Suvrajit Saha wins All India Rating at Durgapur

by Shahid Ahmed - 03/01/2018

Suvrajit Saha of Railways wins CSIR CMERI Diamond Jubilee All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament convincingly with a score of 7.5 points out of 8 rounds. This was his first tournament win in over a year and first open rating tournament win in a long while. He made a fantastic start by winning all his first seven games and needed just a draw in the last round to become champion. The tournament also witnessed the participation of IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra who scored 7 points and finished at 3rd position. This report contains a game analyzed by the champion and a few photographs from the event by Dr. Himadri Roy.

IM Suvrajit Saha wins CSIR CMERI Diamond Jubilee All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament

Suvrajit Saha receives a trophy and ₹30000 cash for his championship winning performance of 7.5/8 | Photo: Dr. Himadri Roy

Suvrajit Saha of Railways, started his tournament on fast track by winning all his first seven round games. He just needed a draw in the last round as he faced the only player who was trailing by a half point till the penultimate round, Arpan Das. Here is a game annotated by the International Master himself:

Arpan Das scored 7/8 and due to a better tie-break score he was placed 2nd, bagging home a trophy and ₹20000 cash | Photo: Dr. Himadri Roy

Arpan Das started with four straight wins and then he stumbled on the fifth round by drawing against Samar Chatterjee. He won his next two rounds and then drew with the champion in the last round to secure 2nd position.

IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra scored 6.5/8, secured 3rd position and got home a trophy and ₹15000 cash | Photo: Dr. Himadri Roy

IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra, who qualified for National Premier last year, did not have a good start as he drew fourth and fifth round after winning first three games consecutively. Then he made his presence felt, by winning the last three rounds and securing the third position with 7 points as his tie-break score was less than the eventual runner-up of the tournament, Arpan Das.

Podium finishers (L to R): Second runner-up Neeraj Kumar Mishra, Champion Suvrajit Saha and Runner-up (far right) Arpan Das | Photo: Dr. Himadri Roy

Players and accompanied persons in attendance for Prize Distribution Ceremony | Photo: Dr. Himadri Roy

The tournament witnessed 213 players taking part from all across the country. It went on from 29th November to 3rd December 2017 in CSIR-CMERI Staff Club, Durgapur, organized by CSIR-CMERI Silver Jubliee Celebration Committee. There was a total of 91 prizes. Time control of the tournament was 90 mins + 30 seconds increment from move no. 1

Final Ranking after 8 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	3	IM	Suvrajit Saha		2216	7,5	0,0	46,5	42,0
2	4		Arpan Das		2174	7,0	0,0	44,5	41,5
3	2	IM	Mishra Neeraj-Kumar		2274	7,0	0,0	41,0	37,5
4	23		Soumma Chakraborty	U13	1764	6,5	0,0	43,5	40,0
5	10		Nath Rupankar		2046	6,5	0,0	43,5	39,5
6	12		Sandip Dey		1919	6,5	0,0	42,5	38,5
7	5	FM	Dutta Joydeep		2136	6,5	0,0	41,5	38,0
8	21		Rabindra Kumar Ojha		1810	6,5	0,0	40,5	36,5
9	40		Ayush Jha	U13	1602	6,5	0,0	39,5	35,5
10	18		Sanket Chakravarty	U13	1830	6,0	0,0	45,5	41,5
11	1		Kaustuv Kundu		2329	6,0	0,0	45,0	40,5
12	8		Chattarjee Laltu		2062	6,0	0,0	43,0	39,0
13	14		Samar Chatterjee		1871	6,0	0,0	42,5	38,5
14	25		Arijit Mukherjee		1752	6,0	0,0	41,0	37,5
15	41		Arunava Bhattacharjee	U13	1590	6,0	0,0	40,5	37,5
16	30		Basak Bishal		1692	6,0	0,0	40,0	36,0
17	39		Goutam Das		1605	6,0	0,0	39,0	36,0
18	26		Satya Sekhar Mitra		1741	6,0	0,0	38,5	34,5
19	57		Krishna Kumar Mishra		1467	6,0	0,0	33,0	30,5
20	20		Gaurav Das		1818	5,5	0,0	44,5	41,0
21	6		Basak Sajal		2082	5,5	0,0	43,0	38,5
22	7		Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar		2075	5,5	0,0	40,0	37,0
23	49		Rahul Krishna Viswanathan	U13	1565	5,5	0,0	40,0	36,0
24	35		Tapan Kumar Dey	S60	1645	5,5	0,0	39,5	35,5
25	24		Swarnava Biswas	U15	1754	5,5	0,0	39,0	37,0