Al Muthaiah wins 1st ICA Wayanad Open 2019
IM Al Muthaiah wins third tournament in three months and his fourth in the year when he scored 7.5/9 and won 1st ICA Wayanad Open 2019. Four players finished at the same score of 7.5/9, they are IM Al Muthaiah, Senthil Maran K, Anilkumar O T and S Prasanna. Due to a better tie-break score, Muthaiah was declared the champion of the tournament. Senthil Maran was placed 2nd, Anilkumar and Prasanna had to be content with 3rd and 4th place respectively. The tournament took place at Hotel Regency, Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, Kerala from 11th to 15th May 2019. Total 262 players participated from various states across the country for a total prize fund of Rs 500001. Photo: MS Govindankutty
Al Muthaiah wins third tournament in three months
In a colourful closing ceremony, CK Sadasivan, Senior Member; Vineesh PS, ICA President; P C Biju ICA Vice President; V R Santhosh Secretary ICA; R. Ramesh Joint Secretary ICA; Rajesh Madavan, Tournament Coordinator; M K Shibu,Treasurer ICA along with all other committee members gave away the cash prizes and trophies to the winners. Vineesh PS, President ICA announced their next International FIDE Rated chess tournament for the players of Below 1600 rating at same venue from 8-10 June 2019.
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
1 | 1 | IM | Muthaiah Al | IND | 2427 | 7,5 | 0,0 | 54,5 | 59,0 |
2 | 5 | Senthil Maran K | IND | 2166 | 7,5 | 0,0 | 51,5 | 55,5 | |
3 | 12 | Anilkumar O.T. | IND | 1975 | 7,5 | 0,0 | 50,5 | 55,5 | |
4 | 3 | Prasannaa.S | IND | 2293 | 7,5 | 0,0 | 47,0 | 51,0 | |
5 | 2 | IM | Sangma Rahul | IND | 2297 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 53,5 | 57,5 |
6 | 4 | IM | Ramnathan Balasubramaniam | IND | 2193 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 50,5 | 55,5 |
7 | 8 | Augustin A | IND | 2067 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 49,5 | 54,0 | |
8 | 7 | IM | Hegde Ravi Gopal | IND | 2102 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 49,5 | 53,5 |
9 | 35 | Raju O A | IND | 1734 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 47,0 | 51,0 | |
10 | 19 | Vijay Anand M. | IND | 1838 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 47,0 | 51,0 | |
11 | 25 | Sharsha Backer | IND | 1788 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 46,0 | 50,5 | |
12 | 39 | Anandha Venkatesan | IND | 1712 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 50,5 | 53,5 | |
13 | 15 | Sooraj M R | IND | 1919 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 49,0 | 53,0 | |
14 | 37 | Avinash Hari | IND | 1728 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 48,5 | 51,0 | |
15 | 14 | Akhilan E M | IND | 1957 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 47,0 | 51,5 | |
16 | 61 | Rakesh N | IND | 1558 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 47,0 | 50,5 | |
17 | 24 | Mansoor C M | IND | 1788 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 46,5 | 50,0 | |
18 | 6 | Manigandan S S | IND | 2155 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 45,5 | 50,0 | |
19 | 40 | Ramachandra Bhat | IND | 1705 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 45,5 | 50,0 | |
20 | 18 | Sudarshan Bhat | IND | 1840 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 45,5 | 49,5 | |
21 | 13 | Viswanathan V N | IND | 1967 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 45,5 | 48,5 | |
22 | 20 | Sanjay S Pillai | IND | 1827 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 45,0 | 49,5 | |
23 | 9 | Abhishek Sarkar | IND | 2027 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 45,0 | 49,5 | |
24 | 11 | Alex Thomas K. | IND | 1982 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 44,5 | 49,0 | |
25 | 36 | Roshan Hari | IND | 1731 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 43,0 | 46,0 |