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Martyn Kravtsiv wins 2nd SCS Open GM chess title
30 May 2010
Team Orisports
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Ukraine Grand Master Martyn Kravtsiv edged out four other GMs and one IM in tie-breaker to emerge champion in the 2nd SCS International Open GM Chess Tournament, which concluded at Hotel Swosti Premium here today. These five tied for the top spot with 8.5 points each from 11 rounds. But the title eventually went to Kravtsiv as his Buchholz tie-break score (76.5) was better than the other four.
Belarus GM Aleksej Aleksandrov finished runner-up with a tie-break score of 76. In the absence of an outright winner, the top six cash prizes were shared by the top six with each pocketing Rs 87,667 each.
In the 11th and final round, Delhi school boy Vaibhav Suri, who became an IM two days ago, caused the only upset, defeating International Master MR Lalith Babu. The impressive win also fetched Suri his maiden GM norm. National champion B Adhiban lived upto everybody’s expectation by securing his second GM norm with a draw against top seed and Russain GM Alexey Dreev.
IM Debasish Das emerged as the most successful Orissa player, occupying the 22nd position with 7.5 points. Three other Orissa players _ IM Swayangsu Sagyapragyan (25th), Swayams Mishra (48th) and Anwesh Upadhyaya (49th) _ could book places among the top 50 with seven points apiece. Among others, WGMs Padmini Rout (6.5) and Kiran Manisha Mohanty (6.5) finished 57th and 67th respectively.
Altogether, nine players from the state finished among the top 100. Overall, the tournament, offering a total prize fund of Rs 11 lakhs and involving a total of 85 title holders, including 34 GMs, 26 IMs and 3 WGMs, lived upto its image as the strongest of its kind in Asia, producing three titles (two IM, one WGM) and seven norms (two GM, one WGM, four IM) in the process.
Out of 100 prize winners, five from Orissa _ Debasish Das, Swayangsu Satyapragyan, Swayams Mishra, Anwesh Upadhyaya and Padmini Rout _
found places among the top 60. Padmini Rout, however, received the best woman prize of Rs 8,000. Besides, other top 20 Orissa players received Rs 4,000 each.
The eventful ninth round local WIM Padmini Rout stole the show when she stunned Hungarian GM Zoltan Varga to become the second WGM of Orissa after Kiran Manisha Mohanty. Petite Padmini capitalized on a rook-knight exchange to clinch victory and her third WGM norm after 32 moves. It was a major achievement for the teenager, who had obtained her first norm at the Asian Junior Championship in Colombo (July, 2009) and the second at a close GM tournament in Hungary (January, 2010). It was the third encounter between Padmini and Varga with the earlier two ending in draws in Hungary.
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Delhi school boy Vaibhav Suri emerged as another star in the ninth round when he shocked Bangladesh GM Enamul Hossain to secure his first GM norm. He also became an IM, getting his third and final norm in the process. Two Fide Masters _ GV Sai Krishna (India) and Abu Sufian Shakil (Bangladesh) _ too gained IM norms in the ninth round.
Later in the evening two glittering trophies of the tournament were unveiled at a gala function at Swosti Club. The event turned out to be a novelty in the state with the use of beautiful models presenting the silver trophies, weighing more than one kg each.
Indian Fide Master Akshat Khamparia became an International Master by completing his third and final norm with a draw against IM P Karthikeyan in the 10th round. As many as 249 players, including 85 title holders from 13 countries joined the 11-round tournament, which was organized by Star Chess School, under the auspices Orissa Chess Adhoc Committee. Title
holders included 34 Grand Masters, three Woman Grand Masters, 26 International Masters and three Woman International Masters. Russian
Grand Master Alexey Dreev was given the top billing, followed by compatriot Maxim Turov. Around 100 more players missed the tournament as they could not reach the venue due to cyclone Laila.
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Final standings (Top 20): 1. M Kravtsiv (8.5), 2. Aleksej Aleksandrov (8.5), 3. Maxim Turov (8.5), 4. Alexey Dreev (8.5), 5. B Adhiban (8.5), 6. Dmitry Kokarev (8.5), 7. Pablo Lafuente (8), 8. Dmitry Bocharov (8), 9. Anton Kovalyov (8), 10. Vaibhav Suri 8), 11. Hera Imre Jr (8), 12. Attila Czebe (8), 13. Gevorg Harutjunyan (8), 14. Rustam Khusnutdinov (8), 15. Iuldachev Saidali (8), 16. Pavel Maletin (7.5), 17. Simonian Hrair (7.5), 18. Nurlan Ibrayev (7.5), 19. Deepan Chakkravarthy (7.5), 20. Evgeny Vorobiov (7.5).
20 Orissa prize winners (Rs 4,000 each): Soumya Ranjan Mishra, Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, Vikramaditya Sahu, Sidhant Mohapatra, Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Biswajit Nayak, Vivek Kumar Tibarewal, Binayak Rath, Mohammad Ashraf, Dasharathi Sahoo, Subhranshu Mohan Satpathy, Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Swayangsu Satyakam, Bijay Kumar Dash, Biswaranjan Behera, Sanjay Mishra, Ranjan Mohanty, Sudhir Kumar Behera, Gobardhan Behera, Rajesh Kumar Nayak.
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TOP: Champion Martyn Kravtsiv (Right) and runner-up Alexie Alexandrov pose with their trophies at the closing function of the 2nd SCS Open GM Chess Tournament in Bhubaneswar on May 30, 2010.
BOTTOM: Prize-winning Orissa players pose at the closing function of the 2nd SCS Open GM Chess Tournament in Bhubaneswar on May 30, 2010.
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