15th Chennai GM Open R5-6: Crowded at the top

by Shahid Ahmed - 06/01/2025

Nine players are sharing the lead 5/6 after the sixth round of 15th Chennai GM Open 2025. Top seed and India's highest rated IM Aronyak Ghosh got back to winning ways as he defeated CM V Sarveshwaran in Round 6. GM Deepan Chakkravarthy ended FM Rupesh Jaiswal's (NEP) unbeaten streak. 119th seeded Vijay Shreeram P defeated two IMs consecutively - Uurtsaikh Agibileg (MGL) and Sanket Chakravarty. He is the sole untitled player among the leaders' pack. FM Priyanshu Patil had a sharp battle versus IM Mayank Chakraborty in the fifth round. The former could have pushed for the maximum. Round 7 starts today at 10 a.m. IST. Photo: IA R Anantharam

Vijay Shreeram beats two IMs consecutively

The 15th edition of Chennai Grandmasters Open 2025 has an extremely strong field. Nine players including an untitled, 119th seeded Vijay Shreeram P is in the lead 5/6. The last double round concluded yesterday. The next five rounds are certainly going to witness some tough games.

Round 5: Madhesh upsets Doc Hoa

GM Siddharth Jagadeesh (SGP) - GM Pa Iniyan: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IA R Anantharam

IM Ethan Vaz - IM Aronyak Ghosh: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IA R Anantharam

Sayantan - Podolchenko

Position after 24...e5

Find out the winning combination for White which GM Sayantan Das (2434) played after GM Evgeniy Podolchenko (2346) went 24...e5.

GM Sayantan Das outplayed GM Evgeniy Podolchenko | Photo: IA R Anantharam

IM Kaustuv Kundu was too sharp for Varun V | Photo: IA R Anantharam

Bhaavan Kolla's ambitious play did not work out against IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete | Photo: IA R Anantharam

Priyanshu - Mayank

Position after 24...Qh5

25.Ne1 Qxh2+ 26.Ng2 is recommended by computer to maintain White's decisive advantage. Instead, Priyanshu Patil (2298) opted for the sharper 25.Bf4 Rxf4 26.d8Q+ Rxd8 27.Qxd8 Rf8 28.Qd3 Qxh2+ 29.Kf1 Qh1+ and IM Mayank Chakraborty (2457) forced a draw via perpetual checks.

Priyanshu Patil and IM Mayank Chakraborty had a sharp battle | Photo: IA R Anantharam

CM Madhvendra Pratap Sharma - GM Cristhian Camilo Rios Gomez (COL): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IA R Anantharam

FM Aditya Varun Gampa missed a great opportunity against IM Shahil Dey | Photo: IA R Anantharam

GM Duc Hoa Nguyen (VIE, 2358) almost managed to recover a difficult position until he fell into trouble once again against Madhesh Kumar S (2006) and succumbed.

Nitin - Sarveshwaran

Position after 30...Re8

In a difficult position, IM Nitin S (2338) captured the pawn 31.Bxd5?? His opponent, V Sarveshwaran (2150) grabbed the opportunity 31...Nxe5 32.Bxe5 Rf4 33.Bg2 Rxe5+ things completely went into Black's favor and he won the game in a few more moves.

Notable results

IM Manish Anto Cristiano F - Jai Sankar Subramanian : 0.5-0.5

IM Uurtsaikh Agibileg (MGL) - Vijay Shreeram P: 0-1

IM Avinash Ramesh - Jval Saurin Patel: 0-1

GM P Shyam Nikhil - FM Rosh Jain: 0.5-0.5

IM P Saravana Krishnan - Yohan Yadav Tadala: 0.5-0.5

IM Yehya Rahman (EGY) - Divitt Arora: 0.5-0.5

Round 6: White wins four in top ten

IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete - GM Siddharth Jagadeesh (SGP): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IA R Anantharam

GM Iniyan Pa - IM Ethan Vaz: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IA R Anantharam

IM Kaustuv Kundu had a well contested draw against GM Sayantan Das who had a few chances | Photo: IA R Anantharam

IM Aronyak Ghosh scored a welcome victory over V Sarveshwaran, after conceding two draws in his last two games | Photo: IA R Anantharam

GM Deepan Chakkravarthy ended FM Rupesh Jaiswal's (NEP) unbeaten run | Photo: IA R Anantharam

IM Sathvik Adiga - Madhesh Kumar S: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IA R Anantharam

Vijay Shreeram P (2025) outplayed IM Sanket Chakravarty (2374).

IM Mayank Chakraborty - Venkata Ruthvik Mummana: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IA R Anantharam

Varun V - GM Venkatesh M R: 0.5-0.5 | Photo: IA R Anantharam

Notable results

GM Evgeniy Podolchenko - Shreyash Singh: 0.5-0.5

IM Nitin S - Mayukh Majumder: 0-1

GM Duc Hoa Nguyen - Kartavya Anadkat: 0-1

Siddhant Gawai - GM Manik Mikulas: 0.5-0.5

Agnivo Chakraborty - GM P Karthikyen: 0.5-0.5

GM Raset Ziatdinov (USA) - FM Dhananjay S: 0-1

IM Ratnakaran K - Shrayan Majumder: 0-1

Viresh Sharnarthi - GM P Shyam Nikhil: 0.5-0.5

FM Rosh Jain - IM Uurtsaikh Agibileg (MGL): 1-0

Manas Gaikwad - IM P Saravana Krishnan: 1-0

Yohan Yadav Tarala - WIM Priyanka K: 0.5-0.5

Divitt Arora - IM Amrou Sobh (EGY): 0.5-0.5

A total of 174 players including 16 GMs, 25 IMs and 4 WIMs are taking part from 19 countries across the world including India in Category A (>2000). The tournament is organized by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association from 2nd to 9th January 2025 at Hotel Ramada Egmore in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The ten-round Swiss league tournament has a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

Replay Round 5-6 games

Round 6 results

Bo.	No.		White	Bdld	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	Bdld	FED	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	15	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete		IND	2379	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh		SGP	2515	2	PGN
2	3	GM	Iniyan, Pa		IND	2508	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	Vaz, Ethan		IND	2412	10	PGN
3	12	IM	Kaustuv, Kundu		IND	2409	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Das, Sayantan		IND	2434	8	PGN
4	1	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh		IND	2544	4	1 - 0	4	CM	Sarveshwaran, V		IND	2150	63	PGN
5	9	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2413	4	1 - 0	4	FM	Jaiswal, Rupesh		NEP	2093	88	PGN
6	13	IM	Sathvik, Adiga		IND	2395	4	½ - ½	4		Madhesh, Kumar S		IND	2006	138	PGN
7	119		Vijay, Shreeram P		IND	2025	4	1 - 0	4	IM	Sanket, Chakravarty		IND	2374	16	PGN
8	5	IM	Mayank, Chakraborty		IND	2457	3½	½ - ½	3½		Mummana, Venkata Ruthvik		IND	2186	53	PGN
9	7	GM	Rios Gomez, Cristhian Camilo		COL	2435	3½	½ - ½	3½	FM	Aditya, Varun Gampa		IND	2180	55	PGN
10	11	GM	Fedorov, Alexei		BLR	2409	3½	1 - 0	3½		Sri, Sai Baswanth P		IND	2161	59	PGN
11	17	IM	Shahil, Dey		IND	2374	3½	1 - 0	3½		Jval, Saurin Patel		IND	2064	99	PGN
12	56		Varun, V		IND	2173	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	Venkatesh, M.R.		IND	2362	18	PGN
13	21	GM	Podolchenko, Evgeniy		BLR	2346	3½	½ - ½	3½		Shreyash, Singh		IND	2000	148	PGN
14	50		Shirliyev, Allayar		TKM	2196	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Slizhevsky, Alexander		RUS	2340	23	PGN
15	25	FM	Mohamed, Anees M		IND	2334	3½	1 - 0	3½	CM	Mohmad, Bashiq Imrose		IND	1991	152	PGN
16	68	AGM	Vignesh, B		IND	2135	3½	1 - 0	3½	FM	Setumadhav, Yellumahanthi		IND	2334	26
17	84		Mahindrakar, Indrajeet		IND	2098	3½	0 - 1	3½	IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F		IND	2328	28
18	76		Jai, Sankar Subramanian		IND	2113	3½	1 - 0	3½	FM	Patil, Priyanshu		IND	2298	32
19	133		Avirat, Chauhan		IND	2010	3½	0 - 1	3½	CM	Madhvendra, Pratap Sharma		IND	2281	36
20	162		Kolla, Bhaavan		IND	1946	3½	0 - 1	3½	GM	Czebe, Attila		HUN	2278	37

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Standings after Round 6

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	1	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh		IND	2544	RSPB	5	22	25	20,00	4
	2	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	U18	SGP	2515	SGP	5	22	25	20,00	4
3	10	IM	Vaz, Ethan	U14	IND	2412	GA	5	22	23,5	18,50	4
4	8	GM	Das, Sayantan		IND	2434	WB	5	21,5	24,5	19,50	4
5	3	GM	Iniyan, Pa		IND	2508	TN	5	21	24	19,00	4
6	15	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete		IND	2379	MH	5	20	22,5	17,50	4
7	12	IM	Kaustuv, Kundu		IND	2409	WB	5	19,5	20	15,00	4
8	9	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2413	ICF	5	19	22,5	19,00	4
9	119		Vijay, Shreeram P		IND	2025	TN	5	15,5	17	13,50	5
10	13	IM	Sathvik, Adiga	U14	IND	2395	KA	4,5	21	24	16,75	4
11	25	FM	Mohamed, Anees M		IND	2334	TN	4,5	19,5	22	14,75	4
12	28	IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F	U20	IND	2328	TN	4,5	19	22	16,25	3
13	76		Jai, Sankar Subramanian	U18	IND	2113	TN	4,5	19	21,5	15,50	3
14	17	IM	Shahil, Dey	U18	IND	2374	AS	4,5	19	21,5	14,50	4
15	128		Mayukh, Majumder	U12	IND	2013	WB	4,5	18,5	21	15,25	3
16	138		Madhesh, Kumar S	U12	IND	2006	PY	4,5	18	20	14,25	4
17	68	AGM	Vignesh, B	U20	IND	2135	TN	4,5	18	20	13,25	4
18	11	GM	Fedorov, Alexei	S50	BLR	2409	BLR	4,5	17	20	15,00	4
19	37	GM	Czebe, Attila		HUN	2278	HUN	4,5	15,5	18	13,50	3
20	36	CM	Madhvendra, Pratap Sharma	U12	IND	2281	MP	4,5	15	17	12,25	3

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Round 7 pairings

Bo.	No.		White	Bdld	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	Bdld	FED	Rtg	No.
1	8	GM	Das, Sayantan		IND	2434	5		5	IM	Aronyak, Ghosh		IND	2544	1
2	2	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh		SGP	2515	5		5	IM	Kaustuv, Kundu		IND	2409	12
3	119		Vijay, Shreeram P		IND	2025	5		5	GM	Iniyan, Pa		IND	2508	3
4	10	IM	Vaz, Ethan		IND	2412	5		5	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2413	9
5	11	GM	Fedorov, Alexei		BLR	2409	4½		5	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete		IND	2379	15
6	37	GM	Czebe, Attila		HUN	2278	4½		4½	IM	Sathvik, Adiga		IND	2395	13
7	128		Mayukh, Majumder		IND	2013	4½		4½	IM	Shahil, Dey		IND	2374	17
8	138		Madhesh, Kumar S		IND	2006	4½		4½	FM	Mohamed, Anees M		IND	2334	25
9	28	IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F		IND	2328	4½		4½	AGM	Vignesh, B		IND	2135	68
10	36	CM	Madhvendra, Pratap Sharma		IND	2281	4½		4½		Jai, Sankar Subramanian		IND	2113	76
11	55	FM	Aditya, Varun Gampa		IND	2180	4		4	IM	Mayank, Chakraborty		IND	2457	5
12	53		Mummana, Venkata Ruthvik		IND	2186	4		4	GM	Rios Gomez, Cristhian Camilo		COL	2435	7
13	16	IM	Sanket, Chakravarty		IND	2374	4		4		Shirliyev, Allayar		TKM	2196	50
14	63	CM	Sarveshwaran, V		IND	2150	4		4	GM	Venkatesh, M.R.		IND	2362	18
15	67		Anadkat, Kartavya		IND	2139	4		4	GM	Podolchenko, Evgeniy		BLR	2346	21
16	23	IM	Slizhevsky, Alexander		RUS	2340	4		4		Varun, V		IND	2173	56
17	88	FM	Jaiswal, Rupesh		NEP	2093	4		4	GM	Laxman, R.R.		IND	2303	30
18	148		Shreyash, Singh		IND	2000	4		4	FM	Ajay, Santhosh Parvathareddy		IND	2292	34
19	101		Majumder, Shrayan		IND	2061	4		4	FM	Dhananjay, S		IND	2270	38
20	43		Arpith, S Bijoy		IND	2234	4		4		Vaidyanathan, Kannan		USA	1940	164

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