Rough patch for top seed Sergey Volkov continues
Neelash Saha after defeating the top seed of the tournament, former Russia champion, GM Sergey Volkov
Neelash sacrificed his Knight in 19th move, arising out of Catalan Opening. To capitalize on the initiative, he offered another Knight in 23rd move which his opponent declined, but he had to give up his Queen in the next move, making him get a Queen for three pieces. Neelash converted the attack brilliantly and with a sharp play won the game in 44 moves convincingly.
Round 3 highlights
Patil Pratik drew with GM Deep Sengupta in Modern Defence | Photo: Nongsha Angom
Harshita Guddanti drew with IM Harsha Bharathakoti in a sharp tactical game from Open Catalan opening
GM Sriram Jha managed to save the game after losing an exchange in Albin-Counter Gambit
Nepali Badrilal shocked Alina L'ami in English Opening and defeated her
Round 4 highlights
Battle of the generations: GM Alexander Fominyh drew with GM Sandipan Chanda in Dutch Defence
Padmini gave up a pawn in Giuco Piano which Tarlev recovered and gave it away, eventually he won in a Rook-Pawn ending
GM Tarlev Konstantin is among the leaders at the end of round 4
GM Azer Mirzoev drew with IM P Shyam Nikhil in 4.5+ hours long, 110 moves marathon game
Pairings/Results
Round 5 on 2018/04/15 at 09:00 NST
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 4 | GM | Tarlev Konstantin | 2549 | 4 | 4 | GM | Kasparov Sergey | 2462 | 7 | |||
| 2 | 6 | GM | Greenfeld Alon | 2490 | 4 | 3½ | GM | Sandipan Chanda | 2579 | 2 | |||
| 3 | 14 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | 2385 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Sengupta Deep | 2579 | 3 | |||
| 4 | 30 | Harshavardhan G B | 2119 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Mirzoev Azer | 2504 | 5 | ||||
| 5 | 8 | IM | Harsha Bharathakoti | 2424 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Fominyh Alexander | 2391 | 13 | |||
| 6 | 10 | IM | Gusain Himal | 2413 | 3½ | 3½ | Neelash Saha | 2212 | 25 | ||||
| 7 | 23 | Patil Pratik | 2258 | 3½ | 3½ | IM | Prince Bajaj | 2409 | 11 | ||||
| 8 | 12 | GM | Sriram Jha | 2392 | 3½ | 3½ | IM | Deshmukh Anup | 2282 | 21 | |||
| 9 | 36 | Subhayan Kundu | 2079 | 3 | 3 | IM | Llaneza Vega Marcos | 2422 | 9 | ||||
| 10 | 15 | Kaustuv Kundu | 2381 | 3 | 3 | FM | Hamal Manish | 2058 | 38 | ||||
| 11 | 44 | Puri Rajan | 1994 | 3 | 3 | IM | Padmini Rout | 2360 | 16 | ||||
| 12 | 18 | IM | L'ami Alina | 2316 | 3 | 3 | Sonkalan Bharati | 2050 | 39 | ||||
| 13 | 19 | FM | Gajwa Ankit | 2292 | 3 | 3 | Nepali Badrilal | 2020 | 41 | ||||
| 14 | 20 | Navalgund Niranjan | 2286 | 3 | 3 | Kavinda Akila | 1996 | 42 | |||||
| 15 | 22 | CM | Thing Bibek | 2263 | 3 | 3 | CM | Niraula Bhupendra | 1994 | 43 | |||
| 16 | 45 | Panta Sumit | 1993 | 3 | 3 | IM | Suvrajit Saha | 2234 | 24 | ||||
| 17 | 26 | Ramaraju N | 2175 | 3 | 3 | CM | Rajbhandari Rijendra | 1959 | 50 | ||||
| 18 | 27 | FM | Mohammed Abdul Malek | 2171 | 3 | 3 | WFM | Lakshmi C | 1942 | 53 | |||
| 19 | 28 | FM | Shantharam K.V. | 2163 | 3 | 3 | Jati Bikram | 1830 | 68 | ||||
| 20 | 51 | Tamang Thendup | 1953 | 3 | 3 | FM | Jaiswal Rupesh | 2121 | 29 |
