CHESSBASE: PARSVNATH OPEN

Ganguly wins 7th Parsvnath Open in New Delhi
20.01.2009 – He was Anand's second at the World Championship in Bonn, and when Vishy himself arrived at the tournament an inspired Surya Shekhar Ganguly defeated the leading GM Petr Kostenko to lay the foundation for his ultimate victory. A case for the doping commission of FIDE? Hardly – inspiration is as far as we know not on the list. Ganguly beat Russian GM Mikhail Ulibin on tiebreak points. Report.

7th Parsvnath International Rating Chess Tournament

The event, organised by the Capablanca Chess Club, is took place from January 11th to 19th in the Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. The event was a ten-round Swiss, and the winner was Indian GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly, who beat Russian GM Mikhail Ulibin on tie-break points. Ganguly received Rs.200,000 (US $4,500) Indian Rupees of the total prize fund of Rs.11,50,000.

The winner of the 7th Parsvnath Open: Surya Shekhar Ganguly

In the final round National Champion Ganugly settled for a quick draw against P Karthikeyan, while Ulibin got better of M S Thejkumar. The two ways tie was resolved by Bucholz points, and Ganguly edged out Ulibin with just half point. Grandmaster Petr Kostenko drew his final game against Indian Grandmaster Neeltopal Das and finished a creditable third with 8 points.

P Karthikeyan and S P Sethuraman achieved grandmaster norm during this tournament and finished fourth and fifth respectively. International Master Prathamesh Mokal also achieved Grandmaster norm while Shahikant Kutwal, Prantik Roy and Arindam Mukherjee secured their International Master norms.

Shalmali Gagare bagged the best women prize while Altykenov Yerlan of Kazakhstan finished first among the unrated players. Joshi G B and Arunima Kalra become the best Delhi Player and Best Delhi Girl respectively.

In the closing ceremony, Air Marshal JN Burma AVSM VSM, Air Officer-in-Charge Administration, Indian Air Force gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. Harish Rawat, Member of Parliament and D V Sundar, Secretary All India Chess Federation.

Final standings after ten rounds (first 23 of 425 players)

Rnk	Name	Ti	Fed	Rtg	Pts	Bh.
1	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	GM	IND	2614	8½	69
2	Ulibin Mikhail	GM	RUS	2511	8½	68½
3	Kostenko Petr	GM	KAZ	2501	8	70½
4	Karthikeyan P	IM	IND	2450	8	70½
5	Sethuraman S P	IM	IND	2415	8	69½
6	Kuzubov Yuriy	GM	UKR	2626	8	66
7	Neelotpal Das	GM	IND	2490	8	64
8	Laxman R R	IM	IND	2478	8	63½
9	Ismagambetov Anuar	GM	KAZ	2523	8	62½
10	Kunte Abhijit	GM	IND	2527	7½	67
11	Prathamesh Sunil Mokal	IM	IND	2389	7½	67
12	Sriram Jha	IM	IND	2442	7½	66½
13	Praveen Kumar C		IND	2360	7½	66
14	Negi Parimarjan	GM	IND	2600	7½	65½
15	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi	IM	IND	2444	7½	65
16	Thejkumar M S		IND	2424	7½	63½
17	Thipsay Praveen M	GM	IND	2453	7½	63
18	Gleizerov Evgeny	GM	RUS	2544	7½	63
19	Solodovnichenko Yuri	GM	UKR	2571	7½	62½
20	Arindam Mukherjee		IND	2259	7½	62
21	Areshchenko Alexander	GM	UKR	2673	7½	59½
22	Premnath R		IND	2303	7½	59
23	Ibrayev Nurlan	GM	KAZ	2407	7½	57