GM Aleksej Aleksandrov claims the 4th Mayor’s Cup
The top seed GM Aleksandrov Aleksej (ELO 2657) of Belarus emerged Champion as expected here in the 4th Mayor’s Cup International Chess Tournament 2011 organised by Venus chess Academy and co-sponsored by LIC at the Goregaon Sports club Malad West.
In the 11th round the top seed having white pieces and a lead of one point over GM Kravtsiv Martyn quickly agreed for a draw with GM Deep Sengupta (ELO 2572) in just 8 moves. This is the first time that the Mayor Cup got a clear winner without any one following him.
On the 2nd board the 2nd seed and the runner-up GM Kravtsiv Martyn had to face a Queen’s Gambit from Bangladesh GM Ziaur Rahman (ELO 2528). The game was equally poised with both the players fighting for the control over the open c-file. In the endgame Martyn outplayed Ziaur and won the game in 28 moves.
This tournament saw norm of six players where IM P Shyam Nikhil made his maiden GM norm and WIM Bhagyashri Thipsay made her maiden WGM norm among them.
The High court Judge His Honor Abhay Thipsay was the chief guest of the event with Mr. Vipin Anand ED LIC, Mr. Satish Aggarwal, President Goregaon Sports Club, present as the guest of honors on the dias to present the prizes to all winners.
Final (top 15) standings:
1 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2618 – 9.5
2 GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 2583 – 9
3 Swayams Mishra IND 2354 – 8.5
4 GM Neelotpal Das IND 2458 – 8.5
5 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2492 – 8
6 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2528 – 8
7 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 2580 – 8
8 IM Shyam Sundar M IND 2457 – 8
9 GM Heberla Bartlomiej POL 2539 – 8
10 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2572 – 8
11 Navin Kanna T U IND 2342 – 8
12 GM Chadaev Nikolai RUS 2564 – 8
13 IM Rathnakaran K IND 2386 – 7.5
14 GM Sethuraman S P IND 2529 – 7.5
15 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND 2415 – 7.5
16 IM Shyam Nikil P IND 2418 – 7.5
17 IM Thejkumar M S IND 2450 – 7.5
18 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2528 – 7.5
19 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya IND 2408 – 7.5
20 Ankit R Rajpara IND 2281 – 7.5
21 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 2481 – 7.5
22 GM Laxman R R IND 2451 – 7.5
23 WGM Padmini Rout IND 2356 – 7.5
24 IM Praveen Kumar C IND 2321 – 7.5
25 IM Debashis Das IND 2375 – 7.5
26 IM Swapnil S Dhopade IND 2411 – 7.5
27 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J IND 2470 – 7.5
28 IM Ravichandran Siddharth IND 2387 – 7.5
29 GM Kotanjian Tigran ARM 2546 – 7.5
30 IM Singh D P IND 2344 – 7.5
31 IM Karthikeyan P IND 2408 – 7.5
32 IM Sangma Rahul IND 2385 – 7.5
33 WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 2325 – 7.5
34 IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarsh IND 2427 – 7.5
Congrats.