Sharjah Masters 2019 begins with 84 Indians in fray
84 Indians are taking part in the Sharjah Masters led by GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly, who recently achieved the gold medal on board three of World Team Championships 2019 with a 2850 performance. Out of the 178 participants, UAE, the host country, has only 23 players while India has 84! We also have in form Abhijeet Gupta, and the talented youngster Nihal Sarin who will be looking to cross 2600 in this event. India's youngest GM D.Gukesh doesn't stop playing chess. After becoming a GM, he played the Delhi GM Open 2019, then the Aeroflot followed by HD Bank and now Sharjah. Can we expect another 2700 performance from him? Some of the other talents on whom we should have our eyes are Raunak Sadhwani, Aditya Mittal, Leon Mendonca, Divya Deshmukh, Bharath Subramaniyam, Pranav Anand, Raahil Mullick and more! The first round began on 22nd of March 2019.
There are so many strong players in Indian chess that the 7-8 norm tournaments that take place home are not enough! That's the reason why be it any top open tournament Aeroflot, HD Bank, Gibraltar or for that matter Sharjah Masters and Dubai Open, you will always see a huge contingent of Indian players. At the Sharjah Masters out of 178 players, 84 are Indians! Even the host country UAE has only 23 participants. Iran has 9 players and Russia has 6. However, if you look carefully you will see that out of the top 20 seeds we have only three Indians. In fact in top 10 seeds we have no Indian player. Surya Sekhar Ganguly is the top Indian player, fresh from his 2850 performance at the World Teams, and he is the 13th seed.
SNo | Name | Rtg | RtgI | FED | 1 | Pts. | Rk. | K | rtg+/- | ||
13 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2633 | 2633 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 12 | 10 | 0,80 | |
17 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2602 | 2602 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 16 | 10 | 0,80 | |
19 | GM | Nihal Sarin | 2578 | 2578 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 18 | 10 | 0,80 | |
23 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | 2534 | 2534 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 21 | 10 | 0,80 | |
24 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | 2534 | 2534 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 22 | 10 | 0,80 | |
25 | GM | Debashis Das | 2532 | 2532 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 23 | 10 | 0,80 | |
26 | IM | Gukesh D | 2529 | 2529 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 83 | 10 | -4,20 | |
28 | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | 2524 | 2524 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 25 | 10 | 0,80 | |
30 | GM | Venkatesh M.R. | 2517 | 2517 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 27 | 10 | 0,80 | |
31 | IM | Stany G.A. | 2507 | 2507 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 28 | 10 | 0,80 | |
35 | IM | Harsha Bharathakoti | 2497 | 2497 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 85 | 10 | -4,20 | |
36 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | 2494 | 2494 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 31 | 10 | 0,80 | |
39 | IM | Iniyan P | 2487 | 2487 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 34 | 10 | 0,80 | |
42 | IM | Vignesh N R | 2476 | 2476 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 37 | 10 | 0,80 | |
45 | IM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2455 | 2455 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 39 | 10 | 0,80 | |
46 | CM | Aditya Mittal | 2454 | 2454 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 40 | 10 | 0,80 | |
47 | CM | Mendonca Leon Luke | 2446 | 2446 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 41 | 10 | 0,80 | |
50 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | 2429 | 2429 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 44 | 10 | 0,80 | |
51 | GM | Laxman R.R. | 2425 | 2425 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 45 | 10 | 0,80 | |
53 | IM | Raja Rithvik R | 2423 | 2423 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 47 | 10 | 0,80 | |
55 | IM | Akshat Khamparia | 2415 | 2415 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 87 | 10 | -4,20 | |
56 | GM | Sundararajan Kidambi | 2413 | 2413 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 49 | 10 | 0,80 | |
57 | IM | Akash G | 2411 | 2411 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 50 | 10 | 0,80 | |
58 | IM | Nitin S. | 2408 | 2408 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 51 | 10 | 0,80 | |
62 | Saurabh Anand | 2385 | 2385 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 55 | 20 | 1,60 | ||
63 | IM | Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad | 2384 | 2384 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 56 | 20 | 1,60 | |
67 | IM | Rathnakaran K. | 2361 | 2361 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 60 | 10 | 0,80 | |
68 | IM | Fenil Shah | 2360 | 2360 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 61 | 10 | 0,90 | |
69 | FM | Pranav Anand | 2359 | 2359 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 88 | 20 | -8,40 | |
71 | IM | Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari | 2352 | 2352 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 63 | 10 | 0,80 | |
72 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | 2348 | 2348 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 64 | 10 | 0,80 | |
73 | FM | Shailesh Dravid | 2316 | 2316 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 65 | 20 | 1,60 | |
74 | CM | Bharath Subramaniyam H | 2301 | 2301 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 66 | 20 | 1,60 | |
75 | Ajay Karthikeyan | 2298 | 2298 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 67 | 40 | 3,20 | ||
76 | WIM | Priyanka Nutakki | 2297 | 2297 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 68 | 40 | 3,20 | |
78 | IM | Sharma Dinesh K. | 2286 | 2286 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 70 | 10 | 0,80 | |
80 | IM | Ravi Thandalam Shanmugam | 2276 | 2276 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 89 | 10 | -4,20 | |
82 | CM | Mullick Raahil | 2275 | 2275 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 73 | 40 | 3,20 | |
84 | WIM | Divya Deshmukh | 2266 | 2266 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 75 | 40 | 3,20 | |
86 | Kunal M. | 2258 | 2258 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 77 | 20 | 1,60 | ||
87 | Pranav V | 2258 | 2258 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 78 | 20 | 1,60 | ||
88 | IM | Praveen Kumar C | 2243 | 2243 | IND | 1 | 1,0 | 79 | 10 | 0,80 | |
91 | FM | Jeet Jain | 2219 | 2219 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 100 | 20 | -1,60 | |
93 | Panda Sambit | 2218 | 2218 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 102 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
95 | FM | Srihari L R | 2211 | 2211 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 104 | 20 | -1,60 | |
101 | IM | Gokhale Chandrashekhar | 2185 | 2185 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 109 | 10 | -0,80 | |
103 | Gandhi Anish | 2156 | 2156 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 111 | 20 | -1,60 | ||
106 | Jaeel Atharva | 2145 | 2145 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 114 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
110 | Thrish Karthik | 2096 | 2096 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 90 | 40 | 16,80 | ||
111 | Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U | 2093 | 2093 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 118 | 20 | -1,60 | ||
114 | WCM | Mrudul Dehankar | 2078 | 2078 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 121 | 40 | -3,20 | |
115 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | 2076 | 2076 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 91 | 40 | 16,80 | |
116 | Kumar Gaurav | 2074 | 2074 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 122 | 20 | -1,60 | ||
119 | Shanya Mishra | 2026 | 2026 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 125 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
121 | Sri Sai Baswanth P | 2018 | 2018 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 92 | 20 | 8,40 | ||
122 | CM | Shahil Dey | 2007 | 2007 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 127 | 40 | -3,20 | |
123 | WFM | Sanskriti Goyal | 2006 | 2006 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 128 | 40 | -3,20 | |
124 | Mohammed Dilshad | 2006 | 2006 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 93 | 20 | 8,40 | ||
125 | Krithigga K | 2002 | 2002 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 129 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
126 | Niklesh Kumar Jain | 1995 | 1995 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 130 | 20 | -1,60 | ||
127 | WIM | Gokhale Anupama | 1994 | 1994 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 131 | 20 | -1,60 | |
128 | Parthasarathy R | 1989 | 1989 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 132 | 20 | -1,60 | ||
132 | Anilkumar O.T. | 1975 | 1975 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 136 | 20 | -1,60 | ||
133 | Mota Pankit | 1974 | 1974 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 94 | 20 | 8,40 | ||
138 | WCM | Isha Sharma | 1935 | 1935 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 141 | 20 | -1,60 | |
139 | Rakshith Srinivasan | 1923 | 1923 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 142 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
141 | Souradip Deb | 1899 | 1899 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 144 | 20 | -1,60 | ||
142 | Gokhale Rishabh Chandrashekhar | 1895 | 1895 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 145 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
144 | Abid Ali Mujawar | 1869 | 1869 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 147 | 20 | -1,60 | ||
145 | Rohit S | 1868 | 1868 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 95 | 40 | 16,80 | ||
146 | WFM | Meghna C H | 1863 | 1863 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 148 | 20 | -1,60 | |
147 | WFM | Dhyana Patel | 1848 | 1848 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 149 | 40 | -3,20 | |
148 | Jinan Jomon | 1848 | 1848 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 150 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
150 | Varsha Ramesh | 1831 | 1831 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 152 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
151 | AIM | Kaushik G Iyer | 1771 | 1771 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 153 | 40 | -3,20 | |
153 | AIM | Sidharth Balaji Sridharan | 1732 | 1732 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 155 | 40 | -3,20 | |
155 | Devnani Kush | 1650 | 1650 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 157 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
156 | Aagam Aditya E | 1649 | 1649 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 158 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
157 | Antony Jesumarian Leslie | 1621 | 1621 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 159 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
159 | Singh Gurmeher | 1589 | 1589 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 160 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
162 | Rebecca Jesumarian | 1561 | 1561 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 163 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
167 | AIM | Vishal Choudary B | 1519 | 1519 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 168 | 40 | -3,20 | |
168 | Harikrishnan C | 1514 | 1514 | IND | 0 | 0,0 | 169 | 40 | -3,20 | ||
169 | Sharon Rafael | 1474 | 1474 | IND | ½ | 0,5 | 97 | 40 | 16,80 |
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