Asian Individual 2025 R3: Srija Seshadri makes a perfect start

by Shahid Ahmed - 10/05/2025

WGM Srija Seshadri defeated WGM Rakshitta Ravi to score a hat-trick at Asian Individual Women 2025. She is now one of the five women at 3/3. WGM Priyanka Nutakki had a great opportunity to win against GM Valentina Gunina. However, she missed it and eventually lost the game. IM Vantika Agrawal escaped with a draw against WCM Khisigbaatar Bayasgalan (MGL) who missed all of her winning chances. In the Men's event, GM Karthikeyan Murali, GM Prraneeth Vuppala and GM Pranesh M drew with GM Iniyan Pa, GM Xiangyu Xu (CHN) and IM Ilamparthi A R respectively. Top seed, GM Nihal Sarin defeated IM Reza Mahdavi (IRI) to move to 2.5/3. Round 4 starts today at 10 a.m. local time, 11:30 a.m. IST. Photo: Asian Chess Federation

Priyanka Nutakki misses a win against Gunina, Srihari L R annihilates Abhijeet Gupta

GM Bardiya Daneshvar (IRI) has emerged the early sole leader by scoring win over GM Mukhiddin Madaminov (UZB). He is closely followed by 15 players including eight Indians at 2.5/3 each.

WGM Srija Seshadri scored a hat-trick by winning against WGM Rakshitta Ravi | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Women: Srija - Rakshitta: 1-0

WGM Srija Seshadri (2226) played two Classical rated games against WGM Rakshitta Ravi (2324) in 2018 and 2020. Srija won both of those games. The third one also went in her favor.

Position after 31.Qa7

Black needed to play 31...f6 to connect the rooks after 32.Qa8+ Rc8 33.Qxa6 Kf7. However, 31...Rc8 directly cost Black both a6 and b5-pawns 32.Qxa6 Kg8 33.Rd5 Rd8 34.Re1 Kh7 35.Qxb5 and White is winning. The connected passed a and b-pawns helped White to win the game.

Gunina - Priyanka: 1-0

GM Valentina Gunina (2425) and WGM Priyanka Nutakki (2277) faced each other only once in a rated game at World Rapid Women 2023. Priyanka won that game. She found herself in a good situation to repeat the same result in their first-ever Classical rated game against each other.

Position after 43.Nf4

43...Bxf4 44.gxf4 c5 45.Ke2 now Black needed to play Rh8 and it would have given her a decisive advantage. A win would not have been very far then. However, 45...Re8 was played in the game. 46.Kd2 cxd4 47.Rc7+ Re7? 48.Rxe7+ Kxe7 49.Nf1 b5? 50.b4+- White has completely turned things around in her favor. Priyanka lost the game which she should have won with correct play.

Asia's first Grandmaster Eugene Torre (PHI) made the ceremonial first move on GM Valentina Gunina and WGM Priyanka Nutakki's board | Photo: asianchess.com

Men

GM Karthikeyan Murali - GM Iniyan Pa: 0.5-0.5

GM Prraneeth Vuppala (pictured) - GM Xiangyu Xu (CHN): 0.5-0.5

GM Bardiya Daneshvar (IRI) capitalized on GM Mukhiddin Madaminov's (UZB) blunder in the final moments to gain sole lead 3/3 | Photo: asianchess.com

GM Pranesh M - IM Ilamparthi A R (pictured): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Top seed, GM Nihal Sarin won his second game in-a-row

Srihari - Abhijeet: 1-0

Last year, IM Srihari L R (2468) defeated GM Abhijeet Gupta (2577) with the black pieces in January. This time, Srihari defeated the five-time Commonwealth Gold medalist with the white pieces.

Position after 26.g5

White kept rolling the g-pawn down the board 25.g4 Qd7 26.g5 Bg7 27.g6 Qf5 28.Rfg1 Bf6 29.Bh6 Rfe8 30.b4 e4 31.Ng4 e3 32.g7+ and it's over as Black has too many threats to overcome.

IM Srihari L R's (pictured) attack on the kingside was too overwhelming for his opponent | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Mayank Chakraborty held FIDE Women's World Cup 2023 winner - GM Aleksandra Goryachkina to a draw | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Sankalp Gupta got checkmated by IM Sambit Panda in a sharp battle | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Replay Round 3 Open games

Replay Round 3 Women games

Round 3 Open results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
3	1	4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2658	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Iniyan Pa	2573	19
3	3	55	GM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2474	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Xu Xiangyu	2623	11
3	5	18	GM	Pranesh M	2576	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Ilamparthi A R	2469	58
3	6	1	GM	Nihal Sarin	2693	1½	1 - 0	2	IM	Mahdavi Reza	2445	68
3	10	52	IM	Agmanov Zhandos	2480	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2630	9
3	11	10	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2624	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Megaranto Susanto	2477	54
3	13	59	IM	Srihari L R	2468	1½	1 - 0	1½	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2577	17
3	14	64	GM	Quizon Daniel	2461	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2569	21
3	16	67	GM	Zhalmakhanov Ramazan	2456	1½	0 - 1	1½	GM	Pranav Anand	2555	28
3	17	29	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2552	1½	½ - ½	1½		Jiang Haochen	2439	74

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	12	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	IRI	2621	3	2492	3,5	5
2	58	IM	Ilamparthi, A R	IND	2469	2,5	2623	4,5	5,5
3	59	IM	Srihari, L R	IND	2468	2,5	2604	4	4,5
4	19	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2573	2,5	2560	4,5	5,5
5	71		Meng, Yihan	CHN	2443	2,5	2551	4	4
6	27	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2556	2,5	2542	4,5	6
7	4	GM	Karthikeyan, Murali	IND	2658	2,5	2520	4,5	6
8	5	GM	Vokhidov, Shamsiddin	UZB	2641	2,5	2514	4,5	6
9	115	FM	Yang, Zilong	CHN	2326	2,5	2504	3	4,5
10	7	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	UAE	2631	2,5	2475	4	5,5

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Round 4 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
4	2	28	GM	Pranav Anand	2555	2½	2½	GM	Nihal Sarin	2693	1
4	3	40	GM	Movahed Sina	2518	2½	2½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2658	4
4	4	7	GM	Salem A.R. Saleh	2631	2½	2½	GM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2474	55
4	5	11	GM	Xu Xiangyu	2623	2½	2½	IM	Srihari L R	2468	59
4	6	115	FM	Yang Zilong	2326	2½	2½	GM	Pranesh M	2576	18
4	7	19	GM	Iniyan Pa	2573	2½	2½		Meng Yihan	2443	71
4	8	58	IM	Ilamparthi A R	2469	2½	2½	GM	Grebnev Aleksey	2556	27
4	12	9	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2630	2	2	IM	Gan-Erdene Sugar	2464	61
4	13	56	GM	Siddharth Jagadeesh	2472	2	2	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2624	10
4	16	21	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2569	2	2	GM	Rozum Ivan	2439	73

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Round 3 Women results

3	1	2	GM	Gunina Valentina	2425	2	1 - 0	2	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki	2277	25
3	2	28	WCM	Bayasgalan Khishigbaatar	2265	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Vantika Agrawal	2377	7
3	6	38	WGM	Srija Seshadri	2226	2	1 - 0	2	WGM	Rakshitta Ravi	2324	19
3	10	4	IM	Song Yuxin	2397	1½	1 - 0	1½	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	2258	31
3	12	48	IM	Mohota Nisha	2161	1½	½ - ½	1½	WGM	Nandhidhaa P V	2363	9
3	18	10	IM	Batkhuyag Munguntuul	2359	1	1 - 0	1	WIM	Priyanka K	2087	62
3	21	24	IM	Savitha Shri B	2298	1	1 - 0	1	WIM	Gunawardhana Devindya Oshini	2068	66
3	24	69	WGM	Swati Ghate	2035	1	1 - 0	1	WIM	Latifah Laysa	2262	29
3	25	71		Arya G Mallar	2014	1	½ - ½	1	WGM	Zhapova Yana	2258	32
3	28	75	WIM	Galas Bernadette	1984	1	0 - 1	1	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2215	41

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	38	WGM	Srija, Seshadri	IND	2226	3	2356	4	4
2	2	GM	Gunina, Valentina	FID	2425	3	2268	4	5,5
3	17	IM	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	FID	2332	3	2231	4	5
4	14	WIM	Khamdamova, Afruza	UZB	2344	3	2210	4	5,5
5	22	WCM	Mungunzul, Bat-Erdene	MGL	2302	3	2183	4	5
6	34	WGM	Kurmangaliyeva, Liya	KAZ	2246	2,5	2387	4	5
7	37	WFM	Nurgaliyeva, Zarina	KAZ	2235	2,5	2352	4,5	5,5
8	28	WCM	Bayasgalan, Khishigbaatar	MGL	2265	2,5	2266	4	5
9	4	IM	Song, Yuxin	CHN	2397	2,5	2252	4,5	6
10	7	IM	Vantika, Agrawal	IND	2377	2,5	2244	4,5	5,5

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Round 4 pairings

4	3	3	GM	Girya Olga	2400	2½	3	WGM	Srija Seshadri	2226	38
4	5	7	IM	Vantika Agrawal	2377	2½	2½	WGM	Kurmangaliyeva Liya	2246	34
4	10	9	WGM	Nandhidhaa P V	2363	2	2	WFM	Mohammadi Melika	2205	42
4	13	41	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2215	2	2	WGM	Nurman Alua	2338	16
4	14	19	WGM	Rakshitta Ravi	2324	2	2	IM	Mohota Nisha	2161	48
4	16	46	WFM	Arshiya Das	2174	2	2	WGM	Munkhzul Turmunkh	2301	23
4	17	47	WFM	Mikheeva Galina	2162	2	2	IM	Savitha Shri B	2298	24
4	18	25	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki	2277	2	2	WIM	Kaldarova Ayaulym	2115	59
4	20	27	WIM	Karimova Guldona	2265	2	2	WGM	Swati Ghate	2035	69
4	23	11	IM	Padmini Rout	2359	1½	1½	WCM	Buyankhishig Batpelden	2081	63

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