MPL 59th National Senior R8: Sethuraman emerges sole leader

by Shahid Ahmed - 30/12/2022

GM Sethuraman S P defeated GM Venkatesh M R convincingly to gain sole lead at MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022. Venkatesh was unable to make the most out of the white pieces. He chose an opening which his opponent equalized with ease, accepting the exchange sacrifice did him no good and eventually Sethuramana invaded through the back rank. GM Leon Luke Mendonca could not find a way to seize his positional advantage against GM Mitrabha Guha. IM Koustav Chatterjee defeated IM Vignesh N R. Koustav will face Sethuraman in the ninth round which starts today at 2 p.m. IST today. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Mitrabha and Koustav in pursuit

Only GM Mitrabha Guha (WB) and IM Koustav Chatterjee (WB) are trailing by a half point at 6.5/8 each. They are followed by ten players at 6/8 each including untitled Hari Madhavan N B (TN).

GM Sethuraman S P (PSPB) is the sole leader 7/8| Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Venkatesh - Sethuraman: 0-1

GM Venkatesh M R (PSPB, 2459) did not make the choice of opening. His opponent, GM Sethuraman S P (PSPB, 2642) easily equalized out of the opening and made a strategic exchange sacrifice.

Position after 23...bxc2

White returned the exchange 23.Rxc2 bxc2 and then instead of keeping the d-file blocked, he opened it up. 24.Be3 Rd1 25.Rc1 Rxc1 26.Bxc1 Qb6 27.Qc2? Qf2+ and it was over for White. Instead 24.e3 Qxf3 25.Qxc2 would have kept the game going.

A total of 196 players including 18 GMs and 27 IMs are taking part in this tournament organized by Delhi Chess Association. The event is taking place in New Delhi from 22nd December 2022 to 3rd January 20233. The 13-round Swiss league tournament has a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes with an increment of 30 seconds from move no.1

Replay Round 8 games

Round 8 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	19	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2459	6	0 - 1	6	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2642	1	PGN
2	4	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2566	5½	½ - ½	6	GM	Mitrabha Guha	2487	14	PGN
3	10	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2503	5½	½ - ½	5½	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	2521	7	PGN
4	8	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2508	5½	1 - 0	5½	IM	Vignesh N R	2493	12	PGN
5	27	IM	Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H.	2405	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Iniyan P	2507	9	PGN
6	28	IM	Audi Ameya	2401	5½	0 - 1	5	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2601	3	PGN
7	34	IM	Ajay Krishna S	2383	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Visakh N R	2544	5	PGN
8	15	GM	Sengupta Deep	2486	5	1 - 0	5	GM	Neelotpal Das	2384	33	PGN
9	54	FM	Aradhya Garg	2312	5	0 - 1	5	IM	Srihari L R	2429	25	PGN
10	26	IM	Anuj Shrivatri	2414	5	½ - ½	5		Subhayan Kundu	2319	51	PGN
11	30	FM	Panesar Vedant	2387	5	½ - ½	5	FM	Mohamed Anees M	2237	63	PGN
12	32		Hari Madhavan N B	2385	5	1 - 0	5		Sai Vishwesh.C	2219	64	PGN
13	82		Bharadia Yash	2117	5	0 - 1	4½	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2475	17	PGN
14	53	IM	Rajesh V A V	2314	4½	0 - 1	4½	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	2526	6	PGN
15	55	IM	Ratnakaran K.	2304	4½	0 - 1	4½	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2490	13	PGN
16	20	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2457	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	Raahul V S	2325	50	PGN
17	22	IM	Harshavardhan G B	2434	4½	½ - ½	4½		Surendran N	2168	73	PGN
18	23	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2433	4½	1 - 0	4½		Dere Pushkar	2114	83	PGN
19	58		Varun V	2250	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	Kushagra Mohan	2390	29	PGN
20	36	GM	Laxman R.R.	2372	4½	½ - ½	4½		Nagare Kaivalya Sandip	2124	80	PGN

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Round 9 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2642	7		6½	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2508	8
2	14	GM	Mitrabha Guha	2487	6½		6	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2503	10
3	3	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2601	6		6	GM	Sengupta Deep	2486	15
4	25	IM	Srihari L R	2429	6		6	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2566	4
5	7	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	2521	6		6		Hari Madhavan N B	2385	32
6	9	GM	Iniyan P	2507	6		6	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2459	19
7	5	GM	Visakh N R	2544	5½		6	IM	Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H.	2405	27
8	6	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	2526	5½		5½	IM	Ajay Krishna S	2383	34
9	12	IM	Vignesh N R	2493	5½		5½	IM	Avinash Ramesh	2327	49
10	13	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2490	5½		5½	IM	Saravana Krishnan P.	2244	59
11	17	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2475	5½		5½	CM	Mayank Chakraborty	2179	70
12	51		Subhayan Kundu	2319	5½		5½	IM	Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2433	23
13	63	FM	Mohamed Anees M	2237	5½		5½	IM	Anuj Shrivatri	2414	26
14	66		Dhananjay S	2199	5½		5½	IM	Audi Ameya	2401	28
15	99		Adireddy Arjun	1980	5½		5½	FM	Panesar Vedant	2387	30
16	18	IM	Das Sayantan	2475	5		5		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri	2243	60
17	62	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2239	5		5	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2457	20
18	64		Sai Vishwesh.C	2219	5		5	IM	Das Arghyadip	2438	21
19	78	CM	Borgaonkar Akshay	2135	5		5	IM	Harshavardhan G B	2434	22
20	29	IM	Kushagra Mohan	2390	5		5		Anadkat Kartavya	2147	76

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