1st Guwahati International GM Open starts in four days

by ChessBase India - 09/03/2022

Guwahati, Assam and North East India will be the host to the biggest international GM Open tournament in the region starting this Sunday 13th March. Press Conference for the 1st Guwahati International GM Open tournament 2022 was held yesterday 8th March at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium (Sarusajai). The tournament will take place from 13th to 20th March at DTRP Indoor Stadium in Guwahati, Assam. Total prize fund of the tournament is ₹1500000. Top three prizes are - ₹251000, ₹201000 and ₹150000 each. Total 51 prizes are up for grabs. 207 players from 11 countries across the world have already registered for this event. Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Press Conference

Press Conference of 1st Guwahati International GM Open 2022 | Photo: Ravi Kant Tiwari

• All Assam Chess Association, the official State body for the game of Chess and the National Chess body: All India Chess Federation are all set to organize the First Guwahati International Grandmasters Open Chess Tournament with the support of the Sports Authority of India, Government of India and Government of Assam in Guwahati, from 14th March to 20th March, 2022.

• The total Prize Fund alone is 15 Lakh. SAI, Government of India has already approved 15 Lakh and disbursed 75% which is reserved as the Prize money.

• Top Grandmasters and International Masters from 14 countries have already confirmed their participation.

GM Pavel Ponkratov is slated to be the top seed who had won the 12th Chennai Open in 2020

• Players from the following Countries have already confirmed: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Paraguay, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and Zambia.

GM Visakh N R will be the highest rated Indian player in the field | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

• 13 Grandmasters, 3 Woman Grandmaster, 13 International Masters, 5 FIDE Masters, 2 Woman International Masters, total 200 Chess Players are already enlisted to participate in the Tournament. The number will increase over the next one week.

GM Deepan Chakkravarthy will be the second-highest rated player among the Indians | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

• From India, players from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telengana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, West Bengal apart from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, total 22 states are already enlisted to play. The number may increase during next week.

Second Runner-up in the recently concluded MPL 58th National Senior, GM Iniyan P will be the third-highest rated Indian in the field | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

• The Tournament will provide Norms and Rating opportunities to the players. Players who will defeat or do better with rated players will get International Rating points, and for players scoring certain specific points against higher titled players will get Norms for Titles as per FIDE Rules.

• This type of Tournament as well as such a grand event of International scale has never happened before in Assam or entire North East India in the arena of Chess till now.

• Now we have only one International Master Shahil Dey in the entire North East India. For Rating and particularly for Norms required for getting a Title, all players has to go abroad. If we organise Tournameents like this, then we can get more IM and possibly GM from this region, and we can create a Chess Hub in Assam and entire North East India.

- Organizing Committee

First Guwahati International Grandmasters Open Chess Tournament

Gist of the Press Conference

Source: Press Release

ChessBase India's Aditya Sur Roy will be present at the venue. We will bring you detailed coverage of the event.

Players list

No.		Name	FideID	FED	RtgI	sex	Typ
1	GM	Ponkratov Pavel	4157800	RUS	2641
2	GM	Delgado Ramirez Neuris	3503631	PAR	2622
3	GM	Visakh N R	25012223	IND	2522
4	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	5011132	IND	2520
5	GM	Iniyan P	25002767	IND	2516
6	GM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	12519278	IRI	2511
7	GM	Fawzy Adham	10613129	EGY	2490
8	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	25006479	IND	2485
9	IM	Raahul V S	25035525	IND	2478
10	GM	Mirzoev Azer	13400304	AZE	2476
11	IM	Tahbaz Arash	12528846	IRI	2469
12	IM	Krishna C R G	5018625	IND	2466
13	IM	Das Sayantan	5034426	IND	2459
14	GM	Rios Cristhian Camilo	4403940	COL	2449
15	IM	Nigmatov Ortik	14202131	UZB	2445
16	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	5024218	IND	2442
17	IM	Abdisalimov Abdimalik	14206323	UZB	2435
18	IM	Nitin S.	5018277	IND	2427
19		Gholami Orimi Mahdi	12558486	IRI	2420
20	IM	Gusain Himal	5033861	IND	2408
21	GM	Saptarshi Roy	5008980	IND	2402
22	IM	Shahil Dey	35062352	IND	2400		U15
23	GM	Karthikeyan P.	5018226	IND	2397
24	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	5028698	IND	2359
25	IM	Ratnakaran K.	5005507	IND	2316
26	IM	Sai Agni Jeevitesh J	5070147	IND	2316
27	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	35006916	IND	2301	w
28	IM	Sangma Rahul	5013615	IND	2286
29		Kaustuv Kundu	5056900	IND	2281
30	FM	Aaryan Varshney	45048975	IND	2277

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