27th The Telegraph 2018 round 1-3: 37 players share lead with full point

by Shahid Ahmed - 15/12/2018

27th edition of The Telegraph Schools' Chess started 10 months after the previous edition concluded. This time over 425 children from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Philippines are participating. Youngest player of the meet Aayansh Burman of 4 years 9 months 0 days age made the inaugural move of the tournament. Top seeds had smooth sailing except a few upsets. Ninth seed of the tournament, Aditya Bikram Paul arrived late in the hall and he was shocked by unrated Agnivo Chakraborty in round 1, Shresth Mahapatra held Sadnan Hasan Dihan of Bangladesh to a draw in the 2nd round and Arunika Ghosh defeated Sambarta Banerjee in the 3rd round. In this report, we bring you photos, games and videos from round 1-3 of the tournament. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Frequent upsets in each round in the longest running school level tournament of the country

4 years 9 months 0 days old Aayansh Burman is the youngest participant of the tournament | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Watch little Aayansh make the inaugural move of the tournament | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Ninth seed Aditya Bikram Paul was shocked by unrated Agnivo Chakraborty in round 1

Aditya Bikram Paul did not have a good start as he arrived late for round 1 and lost his game | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Despite gaining an exchange in early middle game, Aditya was unable to maintain advantage and he misplayed his opponent's attack and eventually lost the game.

Kazi Zarin Tasnim of Bangladesh lost to unrated Anshu Mondal | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Among other upsets of round 1:

Parjwal Basnet (1579, NEP) drew with Anurag Ganguly (IND)

Aranya Ghosh (IND) drew with CM Manon Raja Neer (1548, BAN)

Arka Datta Chaudhuri (IND) defeated Sinchan Basnet (1487, Nepal)

Bibhangshu Mandal (IND) defeated AFM Aditya Prasad (1422, IND)

Dahal Mission (1390, NEP) lost to Debankar Banerjee (IND)

Sadnan Hasan of Bangladesh held to a draw by Shresth Mahapatra in round 2

Sadnan Hasan Dihan (BAN) was surprised by much lower rated 11-year old Shresth Mahapatra | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Sadnan got an advantage in the middle game and had a winning position till the endgame when he fell into a perpetual check trap and the game ended up in a draw. 11-year old Shresth did not give up and maintained his perseverance which paid off.

Sadnan missed a win and fell into a perpetual. Can you find the winning continuation for Black?

Ujaan Bhattacharya drew with much higher rated Praloy Sahoo | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Avirup Das Neogi drew with Debarghya Samanta in Closed Sicilian | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

A quick interview with Rajdeep Sarkar at the conclusion of round 2 | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Among other upsets of round 2:

Tushar Bhunya (1134) drew with Arijit Mukherjee (1566)

Gairick Saha (1127) defeated Shounak Mazumder (1528)

Aditya Sinha (1114) defeated Sagnik Saha (1478)

Krish Adhikari (1452, NEP) drew with Saptarshi Talukdar (1109)

Atreya Nandy (1431) lost to Anirin Majumder (1091)

Eighth seeded Sambarta Banerjee suffered a loss against Arunika Ghosh

Sambarta Banerjee blundered against Arunika Ghosh | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Sambarta blundered in a completely drawn position in Rook-Knight vs. Rook-Bishop endgame.

Diya Chowdhury who is in a terrific form was halted to a draw by Soham Bhattacharyya (1290) in a marathon game spanning over 3.5 hours and 92 moves long | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Reigning West Bengal State under-11 champion Alekhya Mukhopadhyay rolled his eyes when he blundered a checkmate against Debaprabho Gorai (1295) | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

White blundered checkmate here with 29.f4. Find out a better continuation for White here

Among other upsets of round 3:

Swarnoj Saha Talukdar (1257) drew with Swapnil Priyadarshi (1559)

Pratyush Mohapatra (1249) drew with Dhritabrata Kundu (1527)

Anubhab Gupta (1491) lost to Oishik Kundu (1244)

Mortuza Muhtadi Islam (1435, BAN) lost to Gairick Saha (1127, IND)

Bratajit Mukherjee (1105) drew with CM Manon Reja Neer (1458, BAN)

Photo Gallery:

Tournament Gate

Youngest participant of the tournament Aayansh Burman of 4 years 9 months 0 days inaugurates with 1.e4

Top seed FM Rajdeep Sarkar picks up three quick wins

Second seed FM Mitrabha Guha is yet to face a stiff challenge. He is also at 3.0/3

Koustav Chatterjee cruised with three straight wins

Samriddhaa Ghosh had some long games but she never seemed to be in danger

The Main Playing Hall which was formerly known as 'House of Friendship' has witnessed the world's who's who in action including Vishy Anand, Viktor Korchnoi, Nigel Short, Daniel King and many more

Over 425 players are playing in six different tournament halls

Even the stage has been converted to a playing arena

Youngest Aayansh after losing his first tournament match

Kids make queue for lunch after round 2

Results of round 3 on 2018/12/15 at 3.00 p.m.

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2370	2	1 - 0	2		Sayandeep Roy	1354	62
2	61		Uddipan Roy	1363	2	0 - 1	2	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2351	2
3	3		Koustav Chatterjee	2345	2	1 - 0	2		Prayash Adhikari	1346	64
4	63		Mouhurtik Ray	1350	2	0 - 1	2		Sanket Chakravarty	1974	4
5	65		Sritama Sen	1342	2	0 - 1	2		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1892	6
6	7		Rupam Mukherjee	1875	2	1 - 0	2		Shankhodip De	1339	66
7	67		Arunika Ghosh	1338	2	1 - 0	2		Sambarta Banerjee	1874	8
8	68		Jena Suhana	1337	2	0 - 1	2		Ayan Pal	1827	10
9	69		Mrittika Mallick	1326	2	0 - 1	2		Soham Dey	1770	12
10	13		Bhattacharyya Soham	1727	2	1 - 0	2		Sayantan Das	1325	70
11	71		Arkya Chatterjee	1321	2	0 - 1	2	WCM	Noshin Anjum	1722	14
12	15		Rounak Pathak	1719	2	1 - 0	2		Rowdrick Saha Talukdar	1321	72
13	73		Ujan Sarkar	1317	2	0 - 1	2		Mohanty Soyamsree	1706	16
14	17		Shuvam Roy	1681	2	1 - 0	2		Debarpita Ghosh	1316	74
15	79		Soumalya Mondol	1298	2	0 - 1	2		Sudipa Haldar	1675	18
16	19		Soumyajit Das (Jr)	1666	2	1 - 0	2		Sankalan Shah	1314	76
17	81		Soham Bhattacharyya	1290	2	½ - ½	2		Diya Chowdhury	1652	20
18	21		Pratyay Chowdhury	1645	2	0 - 1	2		Aman Kumar	1304	78
19	23		Alekhya Mukhopadhyay	1617	2	0 - 1	2		Debaprabho Gorai	1295	80
20	83		Rupankar Kundu	1275	2	0 - 1	2		Mortuza Mahathir Islam	1614	24
21	85		Ankit Ray	1266	2	0 - 1	2		Anish Rooj	1584	26
22	89		Ishika Mondal	1261	2	0 - 1	2		Rajarshi Mandal	1569	28
23	91		Swarnoj Saha Talukdar	1257	2	½ - ½	2		Swapnil Priyadarshi	1559	30
24	31		Soham Pal	1554	2	1 - 0	2		Projoy Jana	1267	84
25	93		Mohapatra Pratyush	1249	2	½ - ½	2		Dhritabrata Kundu	1527	34
26	35		Subhabrata Roy	1525	2	1 - 0	2		Aarshiya Biswas	1258	90
27	95		Arshiya Das	1242	2	0 - 1	2		Supratim Ghosh	1519	36
28	37		Arijit Ghosh	1509	2	1 - 0	2		Sayan Biswas	1252	92
29	97		Yamijala Koulini	1237	2	0 - 1	2		Akshath Sinha	1504	38
30	39		Anubhab Gupta	1491	2	0 - 1	2		Oishik Kundu	1244	94

Pairing of Round 4 on 2018/12/16 at 10.00 a.m.

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	36		Supratim Ghosh	1519	3		3	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2370	1
2	2	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2351	3		3		Soham Pal	1554	31
3	38		Akshath Sinha	1504	3		3		Koustav Chatterjee	2345	3
4	4		Sanket Chakravarty	1974	3		3		Subhabrata Roy	1525	35
5	6		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1892	3		3		Arijit Ghosh	1509	37
6	42		Debi Prasad Nayak	1470	3		3		Rupam Mukherjee	1875	7
7	10		Ayan Pal	1827	3		3		Eshan Bhattacharjee	1461	43
8	12		Soham Dey	1770	3		3		Mohammad Shafiqul Islam	1458	44
9	48		Aritrya Pal	1439	3		3		Bhattacharyya Soham	1727	13
10	14	WCM	Noshin Anjum	1722	3		3		Anushka Gupta	1455	45
11	54		Tushar Barua	1396	3		3		Rounak Pathak	1719	15
12	16		Mohanty Soyamsree	1706	3		3		Anjishnu Mondal	1440	47
13	58		Rachishnu Datta	1385	3		3		Shuvam Roy	1681	17
14	18		Sudipa Haldar	1675	3		3		Debargha Basu	1428	51
15	78		Aman Kumar	1304	3		3		Soumyajit Das (Jr)	1666	19
16	24		Mortuza Mahathir Islam	1614	3		3	AGM	Srihaan Poddar	1383	59
17	26		Anish Rooj	1584	3		3		Arunika Ghosh	1338	67
18	28		Rajarshi Mandal	1569	3		3		Debaprabho Gorai	1295	80
19	142		Gairick Saha	1127	3		2½		Praloy Sahoo	1795	11
20	98		Jyotisko Sengupta	1235	2½		2½		Sadnan Hasan Dihan	1944	5
21	20		Diya Chowdhury	1652	2½		2½		Swarnoj Saha Talukdar	1257	91
22	112		Shresth Mahapatra	1183	2½		2½	AIM	Debarghya Samanta	1595	25
23	116		Ujaan Bhattacharya	1179	2½		2½		Arijit Mukherjee	1566	29
24	30		Swapnil Priyadarshi	1559	2½		2½		Mohapatra Pratyush	1249	93
25	34		Dhritabrata Kundu	1527	2½		2½		Ritojoy Mandal	1218	101
26	134		Avirup Das Neogi	1138	2½		2½		Ishan Das	1315	75
27	136		Susovan Dey	1136	2½		2½		Soham Bhattacharyya	1290	81
28	86		Rout Yashita	1264	2½		2½		Shreya Shree Bansal	1136	135
29	138		Tushar Bhunya	1134	2½		2½		Anukarssa Dutta	1261	87
30	8		Sambarta Banerjee	1874	2		2½		Rishan Debnath	1078	173

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