Tata Steel Asian Junior 2023: Grebnev & Tejaswini clinch Gold, Aswath & Bristy Silver, Rohith & Mounika Bronze

by Shahid Ahmed - 16/09/2023

Tejaswini G drew against WIM Mounika Akshaya to clinch the Gold at Tata Steel Asian Junior 2023 Girls. She scored an unbeaten 7.5/9, finished a half point ahead of the field, became India's latest Woman International Master and also secured her maiden WGM-norm. WCM Bristy Mukherjee defeated the top seed WIM Nazerke Nurgali (KAZ) to win the Silver medal 7/9. She also finished a half point ahead of the field and earned her maiden WIM-norm. Mounika got the Bronze medal 6.5/9. In the Open section, top seed IM Aleksey Grebnev defeated Alekhya Mukhopadhyay to clinch the Gold 7/9. FM Aswath S won against IM Sambit Panda to secure Silver 7/9 and also became India's latest International Master. FM Ayush Sharma drew against IM S Rohith Krishna. Rohith won a Bronze medal scoring 6.5/9. Photos: Himank Ghosh

Aswath becomes India's latest IM, Tejaswini WIM

Tata Steel Asian Junior Open and Women 2023 Championships has been a phenomenally successful event. Not only, India won 15 out of 18 possible medals combining Classical, Rapid and Blitz events, India also got its latest International Master and Woman International Master in the form of Aswath S and Tejaswini G. Both of them are reigning National Sub-Junior (Under-15) 2022 champions. Tejaswini also scored her maiden WGM-norm. WCM Bristy Mukherjee her first WIM-norm. Blitz report will be published in a separate article.

Tata Steel Asian Junior 2023 Gold medalists (L to R) - CM Mayank Chakraborty (Rapid) 7/9, Tejaswini G (Classical) 7.5/9, IM Aleksey Grebnev (Classical and Blitz) 7/9, WIM Nazerke Nurgali (KAZ, Rapid) 7.5/9 and WIM Mounika Akshaya Bommini (Blitz) 7.5/9

Classical

Open: Gold - IM Aleksey Grebnev 7/9

Open: Silver - FM Aswath S 7/9

Open: Bronze - IM S Rohith Krishna 6.5/9

Girls: Gold - Tejaswini G 7.5/9

Silver - WCM Bristy Mukherjee 7/9

Bronze - WIM Mounika Akshaya Bommini 6.5/9

Ayush - Rohith

Position after 50...Qc5??

It was an extremely sharp queen and bishop vs queen and rook endgame. IM S Rohith Krishna (2429) made a tiny inaccuracy 50...Qc5 51.f7 Rf2 52.Bc4. FM Ayush Sharma (2371) needed to find 52.Qe8+ Ka7 53.Bd3 Qa5+ 54.Kb1 Qc5 55.Qe6. It was certainly not easy to play that. The game soon ended in a draw.

FM Ayush Sharma had a sliver of chance at the end against IM S Rohith Krishna

IM Aleksey Grebnev defeated Alekhya Mukhopadhyay to clinch the Gold

Aswath - Sambit

Position after 22.Nc3!

IM Sambit Panda (2395) erred 22...Bd4 his opponent, FM Aswath S (2335) correctly seized his opportunity 23.Nc3! Bxf2+ 23.Kh1 and White converted his decisive advantage smoothly into a win.

FM Aswath S defeated IM Sambit Panda to secure Silver medal and become India's latest International Master

Girls: Tejaswini G drew against WIM Mounika Akshaya to win Gold, Mounika secured Bronze

Brishti - Nazerke

Position after 38...g6??

WIM Nazerke Nurgali (KAZ, 2268) needed to get rid of the d4-pawn as quickly as possible. 38...g6?? allowed her opponent, WCM Bristy Mukherjee (1858) to save it 39.Bb5 Re7 40.Rg1 Bf3 41.d5 Rxd5 42.Rxd5 Bxd5 43.Rd1 even though Black gained the pawn, White managed to get the control of the open d-file and forced the exchange of rooks. 43...Bb3 44.Rd7 Rxd7 45.Bxd7 the resultant bishop endagme is winning for White.

WCM Bristy Mukherjee defeated the top seed WIM Nazerke Nurgali (KAZ) to secure the Silver medal and her maiden WIM-norm

Manish Kumar, Secretary, All Jharkhand Chess Association, made the ceremonial first move of Round 9 on IM Aleksey Grebnev and Alekhya Mukhopadhyay's board

Round 8 in progress at JFC Lounge, JRD Tata Sports Complex, Jamshedpur

For more Round 9 and Prize distribution ceremony photos, please click at the respective links.

Rapid

The Rapid event got over on the first day. Check out the report for more details.

Open: Gold - CM Mayank Chakraborty 7/9

Silver - Srihari L 6.5/9

Bronze - IM S Rohith Krishna 6.5/9

Girls: Gold - WIM Nazerke Nurgali (KAZ) 7.5/9

Silver - WFM Jyothsna L 7/9

Bronze - WIM Mrudul Dehankar 7/9

All prize winners of Tata Steel Asian Junior Open and Girls 2023

Replay Round 9 Open games

Replay Round 9 Girls games

Schedule

Classical - Open and Girls from 9:30 a.m. IST from 10th to 15th September. There were double rounds on 10th and 12th September.

Blitz - Open and Girls on 15th September 2023 from 3 p.m. IST.

Time Control

Rapid: 10 minutes + 5 seconds increment

Classical: 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment

Blitz: 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment

Round 9 Open results

Bo.

No.

Name

FED

Rtg

Club/City

Pts.

Result

Pts.

Name

FED

Rtg

Club/City

No.

PGN

Ayush, Sharma

IND

2371

India

½ - ½

Rohith, Krishna S

IND

2429

India

PGN

Grebnev, Aleksey

FID

2486

FIDE

1 - 0

5½

Alekhya, Mukhopadhyay

IND

2149

India

PGN

Aswath, S

IND

2335

India

1 - 0

5½

Panda, Sambit

IND

2395

India

PGN

Ajay, Santhosh Parvathareddy

IND

2184

India

5½

½ - ½

5½

Manish, Anto Cristiano F

IND

2372

India

PGN

Srihari, L

IND

2207

India

5½

0 - 1

5½

Mayank, Chakraborty

IND

2329

India

PGN

Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan

SRI

2407

Sri Lanka

½ - ½

Bizhigitov, Zhangir

KAZ

2233

Kazakhstan

PGN

Zia, Tahsin Tajwar

BAN

2321

Bangladesh

1 - 0

Dhyey, Agarwal

IND

2178

India

PGN

Srihari, L R

IND

2444

India

½ - ½

4½

Kushagra, Mohan

IND

2410

India

PGN

Hari, Madhavan N B

IND

2425

India

4½

1 - 0

4½

Vrashank, Chouhan

IND

1985

India

PGN

Harshavardhan, G B

IND

2397

India

4½

1 - 0

4½

Bharadia, Yash

IND

2000

India

PGN

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	1	IM	Grebnev, Aleksey	U18		FID	2486	FIDE	7	49	54	0	2312	5
2	13	FM	Aswath, S	U16		IND	2335	India	7	42	44	0	2197	6
3	3	IM	Rohith, Krishna S	U18		IND	2429	India	6,5	47	51,5	0	2277	4
4	11	FM	Ayush, Sharma	U18		IND	2371	India	6,5	44,5	46,5	0	2217	4
5	14	CM	Mayank, Chakraborty	U16		IND	2329	India	6,5	40,5	41,5	0	2102	5
6	10	IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F	U18		IND	2372	India	6	47	51	0	2247	4
7	15	FM	Zia, Tahsin Tajwar	U18		BAN	2321	Bangladesh	6	40,5	44	0	2012	5
8	22		Ajay, Santhosh Parvathareddy	U16		IND	2184	India	6	39,5	42,5	0	2061	5
9	9	IM	Panda, Sambit			IND	2395	India	5,5	45	49	0	2281	3
10	27	FM	Krishnan, Ritvik	U16		IND	2062	India	5,5	45	48,5	0	2211	5

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Round 9 Girls results

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	3	WIM	Bommini, Mounika Akshaya	IND	2096	6	½ - ½	7		Tejaswini, G	IND	1905	11	PGN
2	13	WCM	Bristy, Mukherjee	IND	1858	6	1 - 0	6	WIM	Nurgali, Nazerke	KAZ	2268	1	PGN
3	4	WIM	Mrudul, Dehankar	IND	2059	5½	½ - ½	5½	WIM	Salonika, Saina	IND	2140	2	PGN
4	9		Kaldarova, Ayaulym	KAZ	1933	5½	0 - 1	5½		Mrittika, Mallick	IND	2059	5	PGN
5	15		Ivanova, Anastasia S.	FID	1840	5½	0 - 1	5		Rindhiya, V	IND	1918	10	PGN
6	20	AFM	Shubhi, Gupta	IND	1761	5	½ - ½	5	WFM	Bhagyashree, Patil	IND	1879	12	PGN
7	32		Keerti, Shree Reddy	IND	1580	5	½ - ½	5		Poorna, Sri M.K	IND	1821	17	PGN
8	26		Vakcheri, Mohitha	IND	1653	4½	½ - ½	4½	WIM	Sultanbek, Zeinep	KAZ	2022	6	PGN
9	27		Pragnya, H G	IND	1624	4½	1 - 0	4½	WFM	Wadifa, Ahmed	BAN	1833	16	PGN
10	37		Sherali, Pattnaik	IND	1478	4½	0 - 1	4½		Sachi, Jain	IND	1756	21	PGN

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	11		Tejaswini, G	F16	w	IND	1905	7,5	48	52	0	1944	6
2	13	WCM	Bristy, Mukherjee		w	IND	1858	7	44,5	48	0	1751	6
3	3	WIM	Bommini, Mounika Akshaya		w	IND	2096	6,5	46	50,5	0	1884	4
4	5		Mrittika, Mallick	F16	w	IND	2059	6,5	45	49,5	0	1774	5
5	2	WIM	Salonika, Saina		w	IND	2140	6	46,5	50,5	0	1805	4
6	1	WIM	Nurgali, Nazerke		w	KAZ	2268	6	46,5	49,5	0	1777	4
7	10		Rindhiya, V		w	IND	1918	6	44	47,5	0	1734	5
8	4	WIM	Mrudul, Dehankar		w	IND	2059	6	40,5	44,5	0	1735	4
9	32		Keerti, Shree Reddy	F16	w	IND	1580	5,5	47	52	0	1932	4
10	20	AFM	Shubhi, Gupta	F16	w	IND	1761	5,5	46	49,5	0	1814	3

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