Al Muthaiah wins 1st ICA Wayanad Open 2019

by Shahid Ahmed - 26/05/2019

IM Al Muthaiah wins third tournament in three months and his fourth in the year when he scored 7.5/9 and won 1st ICA Wayanad Open 2019. Four players finished at the same score of 7.5/9, they are IM Al Muthaiah, Senthil Maran K, Anilkumar O T and S Prasanna. Due to a better tie-break score, Muthaiah was declared the champion of the tournament. Senthil Maran was placed 2nd, Anilkumar and Prasanna had to be content with 3rd and 4th place respectively. The tournament took place at Hotel Regency, Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, Kerala from 11th to 15th May 2019. Total 262 players participated from various states across the country for a total prize fund of Rs 500001. Photo: MS Govindankutty

Al Muthaiah wins third tournament in three months

IM Al Muthaiah scored 7.5/9 and won a beautiful trophy and Rs 50001 cash | Photo: M S Govindankutty

Muthaiah scored an unbeaten 7.5/9

Senthil Maran also scored 7.5/9. He received a shining new trophy and Rs 30000 cash | Photo: M S Govindankutty

The top two finishers - Senthil Maran K (Runner-up) and IM Al Muthaiah (Champion) | Photo: M S Govindankutty

In a colourful closing ceremony, CK Sadasivan, Senior Member; Vineesh PS, ICA President; P C Biju ICA Vice President; V R Santhosh Secretary ICA; R. Ramesh Joint Secretary ICA; Rajesh Madavan, Tournament Coordinator; M K Shibu,Treasurer ICA along with all other committee members gave away the cash prizes and trophies to the winners. Vineesh PS, President ICA announced their next International FIDE Rated chess tournament for the players of Below 1600 rating at same venue from 8-10 June 2019.

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	IM	Muthaiah Al	IND	2427	7,5	0,0	54,5	59,0
2	5		Senthil Maran K	IND	2166	7,5	0,0	51,5	55,5
3	12		Anilkumar O.T.	IND	1975	7,5	0,0	50,5	55,5
4	3		Prasannaa.S	IND	2293	7,5	0,0	47,0	51,0
5	2	IM	Sangma Rahul	IND	2297	7,0	0,0	53,5	57,5
6	4	IM	Ramnathan Balasubramaniam	IND	2193	7,0	0,0	50,5	55,5
7	8		Augustin A	IND	2067	7,0	0,0	49,5	54,0
8	7	IM	Hegde Ravi Gopal	IND	2102	7,0	0,0	49,5	53,5
9	35		Raju O A	IND	1734	7,0	0,0	47,0	51,0
10	19		Vijay Anand M.	IND	1838	7,0	0,0	47,0	51,0
11	25		Sharsha Backer	IND	1788	7,0	0,0	46,0	50,5
12	39		Anandha Venkatesan	IND	1712	6,5	0,0	50,5	53,5
13	15		Sooraj M R	IND	1919	6,5	0,0	49,0	53,0
14	37		Avinash Hari	IND	1728	6,5	0,0	48,5	51,0
15	14		Akhilan E M	IND	1957	6,5	0,0	47,0	51,5
16	61		Rakesh N	IND	1558	6,5	0,0	47,0	50,5
17	24		Mansoor C M	IND	1788	6,5	0,0	46,5	50,0
18	6		Manigandan S S	IND	2155	6,5	0,0	45,5	50,0
19	40		Ramachandra Bhat	IND	1705	6,5	0,0	45,5	50,0
20	18		Sudarshan Bhat	IND	1840	6,5	0,0	45,5	49,5
21	13		Viswanathan V N	IND	1967	6,5	0,0	45,5	48,5
22	20		Sanjay S Pillai	IND	1827	6,5	0,0	45,0	49,5
23	9		Abhishek Sarkar	IND	2027	6,5	0,0	45,0	49,5
24	11		Alex Thomas K.	IND	1982	6,5	0,0	44,5	49,0
25	36		Roshan Hari	IND	1731	6,5	0,0	43,0	46,0

Complete Standings

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