IIFLW 2018-19 Round 6: Varshney leads in juniors, Tran Tuan Minh and Visakh in GM section

by Sagar Shah - 05/01/2019

The IIFLW 2018-19 is heading towards an exciting finish. More than just the results and standings, we are fitness high quality chess with loads of decisive games. In the juniors (under-13 section) it's Aaryan Varshney who snatched the sole lead with 6.0/6 as he beat Kashish Jain in a pawn endgame. In the 2100+ GM section it was we now have two leaders - GM Tran Tuan Minh and IM Visakh N.R. with 5.5/6. The Vietnamese GM beat Sandipan Chanda from the White side of a Dutch and Visakh showed brilliant bit of opening preparation to get the better of Deepan Chakkravarthy. We have all the three games analyzed by IM Sagar Shah in this article.

Juniors (under-13):

At the end of the fifth round we had four leaders in the under-13 section - Aaryan Varshney, Kashish Jain, Srihari L.R and Nikhil Maghizan. The game between Srihari and Nikhil ended in a draw. It also seemed like the game between Aaryan and Kashish would end in a draw. After all there were only three pawns on the board with a queen and knight for each side. But then came a moment when Kashish had to make a critical decision.

Kashish Jain vs Aaryan Varshney

Would you take on e3 with the queen or with the pawn?

You don't want to spoil your structure in the queen endgame, so Qxe3 makes sense. But this is a position which cannot be played just on feel. You have to calculate. Kashish's thinking switched off for a minute, he took on e3 with his queen and Aaryan quickly exchanged the queens and won the resulting pawn endgame, by clamping the queenside with g5-g4.

With three rounds to go Aaryan Varshney is the sole leader in the under-13 section | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Standings after round 6:

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	4	FM	Aaryan Varshney			IND	2200	6,0	0,0	21,0	23,5	23,50	6
2	6	CM	Nikhil Magizhnan			IND	2148	5,5	0,0	22,0	25,0	22,25	5
3	2	FM	Srihari L R			IND	2316	5,5	0,0	21,5	24,5	21,75	5
4	8		Manish Anto Cristiano F			IND	2065	5,5	0,0	19,5	22,0	20,00	5
5	10		Manish Kumar (2006)			IND	1927	5,5	0,0	18,5	21,5	19,75	5
6	14		Jain Kashish Manoj			IND	1853	5,0	0,0	23,5	26,5	20,50	5
7	20		Ayush Sharma			IND	1778	5,0	0,0	22,0	25,0	19,50	5
8	1	IM	Gukesh D			IND	2466	5,0	0,0	21,5	24,5	19,50	5
9	24		Bhagyashree Patil		w	IND	1758	5,0	0,0	21,5	24,5	18,50	5
10	7		Pranesh M			IND	2125	5,0	0,0	21,5	23,5	19,00	5
11	5	WIM	Divya Deshmukh		w	IND	2190	5,0	0,0	21,0	23,5	18,50	5
12	3		Pranav V			IND	2314	5,0	0,0	20,0	23,5	18,50	5
13	12		Shah Jeet			IND	1904	5,0	0,0	19,5	22,5	17,50	5
14	43		Bajaj Prakhar			IND	1551	5,0	0,0	19,5	21,5	17,00	5
15	25		Ananmay Sharma			IND	1749	5,0	0,0	19,0	22,0	18,00	5
16	21		Garv Rai			IND	1772	5,0	0,0	18,5	21,0	17,25	4
17	11		Zia Tahsin Tajwar			BAN	1925	5,0	0,0	18,5	21,0	17,00	5
18	38		Laddha Shubh Jayesh			USA	1567	5,0	0,0	16,5	18,0	16,00	4
19	22		Bagwe Gaurang	U10		IND	1768	4,5	0,0	20,0	23,0	16,00	4
20	29	AFM	Pawar Harshit			IND	1671	4,5	0,0	20,0	22,5	15,75	4

2100+ GM Section:

GM Tran Tuan Minh's excellent form continues as he beat GM Sandipan Chanda in their top board clash in the above 2100 Elo GM section. Tran Tuan Minh had won the Bhopal GM 2018 and now is in the joint lead at the Mumbai IIFLW 2018-19 with 5.5/6 along with Visakh N.R.

The unstoppable Tran Tuan Minh | Photo: Vijay Mahajan

Sandipan Chanda tried an offbeat opening and got a playable position, but went wrong in the middlegame. Tran Tuan Minh didn't give him any chances after that. | Photo: Vijay Mahajan

On course for a GM norm is IM Visakh NR. He beat GM Deepan Chakkravarthy is scintillating style in round 6 | Photo: Vijay Mahajan

The usual move is to put the bishop on b3. But Visakh kept it on f1. It makes a huge difference and Deepan wasn't aware of this.

Results of round 6

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	7	GM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	2524	4½	1 - 0	4½	GM	Chanda Sandipan	IND	2555	4
2	11	IM	Visakh N R	IND	2491	4½	1 - 0	4	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	IND	2550	5
3	30	IM	Sardana Rishi	AUS	2398	4	1 - 0	4	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	IND	2448	20
4	28	IM	Muthaiah Al	IND	2408	4	1 - 0	4	IM	Rathnakaran K.	IND	2366	36
5	2	GM	Rozum Ivan	RUS	2589	3½	1 - 0	4		Ritviz Parab	IND	2338	40
6	1	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	BLR	2590	3½	1 - 0	3½	IM	Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari	IND	2378	34
7	6	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	IND	2544	3½	1 - 0	3½	GM	Manik Mikulas	SVK	2410	27
8	29	IM	Rajesh V A V	IND	2402	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Gajek Radoslaw	AUT	2475	12
9	13	GM	Rahman Ziaur	BAN	2468	3½	1 - 0	3½	IM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE	2342	39
10	35		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	2378	3½	0 - 1	3½	IM	Gukesh D	IND	2466	14

Standings after round 6

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	K	rtg+/-
1	7	GM	Tran Tuan Minh		VIE	2524	VIE	5,5	0,0	20,0	22,5	21,00	5	10	13,8
2	11	IM	Visakh N R		IND	2491	TN	5,5	0,0	17,0	18,5	16,75	5	10	15,5
3	30	IM	Sardana Rishi		AUS	2398	AUS	5,0	0,0	20,0	22,5	18,00	4	10	18,1
4	28	IM	Muthaiah Al		IND	2408	TN	5,0	0,0	19,5	22,5	18,25	4	10	19,7
5	4	GM	Chanda Sandipan		IND	2555	PSPB	4,5	0,0	22,0	24,0	15,75	4	10	3,4
6	1	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej		BLR	2590	BLR	4,5	0,0	21,0	23,5	16,75	3	10	-2,0
7	55	CM	Aditya Mittal		IND	2251	MAH	4,5	0,0	20,5	21,5	15,25	3	40	93,2
8	13	GM	Rahman Ziaur		BAN	2468	BAN	4,5	0,0	19,5	22,5	16,00	4	10	4,1
9	14	IM	Gukesh D		IND	2466	TN	4,5	0,0	17,5	20,5	15,25	4	10	-0,2
10	21	GM	Lugovskoy Maxim		RUS	2445	RUS	4,5	0,0	17,5	20,0	14,00	4	10	-2,1
11	2	GM	Rozum Ivan		RUS	2589	RUS	4,5	0,0	15,5	18,0	14,00	3	10	-6,6
12	6	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu		IND	2544	MAH	4,5	0,0	15,0	17,0	13,25	3	10	-4,7
13	52		Balasubramaniam H		IND	2270	TN	4,0	0,0	22,5	23,5	13,75	3	40	72,8
14	56		Saurabh Anand		IND	2246	BIH	4,0	0,0	20,5	21,0	12,25	3	20	37,8
15	32	FM	Mohammad Fahad Rahman		BAN	2381	BAN	4,0	0,0	19,5	22,0	13,25	3	20	16,2
16	5	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2550	ICF	4,0	0,0	19,5	22,0	12,75	3	10	-5,3
17	24	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh		IND	2437	MAH	4,0	0,0	19,0	21,0	12,00	3	10	-1,0
18	40		Ritviz Parab		IND	2338	GOA	4,0	0,0	18,5	21,0	12,00	4	20	18,2
19	79	WIM	Varshini V	w	IND	2171	TN	4,0	0,0	18,0	21,0	12,50	3	20	55,2
20	8	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud		IRI	2520	IRI	4,0	0,0	18,0	20,5	12,50	3	10	-8,4

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