Mitrabha Guha wins a double at Sydney Open 2025

by Shahid Ahmed - 24/05/2025

GM Mitrabha Guha won a double at Sydney Open 2025. This is his third consecutive double triumph in Australia after winning a double in Melbourne and at Canberra in O2C Doeberl Cup within a span of few days. The reigning National Blitz champion scored 7.5/9 in Championships section (>2000) and 11/11 in Blitz to become the champion in Classical and Blitz Rating tournaments respectively. IM Ronald Dableo (PHI) scored sole 7/9 to secure a second place finish. GM Sayantan Das scored 6.5/9 to finish third. The total prize fund in the Championships was AU $8750. The top three prizes were $3000, $2000 and $875 each. WFM Supreetha Potluri scored 7.5/9 to win the Challengers section. Total prize fund in Challengers was AU $4550. The top three prizes were $1000, $750 and $500 each. For Blitz, the total prize fund was AU $1000. The top three prizes were $300, $200 and $100. This was Mitrabha's tenth and eleventh overall, ninth and tenth rating tournament triumph of the year. Photo: Winston Zhao Chen

Sayantan Das third in Championships section

Top seed of the tournament, GM Mitrabha Guha was the sole leader 7/8, heading into the final round in Championships. GM Sayantan Das was the sole player trailing by a half point at 6.5/8. Mitrabha drew with GM Antonio Rogelio Jr. (PHI) to become the champion. IM Ronald Dableo (PHI) defeated Sayantan to secure second place, Sayantan finished third. It goes without saying that Mitrabha had a successful tour in Australia as won six tournaments in total in three different events. The total participation combining four events - Championships (49), Challengers (110), Contenders (51) and Blitz (143) was 353.

Champion in Championships and Blitz - GM Mitrabha Guha 7.5/9 and 11/11 | Photo: Winston Zhao Chen

Second Runner-up - GM Sayantan Das 6.5/9 | Photo: Winston Zhao Chen

Ronald - Mitrabha, Round 5

Position after 37...gxf6

GM Ronald Dableo (AUS, 2363) went wrong 38.Kh3?? GM Mitrabha Guha (2505) seized his opportunity 38...Rc2! 39.Qg1 f5 40.Rf1 Ng7 41.h5 Nxh5 42.Rf2 Rc1 43.Qh2 Rh1 and Black won.

GM Mitrabha Guha during one of his games | Photo: Winston Zhao Chen

GM Mitrabha Guha scored 7.5/9, finished a half point ahead of the field and gained 9.4 Elo rating points

GM Mitrabha Guha defeated CM Ashvin Balavignan (AUS) to become champion in Blitz with a round to spare 10/10. The final round result was immaterial as he had already won the event, still he played for a win and won against FM Tomek Rej (AUS) to become champion with a perfect score 11/11. This performance earned him 18.3 Elo rating points, taking his Blitz rating to a career high of 2587.

GM Mitrabha Guha scored a perfect 11/11, won the tournament with a round to spare, finished a massive two points ahead of the rest and gained 18.3 Elo rating points

Supreetha Potluri clinches the Challengers

WFM Supreetha Potluri and Taifeng Lyu (AUS) were the coleaders 6.5/8, heading into the final round. Supreetha defeated her coleader, Taifeng to become the champion.

Champion in Challengers - WFM Supreetha Potluri 7.5/9 | Photo: Winston Zhao Chen

WFM Supreetha Potluri scored 7.5/9, finished a half point ahead of others and increased her Elo rating by 49.8 points

Players in action | Photo: Winston Zhao Chen

Top boards | Photo: Winston Zhao Chen

The tournament hall at Novotel West HQ in Rooty Hill, New South Wales, Australia | Photo: Winston Zhao Chen

The next edition will take place from 8th to 12th April 2026

A total of 49 players including 5 GMs and 6 IMs took part from eight countries all over the world in this five-day nine round Rating tournament in Championships (>2000) category. It was organized by FA Winston Zhao Chen at Novotel West HQ in Rooty Hill, New South Wales, Australia from 23rd to 27th April 2025. The time control of the event was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment per move.

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Final standings in Championships

Pos	Player	Rtg	Fed	Pts	DirE	BH	BH-C1	BH-C2
1	1 GM Mitrabha,Guha	2505	IND	7.5	0.0	52.5	47.5	42.5
2	5 IM Dableo,Ronald	2363	PHI	7.0	0.0	46.5	43.5	39.5
3	3 GM Das,Sayantan	2416	IND	6.5	0.5	50.0	47.0	42.5
4	2 GM Zhao,Zong-Yuan	2462	NSW	6.5	0.5	49.0	45.5	41.0
5	12 FM Chakrabarty,Reyaansh	2274	NSW	6.0	0.5	44.5	41.0	37.5
6	11 IM Cannon,David	2291	VIC	6.0	0.5	41.0	39.0	36.0
7	14 IM Lane,Gary W	2250	NSW	5.5	0.0	46.0	42.5	38.5
8	4 GM Antonio, Rogelio Jr	2363	PHI	5.5	0.0	45.5	41.5	37.0
9	29 CM Hu,Yifei	2086	NSW	5.5	0.0	44.5	40.5	36.0
10	8 FM Xie,Felix	2326	NZL	5.5	0.0	44.0	40.5	37.0

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A total of 110 players including an IM took part from eight countries all over the world in this five-day nine round Rating tournament in Challengers category. It was organized by FA Winston Zhao Chen at Novotel West HQ in Rooty Hill, New South Wales, Australia from 23rd to 27th April 2025. The time control of the event was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment per move.

Final standings in Challengers

Pos	Player	Rtg	Fed	Pts	BH	BH-C1	BH-C2
1	18 WFM Potluri, Supreetha	1865	IND	7.5	45.0	41.0	37.0
2	22 Qiang,Vincent	1849	NSW	7.0	51.0	47.5	42.5
3	7 Liu,Eric	1937	NSW	7.0	50.5	48.5	43.5
4	26 WFM Lu,Lillian	1813	VIC	7.0	44.5	41.0	37.5
5	2 CM Lama,Milan	2025	NEP	7.0	43.5	40.0	36.0
6	30 Lyu,Taifeng (Matt)	1778	NSW	6.5	51.0	46.5	42.0
7	100 Su,Joey	1367	NSW	6.5	47.5	44.5	41.5
8	17 Young,Micah	1871	QLD	6.0	53.5	49.5	45.0
9	21 Rupasinghe,Sayum	1854	NSW	6.0	51.0	47.0	42.5
10	5 Ayyappan,Balanandan	1948	IND	6.0	50.0	46.0	42.0

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A total of 143 players including 2 GMs, 2 IMs, a WGM and WIM took part from a dozen countries all over the world in this one-day eleven round Blitz Rating tournament. It was organized by FA Winston Zhao Chen at Novotel West HQ in Rooty Hill, New South Wales, Australia on 25th April 2025. The time control of the event was 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment per move.

Final standings in Blitz

Pos	Player	Rtg	Fed	Pts	BH	BH-C1
1	2 GM Mitrabha,Guha	2542	IND	11.0	83.0	77.0
2	1 GM Smirnov,Anton	2775	AUS	9.0	84.0	78.5
3	4 IM Dableo,Ronald	2362	PHI	8.5	87.5	80.5
4	3 CM Le,Tri Kien	2391	VIE	8.0	84.0	78.0
5	5 FM Soo,Kai Jie	2338	AUS	8.0	82.5	77.5
6	46 CM Balavignan,Ashvin	1887	AUS	8.0	81.0	76.0
7	11 FM Kazarian,Anna-Maja	2164	NED	8.0	79.5	73.5
8	16 CM Rusakov,Jean	2121	AUS	8.0	71.5	66.5
9	8 FM Chan,Luis	2285	AUS	8.0	69.5	65.0
10	10 CM Annapureddy,Rheyansh Reddy	2212	AUS	7.5	82.0	76.0

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