Grand Swiss 2023 R1: Raunak Sadhwani starts with a solid draw against the World no.7 - Anish Giri

by Shahid Ahmed - 26/10/2023

The newly crowned FIDE World Junior Rapid 2023 Open champion, GM Raunak Sadhwani held the World no.7, GM Anish Giri (NED) to a solid draw. GM Aryan Chopra also drew his game against GM R Praggnanandhaa in the first round of FIDE Grand Swiss 2023. GM Leon Luke Mendonca held Netherlands no.2 GM Jorden van Foreest to a draw. GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM S L Narayanan and GM Aravindh Chithambaram made a winning start in the Open section. In the Women's event, IM Tania Sachdev drew against GM Harika Dronavalli. IM Vaishali R and IM Divya Deshmukh defeated IM Oliwia Kiolbasa (POL) and WIM Trisha Kanyamarala (IRL) respectively. WGM Savitha Shri B defeated Israel no.1 woman, IM Marsel Efroimski when she blundered a mate in two in a relatively balanced endgame. Round 2 starts today at 2:30 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. IST. Photo: IM Sagar Shah

Tania splits the point with Harika; Vaishali, Savitha and Divya score a win each

The first round did not witness any major upsets. Former World Champion, GM Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) held the defending Grand Swiss 2021 Open winner, GM Alireza Firouzja (FRA). In Round 2, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) will face GM S L Narayanan. Their last encounter took place a little over a week ago at Qatar Masters 2023. It ended in a draw. A few more interesting match ups will be - GM Raunak Sadhwani vs GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA), GM D Gukesh vs GM Ponomariov (UKR), GM Aryan Chopra vs GM Vincent Keymer (GER), GM Vladislav Artemiev vs GM Leon Luke Mendonca, IM Divya Deshmukh vs GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN), IM Eline Roebers (NED) vs IM Vaishali R and GM Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL) vs WGM Savitha Shri B.

FIDE World Junior Rapid 2023 champion, GM Raunak Sadhwani made a great start against the World no.7, GM Anish Giri (NED) | Photo: IM Sagar Shah

FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 official logo | Photo: Official site

GM Ivan Saric (CRO) vs GM Fabiano Caruana (USA) | Video: ChessBase India

Arjun - Frederik Svane

Position after 16.Kd1

16.Kd1! is an excellent move. White is shifting his king to the queenside so that it becomes easier to launch an attack on the kingside and connect the rooks. 16...Ng8 17.Bf4 Bxh4? inviting trouble 18.e4 Be6 19.Kc2 h6 20.g4 Rc8 21.e5 c5 22.Be3 g5 23.Kb1 cxd4 24.Bxd4 Ne7

Position after 24...Ne7

White sacrificed an exchange 25.Rxh4! to start the next stage of his onslaught. 25...gxh4 26.Rh1 Nc6 27.Bf2 Nxe5 28.Bxh4 f6 29.Qxh6+! Black cannot take it as Bxf6# is there. 29...Kf7 30.Bg6+ Nxg6 31.Qh7+ Kf8 32.Qxg6 and White won the game in another five moves.

"I am happy I got a good start!" - GM Arjun Erigaisi after prevailing against GM Frederik Svane (GER) | Video: FIDE

GM Arjun Erigaisi made a winning start against GM Frederik Svane (GER) | Photo: IA Vivek Sohani

GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA) analyzes his game against GM Rasmus Svane (GER) | Video: GMHikaru

World No. 5 Alireza Firouzja vs. Ruslan Ponomariov | Video: ChessBase India

GM Rauf Mamedov (AZE) vs GM D Gukesh | Video: ChessBase India

Gukesh tells us how Grand Swiss 2023 is different from the Qatar Masters 2023 | Video: ChessBase India

GM R Praggnanandhaa's first rated game after the 19th Asian Games 2022 | Video: ChessBase India

GM R Praggnanandhaa - GM Aryan Chopra (pictured): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Biel Chess Festival

GM Leon Luke Mendonca (pictured) - GM Jorden van Foreest (NED): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

GM Aleksandra Goryachkina blunders in a see-saw battle against IM Ann Matnadze (ESP) | Video: ChessBase India

Ann Matnadze after her draw with Goryachkina | Video: ChessBase India

A see-saw battle between IM Ana Matnadze Bujiashvili (ESP) and GM Aleksandra Goryachkina ended in a draw | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

Extra Pawn Mastery in a Minor Piece Endgame - IM Sophie Milliet (FRA) v GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR) | Video: ChessBase India

IM Tania Sachdev - GM Harika Dronavalli: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IM Sagar Shah

Vaishali - Oliwia

Position after 34...Nh5??

34...Nh5?? is a blunder as White loses a couple of pawns in an otherwise relatively balanced endgame. 35.Rf5 Rxf5 36.Rxf5 Qg3+ 37.Qxg3 Nxg3 38.Rxf7+ Kh8 39.Rxc7 Nf1+ Black recovers one of the pawns, but it does not allow her to get back into the game.

Vaishali: "I need to gain some rating to get the GM title, and hopefully a Candidates spot" | Video: FIDE

IM Vaishali R made a winning start against IM Oliwia Kiolbasa (POL) | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

Savitha - Marsel

Position after 29.Rf1

One of the few things Black should not do here is what IM Marsel Efroimski (ISR, 2447) did 29...Rxb2?? Find out why it ends the game instantly for Black and what she could have done instead.

WGM Savitha Shri B seized her opportunity | Photo: IA Vivek Sohani

Final moments: IM Divya Deshmukh vs WIM Trisha Kanyamaral (IRL) | Video: ChessBase India

Video Gallery

The girls shine in FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 Women Round 1 | Sagar's walking recap | Video: ChessBase India

Levon Aronian pays tribute to Eric Rosen and his Stafford Gambit! | Video: ChessBase India

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Round 1 starting moments | Video: ChessBase India

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Replay FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 Round 1 Live Commentary by IM V Saravanan and Amruta Mokal | Video: ChessBase India

Re[;ay FIDE Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss 2023 Round 1 Live Commentary by GM David Howell (ENG) and IM Jovanka Houska (ENG) | Video: FIDE

Schedule

Every day game starts at 2:30 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. IST between 25th October and 4th November 2023, except on 3rd when the game starts at 11:30 a.m. local time, 4 p.m. IST. Rest day is on Tuesday 31st October 2023. The last round on 5th November will start at 2 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST.

Time Control

The time control for each game is: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, followed by 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.

Qualification

The winner and the runner-up of Grand Swiss shall qualify for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024. If one or both these players has (-ve) already qualified to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 at the moment of the beginning of Grand Swiss via different qualification track or do (-es) not need to qualify for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024, the qualification spot(s) shall go to the highest-placed player(s) in the final standings who has (-ve) not yet qualified to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 at the moment of the beginning of Grand Swiss

Prizes

The total prize fund in the Open is US$ 460,000 with the first prize being $80,000. For Women's the total prize fund is $140,000, first prize $25,000. Total numbers of prizes are 69, Open - 46 and Women - 23.

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Round 1 Open results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	4	4	GM	Giri Anish	2760	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Sadhwani Raunak	2641	61
1	5	62	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2640	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Gukesh D	2758	5
1	8	8	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	2738	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Aryan Chopra	2634	65
1	14	14	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2716	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	2630	71
1	15	72	GM	L'ami Erwin	2627	0	1 - 0	0	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2716	15
1	16	16	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2712	0	1 - 0	0	GM	Svane Frederik	2626	73
1	19	76	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2622	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Van Foreest Jorden	2707	19
1	25	82	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	2615	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Nihal Sarin	2694	25
1	26	26	GM	Xiong Jeffery	2693	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2611	83
1	27	84	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2609	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	2691	27
1	47	104	GM	Adhiban B.	2551	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Predke Alexandr	2656	47
1	52	52	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2651	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn	2488	109
1	56	56	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2649	0	1 - 0	0		Wu Li	2303	113

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Standings after Round 1

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	1	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	USA	2786	1	0	0	0	0
	6	GM	Rapport, Richard	ROU	2752	1	0	0	0	0
	7	GM	Aronian, Levon	USA	2742	1	0	0	0	0
	10	GM	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	POL	2726	1	0	0	0	0
	11	GM	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	2720	1	0	0	0	0
	13	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	UZB	2716	1	0	0	0	0
	16	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	IND	2712	1	0	0	0	0
	18	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	IRI	2707	1	0	0	0	0
	21	GM	Sevian, Samuel	USA	2698	1	0	0	0	0
	24	GM	Martirosyan, Haik M.	ARM	2696	1	0	0	0	0
	27	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir	SLO	2691	1	0	0	0	0
	30	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	ARM	2686	1	0	0	0	0
	31	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	IRI	2685	1	0	0	0	0
	32	GM	Esipenko, Andrey	FID	2683	1	0	0	0	0
	33	GM	Sarana, Alexey	SRB	2682	1	0	0	0	0
	34	GM	Amin, Bassem	EGY	2680	1	0	0	0	0
	39	GM	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	2669	1	0	0	0	0
	42	GM	Niemann, Hans Moke	USA	2667	1	0	0	0	0
	44	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	2658	1	0	0	0	0
	47	GM	Predke, Alexandr	SRB	2656	1	0	0	0	0

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Round 2 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
2	6	13	GM	Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2716	1		1	GM	Narayanan.S.L	2651	52
2	7	49	GM	Anton Guijarro David	2653	1		1	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2712	16
2	9	21	GM	Sevian Samuel	2698	1		1	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2649	56
2	17	61	GM	Sadhwani Raunak	2641	½		½	GM	Nakamura Hikaru	2780	2
2	20	5	GM	Gukesh D	2758	½		½	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2641	60
2	21	69	GM	Murzin Volodar	2633	½		½	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	2738	8
2	23	65	GM	Aryan Chopra	2634	½		½	GM	Keymer Vincent	2717	12
2	24	77	GM	Tari Aryan	2619	½		½	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2716	14
2	28	83	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2611	½		½	GM	Shankland Sam	2698	22
2	29	23	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	2697	½		½	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2622	76
2	30	25	GM	Nihal Sarin	2694	½		½	GM	Suleymanli Aydin	2588	92
2	42	15	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2716	0		0	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2609	84
2	51	67	GM	Idani Pouya	2633	0		0	GM	Adhiban B.	2551	104

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Round 1 Women results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	7	32	IM	Tania Sachdev	2389	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Dronavalli Harika	2502	7
1	12	12	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2448	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	2375	37
1	13	38	WGM	Savitha Shri B	2375	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Efroimski Marsel	2447	13
1	18	18	IM	Vantika Agrawal	2435	0	0 - 1	0	WGM	Kamalidenova Meruert	2351	43
1	24	24	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	2408	0	1 - 0	0	WIM	Kanyamarala Trisha	2184	49

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Standings after Round 1

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	4	GM	Tan, Zhongyi	CHN	2517	1	0	0	0	0
	5	GM	Muzychuk, Anna	UKR	2510	1	0	0	0	0
	8	GM	Paehtz, Elisabeth	GER	2484	1	0	0	0	0
	12	IM	Vaishali, Rameshbabu	IND	2448	1	0	0	0	0
	16	GM	Gunina, Valentina	FID	2439	1	0	0	0	0
	21	GM	Stefanova, Antoaneta	BUL	2424	1	0	0	0	0
	22	IM	Bulmaga, Irina	ROU	2423	1	0	0	0	0
	24	WGM	Divya, Deshmukh	IND	2408	1	0	0	0	0
	25	IM	Garifullina, Leya	FID	2402	1	0	0	0	0
	31	IM	Roebers, Eline	NED	2390	1	0	0	0	0
	34	IM	Tsolakidou, Stavroula	GRE	2385	1	0	0	0	0
	38	WGM	Savitha, Shri B	IND	2375	1	0	0	0	0
	42	IM	Guichard, Pauline	FRA	2358	1	0	0	0	0
	43	WGM	Kamalidenova, Meruert	KAZ	2351	1	0	0	0	0
	45	WGM	Sandu, Mihaela	ROU	2298	1	0	0	0	0
16	1	GM	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	FID	2558	0,5	0	0	0,5	0
	2	GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	SUI	2523	0,5	0	0	0,5	0
	3	GM	Muzychuk, Mariya	UKR	2519	0,5	0	0	0,5	0
	7	GM	Dronavalli, Harika	IND	2502	0,5	0	0	0,5	0
	10	IM	Assaubayeva, Bibisara	KAZ	2469	0,5	0	0	0,5	0

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Round 2 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
2	1	24	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	2408	1		1	GM	Tan Zhongyi	2517	4
2	4	31	IM	Roebers Eline	2390	1		1	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2448	12
2	6	21	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2424	1		1	WGM	Savitha Shri B	2375	38
2	11	7	GM	Dronavalli Harika	2502	½		½	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	2398	28
2	13	11	WGM	Wagner Dinara	2461	½		½	IM	Tania Sachdev	2389	32
2	22	41	IM	Aulia Medina Warda	2362	0		0	IM	Vantika Agrawal	2435	18

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