29th Abu Dhabi Masters 2023 R3: Rathanvel swindles Jaime to score a hat-trick

by Shahid Ahmed - 19/08/2023

GM-elect IM Rathanvel V S defeated GM Jaime Santos Latasa (ESP) in the third round of 29th Abu Dhabi Masters 2023. Despite being down by an exchange, the GM-elect played enterprisingly. He kept creating chances for himself until his opponent blundered. Rathanvel is one of the five leaders with a perfect score 3/3. GMs Aryan Chopra, Sankalp Gupta, Sandipan Chanda and Aravindh Chithambaram are in pursuit at 2.5/3 each. IM Harikrishnan A Ra held 44th Olympiad Gold medalist, GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (UZB) to a draw. FM Vedant Panesar scored an impressive victory over GM Pranav Anand. FM Ethan Vaz won the rook and pawn endgae when his opponent IM Ravi Teja misplayed. Round 4 starts today at 5 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photos: Aditya Sur Roy

Vedant Panesar's knights too strong for Pranav Anand

Just like Dhananjay S used his knights in a fantastic manner against a bishop pair at 60th National championship, FM Vedant Panesar also managed to achieve something similar in this event.

IM Divya Deshmukh scored a big upset over GM Pranav Anand

Jaime - Rathanvel

Position after 47...Kxe4

IM Rathanvel V S (2491) got his rook trapped during a queen exchange. It resulted in him losing the exchange and arrived at a difficult rook vs bishop endgame against GM Jaime Santos Latasa (ESP, 2656). However, Rathanvel decided to create chances for himself and he ended up creating two passed pawns - an isolated central and a protected passed pawn. In the above position, White went wrong 48.Ra7?? Instead 48.Kd1 and get out of any immediate checks was the only way to ensure the game ends in a draw. Black seized his opportunity 48...d3+ 49.Kf1 f3 50.Ra1 Bg3 51.b4 d2 and Black's passed pawns are too strong for the white rook or the b-pawn.

GM-elect IM Rathanvel V S got himself that much closer to the GM title by winning an important game against GM Jaime Santos Latasa (ESP)

GM Sandipan Chanda - GM Volodar Murzin: 0.5-0.5

Pranav Anand - Vedant

Position after 36...Ndf6

GM Pranav Anand (2529) made an incorrect decision of taking the f5-pawn. In general, White would want to open up the position so that his bishops can play better. However, here the f-file got opened which helped his opponent, FM Vedant Panesar (2391). 37.Qxf5?? Re5 38.Qf4 Qg6 39.Qc1 Nh5 40.Bb7 Qf5 threatening checkmate at f1 41.Bh4 Nf4 42.Re3 Nc3! 43.Rb2 Rxe3 and White resigned.

FM Vedant Panesar seized his opportunity against GM Pranav Anand | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (UZB) - IM FT Harikrishnan A Ra (pictured): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Biel Chess Festival

GM Stany G A - IM Dushyant Sharma: 0.5-0.5

FM Ethan Vaz - IM Ravi Teja S: 1-0

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A total of 145 players including 41 GMs, 54 IMs, 6 WGMs and 3 WIMs are taking part from 22 countries across the world. The tournament is being organized by Abu Dhabi Chess Club & Mind Games from 16th to 24th August 2023 at Radisson Blu Hotel & Resort in Abu Dhabi Corniche Abu Dhabi, UAE. The nine-round Swiss league tournament has a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

Round 3 results

Rd.	Bo.	No.	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.	Rtg		No.
3	2	35	Raja Rithvik R	2502	2	0 - 1	2	Fedoseev Vladimir	2676	4
3	4	9	Santos Latasa Jaime	2656	2	0 - 1	2	Rathanvel V S	2491	40
3	5	11	Aryan Chopra	2641	2	½ - ½	2	Abdisalimov Abdimalik	2438	59
3	6	39	Chanda Sandipan	2491	2	½ - ½	2	Murzin Volodar	2631	14
3	12	54	Babazada Khazar	2451	1½	½ - ½	1½	Narayanan.S.L	2656	8
3	13	53	Swayams Mishra	2452	1½	0 - 1	1½	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2645	10
3	14	55	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2451	1½	0 - 1	1½	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	2641	12
3	15	15	Yakubboev Nodirbek	2630	1½	½ - ½	1½	Harikrishnan.A.Ra	2437	60
3	17	19	Lu Shanglei	2598	1½	1 - 0	1½	Viani Antonio Dcunha	2415	70
3	19	72	Gholami Orimi Mahdi	2413	1½	½ - ½	1½	Adhiban B.	2587	22
3	20	23	Suleymanli Aydin	2586	1½	1 - 0	1½	Sanket Chakravarty	2385	97
3	21	98	Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali	2384	1½	½ - ½	1½	Karthik Venkataraman	2562	24
3	24	29	Sankalp Gupta	2522	1½	1 - 0	1½	Mayank Chakraborty	2322	127
3	25	106	Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan	2359	1½	½ - ½	1½	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2479	44
3	26	78	Panda Sambit	2402	1	0 - 1	1	Anton Guijarro David	2693	2
3	28	21	Pranav V	2588	1	1 - 0	1	Kushagra Mohan	2397	85
3	29	28	Pranav Anand	2529	1	0 - 1	1	Panesar Vedant	2391	90
3	30	32	Song Raymond	2512	1	1 - 0	1	Divya Deshmukh	2372	100
3	31	102	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	2370	1	0 - 1	1	Pranesh M	2503	34
3	33	108	Beydullayeva Govhar	2355	1	1 - 0	1	Prraneeth Vuppala	2485	42

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	18	Xu, Xiangyu	CHN	2608	3	0	3	5,5
	71	Atakhan, Abtin	IRI	2414	3	0	3	5,5
3	4	Fedoseev, Vladimir	SLO	2676	3	0	3	5
4	40	Rathanvel, V S	IND	2491	3	0	3	4,5
5	33	Suleymenov, Alisher	KAZ	2509	3	0	3	3,5
6	6	Niemann, Hans Moke	USA	2660	2,5	0	2	5,5
	14	Murzin, Volodar	FID	2631	2,5	0	2	5,5
8	11	Aryan, Chopra	IND	2641	2,5	0	2	5
9	7	Sindarov, Javokhir	UZB	2659	2,5	0	2	4,5
	19	Lu, Shanglei	CHN	2598	2,5	0	2	4,5
11	59	Abdisalimov, Abdimalik	UZB	2438	2,5	0	2	4,5
12	23	Suleymanli, Aydin	AZE	2586	2,5	0	2	4
13	37	Dai, Changren	CHN	2499	2,5	0	2	4
14	12	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2641	2,5	0	2	3,5
	25	Li, Di	CHN	2561	2,5	0	2	3,5
	29	Sankalp, Gupta	IND	2522	2,5	0	2	3,5
17	39	Chanda, Sandipan	IND	2491	2,5	0	2	3
18	10	Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2645	2,5	0	2	3
19	9	Santos Latasa, Jaime	ESP	2656	2	0	2	7
20	43	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	UZB	2484	2	0	2	6

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Round 4 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.	Rtg		No.
4	3	40	Rathanvel V S	2491	3		2½	Sindarov Javokhir	2659	7
4	5	10	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2645	2½		2½	Li Di	2561	25
4	6	29	Sankalp Gupta	2522	2½		2½	Aryan Chopra	2641	11
4	9	39	Chanda Sandipan	2491	2½		2½	Lu Shanglei	2598	19
4	10	49	Jubin Jimmy	2460	2		2	Artemiev Vladislav	2698	1
4	12	51	Muthaiah Al	2458	2		2	Matlakov Maxim	2677	3
4	14	8	Narayanan.S.L	2656	2		2	Rahman Ziaur	2448	57
4	15	60	Harikrishnan.A.Ra	2437	2		2	Santos Latasa Jaime	2656	9
4	16	61	Vantika Agrawal	2430	2		2	Yakubboev Nodirbek	2630	15
4	17	62	Ajay Karthikeyan	2429	2		2	Vakhidov Jakhongir	2618	17
4	18	65	Nitish Belurkar	2425	2		2	Vokhidov Shamsiddin	2597	20
4	19	66	Saydaliev Saidakbar	2424	2		2	Pranav V	2588	21
4	20	22	Adhiban B.	2587	2		2	Rohith Krishna S	2423	67
4	21	24	Karthik Venkataraman	2562	2		2	Movahed Sina	2417	69
4	23	68	Hari Madhavan N B	2418	2		2	Kobalia Mikhail	2547	27
4	25	34	Pranesh M	2503	2		2	Xiang Zeyu	2391	88
4	26	90	Panesar Vedant	2391	2		2	Raja Rithvik R	2502	35
4	28	44	Swapnil S. Dhopade	2479	2		2	Xie Kaifan	2369	104
4	32	30	Pour Agha Bala Amirreza	2521	1½		2	Vaz Ethan	2306	134
4	35	93	Ajay Krishna S	2388	1½		1½	Nogerbek Kazybek	2487	41

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