Kaustuv Kundu wins Sonargaon International FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2018

by Shahid Ahmed - 09/04/2018

Kaustuv won his third tournament of the year when he scored 8.0/9 with a performance rating of 2482, edged ahead by 0.5 point in Tie-break 2. Kaustuv's first tournament win of this year is New Year Open 2018. Bangladesh no.1, GM Ziaur Rahman was adjudged as the first runner up of the tournament as he missed the championship due to the earlier mentioned reason. FM Mohammad Fahad Rahman scored 7.0/9 and finished at 3rd position due to a better Tie-Break score, ahead of IM Abu Sufian Shakil and FM Uddin Md. Saif, who also scored the same points. The tournament took place in Sonargaon Royal Resort in Sonargaon, Narayanganj in Bangladesh from 20th to 24th March 2018. We bring you photos and an annotated game by the champion himself. Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation facebook

Kaustuv wins his third tournament in 2018

Kaustuv Kundu scored 8.0/9, became champion and bagged home Tk 50000 | Photo: Kaustuv Kundu

Here is his favorite game analyzed by the champion himself from the tournament:

Bangladesh No.1, GM Ziaur Rahman also scored 8.0/9, he was placed second and he was awarded Tk 30000 | Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation facebook

Mohammad Fahad Rahman scored 7.0/9, he was placed 3rd and he got Tk 20000 | Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation facebook

Sonargaon Resort Hotel was the venue of the tournament | Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation facebook

The skywalk connecting Sonargaon Resort Hotel | Photo: Shaati Mazumder

All podium finishers in one frame: Top seed GM Ziaur Rahman, tournament champion Kaustuv Kundu and second runner up Fahad Rahman | Photo: Bangladesh Chess Federation facebook

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	2		Kaustuv Kundu	IND	2352	8,0	0,5	56,0	45,0	48,50	9	8	6,55	1,45	20	29,0
2	1	GM	Rahman Ziaur	BAN	2491	8,0	0,5	55,5	42,0	48,00	9	8	7,63	0,37	10	3,7
3	3	FM	Mohammad Fahad Rahman	BAN	2327	7,0	0,0	55,5	43,0	41,00	9	7	6,49	0,51	20	10,2
4	4	IM	Abu Sufian Shakil	BAN	2246	7,0	0,0	54,0	42,0	41,50	9	7	6,48	0,52	10	5,2
5	13	FM	Uddin Md. Saif	BAN	2050	7,0	0,0	48,5	36,5	35,00	9	7	6,02	0,98	20	19,6
6	9	CM	Chowdhury Sohel	BAN	2131	6,5	0,5	52,0	40,5	34,25	9	6,5	5,87	0,63	20	12,6
7	7	FM	Rahman Syed Mahfuzur	BAN	2191	6,5	0,5	50,0	38,5	34,25	9	6,5	6,64	-0,14	20	-2,8
8	6	CM	Subrota Biswas	BAN	2206	6,0	0,0	54,0	41,5	31,50	9	6	5,82	0,18	40	7,2
9	8	FM	Mohammed Abdul Malek	BAN	2171	6,0	0,0	52,5	40,5	31,75	9	6	5,68	0,32	20	6,4
10	5	FM	Mehdi Hasan Parag	BAN	2218	6,0	0,0	50,5	39,0	31,00	9	6	6,54	-0,54	20	-10,8
11	12		Md. Shawket Bin Osman Shaon	BAN	2078	6,0	0,0	50,5	39,0	29,50	9	6	5,30	0,70	20	14,0
12	14		Sonkalan Bharati	IND	2050	6,0	0,0	49,5	38,0	31,00	9	6	5,99	0,01	40	0,4
13	20		Md. Jamal Uddin	BAN	1990	6,0	0,0	49,0	37,5	28,50	9	6	5,11	0,89	20	17,8
14	22		Md. Nasim Hossain Bhuiyan	BAN	1976	6,0	0,0	48,0	37,0	28,50	8	5	3,97	1,03	20	20,6
15	15		Avik Sarker	BAN	2024	6,0	0,0	47,5	36,5	30,50	8	5	5,08	-0,08	20	-1,6
16	61		Sambarta Banerjee	IND	1704	6,0	0,0	45,5	35,0	26,75	9	6	1,97	4,03	40	161,2
17	31		Arpan Das (Jr)	IND	1920	6,0	0,0	45,0	34,5	26,75	8	5,5	4,69	0,81	40	32,4
18	29		Hasan Mostafa Razibul	BAN	1938	6,0	0,0	45,0	34,0	25,50	9	6	5,30	0,70	20	14,0
19	24		Suvradeepta Das	IND	1964	6,0	0,0	44,0	34,5	25,75	9	6	4,88	1,12	20	22,4
20	19		Gias Uddin Ahmed	BAN	1996	6,0	0,0	40,5	31,0	25,50	8	6	5,64	0,36	20	7,2

For complete standings

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