent's bishop in the next few moves and won the game.

GM Aditya Mittal scored a fine victory over GM Gabriel Sargissian (ARM)

GM Bharath Subramaniyam H defended a difficult queen vs double rook endgame against GM Samuel Sevian (USA)

IM S Rohith Krishna outplayed GM Sethuraman S P | Photo: Sharjah Chess Club

Ceremonial first move of Round 3 | Photo: Sharjah Chess Club

Round 3 in progress | Photo: Sharjah Chess Club

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Round 3 Masters A results

Bo.	No.		White	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	Rtg	No.
1	8	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	2637	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Visakh, N R	2507	63
2	52	GM	Dai, Changren	2531	2	½ - ½	1½	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	2706	3
3	2	GM	Giri, Anish	2738	1½	1 - 0	1½	GM	Pranav, Anand	2555	39
4	36	GM	Vetokhin, Savva	2558	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	2670	5
5	50	GM	Zhu, Jiner	2541	1	½ - ½	1	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh *)	2631	11
6	6	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	2666	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Woodward, Andy	2547	45
7	34	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	2563	1½	1 - 0	1½	GM	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	2632	9
8	12	GM	Idani, Pouya	2630	1½	0 - 1	1½	GM	Nikitenko, Mihail	2516	59
9	38	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	2556	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Ivic, Velimir	2630	13
10	40	GM	Sanal, Vahap	2555	1½	0 - 1	1½	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	2611	17
11	64	GM	Ohanyan, Emin	2503	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Tin, Jingyao	2601	19
12	44	GM	Aditya, Mittal *)	2547	1	1 - 0	1	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	2641	7
13	20	GM	Azarov, Sergei	2596	1½	½ - ½	1½	IM	Klimkowski, Jan	2503	65
14	24	GM	Kozak, Adam	2578	1½	1 - 0	1½	IM	Mamedov, Edgar	2492	69
15	66	IM	Assaubayeva, Bibisara	2494	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman	2565	31

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1
1	63	GM	Visakh, N R	IND	2507	2,5	6
2	8	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	SRB	2637	2,5	5
3	17	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	GRE	2611	2,5	5
4	52	GM	Dai, Changren	CHN	2531	2,5	5
5	2	GM	Giri, Anish	NED	2738	2,5	4,5
6	24	GM	Kozak, Adam	HUN	2578	2,5	4,5
7	59	GM	Nikitenko, Mihail	BLR	2516	2,5	4,5
8	80	GM	Nigmatov, Ortik	UZB	2457	2,5	4,5
9	34	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	RUS	2563	2,5	3,5
10	38	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2556	2	6
11	65	IM	Klimkowski, Jan	POL	2503	2	6
12	5	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	IRI	2670	2	5,5
13	3	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	IRI	2706	2	5
14	13	GM	Ivic, Velimir	SRB	2630	2	5
15	20	GM	Azarov, Sergei	FID	2596	2	5

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Round 4 pairings

Bo.	No.		White	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	Rtg	No.
1	34	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	2563	2½		2½	GM	Giri, Anish	2738	2
2	59	GM	Nikitenko, Mihail	2516	2½		2½	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	2637	8
3	17	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	2611	2½		2½	GM	Dai, Changren	2531	52
4	63	GM	Visakh, N R	2507	2½		2½	GM	Kozak, Adam	2578	24
5	11	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh *)	2631	1½		1½	GM	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	2520	56
6	1	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	2771	2		2½	GM	Nigmatov, Ortik	2457	80
7	3	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	2706	2		2	GM	Ahmadzada, Ahmad	2564	32
8	5	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	2670	2		2	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	2556	38
9	36	GM	Vetokhin, Savva	2558	2		2	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	2666	6
10	45	GM	Woodward, Andy	2547	2		2	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke	2630	14
11	65	IM	Klimkowski, Jan	2503	2		2	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	2621	16
12	13	GM	Ivic, Velimir	2630	2		2	GM	Aditya, Mittal *)	2547	44
13	19	GM	Tin, Jingyao	2601	2		2	GM	Kacharava, Nikolozi	2516	58
14	79	IM	Ilamparthi, A R	2469	2		2	GM	Azarov, Sergei	2596	20
15	81	IM	Oro, Faustino	2454	2		2	GM	Iniyan, Pa	2573	26

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Round 3 Masters B results

Bo.	No.		White	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	Rtg	No.
1	2	GM	Prraneeth, Vuppala	2474	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Schekachikhin, Maksim	2364	25
2	4	IM	Wang, Shixu B	2462	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Setyaki, Azarya Jodi	2364	26
3	28	FM	Bharadia, Yash	2355	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Levin, Evgeny A.	2453	5
4	6	FM	Mahdavi, Reza	2445	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Ritviz, Parab	2362	27
5	10	IM	Mayank, Chakraborty	2436	2	1 - 0	2	FM	Yurasov, Matfey	2354	29
6	40	FM	Liu, Yi	2261	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Burmakin, Vladimir	2435	11
7	12	GM	Shyaam, Nikhil P	2430	2	½ - ½	2	WIM	Mkrtchyan, Mariam	2292	35
8	14		Zhang, Di	2410	2	1 - 0	2	CM	Davudov, Tunar	2279	37
9	36	GM	Ahmad, Al Khatib *)	2283	0	½ - ½	0	WIM	Boshra, Alshaeby	1971	113
10	42	WIM	Aydin, Gulenay	2240	2	1 - 0	2		Gong, Sunle	2398	17
11	20	IM	Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan	2387	2	½ - ½	2	FM	Sharipov, Davron	2269	39
12	54	FM	Abuazizah, Raji	2182	2	0 - 1	1½		Meng, Yihan	2443	7
13	38	FM	Chubakov, Sultan	2271	1½	0 - 1	1½	IM	Garifullina, Leya	2467	3
14	8	IM	Harshavardhan, G B	2441	1½	½ - ½	1½	WIM	Caglar, Sila	2200	48
15	62		Boykov, Pavel	2148	1½	0 - 1	1½	IM	Tarigan, Gilbert Elroy	2415	13

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1
1	11	GM	Burmakin, Vladimir	RUS	2435	3	5,5
2	25	IM	Schekachikhin, Maksim	FID	2364	3	5,5
3	10	IM	Mayank, Chakraborty	IND	2436	3	4,5
4	14		Zhang, Di	CHN	2410	3	4
5	42	WIM	Aydin, Gulenay	TUR	2240	3	3,5
6	4	IM	Wang, Shixu B	CHN	2462	2,5	6
7	5	GM	Levin, Evgeny A.	RUS	2453	2,5	6
8	58		Abdulkarimli, Eljan	AZE	2173	2,5	6
9	12	GM	Shyaam, Nikhil P	IND	2430	2,5	5,5
10	27	IM	Ritviz, Parab	IND	2362	2,5	5,5
11	13	IM	Tarigan, Gilbert Elroy	INA	2415	2,5	5
12	26	IM	Setyaki, Azarya Jodi	INA	2364	2,5	5
13	6	FM	Mahdavi, Reza	IRI	2445	2,5	4,5
14	20	IM	Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan	SRI	2387	2,5	4,5
15	22	IM	Raahul, V S	IND	2378	2,5	4,5

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Round 4 pairings

Bo.	No.		White	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	Rtg	No.
1	25	IM	Schekachikhin, Maksim	2364	3		3	IM	Mayank, Chakraborty	2436	10
2	11	GM	Burmakin, Vladimir	2435	3		3		Zhang, Di	2410	14
3	5	GM	Levin, Evgeny A.	2453	2½		3	WIM	Aydin, Gulenay	2240	42
4	3	IM	Garifullina, Leya	2467	2½		2½	FM	Zia, Tahsin Tajwar	2374	23
5	27	IM	Ritviz, Parab	2362	2½		2½	IM	Wang, Shixu B	2462	4
6	26	IM	Setyaki, Azarya Jodi	2364	2½		2½	FM	Mahdavi, Reza	2445	6
7	7		Meng, Yihan	2443	2½		2½	FM	Bharadia, Yash	2355	28
8	39	FM	Sharipov, Davron	2269	2½		2½	GM	Shyaam, Nikhil P	2430	12
9	119		Umarov, Mukhammadrizo	1942	½		½	GM	Ahmad, Al Khatib *)	2283	36
10	13	IM	Tarigan, Gilbert Elroy	2415	2½		2½	IM	Akshat, Khamparia	2335	30
11	35	WIM	Mkrtchyan, Mariam	2292	2½		2½	IM	Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan	2387	20
12	21	IM	Poormosavi, Seyed Kian	2379	2½		2½		Abdulkarimli, Eljan	2173	58
13	51	AIM	Vihaan, Dumir	2191	2½		2½	IM	Raahul, V S	2378	22
14	65		Zhang, Zhi	2126	2½		2	GM	Prraneeth, Vuppala	2474	2
15	1	IM	Ayush, Sharma	2478	2		2	FM	Abuazizah, Raji	2182	54

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