Surya Sekhar Ganguly held to a draw in the opening round of National Team 2018
by Shahid Ahmed - 08/02/2018
Karan Trivedi of Gujarat shocked everyone when he held 770 ELO points higher, India's Elite GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly of PSPB in the opening round of 38th National Team Chess Championship 2018 held at KIIT University in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. PSPB made its return to the tournament after they skipped it in 2017. Sanjeeban Nayak of Odisha-MCF-2 also caused another upset by drawing with GM Tejas Bakre of Air India. All seeded women's team whitewashed their lower ranked opponents. We bring you the photos and games from the tournament. Photos by IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Karan Trivedi holds GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly to a draw in the first round of 38th National Team Chess Championship 2018
Karan Trivedi of Gujarat starts the game with 1.e4 against GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly of PSPB | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
The game started in a long theoretical line of French Defense where both players had chances to gain the upper hand but neither capitalized. Eventually Ganguly used his experience and settled for a draw in a King-Pawn endgame which arose from Queen and Bishop vs. Two Rooks and then Bishop vs Rook endgame. Here is the game:
Inaugural move 1.e4 made by Prof. Achyuta Samanta in presence of AOCA President IM Sekhar Sahu | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Prof. Achyuta Samanta lights up the ceremonial lamp | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Prof. Achyuta Samanta delivers his inaugural speech | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
AOCA President IM Sekhar Sahu delivers his inaugural speech | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Open section:
GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly did not have the perfect start but he is always known to bounce back | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
After having a not-so-impressive Tata Steel 2018, GM B Adhiban is ready to unleash the beast | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM G N Gopal had an easy first round | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
After winning the Hastings Masters for the second consecutive year, GM Deep Sengupta will look forward to continue his momentum | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Team Gujarat went down 0.5-3.5 against top seed team PSPB in the first round | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM S L Narayanan defeated his opponent rated over 1000 lower without any difficulty | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM M Shyam Sundar made a quick work of his opponent in just 32 moves in the Italian Opening | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Team Airport Authority of India whitewashed Services Sports Control Board with a score of 4-0 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM Himanshu Sharma won his opening round game comfortably | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
IM P Karthikeyan smashed his opponent in just 24 moves | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
GM Swapnil Dhopade played a fantastic endgame and won his game | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
India's 50th Grandmaster M S Thejkumar outplayed his opponent in just 34 moves | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Results:
Round 1 on 2018/02/08 at 15:00
Bo.
18
Gujarat
Rtg
-
1
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
Rtg
½ :3½
1.1
Trivedi, Karan R
1880
-
GM
Ganguly, Surya Shekhar
2650
½ - ½
1.2
Chudasama, Ankit
1775
-
GM
Adhiban, B.
2643
0 - 1
1.3
Dave, Sneh
1819
-
GM
Gopal, G.N.
2593
0 - 1
1.4
Anadkat, Kartavya
1890
-
GM
Sengupta, Deep
2572
0 - 1
Bo.
2
Airport Authority of India
Rtg
-
19
Services Sports Control Board
Rtg
4 : 0
2.1
GM
Narayanan.S.L,
2573
-
Nagesh, I V
1552
1 - 0
2.2
GM
Shyam, Sundar M.
2521
-
Srikanth, K.
1918
1 - 0
2.3
IM
Visakh, N R
2457
-
Dony, K V
1744
1 - 0
2.4
IM
Rajesh, V A V
2315
-
Raghvendra, Kumar Mishra
1699
1 - 0
Bo.
20
Odisha-MCF-3
Rtg
-
3
Railway Sports Promotion Board - A
Rtg
0 : 4
3.1
Swain, Narayan
1771
-
GM
Himanshu, Sharma
2425
0 - 1
3.2
Sriansh, Das
1389
-
IM
Karthikeyan, P.
2464
0 - 1
3.3
Johnson, Sahoo
1822
-
GM
Swapnil, S. Dhopade
2531
0 - 1
3.4
Priansh, Das
1576
-
GM
Thejkumar, M. S.
2500
0 - 1
Bo.
4
Air India
Rtg
-
21
Odisha-MCF-2
Rtg
3½: ½
4.1
GM
Narayanan, Srinath
2530
-
Mishra, Om
1454
1 - 0
4.2
IM
Swayams, Mishra
2439
-
Sahoo, Soumya Ranjan
1578
1 - 0
4.3
GM
Bakre, Tejas
2444
-
Nayak, Sanjeeban
1775
½ - ½
4.4
IM
Satyapragyan, Swayangsu
2398
-
Rudranarayan,
1710
1 - 0
Bo.
22
Andhra Pradesh
Rtg
-
5
Railway Sports Promotion Board - B
Rtg
0 : 4
5.1
Divya, Teja P
1370
-
IM
Nitin, S.
2402
0 - 1
5.2
Sai, Kiran Y
1715
-
GM
Laxman, R.R.
2456
0 - 1
5.3
Mushini, Ajay
1795
-
IM
Krishna, C R G
2416
0 - 1
5.4
Durga, Surya Krishna Teja Y
1388
-
IM
Shyaamnikhil, P
2394
0 - 1
Bo.
6
Life Insurance Corporation
Rtg
-
23
Reserve Bank of India
Rtg
4 : 0
6.1
GM
Sriram, Jha
2388
-
Sanjiv, Kumar
1863
1 - 0
6.2
IM
Sharma, Dinesh K.
2238
-
AIM
Sheikh, Jahan
1487
1 - 0
6.3
IM
Deshmukh, Anup
2284
-
Mishra, Rahul
1495
1 - 0
6.4
Agarwal, Brajesh
1899
-
AFM
Swaroop, Kashyap
1403
1 - 0
Bo.
24
Odisha-MCF-4
Rtg
-
7
Bengal Chess-A
Rtg
½ :3½
7.1
Harshit, Ranjan Sahu
1571
-
Debarshi, Mukherjee
2303
0 - 1
7.2
Barik, Jagdish
1638
-
Sumit, Kumar
2191
0 - 1
7.3
Debi, Prasad Nayak
1338
-
Arpan, Das
2192
½ - ½
7.4
Nayak, Surajit
1487
-
Samrat, Ghorai
2108
0 - 1
Bo.
8
Odisha-KiiT
Rtg
-
25
Maharashtra-A
Rtg
4 : 0
8.1
IM
Sidhant, Mohapatra
2389
-
Talekar, Aditya
1413
1 - 0
8.2
IM
Rakesh, Kumar Jena
2387
-
Mithil, Anande P
1518
1 - 0
8.3
Sahoo, Utkal Ranjan
2252
-
Gengaje, Pratik
1591
1 - 0
8.4
Badamundi, Tapan
1706
-
Jadhav, Vishwadeep
1442
1 - 0
Bo.
26
Odisha-B
Rtg
-
9
Bengal Chess-B
Rtg
1 : 3
9.1
Samantaray, Biswanath
1421
-
Kaustuv, Kundu
2336
0 - 1
9.2
Mohanty, Rajesh
1471
-
Sonkalan, Bharati
2164
0 - 1
9.3
Lochan, Kumar Das
1581
-
Suvradeepta, Das
1962
1 - 0
9.4
Mallick, Saswat
1447
-
Sayantan, Chandra
1854
0 - 1
Bo.
10
Odisha-A
Rtg
-
27
Telangana
Rtg
2 : 2
10.1
Baivab, Mishra
2139
-
Satyanarayana, G
1427
1 - 0
10.2
Rakesh, Kumar Nayak
2047
-
Srujan, Keerthan Solletti
1512
0 - 1
10.3
Panda, Raj Santosh
1573
-
Naga Shashank, D
1700
0 - 1
10.4
Nayak, Rajesh
2263
-
Srinivas, Allundi
0
1 - 0
Women's section:
Uttar Pradesh lost to top seed PSPB (Clockwise from top left: IM Eesha Karavade, WGM Mary Ann Gomes, IM Nisha Mohota and IM Padmini Rout) with a score of 0-4 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
Air India (Clockwise from top left: IM Tania Sachdev, WGM Bhakti Kulkarni, WGM Subbaraman Meenakshi and WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy) made a clean sweep of Telengana 4-0
Results:
Round 1 on 2018/02/08 at 15:00
Bo.
7
Uttar Pradesh
Rtg
-
1
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
Rtg
0 : 4
1.1
Shweta, Priyadarshini
1600
-
IM
Karavade, Eesha
2386
0 - 1
1.2
Tiwari, Aradhana
1502
-
WGM
Gomes, Mary Ann
2329
0 - 1
1.3
Mishra, Riya
1430
-
IM
Padmini, Rout
2325
0 - 1
1.4
Jaiswal, Ayushi
1175
-
IM
Mohota, Nisha
2256
0 - 1
Bo.
2
Air India
Rtg
-
8
Telangana
Rtg
4 : 0
2.1
IM
Tania, Sachdev
2402
-
AFM
Advaita, Sharma K
1302
1 - 0
2.2
WGM
Kulkarni, Bhakti
2290
-
Yagna, Priya Polisetty
1112
1 - 0
2.3
WGM
Meenakshi, Subbaraman
2193
-
Chaitanya, V.
1813
1 - 0
2.4
WGM
Ramaswamy, Aarthie
2023
-
Gnanyta, Netha
0
1 - 0
Bo.
9
Odisha-MCF-5
Rtg
-
3
Airport Authority of India
Rtg
0 : 4
3.1
Biswal, Gitashree
1452
-
WIM
Pujari, Rucha
2171
0 - 1
3.2
Dibyashrita, Swain
1052
-
WIM
Parnali, S Dharia
2144
0 - 1
3.3
Shruti, Snehi
0
-
WIM
Chitlange, Sakshi
2089
0 - 1
3.4
Rasmita, Kumari Patro
1073
-
WIM
Srija, Seshadri
2252
0 - 1
Bo.
4
Tamilnadu
Rtg
-
10
Punjab
Rtg
4 : 0
4.1
Rindhiya, V
1848
-
Sharma, Deepanshi
1222
1 - 0
4.2
Saranya, Y
1966
-
Kaur, Mandeep
1036
1 - 0
4.3
Divya, Lakshmi R (C)
1926
-
Smily, Goyal
0
1 - 0
4.4
Abirama Srinithi, G
1634
-
Gupta, Rashmi
1167
1 - 0
Bo.
11
Himachal Pradesh
Rtg
-
5
Odisha-KIIT
Rtg
0 : 4
5.1
Santosh, Kumari
1439
-
Smaraki, Mohanty
1814
0 - 1
5.2
Chahat,
0
-
WFM
Salonika, Saina
2151
0 - 1
5.3
Aditri, Nag
0
-
Sribrinda, Rout
1564
0 - 1
5.4
Aaina, Vashisht
0
-
CM
Aparajita, Gochhikar
1740
0 - 1
Bo.
6
Life Insurance Corporation
Rtg
-
12
Himachal Pradesh-A
Rtg
4 : 0
6.1
WGM
Swati, Ghate
2222
-
Arsha, Verma Sh Sanjay
0
1 - 0
6.2
WGM
Kiran, Manisha Mohanty
2101
-
Bhavna, Devi
0
1 - 0
6.3
S.Jayaseeli,
1174
-
Kiran,
0
1 - 0
6.4
WFM
Bindu, Saritha K.
1565
-
Pingla, Devi
0
1 - 0
Round 2 pairings:
Open category:
Bo.
1
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
Rtg
-
9
Bengal Chess-B
Rtg
0 : 0
1.1
GM
Adhiban, B.
2643
-
Kaustuv, Kundu
2336
1.2
GM
Gopal, G.N.
2593
-
Sonkalan, Bharati
2164
1.3
GM
Karthikeyan, Murali
2585
-
Saptorshi, Gupta
2087
1.4
GM
Sengupta, Deep
2572
-
Sayantan, Chandra
1854
Bo.
11
Tamilnadu
Rtg
-
2
Airport Authority of India
Rtg
0 : 0
2.1
Sathya, Giri V
1913
-
IM
Stany, G.A.
2500
2.2
Barath, Kalyan M
2127
-
GM
Shyam, Sundar M.
2521
2.3
Hari, Madhavan N B
2086
-
IM
Visakh, N R
2457
2.4
Kumar, S. (C)
1922
-
IM
Rajesh, V A V
2315
Bo.
3
Railway Sports Promotion Board - A
Rtg
-
12
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Rtg
0 : 0
3.1
GM
Himanshu, Sharma
2425
-
Thanki, Hemal Karsanji
2073
3.2
GM
Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.
2516
-
Ram, S. Krishnan
2197
3.3
IM
Karthikeyan, P.
2464
-
Sudhakar, Prem Dutt
1737
3.4
GM
Swapnil, S. Dhopade
2531
-
Jayakumar, P.
1875
Bo.
13
Odisha-MCF-1
Rtg
-
4
Air India
Rtg
0 : 0
4.1
Samal, Ansuman
2022
-
GM
Narayanan, Srinath
2530
4.2
Pattnayak, Nilsu
1987
-
IM
Swayams, Mishra
2439
4.3
Das, Susobhit
1856
-
GM
Bakre, Tejas
2444
4.4
Rabindra, Kumar Ojha
1721
-
IM
Satyapragyan, Swayangsu
2398
Bo.
5
Railway Sports Promotion Board - B
Rtg
-
14
Assam
Rtg
0 : 0
5.1
IM
Nitin, S.
2402
-
Santanu, Borpatra Gohain
1989
5.2
IM
Das, Arghyadip
2443
-
Trailokya, Nanda
1969
5.3
IM
Krishna, C R G
2416
-
Singh, Soram Rahul
1951
5.4
IM
Shyaamnikhil, P
2394
-
Neelabh, Jyoti Borthakur
1794
Bo.
15
Uttar Pradesh
Rtg
-
6
Life Insurance Corporation
Rtg
0 : 0
6.1
Shailendra, K Bajpai
2257
-
GM
Sriram, Jha
2388
6.2
Rishabh, Nishad
1854
-
IM
Sharma, Dinesh K.
2238
6.3
Katiyar, Prashant
1761
-
IM
Deshmukh, Anup
2284
6.4
Vikash, Nishad
1661
-
Agarwal, Brajesh
1899
Bo.
7
Bengal Chess-A
Rtg
-
16
Bihar
Rtg
0 : 0
7.1
Bose, Sayan
1963
-
Ashish, Raj
1707
7.2
Debarshi, Mukherjee
2303
-
Rupesh, Ranjan
1866
7.3
Sumit, Kumar
2191
-
Himanshu, Ranjan
1861
7.4
Arpan, Das
2192
-
Sudhanshu, Ranjan
2088
Bo.
17
Defence Accounts Sports Control Board
Rtg
-
8
Odisha-KiiT
Rtg
0 : 0
8.1
Vikesh, Nandan Kumar
1838
-
IM
Sidhant, Mohapatra
2389
8.2
Chandrasekhar, M K
1836
-
Sahoo, Utkal Ranjan
2252
8.3
Pradip, Tiwari
1948
-
Badamundi, Tapan
1706
8.4
Ajay, Kumar Rai
1859
-
Nayak, Sajan Kumar
1719
Bo.
27
Telangana
Rtg
-
35
UP-Kaushambi Academy
Rtg
0 : 0
9.1
Satyanarayana, G
1427
-
Ashutosh, Kumar Singh
0
9.2
Srujan, Keerthan Solletti
1512
-
Kamal, Kumar Gautam
0
9.3
Naga Shashank, D
1700
-
Hariom, Chaurasiya
0
9.4
Ravi, Golla
0
-
Abhay, Kumar Singh
0
Bo.
18
Gujarat
Rtg
-
10
Odisha-A
Rtg
0 : 0
10.1
Trivedi, Karan R
1880
-
Baivab, Mishra
2139
10.2
Chudasama, Ankit
1775
-
Rakesh, Kumar Nayak
2047
10.3
Dave, Sneh
1819
-
Panda, Sambit
2085
10.4
Anadkat, Kartavya
1890
-
Nayak, Rajesh
2263
Women's category:
Bo.
1
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
Rtg
-
4
Tamilnadu
Rtg
0 : 0
1.1
IM
Karavade, Eesha
2386
-
Rindhiya, V
1848
1.2
WGM
Soumya, Swaminathan
2349
-
Saranya, Y
1966
1.3
WGM
Gomes, Mary Ann
2329
-
Divya, Lakshmi R (C)
1926
1.4
IM
Mohota, Nisha
2256
-
WFM
Saranya, J
2077
Bo.
5
Odisha-KIIT
Rtg
-
2
Air India
Rtg
0 : 0
2.1
Hansdah, Namita
1167
-
IM
Tania, Sachdev
2402
2.2
Smaraki, Mohanty
1814
-
WGM
Kulkarni, Bhakti
2290
2.3
WFM
Salonika, Saina
2151
-
IM
Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman
2352
2.4
CM
Aparajita, Gochhikar
1740
-
WGM
Meenakshi, Subbaraman
2193
Bo.
3
Airport Authority of India
Rtg
-
6
Life Insurance Corporation
Rtg
0 : 0
3.1
WIM
Pujari, Rucha
2171
-
WGM
Swati, Ghate
2222
3.2
WIM
Parnali, S Dharia
2144
-
WGM
Kiran, Manisha Mohanty
2101
3.3
WIM
Chitlange, Sakshi
2089
-
S.Jayaseeli,
1174
3.4
WFM
Varshini, V
2103
-
WFM
Bindu, Saritha K.
1565
Bo.
8
Telangana
Rtg
-
13
Karnataka
Rtg
0 : 0
4.1
AFM
Advaita, Sharma K
1302
-
Tejaswini, M P
0
4.2
Yagna, Priya Polisetty
1112
-
Sakshi, S Auradkar
0
4.3
Chaitanya, V.
1813
-
Anvita, Aparanji
0
4.4
Sanvee, R
0
-
Sahana, Gobbur
0
Bo.
10
Punjab
Rtg
-
7
Uttar Pradesh
Rtg
0 : 0
5.1
Sharma, Deepanshi
1222
-
Shweta, Priyadarshini
1600
5.2
Kaur, Mandeep
1036
-
Tiwari, Aradhana
1502
5.3
Smily, Goyal
0
-
Mishra, Riya
1430
5.4
Kaur, Parminder
1047
-
Jaiswal, Ayushi
1175
Bo.
12
Himachal Pradesh-A
Rtg
-
9
Odisha-MCF-5
Rtg
0 : 0
6.1
Arsha, Verma Sh Sanjay
0
-
Biswal, Gitashree
1452
6.2
Kiran,
0
-
Dibyashrita, Swain
1052
6.3
Pingla, Devi
0
-
Shruti, Snehi
0
6.4
Suman, Devi
0
-
Rasmita, Kumari Patro
1073
Director of Sports of both KIIT and KISS, Mr. Gaganendu Dash | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
View of the tournament hall | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran
The tournament will go on from 8th - 14th February 2018 at KIIT University in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, organized by All Odisha Chess Association.
