Chhattisgarh CM Trophy 2022 preview

by Niklesh Jain - 11/09/2022

Central India's biggest chess touranment is making a return after 20 years. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Trophy GM tournament was organized for the first time in 2002 which was won by GM Krishnan Sasikiran. The tournament is slated to take place from 19th to 28th September 2022. The total prize fund of the touranment is ₹3500000, ₹2300000 in Masters and ₹1200000 in Challengers section. Georgia no.1 GM Levan Pantsulaia who won consecutive tournaments in 2019, is slated to be the top seed of the event. GM Shyam Sundar M will be the highest rated Indian player in the field. Last date of entry is 12th September 2022. So hurry up and register now if you have not yet.

Chhattisgarh GM tournament returns after two decades

A GM Open in central India is just eight days away. Players from 15 countries across the world including 16 GMs, 25 IMs, 3 WGMs and 10 WIMs have already confirmed their participation.

Chhattisgarh Chief Ministers GM Tournament makes a return after 20 years

GM Krishnan Sasikiran receiving the winner's trophy from then CM Ajit Jogi back in 2002

The tournament will take place from 19th to 28th September 2022

The Masters event will take place at Hotel Grand Imperia in Raipur, Chhattisgarh

The tournament hall

The Challengers section games will take place at the nearby Shagun Farms

There is one round per day in the Masters section, whereas Challengers section will have a double round schedule except the final day on 23rd September

Can you identify the coach of the first Olympiad medal winning Indian Women's team?

GM K Sasikiran en route his triumph in 2002

Masters section prizes

Challengers section prizes

Details about entry fees

Contact details about the tournament

Get all info about the tournament (Hindi audio) | Video: ChessBase India Hindi

Starting list of the Masters section

No.		Name	ID	FideID	FED	Rtg	sex	Club/City
1	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	1	13602071	GEO	2596		GEO
2	GM	Paichadze Luka	3	13602934	GEO	2560		GEO
3	GM	Savchenko Boris	4	4147332	RUS	2547		RUS
4	GM	Krasenkow Michal	5	1113100	POL	2545		POL
5	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	0	5019141	IND	2526		TN AICF Pending
6	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	879982021	25072846	IND	2519		WB
7	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	10362021	25073060	IND	2513		WB
8	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	1245192022	25006479	IND	2489		AP
9	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	25062021	5005779	IND	2481		TN
10	GM	Batchuluun Tsegmed	6	4900847	MGL	2478		MGL
11	GM	Mitrabha Guha	3722021	5057000	IND	2471		WB
12	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	996252021	5053196	IND	2461		MAH
13	FM	Singh Ojasva	367232021	25681958	IND	2456		MP
14	IM	Neelash Saha	64812021	5094160	IND	2454		WB
15	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	998152021	5011132	IND	2439		RLYS
16	IM	Tahbaz Arash	19	12528846	IRI	2437		IRI
17	CM	Kushagra Mohan	27252021	25033638	IND	2431		TEL
18	GM	Neverov Valeriy	7	14100150	UKR	2430		UKR
19	IM	Harshavardhan G B	14082021	25059009	IND	2429		TN
20	IM	Ajay Karthikeyan	67822021	35011685	IND	2422		TN
21	IM	Nitin S.	70632021	5018277	IND	2416		TN
22	IM	Akshat Khamparia	999312021	5016541	IND	2390		MP
23	GM	Laxman R.R.	869792021	5005361	IND	2388		ICF
24	GM	Saptarshi Roy	0	5008980	IND	2388		WB AICF Pending
25	IM	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	66282021	5073421	IND	2387		MAH
26	GM	Nguyen Duc Hoa	8	12401358	VIE	2365		VIE
27	IM	Gusain Himal	48972021	5033861	IND	2359		RLYS
28	IM	Ratnakaran K.	48672021	5005507	IND	2352		RLYS
29	IM	Raahul V S	21122021	25035525	IND	2345		TN
30	FM	Aradhya Garg	1236512022	25006746	IND	2332		DEL

Details

Links

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Translated from Hindi by Shahid Ahmed

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