Mumbai-India

The second edition of the IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Open kicks off on Monday, 26 December. The main Open will have a Rs. 12 lakh prize fund and will be an international master/grandmaster norm event that will be played over nine days.

Along with the Open, the IIFL Wealth Mumbai Junior International Chess Tournament—world’s richest junior tournament with the prize fund of Rs. 8 lakhs—will be held for juniors aged below 13.

Mount Litera School International at BKC, Bandra, will play host to over 350 of the sharpest minds from 17 countries, including 15 grandmasters and 11 international masters.

The event is open to players from all age-groups. Be it a seven-year-old kid or a teenager or a septuagenarian, all the players will be competing under the same roof, battling it out in their quest to glory.

In a sport like chess, which is getting increasingly younger, the junior tournament, being played separately from the Open, provides an ideal platform for the kids to showcase their talent.

An added emphasis in this nine-round competition is on the traditional time control, which means a game can sometimes last as long as six hours, or even more in exceptional cases. Indeed, a complete test of skill, stamina, and concentration! Chess has arrived in Mumbai as a sport.

On the final day of the event, the IIFL Wealth Mumbai Chess Patron, former World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand, will be flying down to Mumbai to grace the closing ceremony of this world-class tournament.

Participants (Open) – top 50:

1 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2593
2 GM David Alberto ITA 2574
3 GM Ghosh Diptayan IND 2570
4 GM Bernadskiy Vitaliy UKR 2540
5 GM Sivuk Vitaly UKR 2540
6 GM Movsziszian Karen ARM 2523
7 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 2516
8 GM Malakhatko Vadim BEL 2507
9 GM Horvath Adam HUN 2501
10 GM Czebe Attila HUN 2500
11 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 2499
12 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 2490
13 GM Stopa Jacek POL 2479
14 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2478
15 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 2451
16 Gusain Himal IND 2448
17 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 2418
18 IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh IND 2412
19 GM Hesham Abdelrahman EGY 2408
20 IM Akash G IND 2395
21 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 2384
22 Gaikwad Siddhant IND 2374
23 IM Das Sayantan IND 2371
24 FM Thakur Akash IND 2369
25 Nouri Hamed PHI 2363
26 Srijit Paul IND 2354
27 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 2351
28 IM Rajesh V A V IND 2351
29 Ojas Kulkarni IND 2351
30 Raja Harshit IND 2340
31 WGM Toma Katarzyna POL 2322
32 IM Kathmale Sameer IND 2313
33 CM Erigaisi Arjun IND 2309
34 IM Sangma Rahul IND 2306
35 FM Rajdeep Sarkar IND 2298
36 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 2297
37 IM Praveen Kumar C IND 2293
38 Saravana Krishnan P. IND 2293
39 WIM Styazhkina Anna RUS 2289
40 Sammed Jaykumar Shete IND 2282
41 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti IND 2281
42 FM Alfred Nathan S W ENG 2275
43 WIM Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz UZB 2274
44 Arjun Kalyan IND 2269
45 Kulkarni Vinayak IND 2268
46 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 2267
47 IM Mohota Nisha IND 2260
48 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 2259
49 FM Srinath Rao S.V. IND 2250
50 Prajesh R IND 2242

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