Maxim Turov wins Chennai Open
PTI, 3 February 2010, 08:59pm IS
CHENNAI: Russian Grandmaster Maxim Turov with overall 9.5 points won the Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament on Wednesday.
Needing a draw in the final round, Turov had it easy against Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh. Rahman agreed for a second place when he accepted Turov’s offer for a draw in 14 moves.
With the top board ending in a short draw, the focus was on the second board where International Master Lalith Babu had a chance of tying for the first place. His game against International Master Richard Bitoon of Philippines was a long drawn affair and a draw was finally agreed between the two when none could make any progress.
R Siddharth, the local youngster who secured a Grandmaster norm on Tuesday, scored yet another resounding win in the same round. International Master Ashwin Jayaram became his victim, who had earlier scalped two consecutive Grandmasters in the previous rounds.
With this win, Siddharth tied for the second spot with nine points along with Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman and M R Lalith Babu.
International Master Vikramaditya Kamble of Maharashtra defended very well in an inferior position against Grandmaster Pavel Kotsur and clinched a draw.
Top finishers final rankings:
GM Turov Maxim RUS 9.5
GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 9
Siddharth R IND 9
IM Lalith Babu M R IND 9
IM Kamble Vikramaditya IND 8.5
GM Jumabayev Rinat KAZ 8.5
IM Bitoon Richard PHI 8.5
GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 8.5
IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman IND 8.5
Anwesh Upadhyaya IND 8
Source: THE TIMES OF INDIA, 3rd February 2010.
Special thanks to Jagadish Dube for providing us with the updates.
Was he the top seed?
No,Please.Here is the seedings list,
Starting rank list
No. Name FideID FED Rtg Club/City
1 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 12500739 IRI 2589
2 GM Turov Maxim 4120086 RUS 2584
3 GM Kryakvin Dmitry 4153278 RUS 2575
4 GM Kotsur Pavel 13700278 KAZ 2568
5 GM Arun Prasad S 5011167 IND 2567
6 GM Rahman Ziaur 10200037 BAN 2548
7 GM Kravtsiv Martyn 14113147 UKR 2545
8 GM Zubarev Alexander 14104385 UKR 2544
9 GM Jumabayev Rinat 13702661 KAZ 2536
10 GM Sundararajan Kidambi 5005370 IND 2526
11 GM Iuldachev Saidali 14200104 UZB 2519
12 GM Dzhumaev Marat 14200236 UZB 2515
13 GM Laxman R R 5005361 IND 2503
14 GM Barua Dibyendu 5000025 IND 2493
15 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 5011132 IND 2492
16 GM Ramesh R B 5002109 IND 2482