Diptayan halts Sammed's winning streak
Diptayan is known to win tournaments quite regularly. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, he could not play over-the-board tournaments. He has won several online tournaments including a series of ChessBase India online events during the lockdown. Exactly two years after playing his last over-the-board tournament, Diptayan won 2nd Dombivli Rapid Rating Open.
It was good to play after a long time, almost after two years. Even though it was a one-day event, but still... - GM Diptayan Ghosh on winning 2nd Dombivli Rapid Rating Open 2021. His last over-the-board tournament was National Senior Open which ended on the exact same day 19th December 2019. His win against Sammed in the final round was his favorite game from the event. Sammed was having an eight game win streak, 8.0/8 before he faced Diptayan.
Diptayan - Sammed, Round 9
Black's position was already quite difficult to play. 21...b5 only worsened things as 22.cxb5 cannot be met with 22...axb5. It runs into 23.b4 Nxa4 24.Qxc8+ Rxc8 25.Rxc8+ Bf8 26.Rdc1 idea Ra8 and Rcc8 which Black cannot stop. The game continued 22...f5 23.exf5 gxf5 24.Qxf5 cost Black another pawn and Black resigned.
The tournament was organized by Anant Vaze Sangeet, Kala and Krida Pratishthan & Aryan Institute of Chess Excellence on 19th December 2021 at Kalyan, Maharashtra. A total of 491 players including a GM and six IMs took part in the nine-round Swiss league Rapid Rating tournament which had a time control of 10 minutes + 10 seconds increment.
Final Standings
| Rk. | SNo | Name | Typ | sex | Rtg | Club/City | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | 1 | GM | Ghosh Diptayan | 2473 | 8,5 | 52,0 | 53,0 | 49,75 | |||
| 2 | 8 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | 2081 | 8,0 | 57,0 | 60,0 | 51,50 | |||
| 3 | 2 | IM | Gusain Himal | 2329 | 8,0 | 52,0 | 56,0 | 48,00 | |||
| 4 | 13 | FM | Wagh Suyog | 1942 | 8,0 | 51,5 | 55,5 | 47,50 | |||
| 5 | 75 | Potawad Anirudhha | 1372 | 8,0 | 46,5 | 49,0 | 41,00 | ||||
| 6 | 6 | FM | Senthil Maran K | 2122 | 7,5 | 53,0 | 55,5 | 43,75 | |||
| 7 | 17 | Soham Datar | 1867 | 7,5 | 52,0 | 55,0 | 43,50 | ||||
| 8 | 21 | Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi | 1736 | 7,5 | 51,0 | 53,5 | 43,25 | ||||
| 9 | 7 | FM | Dixit Nikhil | 2083 | 7,5 | 50,0 | 54,0 | 42,75 | |||
| 10 | 11 | IM | Krishnater Kushager | 1980 | 7,5 | 49,0 | 53,5 | 43,75 | |||
| 11 | 19 | Mahindrakar Indrajeet | 1822 | 7,5 | 46,0 | 48,0 | 38,00 | ||||
| 12 | 59 | ACM | Iyer Arvind | U13 | 1422 | 7,5 | 44,5 | 47,5 | 37,25 | ||
| 13 | 29 | Nirgun Keval | 1648 | 7,5 | 42,0 | 44,5 | 38,25 | ||||
| 14 | 339 | Karun Gaurav | 0 | 7,0 | 50,5 | 54,5 | 40,50 | ||||
| 15 | 20 | Sahil Dhawan | 1760 | 7,0 | 50,5 | 54,0 | 39,50 | ||||
| 16 | 3 | IM | Kulkarni Vikramaditya | 2308 | 7,0 | 49,5 | 54,0 | 40,00 | |||
| 17 | 10 | Bartakke Amardeep S. | 2004 | 7,0 | 49,5 | 54,0 | 39,50 | ||||
| 18 | 15 | Upadhyay R | 1911 | 7,0 | 49,0 | 53,5 | 39,50 | ||||
| 19 | 58 | Shah Devansh | 1424 | 7,0 | 49,0 | 53,0 | 38,00 | ||||
| 20 | 46 | CM | Kadam Om Manish | U13 | 1499 | 7,0 | 49,0 | 53,0 | 37,00 | ||
| 21 | 167 | Dhruv Swapnil Haldankar | U13 | 1097 | 7,0 | 48,5 | 52,5 | 38,00 | |||
| 22 | 41 | Pawar Rahul | 1538 | 7,0 | 47,0 | 52,0 | 38,50 | ||||
| 23 | 30 | Tamhankar Siddhant | 1647 | 7,0 | 47,0 | 49,0 | 35,00 | ||||
| 24 | 63 | Patil Harshal | 1406 | 7,0 | 46,5 | 50,5 | 37,00 | ||||
| 25 | 83 | Vedant Nitin Vekhande | U13 | 1342 | 7,0 | 46,0 | 48,5 | 36,75 |
