Grand Swiss 2023 R5: Nakamura, Esipenko and Arjun Erigaisi in a three-way lead
IM Vaishali R continues her great form at FIDE Grand Swiss Women 2023. She drew against GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR) in the fifth round. She is also having a great event so far. IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ) defeated GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) to gain sole lead 4.5/5. In the Open section, GM Arjun Erigaisi scored a victory against the Kazakhstan no.1, GM Rinat Jumabayev. Arjun joins GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA) and GM Andrey Esipenko in a three-way lead 4/5. GM Vidit Gujrathi shared the point with GM Evgeniy Najer. GM S L Narayanan defeated the India no.1 D Gukesh for the second time in two weeks. Round 6 starts today at 2:30 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. IST. Photo: IM Sagar Shah
Vaishali draws against Anna Muzychuk, Bibisara emerges sole leader
GM Vidit Gujrathi is the sole Indian at 3.5/5, out of the 16 pursuers. In the Women's event, WGM Savitha Shri B and IM Vantika Agrawal drew against IM Mai Narva (EST) and GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (SUI). GM Harika Dronavalli and IM Tania Sachdev scored wins against IM Divya Deshmukh and IM Oliwia Kiolbasa (POL) respectively.
Arjun - Rinat: 1-0
GM Arjun Erigaisi (2712) has never lost a Classica or Blitz rated game against the Kazakhstan no.1 GM Rinat Jumabayev (KAZ, 2585). That statistic remained unchanged yesterday.
King activity is of paramount importance in the endgame. White did that when he went 54.Kf4. Black also needed to go 54...Ke6 immediately. 54...b5? reduced Black's chances after 55.g5 White went on to win the game after both players made mutual inaccuracies.
Firouzja - Niemann: 0.5-0.5
GM Hans Niemann (USA, 2667) is yet to beat his contemporary GM Alireza Firouzja (FRA, 2777) in a Classical rated game. Both of them were born in the same year - 2003. Firouzja won their first Classical game in 2015 at World Under-12 championship. Their last Classical battle was at Sinquefield Cup 2022 last year. It ended in a draw. The American had a great opportunity to score his first win in a Classical rated game over the former World no.2.
White should have defended his knight 26.Ba6. Maybe White felt that 26...Bh3 or Rexf4 might turn out to be deadly but it was not. 26.Qd2?? Qxc4 27.Qxd7 now Black needed to play Rfe8 first to go for the win. Instead, he went 27...Re2? and White managed to save the game 28.Bxc6.
S L Narayanan - Gukesh: 1-0
India no.1 GM D Gukesh (2758) eliminated GM S L Narayanan (2651) at the FIDE World Cup 2023 few months ago. Since then Narayanan defeated Gukesh in the fifth round of the recently concluded Qatar Masters. Now he won again in the fifth round of FIDE Grand Swiss 2023.
White made his intentions very clear about what he is playing for 15.g4 e4 might have opened the dark squared bishop's path but it also created a new future target for White. 16.Nd2 Qe7 17.Kb1 Kh8 18.Rhg1 Na4 19.gxf5 Nxc3+ 20.bxc3 Bxf5 21.Bxh5 b5 both players are launching an attack on each other's king. However, it is White whose attack turned out to be more effective than his opponent's.
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Schedule
Every day game starts at 2:30 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. IST between 25th October and 4th November 2023, except on 3rd when the game starts at 11:30 a.m. local time, 4 p.m. IST. Rest day is on Tuesday 31st October 2023. The last round on 5th November will start at 2 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST.
Time Control
The time control for each game is: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, followed by 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
Qualification
The winner and the runner-up of Grand Swiss shall qualify for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024. If one or both these players has (-ve) already qualified to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 at the moment of the beginning of Grand Swiss via different qualification track or do (-es) not need to qualify for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024, the qualification spot(s) shall go to the highest-placed player(s) in the final standings who has (-ve) not yet qualified to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 at the moment of the beginning of Grand Swiss
Prizes
The total prize fund in the Open is US$ 460,000 with the first prize being $80,000. For Women's the total prize fund is $140,000, first prize $25,000. Total numbers of prizes are 69, Open - 46 and Women - 23.
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Round 5 Open results
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
5 | 6 | 57 | GM | Najer Evgeniy | 2648 | 3 | ½ - ½ | 3 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2716 | 15 | ||
5 | 7 | 16 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2712 | 3 | 1 - 0 | 3 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | 2585 | 93 | ||
5 | 16 | 56 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2649 | 2½ | ½ - ½ | 2½ | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2694 | 25 | ||
5 | 21 | 52 | GM | Narayanan S L | 2651 | 2 | 1 - 0 | 2 | GM | Gukesh D | 2758 | 5 | ||
5 | 24 | 8 | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2738 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | GM | Mareco Sandro | 2606 | 85 | ||
5 | 26 | 60 | GM | Ponomariov Ruslan | 2641 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2716 | 14 | ||
5 | 27 | 18 | GM | Maghsoodloo Parham | 2707 | 2 | 1 - 0 | 2 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2641 | 61 | ||
5 | 40 | 34 | GM | Amin Bassem | 2680 | 1½ | ½ - ½ | 1½ | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2609 | 84 | ||
5 | 44 | 100 | GM | Kozak Adam | 2566 | 1½ | 0 - 1 | 1½ | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2634 | 65 | ||
5 | 48 | 112 | IM | Royal Shreyas | 2407 | 1½ | ½ - ½ | 1½ | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2611 | 83 | ||
5 | 54 | 76 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | 2622 | 1 | ½ - ½ | 1 | GM | Parligras Mircea-Emilian | 2561 | 101 | ||
5 | 57 | 113 | Wu Li | 2303 | ½ | 0 - 1 | ½ | GM | Adhiban B. | 2551 | 104 |
Standings after Round 5
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | ||
1 | 2 | GM | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2780 | 4 | 2664 | 10 | 12 | 0 | |
2 | 32 | GM | Esipenko, Andrey | FID | 2683 | 4 | 2658 | 12,5 | 13,5 | 0 | |
3 | 16 | GM | Erigaisi, Arjun | IND | 2712 | 4 | 2654 | 12 | 14,5 | 0 | |
4 | 72 | GM | L'ami, Erwin | NED | 2627 | 3,5 | 2724 | 14 | 17 | 0 | |
5 | 42 | GM | Niemann, Hans Moke | USA | 2667 | 3,5 | 2723 | 12 | 14 | 0 | |
6 | 47 | GM | Predke, Alexandr | SRB | 2656 | 3,5 | 2710 | 14,5 | 16 | 0 | |
7 | 111 | IM | Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan | KAZ | 2447 | 3,5 | 2709 | 12,5 | 14,5 | 0 | |
8 | 57 | GM | Najer, Evgeniy | FID | 2648 | 3,5 | 2704 | 12 | 12,5 | 0 | |
9 | 46 | GM | Sindarov, Javokhir | UZB | 2658 | 3,5 | 2701 | 12 | 13 | 0 | |
10 | 81 | GM | Yakubboev, Nodirbek | UZB | 2616 | 3,5 | 2690 | 9 | 9,5 | 0 | |
11 | 1 | GM | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2786 | 3,5 | 2664 | 14,5 | 17,5 | 0 | |
12 | 3 | GM | Firouzja, Alireza | FRA | 2777 | 3,5 | 2657 | 12 | 14 | 0 | |
13 | 11 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2720 | 3,5 | 2656 | 12,5 | 15 | 0 | |
14 | 12 | GM | Keymer, Vincent | GER | 2717 | 3,5 | 2647 | 10,5 | 12,5 | 0 | |
15 | 15 | GM | Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2716 | 3,5 | 2641 | 12,5 | 14,5 | 0 | |
16 | 22 | GM | Shankland, Sam | USA | 2698 | 3,5 | 2634 | 12 | 14 | 0 | |
17 | 21 | GM | Sevian, Samuel | USA | 2698 | 3,5 | 2628 | 12,5 | 14,5 | 0 | |
18 | 23 | GM | Artemiev, Vladislav | FID | 2697 | 3,5 | 2623 | 11,5 | 13 | 0 | |
19 | 41 | GM | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2668 | 3,5 | 2615 | 9 | 10 | 0 | |
20 | 52 | GM | Narayanan, S L | IND | 2651 | 3 | 2726 | 12,5 | 14,5 | 0 |
Round 6 pairings
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
6 | 2 | 11 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2720 | 3½ | 4 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2712 | 16 | |||
6 | 6 | 15 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2716 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Niemann Hans Moke | 2667 | 42 | |||
6 | 13 | 13 | GM | Abdusattorov Nodirbek | 2716 | 3 | 3 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2649 | 56 | |||
6 | 17 | 25 | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2694 | 3 | 3 | GM | Narayanan S L | 2651 | 52 | |||
6 | 25 | 70 | GM | Sargsyan Shant | 2631 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2738 | 8 | |||
6 | 26 | 65 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2634 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2716 | 14 | |||
6 | 36 | 5 | GM | Gukesh D | 2758 | 2 | 2½ | GM | Suleymanli Aydin | 2588 | 92 | |||
6 | 39 | 83 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2611 | 2 | 2 | GM | Martirosyan Haik M. | 2696 | 24 | |||
6 | 42 | 84 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2609 | 2 | 2 | GM | Shevchenko Kirill | 2671 | 38 | |||
6 | 47 | 61 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2641 | 2 | 2 | GM | Lazavik Denis | 2560 | 102 | |||
6 | 52 | 105 | GM | Fawzy Adham | 2535 | 1½ | 1½ | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | 2622 | 76 | |||
6 | 53 | 104 | GM | Adhiban B. | 2551 | 1½ | 1½ | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | 2615 | 82 |
Round 5 Women results
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
5 | 2 | 12 | IM | Vaishali Rameshbabu | 2448 | 3½ | ½ - ½ | 3½ | GM | Muzychuk Anna | 2510 | 5 | ||
5 | 14 | 38 | WGM | Savitha Shri B | 2375 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | IM | Narva Mai | 2399 | 27 | ||
5 | 17 | 2 | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2523 | 1½ | ½ - ½ | 1½ | IM | Vantika Agrawal | 2435 | 18 | ||
5 | 18 | 24 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2408 | 1½ | 0 - 1 | 1½ | GM | Dronavalli Harika | 2502 | 7 | ||
5 | 21 | 32 | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2389 | 1 | 1 - 0 | 1½ | IM | Kiolbasa Oliwia | 2375 | 37 |
Standings after Round 5
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | ||
1 | 10 | IM | Assaubayeva, Bibisara | KAZ | 2469 | 4,5 | 2456 | 12 | 14,5 | 0 | |
2 | 12 | IM | Vaishali, Rameshbabu | IND | 2448 | 4 | 2455 | 12,5 | 14 | 0 | |
3 | 5 | GM | Muzychuk, Anna | UKR | 2510 | 4 | 2445 | 14,5 | 17,5 | 0 | |
4 | 1 | GM | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | FID | 2558 | 4 | 2390 | 9,5 | 10,5 | 0 | |
5 | 30 | IM | Milliet, Sophie | FRA | 2391 | 3,5 | 2481 | 11 | 12 | 0 | |
6 | 25 | IM | Garifullina, Leya | FID | 2402 | 3,5 | 2474 | 11,5 | 12 | 0 | |
7 | 4 | GM | Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2517 | 3,5 | 2453 | 15 | 16,5 | 0 | |
8 | 40 | IM | Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | MGL | 2366 | 3,5 | 2450 | 11,5 | 13,5 | 0 | |
9 | 22 | IM | Bulmaga, Irina | ROU | 2423 | 3,5 | 2410 | 12 | 12,5 | 0 | |
10 | 21 | GM | Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | 2424 | 3,5 | 2404 | 11,5 | 13,5 | 0 | |
11 | 13 | IM | Efroimski, Marsel | ISR | 2447 | 3,5 | 2403 | 11 | 12,5 | 0 | |
12 | 43 | WGM | Kamalidenova, Meruert | KAZ | 2351 | 3 | 2497 | 12 | 14 | 0 | |
13 | 34 | IM | Tsolakidou, Stavroula | GRE | 2385 | 3 | 2483 | 11,5 | 13,5 | 0 | |
14 | 28 | GM | Hoang, Thanh Trang | HUN | 2398 | 3 | 2483 | 10 | 12 | 0 | |
15 | 29 | IM | Fataliyeva, Ulviyya | AZE | 2393 | 3 | 2447 | 11,5 | 12 | 0 | |
16 | 8 | GM | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | 2484 | 3 | 2411 | 14 | 15 | 0 | |
17 | 3 | GM | Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | 2519 | 3 | 2409 | 11 | 12 | 0 | |
18 | 15 | IM | Mammadzada, Gunay | AZE | 2441 | 3 | 2398 | 13 | 15 | 0 | |
19 | 20 | IM | Injac, Teodora | SRB | 2426 | 3 | 2374 | 9,5 | 10 | 0 | |
20 | 35 | WGM | Beydullayeva, Govhar | AZE | 2383 | 2,5 | 2469 | 12,5 | 14,5 | 0 |
Round 6 pairings
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
6 | 2 | 12 | IM | Vaishali Rameshbabu | 2448 | 4 | 4 | GM | Goryachkina Aleksandra | 2558 | 1 | |||
6 | 12 | 7 | GM | Dronavalli Harika | 2502 | 2½ | 2½ | WGM | Savitha Shri B | 2375 | 38 | |||
6 | 16 | 9 | GM | Batsiashvili Nino | 2475 | 2 | 2 | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2389 | 32 | |||
6 | 19 | 18 | IM | Vantika Agrawal | 2435 | 2 | 2 | WIM | Mkrtchyan Mariam | 2343 | 44 | |||
6 | 23 | 33 | FM | Lee Alice | 2388 | 1 | 1½ | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2408 | 24 |
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