Grand Swiss 2023 R6: Vidit Gujrathi joins the eight-way lead
GM Arjun Erigaisi drew against the China no.3 GM Yangyi Yu in the sixth round of FIDE Grand Swiss 2023. GM Vidit Gujrathi defeated GM Hans Niemann (USA) to join the eight player group of leaders along with Arjun. Vidit's Ba7, Bb8 maneuver in the middle game surprised the most successful chess coach of all time, GM Peter Heine Nielsen (DEN). He also quipped on twitter that maybe it was the first time, he was seeing such a maneuver to attack the c7-e5 pawn chain. GM Aravindh Chithambaram drew against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB). The All-Kerala battle between GM Nihal Sarin and GM S L Narayanan ended in a draw. IM Vaishali R continues her unbeaten fantastic run to hold GM Aleksandra Goryachkina to a draw. Speaking of fantastic, GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR) defeated the sole leader - IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ) to gain sole lead for herself 5/6. She is also the only player at 5/6 currently. Today is a rest day. Round 7 starts tomorrow, Wednesday 1st November at 2:30 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. IST. Photo: John Saunders
Anna Muzychuk beats Bibisara to gain sole lead, Vaishali draws against Goryachkina
Vidit - Niemann: 1-0
GM Vidit Gujrathi (2716) has played only one Rapid rated game against GM Hans Niemann (USA, 2667). Vidit won that encounter. This was the first-ever Classical rated game against each other.
25.Ba7 followed by 26.Bb8 is a unique maneuver. It even made the most successful chess coach of all time, GM Peter Heine Nielsen (DEN) tweet, "Maybe the first time I have seen the middlegame concept, of getting a bishop to b8 to attack the c7-e5 pawnchain."
The c7-pawn is a lost cause. The real question is - should Black take h3-pawn right away or first trade pawns on e4? What is the difference? 39...dxe4? loses the game for Black whereas 39...Qxh3 leads to an interesting line where Black can force a draw with correct play. The game continued 39...dxe4? and Black went on to lose the game.
Anna Muzychuk - Bibisara: 1-0
GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR, 2510) had played only one rated game against IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ, 2469) at World Blitz Women 2021 which the former lost.
Anna mentioned in the post-game interview that Black should have gone 25...Qd5 here and traded the queens. The resultant knight endgame would have been balanced. Instead, Black played 25...e6.
46.h6+! is an excellent pawn sacrifice. Anna wanted to fight and win the game. Thus, she made a humane move 43.h6+! Qxh6 44.Qd7+ Kf8 45.b5 Qg5+ 46.Kf1 Qc1+ 47.Kg2 Qg5+ 48.Kf3 Qf5+ 49.Ke3 Qc5+ 50.Kd3 Qb6?? 51.Kc4+- and now Black can no longer save the game. 50...g5 would have kept the game going.
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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 6 Open results
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
6 | 2 | 11 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2720 | 3½ | ½ - ½ | 4 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2712 | 16 | ||
6 | 6 | 15 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2716 | 3½ | 1 - 0 | 3½ | GM | Niemann Hans Moke | 2667 | 42 | ||
6 | 13 | 13 | GM | Abdusattorov Nodirbek | 2716 | 3 | ½ - ½ | 3 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2649 | 56 | ||
6 | 17 | 25 | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2694 | 3 | ½ - ½ | 3 | GM | Narayanan S L | 2651 | 52 | ||
6 | 25 | 70 | GM | Sargsyan Shant | 2631 | 2½ | ½ - ½ | 2½ | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2738 | 8 | ||
6 | 26 | 65 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2634 | 2½ | ½ - ½ | 2½ | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2716 | 14 | ||
6 | 36 | 5 | GM | Gukesh D | 2758 | 2 | 0 - 1 | 2½ | GM | Suleymanli Aydin | 2588 | 92 | ||
6 | 39 | 83 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2611 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | GM | Martirosyan Haik M. | 2696 | 24 | ||
6 | 42 | 84 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2609 | 2 | 1 - 0 | 2 | GM | Shevchenko Kirill | 2671 | 38 | ||
6 | 47 | 61 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2641 | 2 | 1 - 0 | 2 | GM | Lazavik Denis | 2560 | 102 | ||
6 | 52 | 105 | GM | Fawzy Adham | 2535 | 1½ | ½ - ½ | 1½ | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | 2622 | 76 | ||
6 | 53 | 104 | GM | Adhiban B. | 2551 | 1½ | 1 - 0 | 1½ | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | 2615 | 82 |
Standings after Round 6
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | ||
1 | 47 | GM | Predke, Alexandr | SRB | 2656 | 4,5 | 2707 | 20 | 22,5 | 0 | |
2 | 46 | GM | Sindarov, Javokhir | UZB | 2658 | 4,5 | 2700 | 18 | 20 | 0 | |
3 | 32 | GM | Esipenko, Andrey | FID | 2683 | 4,5 | 2682 | 19 | 21 | 0 | |
4 | 16 | GM | Erigaisi, Arjun | IND | 2712 | 4,5 | 2667 | 19,5 | 22,5 | 0 | |
5 | 2 | GM | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2780 | 4,5 | 2667 | 17,5 | 20,5 | 0 | |
6 | 1 | GM | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2786 | 4,5 | 2661 | 19,5 | 22,5 | 0 | |
7 | 15 | GM | Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2716 | 4,5 | 2646 | 17 | 19,5 | 0 | |
8 | 41 | GM | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2668 | 4,5 | 2617 | 13,5 | 15 | 0 | |
9 | 111 | IM | Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan | KAZ | 2447 | 4 | 2719 | 18 | 20,5 | 0 | |
10 | 81 | GM | Yakubboev, Nodirbek | UZB | 2616 | 4 | 2695 | 14,5 | 15 | 0 | |
11 | 39 | GM | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2669 | 4 | 2685 | 16,5 | 19 | 0 | |
12 | 11 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2720 | 4 | 2667 | 19,5 | 22 | 0 | |
13 | 3 | GM | Firouzja, Alireza | FRA | 2777 | 4 | 2665 | 17,5 | 20,5 | 0 | |
14 | 45 | GM | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2658 | 4 | 2662 | 16 | 18 | 0 | |
15 | 75 | GM | Kuzubov, Yuriy | UKR | 2625 | 4 | 2655 | 15 | 16 | 0 | |
16 | 23 | GM | Artemiev, Vladislav | FID | 2697 | 4 | 2654 | 17,5 | 19,5 | 0 | |
17 | 12 | GM | Keymer, Vincent | GER | 2717 | 4 | 2644 | 17 | 19 | 0 | |
18 | 20 | GM | Deac, Bogdan-Daniel | ROU | 2701 | 4 | 2636 | 18 | 20 | 0 | |
19 | 33 | GM | Sarana, Alexey | SRB | 2682 | 4 | 2630 | 19 | 21 | 0 | |
20 | 27 | GM | Fedoseev, Vladimir | SLO | 2691 | 4 | 2625 | 15,5 | 17,5 | 0 |
Round 7 pairings
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
7 | 3 | 46 | GM | Sindarov Javokhir | 2658 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2716 | 15 | |||
7 | 4 | 16 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2712 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Esipenko Andrey | 2683 | 32 | |||
7 | 13 | 52 | GM | Narayanan S L | 2651 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Aronian Levon | 2742 | 7 | |||
7 | 17 | 18 | GM | Maghsoodloo Parham | 2707 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2649 | 56 | |||
7 | 20 | 73 | GM | Svane Frederik | 2626 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2694 | 25 | |||
7 | 24 | 8 | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2738 | 3 | 3 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2609 | 84 | |||
7 | 26 | 14 | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2716 | 3 | 3 | GM | Murzin Volodar | 2633 | 69 | |||
7 | 27 | 28 | GM | Grandelius Nils | 2689 | 3 | 3 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2634 | 65 | |||
7 | 35 | 88 | GM | Petrosyan Manuel | 2604 | 3 | 3 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2641 | 61 | |||
7 | 44 | 50 | GM | Ivanchuk Vasyl | 2653 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2611 | 83 | |||
7 | 46 | 64 | GM | Warmerdam Max | 2636 | 2½ | 2½ | GM | Adhiban B. | 2551 | 104 | |||
7 | 47 | 99 | IM | Amar Elham | 2568 | 2 | 2 | GM | Gukesh D | 2758 | 5 | |||
7 | 53 | 76 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | 2622 | 2 | 2 | IM | Gurel Ediz | 2514 | 108 |
Round 6 Women results
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
6 | 2 | 12 | IM | Vaishali Rameshbabu | 2448 | 4 | ½ - ½ | 4 | GM | Goryachkina Aleksandra | 2558 | 1 | ||
6 | 12 | 7 | GM | Dronavalli Harika | 2502 | 2½ | 1 - 0 | 2½ | WGM | Savitha Shri B | 2375 | 38 | ||
6 | 16 | 9 | GM | Batsiashvili Nino | 2475 | 2 | 1 - 0 | 2 | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2389 | 32 | ||
6 | 19 | 18 | IM | Vantika Agrawal | 2435 | 2 | 0 - 1 | 2 | WIM | Mkrtchyan Mariam | 2343 | 44 | ||
6 | 23 | 33 | FM | Lee Alice | 2388 | 1 | ½ - ½ | 1½ | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2408 | 24 |
Standings after Round 6
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | ||
1 | 5 | GM | Muzychuk, Anna | UKR | 2510 | 5 | 2450 | 21 | 24,5 | 0 | |
2 | 12 | IM | Vaishali, Rameshbabu | IND | 2448 | 4,5 | 2476 | 20 | 22 | 0 | |
3 | 10 | IM | Assaubayeva, Bibisara | KAZ | 2469 | 4,5 | 2467 | 19 | 21,5 | 0 | |
4 | 21 | GM | Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | 2424 | 4,5 | 2408 | 16,5 | 19 | 0 | |
5 | 1 | GM | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | FID | 2558 | 4,5 | 2401 | 16,5 | 18,5 | 0 | |
6 | 25 | IM | Garifullina, Leya | FID | 2402 | 4 | 2482 | 16 | 16,5 | 0 | |
7 | 30 | IM | Milliet, Sophie | FRA | 2391 | 4 | 2473 | 18 | 19 | 0 | |
8 | 34 | IM | Tsolakidou, Stavroula | GRE | 2385 | 4 | 2473 | 17 | 19,5 | 0 | |
9 | 29 | IM | Fataliyeva, Ulviyya | AZE | 2393 | 4 | 2454 | 17 | 17,5 | 0 | |
10 | 40 | IM | Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | MGL | 2366 | 4 | 2450 | 19 | 22 | 0 | |
11 | 4 | GM | Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2517 | 4 | 2443 | 22 | 24 | 0 | |
12 | 3 | GM | Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | 2519 | 4 | 2412 | 15,5 | 17,5 | 0 | |
13 | 13 | IM | Efroimski, Marsel | ISR | 2447 | 4 | 2398 | 15 | 17 | 0 | |
14 | 43 | WGM | Kamalidenova, Meruert | KAZ | 2351 | 3,5 | 2485 | 16,5 | 18,5 | 0 | |
15 | 39 | IM | Cori T., Deysi | PER | 2367 | 3,5 | 2469 | 15,5 | 17,5 | 0 | |
16 | 27 | IM | Narva, Mai | EST | 2399 | 3,5 | 2446 | 14 | 16 | 0 | |
17 | 22 | IM | Bulmaga, Irina | ROU | 2423 | 3,5 | 2412 | 18 | 19,5 | 0 | |
18 | 15 | IM | Mammadzada, Gunay | AZE | 2441 | 3,5 | 2396 | 17,5 | 20 | 0 | |
19 | 7 | GM | Dronavalli, Harika | IND | 2502 | 3,5 | 2392 | 15,5 | 17,5 | 0 | |
20 | 19 | GM | Ushenina, Anna | UKR | 2434 | 3,5 | 2392 | 15 | 17,5 | 0 |
Round 7 pairings
Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
7 | 2 | 10 | IM | Assaubayeva Bibisara | 2469 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Vaishali Rameshbabu | 2448 | 12 | |||
7 | 8 | 22 | IM | Bulmaga Irina | 2423 | 3½ | 3½ | GM | Dronavalli Harika | 2502 | 7 | |||
7 | 16 | 38 | WGM | Savitha Shri B | 2375 | 2½ | 2½ | WGM | Wagner Dinara | 2461 | 11 | |||
7 | 21 | 26 | IM | Matnadze Bujiashvili Ann | 2400 | 2 | 2 | IM | Vantika Agrawal | 2435 | 18 | |||
7 | 22 | 24 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2408 | 2 | 2 | IM | Aulia Medina Warda | 2362 | 41 | |||
7 | 23 | 47 | WIM | Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen | 2266 | 1½ | 2 | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2389 | 32 |
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