Koustav and Srishti take sole lead heading into the final round

by Shahid Ahmed - 09/11/2019

Aradhya Garg brought Mitrabha's momentum to screeching halt. Koustav Chatterjee scored a win over Saurabh Anand with ease after the latter kept giving away his pawns for no compensation. Aaryan Varshney made third consecutive short draw, this time against Soham Kamotra. Srijit Paul beat Kumar Gaurav quite comfortably, aiming for a strong finish. In the girls section, Srishti Pandey scored an emphatic victory against Aakanksha Hagawane and took a full point sole lead heading into the final round. Srishti will require only a draw in the final round to win the championship. Akshaya and Priyanka K made a draw in a topsy-turvy game. Arpita made a short work of Priyanka Nutakki who played some strange chess. Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Aradhya stops Mitrabha's momentum

Aradhya Garg of Delhi brought Mitrabha's fantastic run to a screeching halt as defeated the tournament leader with the black pieces in QGD.

Aradhya is hitting the right notes | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

In the later part of the middlegame, things started to become an intense and Mitrabha was at the junction to make a critical choice. He made a difficult call which made things more entangled.

Mitrabha - Aradhya

How should white respond to black's skewer 27...Bd3 ?

Mitrabha opted for 28.Qb2 which is clearly not the optimum choice. White needs to play sharp here to maintain decisive advantage. After a few moves, Black tried to intensify its grip on the position with 31...Nd3

Find out the best continuation for white after 31...Nd3

White went with 32.Rb1 and after a couple of moves, to avoid repetition, Mitrabha blundered.

How should white continue here?

White played 34.Bxd5 and it all went downhill for him.

Koustav is back at the top with sole lead | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Top seed Koustav Chatterjee won his game against Saurabh Anand with ease after the latter kept blundering his pawns in a Double Rook and Bishop endgame.

Aaryan Varshney made his third consecutive short draw, this time against Soham Kamotra in just 24 moves. Srijit Paul beat Kumar Gaurav with ease in French Defence in just 30 moves.

Srishti Pandey takes sole lead

Srishti Pandey played a fine game to beat one of the tournament leader Aakanksha Hagawane convincingly to take a full point sole lead heading into the final round.

Srishti is well on her to become champion | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

A topsy-turvy game between Bommini Mounika Akshaya and Priyanka K ended up in a draw.

Top seed Priyanka Nutakki played some strange chess against Arpita Mukherjee by delaying her own king safety, retreating knight and moving the queen twice unnecessarily. She lost the game in the opening only and the entire game finished in just 26 moves.

Arpita is looking for a strong finish | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Round 10 results in Open

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	IM	Mitrabha Guha	2443	8	0 - 1	7		Aradhya Garg	2165	20
2	10		Saurabh Anand	2278	7	0 - 1	7½	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2449	1
3	16		Soham Kamotra	2189	7	½ - ½	7	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2236	15
4	28		Kumar Gaurav	2038	7	0 - 1	6½	IM	Srijit Paul	2317	8
5	34		Akshit Kumar J	2014	6½	0 - 1	6½	FM	Srihari L R	2286	9
6	19		Gaurav Rajesh Zagade	2173	6½	½ - ½	6½		Selvamurugan B	1979	37
7	90		Avinash Ramesh	1686	6½	1 - 0	6½		Grahesh Y	2026	31
8	32		Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi	2017	6½	½ - ½	6½		Hemanth Raam	1992	36
9	52		Dere Pushkar	1876	6½	1 - 0	6	FM	Wagh Suyog	2273	11
10	18		Dhananjay S	2180	6	0 - 1	6	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2376	3
11	4	IM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2362	6	- - +	6	CM	Bhavesh Mahajan	2187	17
12	22		Abinandhan R	2089	6	0 - 1	6		Harshavardhan G B	2360	5
13	12		Subhayan Kundu	2269	6	0 - 1	6		Barath Kalyan M	2069	23
14	13	FM	Jeet Jain	2264	6	1 - 0	6		Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki	2048	25
15	27		Jain Kashish Manoj	2041	6	0 - 1	6		Sibi Visal R	2238	14

Complete results

Round 10 results in Girls

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	6	WFM	Pandey Srishti	2140	7½	1 - 0	7½	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2227	3
2	9	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2087	7	½ - ½	7		Priyanka K	2067	10
3	1	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2272	7	0 - 1	6½	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2234	2
4	17	WFM	Jain Nityata	1927	6½	1 - 0	6½	WFM	Makhija Aashna	2191	4
5	5	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2185	6½	1 - 0	6½	AGM	Renganayaki V	1756	26
6	13		Bhagyashree Patil	1970	6½	½ - ½	6½	WFM	Salonika Saina	2100	8
7	22		Poorna Sri M.K	1848	6½	0 - 1	6½	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	1968	14
8	19		Shah Vishwa	1892	6	0 - 1	6	WCM	Sharma Isha	2139	7
9	20		Meenal Gupta	1879	6	½ - ½	6		Toshali V	2057	11
10	15		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1964	6	½ - ½	6		Garima Gaurav	1719	28
11	23	WFM	Greeshma Anand Dhumal	1837	6	1 - 0	6	WFM	Bidhar Rutumbara	1942	16
12	56		Sai Mahati A	1412	6	0 - 1	5½	WFM	Savitha Shri B	2004	12
13	18	WFM	Tanishka Kotia	1909	5½	1 - 0	5½		Swara Lakshmi S Nair	1684	31
14	34		Kiruthika B	1645	5½	1 - 0	5½		Nanditha V	1828	24
15	25	WCM	Arushi Kotwal	1756	5½	1 - 0	5½		Rebecca Jesumarian	1568	40

Complete results

Round 11 pairings in Open

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2449	8½		8		Aradhya Garg	2165	20
2	9	FM	Srihari L R	2286	7½		8	IM	Mitrabha Guha	2443	2
3	8	IM	Srijit Paul	2317	7½		7½		Dere Pushkar	1876	52
4	15	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2236	7½		7½		Avinash Ramesh	1686	90
5	14		Sibi Visal R	2238	7		7½		Soham Kamotra	2189	16
6	3	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2376	7		7		Gaurav Rajesh Zagade	2173	19
7	5		Harshavardhan G B	2360	7		7		Kumar Gaurav	2038	28
8	23		Barath Kalyan M	2069	7		7		Saurabh Anand	2278	10
9	36		Hemanth Raam	1992	7		7	FM	Jeet Jain	2264	13
10	37		Selvamurugan B	1979	7		7	CM	Bhavesh Mahajan	2187	17
11	7	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2325	6½		7		Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi	2017	32
12	29		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	2034	6½		6½		Aditya Varun Gampa	1908	44
13	55		Sreekar J S S	1850	6½		6½		Pattnayak Nilsu	2030	30
14	31		Grahesh Y	2026	6½		6½		Aaditya Dhingra	1896	46
15	45		Sibi Srinivas Einstein	1898	6½		6½		Akshit Kumar J	2014	34

Complete pairings

Round 11 pairings in Girls

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	9	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2087	7½		8½	WFM	Pandey Srishti	2140	6
2	3	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2227	7½		7½	WFM	Jain Nityata	1927	17
3	10		Priyanka K	2067	7½		7½	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2185	5
4	14	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	1968	7½		7½	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2234	2
5	8	WFM	Salonika Saina	2100	7		7	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2272	1
6	7	WCM	Sharma Isha	2139	7		7		Bhagyashree Patil	1970	13
7	12	WFM	Savitha Shri B	2004	6½		7	WFM	Greeshma Anand Dhumal	1837	23
8	4	WFM	Makhija Aashna	2191	6½		6½		Divyabharathi Masanam	1743	27
9	11		Toshali V	2057	6½		6½		Kiruthika B	1645	34
10	15		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1964	6½		6½	WCM	Arushi Kotwal	1756	25
11	26	AGM	Renganayaki V	1756	6½		6½	WFM	Tanishka Kotia	1909	18
12	28		Garima Gaurav	1719	6½		6½		Meenal Gupta	1879	20
13	29	WCM	Chinnam Vyshnavi	1689	6½		6½		Poorna Sri M.K	1848	22
14	16	WFM	Bidhar Rutumbara	1942	6		6		Tanisha A R Som	1475	50
15	60		Anjitha Krishnakumar	1384	6		6		Shah Vishwa	1892	19