Raahul V S clinches AICF National Junior Open Online 2021

by Shahid Ahmed - 30/07/2021

Untitled Raahul V S of Tamil Nadu scored 9.5/11 to win AICF National Junior Open Online championship 2021. He won ₹25000 cash prize. IM Bharath Subramaniyam H secured sole second position 9.0/11, earned ₹18000. Six players scored 8.5/11. They had to play the Playoffs. According to that, GM Iniyan P was placed third and he got ₹15000. Total prize fund for the event was ₹125000 for the top 20 places. Tamil Nadu claimed six out of top ten places, West Bengal was the next state which won second-highest number of places among the prize winners. Check out two annotated games by the champion Raahul himself. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Tamil Nadu dominates top four places

Raahul V S of Tamil Nadu, was in a four-way lead 5.0/5 at the end of the fifth round. Then he suffered a loss in the next round against IM Mitrabha Guha. However, it did not deter him from his path to glory as he scored 4.5 points in the next five games to finish a half point ahead of the competition. He beat both eventual first and second runner-up IM Bharath Subramaniyam H and GM Iniyan P. The time control for the tournament was 15 mins + 5 seconds increment.

Champion Raahul V S 9.5/11 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

2nd IM Bharath Subramaniyam H 9.0/11 | Photo: Amruta Mokal

3rd IM Iniyan P 8.5/11 | Photo: Amruta Mokal

"It's really nice to win the tournament, I wasn't really expecting to win the tournament mainly after my loss against Mitrabha Guha, I am also happy that I got to play some good games against some good players. It was overall a really nice and educating experience for me." - Raahul V S on winning AICF National Junior Open Online 2021.

Raahul scored nine wins, one draw and one loss

Raahul shared a couple of his games from the tournament and he annotated them too

4th Harshavardhan G B 8.5/11 | Photo: IA Jitendra Choudhary

5th IM Mitrabha Guha 8.5/11 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6th Subhayan Kundu | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th IM Rathanvel V S 8.5/11 | Photo: Rupali Mullick

8th IM Pranesh M 8.5/11 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

9th FM Nitish Belurkar 8.0/11 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

10th Vedant Panesar 8.0/11

Final Standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	13		Raahul V S	IND	2344	Tamil Nadu	9,5	1	77,0	82,5	69,8	0,0
2	6	IM	Bharath Subramaniyam H	IND	2437	Tamil Nadu	9,0	2	70,5	75,5	59,5	0,0
3	1	GM	Iniyan P	IND	2506	Tamil Nadu	8,5	3	79,0	84,5	62,8	0,0
4	9	IM	Harshavardhan G B	IND	2397	Tamil Nadu	8,5	4	75,5	80,5	59,3	0,0
5	2	IM	Mitrabha Guha	IND	2467	West Bengal	8,5	5	80,5	85,5	64,5	0,0
6	15		Subhayan Kundu	IND	2301	West Bengal	8,5	6	74,0	79,0	59,8	0,0
7	3	IM	Rathanvel V S	IND	2445	Tamil Nadu	8,5	7	73,5	78,5	59,5	0,0
8	5	IM	Pranesh M	IND	2437	Tamil Nadu	8,5	8	70,0	75,5	56,5	0,0
9	11	FM	Nitish Belurkar	IND	2351	Goa	8,0	0	69,5	74,5	52,5	0,0
10	17		Panesar Vedant	IND	2266	Maharashtra	8,0	0	69,5	74,5	51,3	0,0
11	10	IM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND	2355	West Bengal	8,0	0	69,0	74,0	52,5	0,0
12	18		Utsab Chatterjee	IND	2239	West Bengal	8,0	0	69,0	73,5	50,5	0,0
	59		Adireddy Arjun	IND	1658	Telangana	8,0	0	69,0	73,5	50,5	0,0
14	16	FM	Aaryan Varshney	IND	2277	Delhi	7,5	0	77,5	82,0	51,8	0,0
15	4	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	IND	2440	West Bengal	7,5	0	76,5	80,5	50,5	0,0
16	8	FM	Srihari L R	IND	2414	Tamil Nadu	7,5	0	74,0	80,0	49,5	0,0
17	22		Srihari L	IND	2142	Puducherry	7,5	0	72,5	77,5	48,8	0,0
18	20		Soham Kamotra	IND	2229	Jammu And Kashmir	7,5	0	72,0	76,5	49,8	0,0
19	19		Shome Shiv	IND	2237	Maharashtra	7,5	0	71,5	76,0	51,0	0,0
20	12	IM	Siva Mahadevan	IND	2349	Tamil Nadu	7,5	0	71,0	74,5	46,5	0,0

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