Sarbartho's Resilience at Prague Chess Festival 2026

In the Open section, Sarbartho scored 5.5/9 points and drew with GM Vladislav Nevednichy in a 149-move game which lasted for more than 6 hours. It was a Bishop+Rook against Rook endgame, and Sarbartho managed to hold the draw. In Blitz, he scored an unbeaten 10/11 points, increasing his rating by 216 points.

Tournament Director Petr Boleslav greeting Sarbartho

Karel Janecek Open

In the Karel Janecek Open, Sarbartho scored 5.5/9 points with some interesting games that you can check below.

Round 8: Sarbartho Mani vs Eduard-Carol Cziko (1-0)

Performance in the open section

Watch the video of the great defence by Sarbartho against GM Vladislav Nevednichy

Blitz Tournament

Sarbartho Mani won the Open Blitz tournament that happened on the 1st March 2026. Sarbartho scored an unbeaten 10/11 points to win the tournament. In his way of becoming the champion of the event, he won against a GM, an IM, and 3 FMs, and played with a performance rating of 2552.

Left to right: IM David Gross (GER) 3rd place, Havard Haug (NOR) 2nd Place and Champion: Sarbartho Mani (IND) | Photo: Petr Vrabec

Sarbartho Mani scored an unbeaten 10/11 points and increased his rating by a massive 216.8 points!!

All eyes are on him as he is crushing top players in blitz | Photo: Petr Vrabec

Rapid Event

In the rapid tournament, Sarbartho scored an unbeaten 5/7 points to finish in 12th place and increased his rating by 133 points.

Standing tall!!

Another event, another great run!!

Pair Blitz and Fischer Random

Sarbartho teamed up with FM Reyaansh Chakrabarty in the K Pair Blitz event. They won 7 games and drew 4 games to secure 3rd place in the event on tie-break scores. In Fischer Random. In Fischer Random, Sarbartho secured the 5th place after scoring 5/7 points.

Look out for Sarbartho, He is coming for the top spot!!

Final Ranking after 11 Rounds in Pair Blitz

Rk.

SNo

 

Team

Games

  + 

  = 

  - 

 TB1 

 TB2 

 TB3 

1

2

Zhao-Gu

11

7

4

0

18

18

135

2

1

Prokofiev-Domanskiy

11

7

4

0

18

17,5

135

3

3

Mani-Chakrabarty

11

7

4

0

18

17

134

4

12

Ilandzis-Dryglas

11

5

5

1

15

15

137

5

4

Starek-Hanl

11

3

7

1

13

12,5

142

Details

Sarbartho with the top 3 finishers of the Masters section

Final Ranking after 7 Rounds in Fischer Random

Rk.

SNo

 

Name

FED

Rtg

Pts.

 TB1 

 TB2 

 TB3 

1

1

GM

Zhao, Jun

CHN

2596

5,5

28

31,5

23,75

2

3

FM

Manukyan, Sargis V.

ARM

2164

5,5

27,5

30,5

23

3

4

WGM

Gu, Xiaobing

CHN

2131

5

27,5

30,5

21

4

15

Melkonyan, Davit

ARM

1889

5

26,5

29,5

20,5

5

16

CM

Mani, Sarbartho

IND

1887

5

25

27,5

17,5

6

13

Peglau, Paul David

GER

1905

4,5

28

30

18

7

10

Kunc, Jan

CZE

1975

4,5

22,5

25

13,5

8

7

Vallet, Marc

FRA

2103

4

28

31

15

9

12

Ryslink, Daniel

CZE

1966

4

25

27

11,5

10

2

IM

Roubalik, Jakub

CZE

2313

4

23

25

11,5

Details

As the prize of the Grand Prix event, Sarbartho won and received his award with an autographed t-shirt

Lil Champion!!

Check out the moments when Sarbartho received the prize and a detailed interview with him after the tournament!

Final Standings of Grand Prix

Rank

Title

Name

Born

Fed.

ELO

Score

1

CM

Mani Sarbartho

2016

IND

2176

897

2

FM

Chakrabarty Reyaansh

2014

AUS

2296

761

3

GM

Zhao Jun

1986

CHN

2533

683

4

Peglau Paul David

2013

GER

2045

668

5

FM

Domanskiy Mykola

2006

SVK

2292

607

6

FM

Dovgaliuk Oleksandr

2007

UKR

2299

591

7

Dryglas Maciej

1982

JPN

2036

591

8

FM

Khoo-Thwe Louis

2009

NOR

2202

571

9

Mencik Pavel

1976

CZE

1760

553

10

FM

Ribeiro Gustavo

2007

POR

2276

533

Links

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Grand Prix Regulations: Here

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