Grand Swiss 2023 R10: Vaishali vanquishes Zhongyi Tan, secures her place in the Women's Candidates 2024

by Shahid Ahmed - 05/11/2023

IM Vaishali R is in the form of her career. She defeated her fifth former Women's World Champion, GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) in the penultimate round of FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 Women. Thus, she earned herself a spot in the FIDE Women's Candidates 2024. She is also maintaining her sole lead 8/10. GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR) is the sole woman trailing her by a half point at 7.5/10. In the Open event, GM Hikaru Nakamura won the All-American clash against GM Fabiano Caruana. GM Vidit Gujrathi scored a fantastic victory against the Romania no.2 GM Bogdan Daniel-Deac. GM Arjun Erigaisi also scored an amazing win against GM Samuel Sevian (USA). GM Andrey Esipenko, Nakamura and Vidit are currently in a three-way lead 7.5/10. Arjun will face Nakamura and Vidit will be up against GM Alexandr Predke (SRB) in the final round. Round 11 starts today at 2 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Maria Emelianova/chess.com

Esipenko, Hikaru or Vidit - Which two will secure their places in the Candidates?

IM Vaishali R becomes the second International Master to secure a place in the FIDE Women's Candidates 2024. A few months ago, IM Nurgyul Salimova (BUL) became the first woman to earn her place at the same event by advancing to the finals of FIDE Women's World Cup 2023 and finishing second eventually.

IM Vaishali R defeated GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) to secure her place in the FIDE Women's Candidates 2024 | Photo: Maria Emelianova/chess.com

GM Vidit Gujrathi defeated GM Bogdan Daniel-Deac (ROU) to stay in contention for a Candidates spot | Photo: Maria Emelianova/chess.com

FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 official logo | Photo: Official site

Vaishali - Zhongyi: 1-0

IM Vaishali R (2448) had never won a rated game against GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN, 2517). She drew their first encounter at Astana GP last year. Last month she lost at the 19th Asian Games 2022. She is in the form of her career and it is certainly her time to beat another former Women's World Champion, fifth to be exact (combining Classical, Rapid and Blitz).

Position after 26.g4!

24...Re7 already allowed White to gain an entry 25.Qb4. Now 25...Qg6 prompted White to do what needed to be done 26.g4! h5 27.fxe5 hxg4 28.Qb8+ Kd7 29.Qxa7+ Kc8 30.Qa8+ Kc7 31.Qa7+ Kc8 32.Qa6+ Kc7 clearly the black king is more vulnerable than the white. It is time to bring more pieces into the attack 33.Nf4 Qh7 34.Qa7+ and White won the game in another nine moves. This is undoubtedly one of the best wins of Vaishali at this event, if not the best.

Interview with IM Vaishali after she defeated GM Zhongyi Tan and qualified for the Women's Candidates 2024 | Video: ChessBase India

Vaishali: "The Grandmaster title has been a big dream for me since my childhood" | Video: FIDE

IM Vaishali R analyzes her win over GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) | Video: FIDE

Moments before the start of the game between IM Vaishali R and GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

GM R Praggnanandhaa spectates her sister - IM Vaishali R's game against GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) | Photo: Maria Emelianova/chess.com

IM Vaishali R with her mother Nagalakshmi

IM Vaishali R is now World no.13 among Women with a live rating of 2498.2 | Source: 2700 chess.com

Nakamura - Caruana: 1-0

GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2780) and GM Fabiano Caruana (USA, 2786) have played plenty of games against each other. Their last Classical encounter was at 11th Norway Chess 2023 which was won by the Speed King.

Position after 21.Bxh6!

While the computer says 21.Be5 gives White a substantial decisive advantage, Nakamura opted for the human bishop sacrifice at h6. 21.Bxh6! f6 22.Qxe4 Qxc3 23.Rad1 Rce8 24.Rd8 Bg8 25.Qh4 Qxc2 26.R1d3 Bh7 27.R3d7 g5 28.Qg3 Qb1+ 29.Kh2 Qf5 30.Rxe7 Rxd8 31.Qc7 and White went on to convert his advantage into a full point comfortably.

GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA) analyzes his win over GM Fabiano Caruana (USA) | Video: ChessBase India

Is this the Lost US Championship game? | Video: GMHikaru

GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA) shattered GM Fabiano Caruana's (USA) chances of winning the tournament | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

Deac - Vidit: 0-1

The only time the Romania no.2, GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac (2701) and GM Vidit Gujrathi (2716) played a Classical rated game was at the same event four years ago. Vidit won that game and he was poised to repeat the same result.

Position after 18...Bxe4!

16...g5 17.Bd2 g4 paved the way for Black to gain a pawn. 18.Be2 Bxe4! 19.Nxe4 N6d5! Black tactially recovers the piece. 20.Nf6 is forced else White loses his queen Bxf6 21.Qe4 Bg7 22.Qe1 Qxc2 Black gained another pawn. However, soon Black had to return a pawn.

Position after 38.Be1?

38.Be1? turned things completely in Black's favor. 38...Ng5 39.Kh1 Red8 40.Qh5 Qg6 41.Qxg6 fxg6 42.Ba5 Rf8 43.Rxd4 exd4 and Black won the game in another dozen moves.

Vidit Gujrathi: "Today, I was just hoping to get a fight, because with black it is not really easy" | Video: FIDE

GM Vidit Gujrathi analyzes his win over GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU) | Video: FIDE

GM Vidit Gujrathi's decision to play an aggressive 16...g5 worked out quite well for him against the Romania no.2 GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

Sevian - Arjun: 0-1

For the first time, GM Samuel Sevian (USA, 2698) faced GM Arjun Erigaisi (2712) in a rated game.

Position after 22...Nc6

It was clear that Arjun was playing for only one result - win. He was unafraid of giving up the exchange 22...Nc6 23.cxd5 Ne5 24.Nc5 Qxf5 25.Bxf5 Bc8 26.Bxc8 Rfxc8 27.Rxa4? b2-+ 28.Rb4 Rab8 29.Nb7 Rc2 30.Rb5 Nc4 31.d6 Nd2 32.d7 Rc1 and Black won as his passed pawn proved to be much faster and stronger.

Arjun Erigaisi: "In the top, everyone wants to win, especially with the white pieces" | Video: FIDE

GM Arjun Erigaisi scored an important victory against GM Samuel Sevian (USA) to set up a clash against GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA) in the final round | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR) defeated IM Cori T Deysi (PER) to stay a half point behind Vaishali at 7.5/10 | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

Round 10 in progress | Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman

WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan on her chess career, streaming and marrying Hikaru Nakamura | Video: ChessBase India

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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 10 Open results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
10	2	20	GM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	2701	6½	0 - 1	6½	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2716	15
10	5	21	GM	Sevian Samuel	2698	6	0 - 1	6	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2712	16
10	9	45	GM	Korobov Anton	2658	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	2738	8
10	18	56	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2649	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2716	14
10	20	25	GM	Nihal Sarin	2694	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Najer Evgeniy	2648	57
10	21	31	GM	Tabatabaei M. Amin	2685	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Narayanan S L	2651	52
10	26	65	GM	Aryan Chopra	2634	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Shankland Sam	2698	22
10	33	61	GM	Sadhwani Raunak	2641	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Suleymanli Aydin	2588	92
10	38	35	GM	Abasov Nijat	2679	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2622	76
10	44	5	GM	Gukesh D	2758	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	Dardha Daniel	2580	96
10	49	83	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2611	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	Lazavik Denis	2560	102
10	50	84	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2609	3½	0 - 1	3½	GM	Krasenkow Michal	2531	106
10	52	104	GM	Adhiban B.	2551	3	1 - 0	3½	IM	Samunenkov Ihor	2531	107

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Standings after Round 10

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1	32	GM	Esipenko, Andrey	FID	2683	7,5	2696	57,5	61	0	2875	10	24,9
2	2	GM	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	2780	7,5	2684	56	60	0	2872	10	11,2
3	15	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2716	7,5	2672	52,5	56	0	2859	10	18,2
4	47	GM	Predke, Alexandr	SRB	2656	7	2700	58	62	0	2834	10	24,2
5	16	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	IND	2712	7	2670	55	60	0	2811	10	13,1
6	12	GM	Keymer, Vincent	GER	2717	7	2661	53,5	58	0	2805	10	11,6
7	1	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	USA	2786	6,5	2680	56	60,5	0	2785	10	-0,1
8	20	GM	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	ROU	2701	6,5	2663	52,5	56	0	2765	10	8,7
9	18	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	IRI	2707	6,5	2654	53	57,5	0	2761	10	7,3
10	4	GM	Giri, Anish	NED	2760	6,5	2654	50	54	0	2743	10	-1,7
11	17	GM	Vitiugov, Nikita	ENG	2711	6,5	2646	48	52,5	0	2752	10	5,5
12	46	GM	Sindarov, Javokhir	UZB	2658	6	2708	53,5	57	0	2762	10	14,6
13	80	GM	Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel	ARM	2618	6	2703	50	53	0	2758	10	19,3
14	81	GM	Yakubboev, Nodirbek	UZB	2616	6	2698	49	50	0	2723	10	16,1
15	44	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	2658	6	2695	53,5	57,5	0	2747	10	12,5
16	39	GM	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	2669	6	2689	52,5	56,5	0	2751	10	11,2
17	75	GM	Kuzubov, Yuriy	UKR	2625	6	2671	53	57	0	2721	10	13,4
18	33	GM	Sarana, Alexey	SRB	2682	6	2671	52	56	0	2717	10	5,7
19	41	GM	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	2668	6	2671	47,5	50,5	0	2732	10	8,9
20	45	GM	Korobov, Anton	UKR	2658	6	2666	52,5	56,5	0	2723	10	9,2

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Round 11 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
11	1	16	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	2712	7		7½	GM	Nakamura Hikaru	2780	2
11	2	15	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2716	7½		7	GM	Predke Alexandr	2656	47
11	6	8	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	2738	6		6½	GM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	2701	20
11	16	56	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2649	5½		5½	GM	Yu Yangyi	2720	11
11	17	14	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2716	5½		5½	GM	Yilmaz Mustafa	2640	63
11	18	58	GM	Saric Ivan	2647	5½		5½	GM	Nihal Sarin	2694	25
11	20	52	GM	Narayanan S L	2651	5½		5½	GM	Matlakov Maxim	2674	37
11	24	6	GM	Rapport Richard	2752	5		5	GM	Aryan Chopra	2634	65
11	33	73	GM	Svane Frederik	2626	5		5	GM	Sadhwani Raunak	2641	61
11	37	76	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2622	4½		4½	GM	Xiong Jeffery	2693	26
11	43	5	GM	Gukesh D	2758	4		4	GM	Akobian Varuzhan	2582	95
11	45	104	GM	Adhiban B.	2551	4		4	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2650	55
11	49	100	GM	Kozak Adam	2566	4		4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2611	83
11	52	36	GM	Donchenko Alexander	2676	3½		3½	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2609	84

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Round 10 Women results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
10	1	12	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2448	7	1 - 0	6½	GM	Tan Zhongyi	2517	4
10	12	32	IM	Tania Sachdev	2389	4½	1 - 0	4½	IM	Shuvalova Polina	2506	6
10	13	7	GM	Dronavalli Harika	2502	4½	1 - 0	4½	WGM	Beydullayeva Govhar	2383	35
10	16	18	IM	Vantika Agrawal	2435	4	1 - 0	4½	WIM	Terbe Julianna	2266	48
10	17	29	IM	Fataliyeva Ulviyya	2393	4	0 - 1	4	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	2408	24
10	22	33	FM	Lee Alice	2388	3	½ - ½	3	WGM	Savitha Shri B	2375	38

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Standings after Round 10

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1	12	IM	Vaishali, Rameshbabu	IND	2448	8	2464	55	59,5	0	2696	10	31,2
2	5	GM	Muzychuk, Anna	UKR	2510	7,5	2446	56,5	61,5	0	2631	10	15,2
3	40	IM	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	MGL	2366	7	2440	52	55	0	2585	10	29,5
4	25	IM	Garifullina, Leya	FID	2402	6,5	2469	55	57	0	2538	10	19,3
5	4	GM	Tan, Zhongyi	CHN	2517	6,5	2445	56,5	60,5	0	2549	10	4,2
6	21	GM	Stefanova, Antoaneta	BUL	2424	6,5	2435	55	58,5	0	2532	10	14,7
7	14	GM	Cramling, Pia	SWE	2446	6,5	2398	45,5	48,5	0	2504	10	7,7
8	43	WGM	Kamalidenova, Meruert	KAZ	2351	6	2477	47,5	52	0	2544	10	26,4
9	34	IM	Tsolakidou, Stavroula	GRE	2385	6	2470	52	56	0	2535	10	20,7
10	39	IM	Cori T., Deysi	PER	2367	6	2464	50	53,5	0	2516	10	20,5
11	27	IM	Narva, Mai	EST	2399	6	2462	48	51,5	0	2517	10	16,3
12	10	IM	Assaubayeva, Bibisara	KAZ	2469	6	2441	58	62,5	0	2506	10	5,2
13	3	GM	Muzychuk, Mariya	UKR	2519	6	2408	48,5	52	0	2475	10	-5,6
14	17	IM	Javakhishvili, Lela	GEO	2437	6	2405	47,5	51	0	2466	10	4,2
15	15	IM	Mammadzada, Gunay	AZE	2441	6	2390	50,5	54	0	2450	10	1,5
16	30	IM	Milliet, Sophie	FRA	2391	5,5	2477	54,5	56,5	0	2484	10	12,9
17	36	GM	Socko, Monika	POL	2380	5,5	2445	46,5	49,5	0	2466	10	12
18	32	IM	Tania, Sachdev	IND	2389	5,5	2439	43,5	45,5	0	2458	10	9,5
19	1	GM	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	FID	2558	5,5	2433	53,5	57	0	2461	10	-12,8
20	7	GM	Dronavalli, Harika	IND	2502	5,5	2397	47	50,5	0	2430	10	-9,6

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Round 11 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
11	1	40	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2366	7		8	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2448	12
11	9	1	GM	Goryachkina Aleksandra	2558	5½		5½	GM	Dronavalli Harika	2502	7
11	11	36	GM	Socko Monika	2380	5½		5½	IM	Tania Sachdev	2389	32
11	13	24	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	2408	5		5	IM	Efroimski Marsel	2447	13
11	14	18	IM	Vantika Agrawal	2435	5		5	IM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	2375	37
11	23	50	WIM	Nassr Lina	2066	2		3½	WGM	Savitha Shri B	2375	38

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