Chessable Sunway Sitges Open R4: Aditya Samant sensational against Adhiban

by Shahid Ahmed - 16/12/2022

Six players are at a 100% score after the fourth round of Chessable Sunway Sitges Open 2022 Group A. GM Abhimanyu Puranik, IM Aditya S Samant and GM Karthikeyan Murali are the three Indians among them. Aditya scored a fantastic victory over GM B Adhiban. He is currently the sole IM among the pack. The 16-yeara-old will face fellow countryman Karthikeyan in the fifth round. Abhimanyu will be going against GM Kirill Alekseenko. India's sole National Triple Crown champion, GM Aravindh Chithambaram held top seed of the tournament and China no.2 Yangyi Yu to a draw. Round 5 starts tonight at 9 p.m. IST. Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

A dozen and a half in pursuit

FM Shailesh Dravid, CM Shaik Sumer Arsh, Jinan Jomon defeated IM Ernesto J Fernandez Guillen (CUB), IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (TUR), GM Kevin Goh Wei Ming (SGP); IM Prraneeth Vuppala, Arjun C Krishnamachari, FM Harshad S and Joel Paul Ganta drew with GM Daniel Dardha (BEL), IM Alexander Krastev (GER), IM Julien Song (FRA) and IM David Fitzsimons (IRL) respectively.

IM Aditya S Samant has made a fantastic start 4/4 | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Karthikeyan - Velten: 1-0

GM Karthikeyan Murali (2620) won a very nice game in the Ruy Lopez Berlin against GM Paul Velten (FRA, 2465).

Position after 23...Ne4

Berlin is known to be a solid opening which mostly leads to a drawish endgame. However, if you do not know what you are doing, one can certainly end up in deep trouble. White made a very simple threat of pinning the g7-pawn to take the knight at f6. 23...Qa1 is what Black needed to play to keep things together. Any other move invites more trouble. 23...Ne4 allows White to form a battery on the long diagonal. 24.Bxe4 dxe4 25.Qe5 Re8 26.Bb2 f6 27.Qc3 b5 28.Ra1 trapped Black's queen and there is no escape for Black.

GM Karthikeyan Murali is one of the six leaders | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Abhimanyu - Sochacki: 1-0

GM Abhimanyu Puranik (2616) decided to give up two of his minor pieces for a rook against GM Christophe Sochacki (FRA, 2463).

Position after 20.Nfe5

Generally two minor pieces is considered to be significantly better than a rook. However, it also depends on the position. The above position demanded White to play 20.Nfe5, Abhimanyu played according to the position's needs. 20...f4 21.Nxd7 Qxd7 22.Re6 fxg3 23.hxg3 Rf6 24.Rxf6 Bxf6 25.Qe2 and White utilized his extra pawns to his advantage, combined with Black's inaccuracies, White went on to win the game.

GM Abhimanyu Puranik 4/4 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Aditya Samant - Adhiban: 1-0

IM Aditya S Samant (2470) just simply outplayed GM B Adhiban (2611) out of the opening.

Position after 21.bxc5

It seemed like Black just could not get out of the gate. 21...Qd7 was the only way Black could have held things together. 21...Qxc5 just asked for more trouble 22.Qxe6+ Kf8 23.c3 Rb8 24.Ne5 fxg5 25.Qxg6 and the black king just never got an opportunity to defend itself. Black resigned after three moves when he had no way to continue but to give up his queen.

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Round 4 results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
4	1	23	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2607	3	½ - ½	3	GM	Yu Yangyi	2728	1
4	5	14	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2620	3	1 - 0	3	GM	Velten Paul	2465	43
4	7	18	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2616	3	1 - 0	3	GM	Sochacki Christophe	2463	45
4	9	40	IM	Samant Aditya S	2470	3	1 - 0	3	GM	Adhiban B.	2611	21
4	10	6	GM	Esipenko Andrey	2678	2½	1 - 0	3		Kushal O	1801	295
4	14	50	GM	Raja Rithvik R	2453	2½	0 - 1	2½	GM	Petrosyan Manuel	2621	13
4	15	16	GM	Aryan Chopra	2618	2½	1 - 0	2½	IM	Bulmaga Irina	2432	59
4	18	22	GM	Kollars Dmitrij	2610	2½	1 - 0	2½	IM	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2430	61
4	19	24	GM	Dardha Daniel	2606	2½	½ - ½	2½	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2427	63
4	22	74	FM	Bilych Olexiy	2401	2½	½ - ½	2½	GM	Arjun Kalyan	2505	32

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Round 5 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
5	2	18	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2616	4		4	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	2672	8
5	3	40	IM	Samant Aditya S	2470	4		4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2620	14
5	5	3	GM	Van Foreest Jorden	2690	3½		3½	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2607	23
5	7	9	GM	Korobov Anton	2662	3½		3½	GM	Sankalp Gupta	2485	35
5	8	11	GM	Demchenko Anton	2632	3½		3½	IM	Aditya Mittal	2479	37
5	10	75	IM	Tahay Alexis	2400	3½		3½	GM	Aryan Chopra	2618	16
5	13	63	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2427	3		3	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2688	4
5	18	21	GM	Adhiban B.	2611	3		3	IM	Willow Jonah B	2409	72
5	24	84	FM	Jubin Jimmy	2376	3		3	GM	Alsina Leal Daniel	2527	30
5	26	32	GM	Arjun Kalyan	2505	3		3	FM	Mathieu Phileas	2367	87

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Prizes

Total Prize fund - €27775. For the entire prize details, click here.

Schedule

12th - 21st December - 9:00 p.m. IST

18th December - Rest day

22nd December - 2 p.m. IST

Links

Official site

Tournament rules

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