Indian national rapid chess championship
GM Parimarjan Negi and GM Sanda Chandipan top seeded
The Indian national rapid chess championship, organized by the Cyber Chess Academy, has started in Hyderabad. The competition will take place June 2-5 and it will be 11 rounds competition with time control 25 min + 10 sec.
Top seeded are GM Parimarjan Negi and GM Sanda Chandipan, who will compete in the company of 28 more titled players.
The competition will be followed by the national blitz event, with time control 3 min + 2 sec.
Participants
1 GM Negi Parimarjan IND 2592
2 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2558
3 IM Laxman R R IND 2521
4 GM Neelotpal Das IND 2514
5 GM Ramesh R B IND 2482
6 IM Lalith Babu M R IND 2480
7 IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 2469
8 IM Sengupta Deep IND 2466
9 IM Sriram Jha IND 2453
10 GM Bakre Tejas IND 2452
11 IM Venkatesh M R IND 2432
12 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 2428
13 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND 2428
14 IM Rathnakaran K IND 2427
15 IM Shyam Sundar M IND 2424
16 IM Girinath P D S IND 2404
17 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2403
Source: Chessdom.com
Wasn’t Negi over 2600 before?