Grandmaster and Commonwealth champion Abhijeet Gupta won the title after an easy draw with Eldar Gasanov of Ukraine in the 10th and final round of 12th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament that concluded here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex.
On what turned out to be an easy victory, Gupta won six and drew four games to tally eight points which was a half more than nearest five competitors.
Valeriy Neverov of Ukraine finished second with his best tiebreak score on 7,5 points after taking a draw with John Paul Gomez of Philippines.
Indian Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy finished third with a commendable victory against Russian Grandmaster Alexander Evdokimov in the final round.
Gomez and Levan Pantsulaia were the others who tied for the second spot on 7,5 points apiece.
Gupta, a BPCL employee who lives in Bhilwara in Rajasthan got richer by Rs. 3000000/- for his fantastic performance along with some useful rating points. For the 24-year old it was a back-to-back International tournament victories after winning the Al-Ain Classic in the last week of December.
Bobir Sattarov of Uzbekistan made a Grandmaster norm. Jagadish Dube reports that four Indians, Arjun Tiwari, Padmini Rout along with brothers N. Visakh and N. Vignesh, made International Master norms.
It was a very successful edition of the annual event as a total of 1396 players registered for the three events as part of the festival. The C group was won by Imtiaz Ali.
Sh. Jiju Thomson, Director General, Sports Authority of India distributed the prizes to the winners along with Mr. Hisham Al Taher, Secretary of Asian Chess Federation and All India Chess Federation CEO, Bharat Singh Chauhan.
Final standings:
1. GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2606 – 8
2. GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2519 – 7.5
3. GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2475 – 7.5
4. GM Gasanov Eldar UKR 2469 – 7.5
5. GM Gomez John Paul PHI 2541 – 7.5
6. GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 2614 – 7.5
7. Sattarov Bobir UZB 2194 – 7
8. GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2579 – 7
9. GM Sengupta Deep IND 2538 – 7
10. Kathmale Sameer IND 2351 – 7
11. IM Karthikeyan Murali IND 2472 – 7
12. GM Gagunashvili Merab GEO 2547 – 6.5
13. GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 2628 – 6.5
14. GM Evdokimov Alexander A. RUS 2558 – 6.5
15. IM Narayanan Srinath IND 2414 – 6.5
16. GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2521 – 6.5
17. GM Sanikidze Tornike GEO 2541 – 6.5
18. GM Barbosa Oliver PHI 2579 – 6.5
19. IM Rajesh V A V IND 2404 – 6.5
20. GM Grover Sahaj IND 2478 – 6.5
21. GM Arun Prasad S. IND 2504 – 6.5
22. IM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 2443 – 6
23. IM Saravanan V. IND 2341 – 6
24. Vignesh Nr IND 2354 – 6
25. GM Venkatesh M.R. IND 2524 – 6
26. Visakh Nr IND 2330 – 6
27. WGM Padmini Rout IND 2327 – 6
28. IM Karthikeyan P. IND 2342 – 6
29. GM Laxman R.R. IND 2455 – 6
30. GM Vaibhav Suri IND 2547 – 6
He should be 2700.