Grandmasters M R Lalith Babu and Sergei Tiviakov scored final round victories reaching top of the table with 9.5 points after the eleventh and final round of the Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth Chess Championships 2012 at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai here today.
Tiviakov was awarded a cash purse of Rupees 150,000 (approx USD 2764) along with the Commonwealth International Open title, while Lalith Babu was crowned the Commonwealth Champion 2012 along with a trophy and a cash award of Rupees 125,000 (approx USD 2303)
In the crucial final round, the higher seeds Tiviakov and Lalith Babu defeated S L Narayanan and P Karthikeyan respectively. The win took both on top of the table with 9.5 points, with Tiviakov edging out Lalith Babu on the tie-break.
Being the Commonwealth Chess Championships 2012 incorporating the International Open, Tiviakov from The Netherlands, which is not a Commonwealth country, was declared the Open Champion. India’s Lalith Babu was awarded the Commonwealth Champion title.
Finishing behind Gold medalist Lalith Babu at 9.0 points were Chennai based Shyam Sundar and Sethuraman who scored stunning upset victories over higher rated GMs Ahmed Adly (Egypt) and Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan). The crucial final round win fetched them Commonwealth Silver and Bronze medals.
The Gold, silver and bronze medals in the Women’s section went to Sowmya Swaminathan, Nisha Mohota and Mary Ann Gomes respectively.
Chennai based Ram S Krishnan of BSNL made it a double delight as he upset GM Oleksienko Mikhailo of Ukraine and added a GM Norm to his 9 game IM Norm made two rounds ago.
Giant killer S L Narayanan took home his second International Master Norm despite his defeat in the hands of top seed Grandmaster Sergei Tiviakov. Full standings bellow.
Prizes worth Rupees 1,000,000 (approx USD 18,428) were awarded to the prize winners by Thiru N R Sivapathi, Hon’ble Minister for School Education and Sports & Youth Welfare, Law, Courts & Prisons. Delivering his chief guest address Thiru N R Sivapathi elaborated about the multiple welfare and award schemes brought for the development of sports in the state of Tamil Nadu by the Chief Minister.
Present in the dais were special guest of honor Thiru Krishnamachari Srikkanth,former Captain, Indian Cricket team, Thiru S Priyadarshan, CEO & Vice Chairman, Apollo Group of Colleges, Thiru JCD Prabhakar, MLA, President, All India Chess Federation, Thiru D V Sundar, Vice President,Thiru S Ganesan, Chairman, Organsing Committee and Thiru K Muralimohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association.
R R Vasudevan
Press Officer
Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth Chess Championships 2012
Final standings (top 50):
1. GM Tiviakov Sergei NED 2659 – 9.5
2. GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2528 – 9.5
3. IM Shyam Sundar M. IND 2484 – 9
4. GM Sethuraman S.P. IND 2520 – 9
5. IM Karthikeyan P. IND 2414 – 8.5
6. Ram S. Krishnan IND 2269 – 8.5
7. Narayanan.S.L IND 2350 – 8.5
8. IM Akshayraj Kore IND 2459 – 8.5
9. GM Adhiban B. IND 2559 – 8.5
10. GM Lintchevski Daniil RUS 2555 – 8.5
11. GM Arun Prasad S. IND 2513 – 8
12. GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2530 – 8
13. Krishna C.R.G. IND 2327 – 8
14. GM Fominyh Alexander RUS 2456 – 8
15. GM Venkatesh M.R. IND 2520 – 8
16. IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2445 – 8
17. IM Garcia Jan Emmanuel PHI 2394 – 8
18. GM Paragua Mark PHI 2532 – 8
19. GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2500 – 8
20. G. Akash IND 2404 – 8
21. IM Rathnakaran K. IND 2430 – 8
22. WGM Padmini Rout IND 2326 – 8
23. IM Swayams Mishra IND 2423 – 8
24. GM Neelotpal Das IND 2467 – 8
25. IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 2488 – 8
26. Rishi Sardana IND 2173 – 8
27. Navin Kanna T.U. IND 2402 – 8
28. GM Adly Ahmed EGY 2607 – 7.5
29. GM Oleksienko Mikhailo UKR 2551 – 7.5
30. FM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. IND 2311 – 7.5
31. GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 2434 – 7.5
32. IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2417 – 7.5
33. IM Nitin S. IND 2398 – 7.5
34. IM Narayanan Srinath IND 2438 – 7.5
35. Krishna Teja N IND 2061 – 7.5
36. IM Akshat Khamparia IND 2398 – 7.5
37. WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 2251 – 7.5
38. Karthikeyan Murali IND 2329 – 7.5
39. IM Mohota Nisha IND 2342 – 7.5
40. WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 2384 – 7.5
41. FM Ikeda Junta AUS 2304 – 7.5
42. IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman IND 2400 – 7.5
43. WGM Kulkarni Bhakti IND 2196 – 7.5
44. FM Ramakrishna J. IND 2224 – 7.5
45. GM Grover Sahaj IND 2509 – 7.5
46. IM Prakash G B IND 2270 – 7.5
47. WIM Priya P. IND 2165 – 7.5
48. Ritviz Parab IND 2053 – 7.5
49. Navalgund Niranjan IND 2149 – 7.5
50. IM Thejkumar M. S. IND 2442 – 7.5
51. Jaswant G IND 1979 – 7.5
Tiviakov!