Grand Swiss 2023 R1: Raunak Sadhwani starts with a solid draw against the World no.7 - Anish Giri
The newly crowned FIDE World Junior Rapid 2023 Open champion, GM Raunak Sadhwani held the World no.7, GM Anish Giri (NED) to a solid draw. GM Aryan Chopra also drew his game against GM R Praggnanandhaa in the first round of FIDE Grand Swiss 2023. GM Leon Luke Mendonca held Netherlands no.2 GM Jorden van Foreest to a draw. GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM S L Narayanan and GM Aravindh Chithambaram made a winning start in the Open section. In the Women's event, IM Tania Sachdev drew against GM Harika Dronavalli. IM Vaishali R and IM Divya Deshmukh defeated IM Oliwia Kiolbasa (POL) and WIM Trisha Kanyamarala (IRL) respectively. WGM Savitha Shri B defeated Israel no.1 woman, IM Marsel Efroimski when she blundered a mate in two in a relatively balanced endgame. Round 2 starts today at 2:30 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. IST. Photo: IM Sagar Shah
Tania splits the point with Harika; Vaishali, Savitha and Divya score a win each
The first round did not witness any major upsets. Former World Champion, GM Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) held the defending Grand Swiss 2021 Open winner, GM Alireza Firouzja (FRA). In Round 2, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) will face GM S L Narayanan. Their last encounter took place a little over a week ago at Qatar Masters 2023. It ended in a draw. A few more interesting match ups will be - GM Raunak Sadhwani vs GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA), GM D Gukesh vs GM Ponomariov (UKR), GM Aryan Chopra vs GM Vincent Keymer (GER), GM Vladislav Artemiev vs GM Leon Luke Mendonca, IM Divya Deshmukh vs GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN), IM Eline Roebers (NED) vs IM Vaishali R and GM Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL) vs WGM Savitha Shri B.
Arjun - Frederik Svane
16.Kd1! is an excellent move. White is shifting his king to the queenside so that it becomes easier to launch an attack on the kingside and connect the rooks. 16...Ng8 17.Bf4 Bxh4? inviting trouble 18.e4 Be6 19.Kc2 h6 20.g4 Rc8 21.e5 c5 22.Be3 g5 23.Kb1 cxd4 24.Bxd4 Ne7
White sacrificed an exchange 25.Rxh4! to start the next stage of his onslaught. 25...gxh4 26.Rh1 Nc6 27.Bf2 Nxe5 28.Bxh4 f6 29.Qxh6+! Black cannot take it as Bxf6# is there. 29...Kf7 30.Bg6+ Nxg6 31.Qh7+ Kf8 32.Qxg6 and White won the game in another five moves.
Vaishali - Oliwia
34...Nh5?? is a blunder as White loses a couple of pawns in an otherwise relatively balanced endgame. 35.Rf5 Rxf5 36.Rxf5 Qg3+ 37.Qxg3 Nxg3 38.Rxf7+ Kh8 39.Rxc7 Nf1+ Black recovers one of the pawns, but it does not allow her to get back into the game.
Savitha - Marsel
One of the few things Black should not do here is what IM Marsel Efroimski (ISR, 2447) did 29...Rxb2?? Find out why it ends the game instantly for Black and what she could have done instead.
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Schedule
Every day game starts at 2:30 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. IST between 25th October and 4th November 2023, except on 3rd when the game starts at 11:30 a.m. local time, 4 p.m. IST. Rest day is on Tuesday 31st October 2023. The last round on 5th November will start at 2 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST.
Time Control
The time control for each game is: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, followed by 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
Qualification
The winner and the runner-up of Grand Swiss shall qualify for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024. If one or both these players has (-ve) already qualified to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 at the moment of the beginning of Grand Swiss via different qualification track or do (-es) not need to qualify for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024, the qualification spot(s) shall go to the highest-placed player(s) in the final standings who has (-ve) not yet qualified to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 at the moment of the beginning of Grand Swiss
Prizes
The total prize fund in the Open is US$ 460,000 with the first prize being $80,000. For Women's the total prize fund is $140,000, first prize $25,000. Total numbers of prizes are 69, Open - 46 and Women - 23.
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Round 1 Open results
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
1 | 4 | 4 | GM | Giri Anish | 2760 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2641 | 61 | ||
1 | 5 | 62 | GM | Mamedov Rauf | 2640 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Gukesh D | 2758 | 5 | ||
1 | 8 | 8 | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2738 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2634 | 65 | ||
1 | 14 | 14 | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2716 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Henriquez Villagra Cristobal | 2630 | 71 | ||
1 | 15 | 72 | GM | L'ami Erwin | 2627 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2716 | 15 | ||
1 | 16 | 16 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2712 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | GM | Svane Frederik | 2626 | 73 | ||
1 | 19 | 76 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | 2622 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Van Foreest Jorden | 2707 | 19 | ||
1 | 25 | 82 | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | 2615 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2694 | 25 | ||
1 | 26 | 26 | GM | Xiong Jeffery | 2693 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2611 | 83 | ||
1 | 27 | 84 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2609 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | 2691 | 27 | ||
1 | 47 | 104 | GM | Adhiban B. | 2551 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | GM | Predke Alexandr | 2656 | 47 | ||
1 | 52 | 52 | GM | Narayanan.S.L | 2651 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | IM | Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn | 2488 | 109 | ||
1 | 56 | 56 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2649 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | Wu Li | 2303 | 113 |
Standings after Round 1
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | ||
1 | 1 | GM | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2786 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
6 | GM | Rapport, Richard | ROU | 2752 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
7 | GM | Aronian, Levon | USA | 2742 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
10 | GM | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2726 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
11 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2720 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
13 | GM | Abdusattorov, Nodirbek | UZB | 2716 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
16 | GM | Erigaisi, Arjun | IND | 2712 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
18 | GM | Maghsoodloo, Parham | IRI | 2707 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
21 | GM | Sevian, Samuel | USA | 2698 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
24 | GM | Martirosyan, Haik M. | ARM | 2696 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
27 | GM | Fedoseev, Vladimir | SLO | 2691 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
30 | GM | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2686 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
31 | GM | Tabatabaei, M. Amin | IRI | 2685 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
32 | GM | Esipenko, Andrey | FID | 2683 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
33 | GM | Sarana, Alexey | SRB | 2682 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
34 | GM | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2680 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
39 | GM | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2669 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
42 | GM | Niemann, Hans Moke | USA | 2667 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
44 | GM | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2658 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
47 | GM | Predke, Alexandr | SRB | 2656 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Round 2 pairings
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
2 | 6 | 13 | GM | Abdusattorov Nodirbek | 2716 | 1 | 1 | GM | Narayanan.S.L | 2651 | 52 | |||
2 | 7 | 49 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | 2653 | 1 | 1 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2712 | 16 | |||
2 | 9 | 21 | GM | Sevian Samuel | 2698 | 1 | 1 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2649 | 56 | |||
2 | 17 | 61 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2641 | ½ | ½ | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2780 | 2 | |||
2 | 20 | 5 | GM | Gukesh D | 2758 | ½ | ½ | GM | Ponomariov Ruslan | 2641 | 60 | |||
2 | 21 | 69 | GM | Murzin Volodar | 2633 | ½ | ½ | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2738 | 8 | |||
2 | 23 | 65 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2634 | ½ | ½ | GM | Keymer Vincent | 2717 | 12 | |||
2 | 24 | 77 | GM | Tari Aryan | 2619 | ½ | ½ | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2716 | 14 | |||
2 | 28 | 83 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2611 | ½ | ½ | GM | Shankland Sam | 2698 | 22 | |||
2 | 29 | 23 | GM | Artemiev Vladislav | 2697 | ½ | ½ | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | 2622 | 76 | |||
2 | 30 | 25 | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2694 | ½ | ½ | GM | Suleymanli Aydin | 2588 | 92 | |||
2 | 42 | 15 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2716 | 0 | 0 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2609 | 84 | |||
2 | 51 | 67 | GM | Idani Pouya | 2633 | 0 | 0 | GM | Adhiban B. | 2551 | 104 |
Round 1 Women results
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
1 | 7 | 32 | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2389 | 0 | ½ - ½ | 0 | GM | Dronavalli Harika | 2502 | 7 | ||
1 | 12 | 12 | IM | Vaishali Rameshbabu | 2448 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | IM | Kiolbasa Oliwia | 2375 | 37 | ||
1 | 13 | 38 | WGM | Savitha Shri B | 2375 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | IM | Efroimski Marsel | 2447 | 13 | ||
1 | 18 | 18 | IM | Vantika Agrawal | 2435 | 0 | 0 - 1 | 0 | WGM | Kamalidenova Meruert | 2351 | 43 | ||
1 | 24 | 24 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2408 | 0 | 1 - 0 | 0 | WIM | Kanyamarala Trisha | 2184 | 49 |
Standings after Round 1
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | ||
1 | 4 | GM | Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2517 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
5 | GM | Muzychuk, Anna | UKR | 2510 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
8 | GM | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | 2484 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
12 | IM | Vaishali, Rameshbabu | IND | 2448 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
16 | GM | Gunina, Valentina | FID | 2439 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
21 | GM | Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | 2424 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
22 | IM | Bulmaga, Irina | ROU | 2423 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
24 | WGM | Divya, Deshmukh | IND | 2408 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
25 | IM | Garifullina, Leya | FID | 2402 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
31 | IM | Roebers, Eline | NED | 2390 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
34 | IM | Tsolakidou, Stavroula | GRE | 2385 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
38 | WGM | Savitha, Shri B | IND | 2375 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
42 | IM | Guichard, Pauline | FRA | 2358 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
43 | WGM | Kamalidenova, Meruert | KAZ | 2351 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
45 | WGM | Sandu, Mihaela | ROU | 2298 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
16 | 1 | GM | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | FID | 2558 | 0,5 | 0 | 0 | 0,5 | 0 | |
2 | GM | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | SUI | 2523 | 0,5 | 0 | 0 | 0,5 | 0 | ||
3 | GM | Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | 2519 | 0,5 | 0 | 0 | 0,5 | 0 | ||
7 | GM | Dronavalli, Harika | IND | 2502 | 0,5 | 0 | 0 | 0,5 | 0 | ||
10 | IM | Assaubayeva, Bibisara | KAZ | 2469 | 0,5 | 0 | 0 | 0,5 | 0 |
Round 2 pairings
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
2 | 1 | 24 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2408 | 1 | 1 | GM | Tan Zhongyi | 2517 | 4 | |||
2 | 4 | 31 | IM | Roebers Eline | 2390 | 1 | 1 | IM | Vaishali Rameshbabu | 2448 | 12 | |||
2 | 6 | 21 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2424 | 1 | 1 | WGM | Savitha Shri B | 2375 | 38 | |||
2 | 11 | 7 | GM | Dronavalli Harika | 2502 | ½ | ½ | GM | Hoang Thanh Trang | 2398 | 28 | |||
2 | 13 | 11 | WGM | Wagner Dinara | 2461 | ½ | ½ | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2389 | 32 | |||
2 | 22 | 41 | IM | Aulia Medina Warda | 2362 | 0 | 0 | IM | Vantika Agrawal | 2435 | 18 |
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