Leelajai Krishna N outstanding at 16th Paracin Open B 2023, Pranesh clinches Blitz, Ethan Vaz second

by Shahid Ahmed - 23/07/2023

Indian players have always garnered a lot of success at Paracin International Chess Festival tournaments. The 16th edition was no different either. CM Aaditya Dhingra scored his second IM-norm in Open A (>2100) section with a performance of 2420. He increased his Elo rating by 131.2 points. 16-year-old Leelajai Krishna N won the Open B (≤2100 section) scoring an unbeaten 8.5/9. The teenager finished a full point ahead of the competition and gained 122.8 Elo rating points. GM Pranesh M won the Blitz Open scoring 9/11 and remained undefeated. FM Ethan Vaz also scored the same. He was adjudged second and gained 206 Elo rating points. The top three prizes in Open A were RSD 200000, 150000 and 110000, for Open B they were 55000, 42000 and 30000. Blitz had a total prize fund of RSD 60000. The entire festival offered the total prize fund of RSD 1160000. Photos: FM FT IA IO Sasa Jevtic

Aaditya Dhingra scores his second IM-norm in consecutive events

Haryana's top player, CM Aaditya Dhingra scored an impressive 6/9, performed at 2500 and gained a humongous 198 Elo rating points. He defeated GM Milos Pavlovic (SRB) and drew against IM Sinisa Saric (SRB) en route his maiden IM-norm. A day after the conclusion of Vojvodina Open, Aaditya started playing his event Paracin Open 2023 on 7th July. The 16-year-old once again scored 6/9, performed at 2420 and gained a whopping 131.2 Elo rating points. His live rating is currently 2473.2. He won against GM Dejan Pikula (SRB), IM Vuk Djordjevic (SRB) and drew with IM Marcel Becker (GER) en route his second IM-norm. The teenager is now final IM-norm and few Elo rating points away from becoming India's next International Master.

Champion in Open B - Leelajai Krishna N 8.5/9

Top 3 (L to R) in Open B - 3rd Lala Huseynova (AZE) 7/9, 1st Leelajai Krishna N 8.5/9 and 2nd Batsaikhan Tserendorj (USA) 7.5/9

Leelajai Krishna N scored 8.5/9, finished a full point ahead of the field and gained 122.8 Elo rating points

CM Aaditya Dhingra with his second IM-norm certificate

CM Aaditya Dhingra scored 6/9, performed at 2420 and gained 131.2 Elo rating points, en route his second IM-norm

In his previous event at Vojvodina Open A 2023, CM Aaditya Dhingra also scored 6/9, performed at 2500 and gained a staggering 198 Elo rating points to earn his maiden IM-norm

19th Uros Dinic Memorial Rapid 4th - GM Pranesh M 7.5/9

9th - CM Aaditya Dhingra 6.5/9, gained 185.2 Elo rating points

Pranesh wins Blitz Open, Ethan Vaz second

GM Pranesh M (2437), FM Ethan Vaz (2163), GM Nikita Petrov (MNE, 2549) and IM Pavel S Dvalishvili (2297) scored 9/11 each. Pranesh won the tournament on tie-breaks, Ethan was placed second.

Blitz Open champion - GM Pranesh M 9/11

Before winning this event, GM Pranesh M scored an unbeaten 8/9 to finish as the runner-up at Silver Lake Open A 2023. Then he secured a third place finish at Vojvodina Blitz Open 2023.

Runner-up - FM Ethan Vaz 9/11

11-year-old FM Ethan Vaz (2163) is also having a great tour in Serbia. Last month he gained 101.6 Elo rating points at Silver Lake Open A 2023. In the following event, he gained 96.4 Elo rating points at Vojvodina Open A 2023.

Blitz Open Top 3 (L to R): 3rd GM Nikita Petrov (MNE) 9/11, 1st GM Pranesh M 9/11 and 2nd FM Ethan Vaz 9/11

8th Aswath S 8/11

A total of 144 players including 5 GMs, 6 IMs and 2 WIMs took part from 20 countries across the world in the Blitz Rating Open. The time control was 3 minutes + 2 seconds each.

A glimpse of the festival | Video: FM FT IO IA Sasa Jevtic

A total of 126 players including 9 GMs, 15 IMs and 6 WIMs took part in Open A category from 25 countries across the world in Group A (>2100). Group B (≤2100) witnessed the participation of 164 players. A total of 183 players including 9 GMs, 14 IMs and 3 WIMs took part in the one day Rapid Rating Open tournament. The tournaments were organized by FM FT IO IA Sasa Jevtic at Pool Prestige in Paracin, Serbia from 7th to 15th July 2023. The one-day Rapid Rating event took place on 9th July 2023. The time control for the Classical tournaments were 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment, for Rapid it was 10 minutes + 5 seconds increment.

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Final standings in Open A

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	K	rtg+/-
1	2	GM	Gundavaa, Bayarsaikhan				MGL	2510	7	48,5	36,5	5	10	4,7
2	9	IM	Urazayev, Arystanbek				KAZ	2427	7	48	38	5	10	14,6
3	20	FM	Efremov, Vladislav	U18			FID	2356	7	40,5	32,5	6	20	14,6
4	26		Itgelt, Khuyagtsogt	U18			MGL	2321	6,5	45,5	34,5	5	20	41,6
5	4	GM	Bryakin, Mikhail				SRB	2454	6,5	45	35,5	4	10	8
6	3	GM	Pranesh, M	U16			IND	2507	6,5	44	34,5	4	10	-1,6
7	15	FM	Mamatov, Melis				KGZ	2403	6,5	43,5	33	5	10	3,4
8	6	IM	Low, Zhen Yu Cyrus	U20			SGP	2444	6,5	43	33	5	10	1,4
9	1	GM	Ivanisevic, Ivan				SRB	2536	6,5	42,5	32,5	6	10	-6
10	10	GM	Damljanovic, Branko	S50			SRB	2422	6,5	39,5	33,5	5	10	-2,6
11	63	CM	Aaditya, Dhingra	U16			IND	2144	6	44,5	31,5	5	40	131,2
12	23		Yatzenko, Anton				FID	2335	6	42	29,5	4	10	-5,1
13	45	FM	Zhukov, Anton	U18			FID	2215	6	41	30	2	20	29,8
14	7	IM	Ajay, Karthikeyan	U18			IND	2441	6	41	27,5	4	10	-14,7
15	55	WIM	Nurgali, Nazerke	U18	w		KAZ	2192	6	40	29	6	20	48,6

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Final standings in Open B

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	K	rtg+/-
1	28	MK	Leelajai, Krishna N	U16		IND	1795	8,5	50,5	43	8	40	122,8
2	4	MK	Tserendorj, Batsaikhan			USA	2011	7,5	49	41	7	20	-1,2
3	46	MK	Huseynova, Lala	U12	w	AZE	1711	7	49	37	7	40	108
4	15	MK	Sakmak, Kutay	U14		TUR	1874	7	47,5	36,5	6	40	26,4
5	25	MK	Roneet, Das	U20		IND	1804	6,5	51	36,5	5	20	15,8
6	63	I	Yessengali, Adizhan	U12		KAZ	1663	6,5	48	37,5	6	40	139,2
7	44	MK	Kuruz, Yusuf			TUR	1728	6,5	47,5	36	4	20	31
8	62	I	Pusara, Mihailo	U14		MNE	1664	6,5	47,5	35,5	5	40	106
9	77	I	Milovic, Ilija	U14		MNE	1617	6,5	46	33	5	40	112,4
10	21	MK	Jakovljevic, Dejan			SRB	1824	6,5	45,5	34,5	5	20	3
11	23	MK	Baiture, Temirlan	U14		KAZ	1814	6,5	45	31,5	5	40	-6
12	33	MK	Swapna, C N	U18	w	IND	1789	6,5	44,5	32,5	6	40	-22
13	56	I	Divitt, Arora	U12		IND	1682	6,5	44	32,5	6	40	92,4
14	78	I	Ouzounis, Konstantinos Kyr	U14		GRE	1615	6,5	41,5	29	5	40	132,8
15	108	II	Buyankhishig, Batpelden	U10	w	MGL	1487	6,5	41	28,5	5	40	162

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Final standings in Uros Dinic Memorial Rapid

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	K	rtg+/-
1	5	GM	Bryakin, Mikhail			SRB	2443	7,5	53	41,5	6	10	10,4
2	22	IM	Dvalishvili, Pavel S.			RUS	2285	7,5	50,5	40	6	10	17,8
3	1	GM	Ivanisevic, Ivan			SRB	2582	7,5	50	39	7	10	-7,5
4	14	GM	Pranesh, M	U16		IND	2357	7,5	49	39	6	20	32,6
5	16	IM	Low, Zhen Yu Cyrus	U20		SGP	2315	7,5	43,5	34,5	7	20	-11,2
6	11	IM	Uskov, Artem	U12		FID	2382	7	46	36	7	10	-5,8
7	12	IM	Tadic, Stefan	U18		SRB	2375	7	45	36	7	10	-2,9
8	15	FM	Petrovic, Aleksa	U18		SRB	2343	7	40,5	32	7	20	-24,2
9	69	CM	Aaditya, Dhingra	U16		IND	1958	6,5	51,5	37	5	40	185,2
10	19	FM	Mamatov, Melis			KGZ	2298	6,5	50,5	37	5	20	26,4
11	72	AGM	Vignesh, B	U18		IND	1931	6,5	49	35,5	6	20	93,8
12	32	IM	Raahul, V S	U20		IND	2183	6,5	48,5	36	6	20	42,4
13	8	GM	Arnaudov, G. Petar			BUL	2410	6,5	48,5	36	5	10	-7,5
14	33		Aswath, S	U14		IND	2168	6,5	48	35,5	6	40	58,4
15	2	GM	Damljanovic, Branko	S50		SRB	2540	6,5	47,5	34,5	6	10	-15,3

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Final standings in Blitz

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	K	rtg+/-
1	5	GM	Pranesh, M		IND	2437	9	77,5	59,5	7	10	11,5
2	23	AIM	Vaz, Ethan		IND	2163	9	77	60	9	40	206
3	2	GM	Petrov, Nikita		MNE	2549	9	76	55	8	10	-7,2
4	14	IM	Dvalishvili, Pavel S.		RUS	2297	9	73,5	54,5	7	10	20,4
5	1	GM	Ivanisevic, Ivan		SRB	2592	8,5	75	54,5	8	10	-7,3
6	24	FM	Afanasiev, Vadim		RUS	2157	8,5	73	51	8	20	64,4
7	13		Tasic, Vladimir		SRB	2300	8,5	69	51	8	20	6
8	32		Aswath, S		IND	2041	8	77,5	53	8	40	162
9	8	IM	Perunovic, Miodrag		SRB	2369	8	74	53	6	10	3
10	17	FM	Averin, Nikolay		FID	2273	8	67	47	8	20	-15,4
11	10	IM	Uskov, Artem		FID	2338	7,5	74,5	54	7	10	-3,2
12	21		Aakash Sharadchandra, Dalvi		IND	2179	7,5	69	49,5	7	20	23,6
13	4	IM	Djordjevic, Vuk		SRB	2463	7,5	69	47	7	10	-18,3
14	15	IM	Sredojevic, Ivan		SRB	2278	7,5	69	46	6	10	-10,8
15	7	GM	Pikula, Dejan		SRB	2375	7,5	68,5	48,5	7	10	-16,1

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