Diptayan Ghosh and Sammed Shete win 1st RCPP Rapid and Blitz Rating Open 2023

by Shahid Ahmed - 06/06/2023

GM Diptayan Ghosh and IM Sammed Jaykumar are the winners of 1st RCPP Rapid and Blitz Rating Open 2023. Four players - Diptayan, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy, IM Ratnakaran K and GM Deep Sengupta scored 8/9 in Rapid. Except Ratnakaran, the remaining three remained undefeated. In the Blitz event, They were placed first to fourth according to tie-breaks. In Blitz also four players finished with 8/9 each. They are - Sammed, Diptayan, Deepan and IM Krishnater Kushager. They secured the first four places respectively. Only the top two remained undefeated. Diptayan and Deepan secured podium finishes in both events. Total prize fund of the events was ₹300000, ₹200000 for Rapid and ₹100000 for Blitz. Top three prizes in Rapid were ₹50000, ₹30000 and ₹20000 along with a trophy each. For Blitz they were - ₹25000 + trophy, ₹15000 and ₹10000. All photos are by FA Atharva Godbole unless stated otherwise.

Diptayan's second and Sammed's fifth triumph of the year

Earlier this year, GM Diptayan Ghosh won 21st Rochefort Masters 2023 in France. IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete won one Rapid rating tournament, one Classical GM Round-Robin rating tournament where he scored his maiden GM-norm and two non-rated rapid event. 15-year-old Dakshraj Shadanan Bole became the only untitled player to make a top ten finish in Blitz. He scored 7.5/9 and was placed sixth according to tie-breaks. He gained a whopping 144.4 Elo rating points.

1st RCPP Rapid and Blitz Rating Open 2023 Champions - GM Diptayan Ghosh 8/9 and IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete 8/9

Rapid

Champion - GM Diptayan Ghosh 8/9

Runner-up - GM Deepan Chakravarthy 8/9

Second Runner-up - IM Ratnakaran K 8/9

The podium finishers (L to R): 1st in Blitz and 6th in Rapid - IM Sammed Shette, 1st in Rapid and 2nd in Blitz - GM Diptayan Ghosh and 2nd in Rapid and 3rd in Blitz - GM Deepan Chakkravarthy

GM Diptayan Ghosh scored an unbeaten 8/9 and gained 2.8 Elo rating points

4th GM Deep Sengupta 7.5/9

5th IM P Shyam Nikhil 7.5/9

6th IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete 7/9

7th GM FT Swayams Mishra 7/9

8th CM Akshay Borgaonkar 7/9

9th Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi 7/9

10th Nithin Babu 7/9

Blitz:

Champion - IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete 8/9

Runner-up - GM Diptayan Ghosh 8/9

Second Runner-up - GM Deepan Chakkravarthy 8/9

IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete scored an unbeaten 8/9 and gained 18 Elo rating points

4th IM Krishnater Kushager 8/9

5th IM P Shyam Nikhil 7.5/9

6th Dakshraj Shadanan Bole 7.5/9

7th IM Nubairshah Shaikh 7/9

8th IM Ratnakaran K 7/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

9th IM Kushagra Mohan 7/9

10th GM FT Swayams Mishra 7/9

Arbiters team with the organizer and officials

Video Gallery

Pawn Race in Rook Endings are Exciting - GM Diptayan vs CM Soham | Video: IM Prathamesh Mokal/ChessBase India

8 vs 74 seconds - Where did all the time go? IM Sammed vs GM Diptayan | Video: IM Prathamesh Mokal/ChessBase India

It's futile to try with a piece down against a GM | GM Diptayan vs IM Nubairshah | Video: IM Prathamesh Mokal/ChessBase India

Final moments: IM Nubairshah Shaikh vs Viresh Sharnarthi | Video: IM Prathamesh Mokal/ChessBase India

Defender must defend correctly even in a drawn Rook & Pawn endgame | Nithin Babu vs IM P Shyam Nikhil | Video: IM Prathamesh Mokal/ChessBase India

Final moments: GM FT Swayams Mishra vs IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete | Video: IM Prathamesh Mokal/ChessBase India

Maybe Maybe Maybe - IM Nubairshah vs IM Vikramaditya | Video: IM Prathamesh Mokal/ChessBase India

A total of 325 players including 4 GMs and 12 IMs in the Rapid and 294 players including 5 GMs and 12 IMs in the Blitz participated from various states across the country. The two-day nine-round Swiss league Rapid and Blitz Rating tournament were organized by Rotary Club of Pune Pashan at PYC Hindu Gymkhana in Pune, Maharashtra on 6th and 7th May 2023. The time control for Rapid was 15 minutes + 10 seconds increment and for Blitz it was 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment.

Final standings in Rapid

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	3	GM	Ghosh, Diptayan		IND	2435	8	55	59,5	52,00	0	7
2	4	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2398	8	54,5	59,5	51,75	0	7
3	13	IM	Ratnakaran, K.		IND	2226	8	52	55,5	47,50	0	8
4	2	GM	Sengupta, Deep		IND	2438	8	51,5	56	48,75	0	7
5	5	IM	Shyaamnikhil, P		IND	2389	7,5	54	59	47,75	0	6
6	10	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete		IND	2284	7	53,5	58,5	44,75	0	6
7	1	GM	Swayams, Mishra		IND	2452	7	53	57,5	41,50	0	7
8	21	CM	Borgaonkar, Akshay		IND	2009	7	52,5	57	42,00	0	6
9	18		Aakash Sharadchandra, Dalvi		IND	2146	7	51,5	55,5	40,00	0	7
10	23		Nithin, Babu		IND	1977	7	51	55	40,00	0	6
11	11	IM	Audi, Ameya		IND	2260	7	51	54,5	39,50	0	7
12	9	IM	Mohammad, Nubairshah Shaikh		IND	2304	7	50	54	40,00	0	7
13	17	FM	Sharan, Rao		IND	2170	7	49,5	53,5	38,50	0	7
14	7	IM	Das, Arghyadip		IND	2317	7	48,5	53	39,75	0	6
15	15	FM	Jain, Kashish Manoj		IND	2200	7	48,5	52,5	38,50	0	7
16	19	CM	Soham, Datar		IND	2102	7	48	51,5	38,50	0	6
17	57		Burli, Pranav		IND	1509	7	46,5	50,5	37,00	0	6
18	16	IM	Abhishek, Kelkar		IND	2185	7	46,5	49,5	36,50	0	6
19	44		Sairaj, Dilip Vernekar		IND	1643	7	46	48,5	34,00	0	7
20	50		Khairmode, Dhanashree	w	IND	1579	7	45	49	34,00	0	7
21	66		Sherla, Prathamesh		IND	1463	7	42,5	46,5	34,00	0	6
22	29	AGM	Kiran, Panditrao		IND	1848	7	42	46	35,00	0	7
23	25	FM	Sauravh, Khherdekar		IND	1959	6,5	51	56	37,25	0	6
24	12	IM	Kulkarni, Vikramaditya		IND	2240	6,5	49,5	53,5	36,75	0	5
25	8	IM	Kushagra, Mohan		IND	2308	6,5	49	53,5	36,50	0	6

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Final standings in Blitz

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	12	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete	IND	2278	8	50	52	44,75
2	1	GM	Ghosh, Diptayan	IND	2552	8	49,5	54	47,25
3	8	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.	IND	2351	8	47,5	52,5	47,50
4	11	IM	Krishnater, Kushager	IND	2310	8	47	51,5	45,50
5	5	IM	Shyaamnikhil, P	IND	2389	7,5	49,5	54	44,75
6	76		Dakshraj, Shadanan Bole	IND	1453	7,5	44	47,5	38,50
7	7	IM	Mohammad, Nubairshah Shaikh	IND	2357	7	51	55	39,00
8	9	IM	Ratnakaran, K.	IND	2345	7	50	55,5	42,00
9	4	IM	Kushagra, Mohan	IND	2408	7	50	54	39,50
10	3	GM	Swayams, Mishra	IND	2419	7	48,5	53,5	40,00
11	16	FM	Jain, Kashish Manoj	IND	2191	7	47,5	52,5	38,50
12	17	IM	Raahul, V S	IND	2190	7	47	52	39,50
13	2	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	IND	2477	7	47	51	38,00
	24	IM	Ravi, Thandalam Shanmugam	IND	2055	7	47	51	38,00
15	15	FM	Sharan, Rao	IND	2231	7	46,5	50,5	38,50