New Delhi: Sixth seed Filipino Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa ensured a thrilling end to the 10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament by defeating Indian International Master Shyam Nikil in the eleventh and final round at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here on Monday. This victory enabled Barbosa to take his tally to nine and half points to take the Winner’s trophy and pocketed a cash prize of 2 lakh rupees.
Grandmaster Gomez John Paul of Philippines and Indian International Master Lalith Babu tied for the second spot with nine points but better tie-break score helped Filipino Grandmaster to finish second while Lalith satisfied with third spot finish. In the final round, Lalith outwitted International Master K Rathnakaran while Gomez drew with Ma Qun of China. Ma Qun secured International Master norm during the process.
Grandmaster Hoang Thanh Trang of Hungary and International Master bagged Best Women and Best Junior player prizes respectively while Diptayan Ghosh and Saurabh Anand adjudged as Best Under-16 and Best Under-10 players respectively. G B Joshi and Madhurima Shekhar won the Best Delhi Player and Best Delhi Girl Player prizes.
Dr. P C Kashyap, Executive Director Sport Authority of India along with Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hony Secretary AlCF and Sunit Sachar, Parsvnath Developers gave away the prizes in a colourful closing ceremony.
Final Standings:
(1) GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines
(2) GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines
(3) IM Lalith Babu M R of India
(4) GM Mark Paragua of Philippines
(5) Ma Qun of China
(6) GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia
(7) Zeng Chongsheng of China
(8) IM Vaibhav Suri of India
(9) IM Shyam Nikil of India
(10) GM Abhijit Kunte of India
Special Prizes :-
Best Under-10 : Saurabh Anand
Best Under-16 : FM Diptayan Ghosh
Best Junior : IM Anwesh Upadhyaya
Best Delhi Player : G B Joshi
Best Delhi Women : Madhurima Shekhar
Best Women : GM Hoang Thanh Trang of Hungary
Best Rating Between Elo 1200 to 1900 : Jayesh M
Best Rating Between Elo 1901 to 2099 : Ankit Gajwa
Best Rating Between Elo 2100 to 2250 : Karthikeyan Murali
Best Rating Between Elo 2251 to 2399 : IM Nitin S
Important Results (Indians otherwise stated) :-
Round-11 :- IM Shyam Nikil P (8) lost to GM Oliver Barbosa of Philippines (9.5); Ma Qun of China (8.5) drew with GM Gomez John Paul of Philippines (9); IM Rathnakaran (8) lost to IM Lalith Babu (9); GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine (8) drew with IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (8); GM Mark Paragua of Philippines (8.5) beat GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (7.5); IM Vaibhav Suri (8) drew with GM Abhijit Kunte (8); IM Nitin S (8) beat GM Sandipan Chanda (7); Zeng Chongsheng of China (8) beat GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (7); IM Somak Palit (7) lost to GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (8); GM Mikhailo Oleksienko of Ukraine (7.5) drew with IM R Siddharth (7.5); IM Vishnu Prasanna (7.5) drew with IM Kiril Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (7.5); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (7.5) drew with IM Debashis Das (7.5); GM Neelotpal Das (7.5) drew with Hemant Sharma (7.5); Abhishek Das (7) lost to IM Thejkumar MS (8); Narayanan S L (7) lost to GM Laxman R R (8); Pradeep Kumar RA (7.5) drew with IM Karthikeyan P (7.5); IM Ashwin Jayaram (7.5) beat IM P Konguvel (7).
