Biel MTO 2021 R4: Ganguly, Karthikeyan and Pragg in the lead 3.5/4
The third round of 54th Biel International Chess Festival 2021 GMT witnessed 50% decisive games. Nihal drew with Pichot, Gelfand and Studer scored a win each. In the MTO section, Ganguly drew with Salem in an exciting battle. Praggnanandhaa and Karthikeyan Murali joined the lead with Ganguly, Salem and Fedorchuk at 3.5/5 each respectively. IM Harshit Raja continues his good run as he drew with GM Tamas Banusz (HUN). IM Vignesh N R drew with compatriot GM Arjun Erigaisi. GMT Classical Round 4 and MTO Round 5 starts at 5:30 p.m. IST today. Photo: Biel Chess Festival
Nihal makes a draw with Pichot
Nihal Sarin thwarted all attempts by his opponent Alan Pichot and made a solid draw. Boris Gelfand and Noel Studer scored a win each over Vincent Keymer and Maxime Lagarde respectively. Tournament leader Gata Kamsky (18 points) drew with Kirill Alekseenko who is in pursuit at 15 points. Nihal has now jumped to the third place at 13 points.
GMT: Pichot - Nihal: 0.5-0.5
Nihal had a well-fought draw with Pichot. The Argentine prevented all of his opponent's attempts to stir up trouble.
MTO: Ganguly - Salem: 0.5-0.5
Ganguly and Salem had an exciting draw.
30.Bxc6 leads to an interesting continuation, 30...Bxc6 31.Nxc6 Rb3 32.Qc4 Rb5 33.Rg1. The game continued 30.Qd3
White could have tightened the grip 42.g5 fxg5 43.Qxd7 gxf4 44.Qxd5+ Rf7 45.e6 Re7 46.Nc5 and White is in full control. 42.Kg2 was played and the game ended with a draw by perpetual check.
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GMT Classical Round 3 results
Bo. | No. | Rtg | Name | Result | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
1 | 2 | 2648 | GM | Lagarde Maxime | 0 - 1 | GM | Studer Noel | 2581 | 8 |
2 | 3 | 2699 | GM | Alekseenko Kirill | ½ - ½ | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2658 | 1 |
3 | 4 | 2675 | GM | Gelfand Boris | 1 - 0 | GM | Keymer Vincent | 2591 | 7 |
4 | 5 | 2630 | GM | Pichot Alan | ½ - ½ | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2620 | 6 |
Round 4 pairings
Bo. | No. | Rtg | Name | Result | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
1 | 8 | 2581 | GM | Studer Noel | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2620 | 6 | |
2 | 7 | 2591 | GM | Keymer Vincent | GM | Pichot Alan | 2630 | 5 | |
3 | 1 | 2658 | GM | Kamsky Gata | GM | Gelfand Boris | 2675 | 4 | |
4 | 2 | 2648 | GM | Lagarde Maxime | GM | Alekseenko Kirill | 2699 | 3 |
GMT Overall standings
GMT Classical Scoring: Win - 4 points, Draw - 1.5 points and Loss - 0.
MTO Round 4 results
Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
1 | 8 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2625 | 3 | ½ - ½ | 3 | GM | Saleh Salem A.R. | 2682 | 1 | ||
2 | 2 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2671 | 2½ | ½ - ½ | 2½ | GM | Wagner Dennis | 2572 | 17 | ||
3 | 13 | GM | Fedorchuk Sergey | 2598 | 2½ | 1 - 0 | 2½ | GM | Chithambaram Aravindh | 2641 | 5 | ||
4 | 6 | GM | Banusz Tamas | 2631 | 2½ | ½ - ½ | 2½ | IM | Raja Harshit | 2484 | 29 | ||
5 | 16 | GM | Yuffa Daniil | 2578 | 2½ | ½ - ½ | 2½ | GM | Narayanan S.L. | 2624 | 9 | ||
6 | 18 | GM | Dragnev Valentin | 2569 | 2½ | 0 - 1 | 2½ | GM | R Praggnanandhaa | 2608 | 11 | ||
7 | 12 | GM | Murali Karthikeyan | 2606 | 2½ | 1 - 0 | 2½ | WGM | Vaishali R | 2393 | 33 | ||
8 | 25 | GM | NR Visakh | 2516 | 2 | 0 - 1 | 2 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2644 | 4 | ||
9 | 23 | GM | Valsecchi Alessio | 2527 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | GM | Chigaev Maksim | 2630 | 7 | ||
10 | 10 | GM | Erdos Viktor | 2614 | 2 | 1 - 0 | 2 | IM | Gschnitzer Adrian | 2420 | 31 | ||
11 | 14 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 2589 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | IM | Kalyan Arjun | 2503 | 28 | ||
12 | 30 | IM | NR Vignesh | 2428 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2567 | 19 | ||
13 | 20 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2555 | 2 | 1 - 0 | 2 | IM | Haimovich Tal | 2388 | 35 | ||
14 | 38 | FM | Papadiamandis Elliot | 2363 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | GM | Korpa Bence | 2536 | 21 | ||
15 | 22 | GM | Kantor Gergely | 2527 | 1½ | 1 - 0 | 2 | IM | J Sai Agni Jeevitesh | 2322 | 40 |
Round 5 pairings
Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
1 | 1 | GM | Saleh Salem A.R. | 2682 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Murali Karthikeyan | 2606 | 12 | |||
2 | 11 | GM | R Praggnanandhaa | 2608 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2625 | 8 | |||
3 | 6 | GM | Banusz Tamas | 2631 | 3 | 3½ | GM | Fedorchuk Sergey | 2598 | 13 | |||
4 | 29 | IM | Raja Harshit | 2484 | 3 | 3 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2671 | 2 | |||
5 | 4 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2644 | 3 | 3 | GM | Yuffa Daniil | 2578 | 16 | |||
6 | 9 | GM | Narayanan S.L. | 2624 | 3 | 3 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2555 | 20 | |||
7 | 17 | GM | Wagner Dennis | 2572 | 3 | 3 | GM | Erdos Viktor | 2614 | 10 | |||
8 | 3 | GM | Donchenko Alexander | 2652 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Valsecchi Alessio | 2527 | 23 | |||
9 | 5 | GM | Chithambaram Aravindh | 2641 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Tang Andrew | 2525 | 24 | |||
10 | 7 | GM | Chigaev Maksim | 2630 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Shchekachev Andrei | 2515 | 26 | |||
11 | 30 | IM | NR Vignesh | 2428 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 2589 | 14 | |||
12 | 15 | GM | Gukesh Dommaraju | 2578 | 2½ | 2½ | IM | Unuk Laura | 2407 | 32 | |||
13 | 28 | IM | Kalyan Arjun | 2503 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Dragnev Valentin | 2569 | 18 | |||
14 | 19 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2567 | 2½ | 2½ | FM | Papadiamandis Elliot | 2363 | 38 | |||
15 | 21 | GM | Korpa Bence | 2536 | 2½ | 2½ | IM | Bänziger Fabian | 2392 | 34 |