IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Open Chess Tournament 2016
Grandmaster-elect Swapnil S. Dhopade of Maharashtra along with top seed and state mate Shardul Gagare led the field along with several others after the second round of the IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Open Chess Tournament 2016 held at Mount Litera School International, Bandra (East), Mumbai, here, on Friday.
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Top seeded Shardul exploited the back rank weakness of Shelke Sankarsha effectively, wrapping the point in 27 moves. Sharing the lead with Maharashtra duo at 2.0 points were International Masters Stany G.A., Himanshu Sharma, Vikramaditya Kulkarni, Nitin S., Akshat Khamparia among others.
In upsets of the day, International Masters, S Ravi Teja and Dinesh Sharma shed half points to Manush Shah and Ojas Kulkarni respectively.
In the IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Juniors that began late last evening, top seeded FIDE Master Mohammad Fahad Rahman of Bangladesh had an easy first round. Rahman scored a quick win over Kriish Mehta. Other seeded players Sadhwani Raunak, Sankalp Gupta, D. Gukesh, Aditya Mittal and Luke Mendonca scored equally easy victories.
Luke
Earlier, best game of the day for round 1 in the IIFL Mumbai Junior International was awarded to Luke Mendonca of Goa – an exciting DVD compliment, thanks to ChessBase.
This 171 player nine round International Junior event has the participation of players from six countries and runs till 5th Feb, 2016.
IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Results (Round 2): Shardul Gagare (2) bt Sankarsha Shelke (1), D Gukesh (1) lost to Swapnil S Dhopade (2), G A Stany (2) bt S Adhithya (1), Swapnil Kothari (1) lost to S Nitin (2), Sharma Himanshu (2) bt Parnali S Dharia (1), Shah Manush (1.5) drew with Teja S Ravi (1.5), Khamparia Akshat (2) bt Siddayya Gavi (1), Kulkarni Ojas (1.5) drew with Dinesh K Sharma (1.5), Himal Gusain (2) bt Mangesh Ghag Harsh (1), Vikramaditya Kulkarni (2) bt Arjun Adappa (1)
IIFL Wealth Mumbai Junior Results (Round 1): Kriish Mehta lost to Mohammad Fahad Rahman (Ban), Sadhwani Raunak bt Saumya Srivastava, Gurav Sanmil lost to Sanklap Gupta, Gukesh D bt Ekaa Desai, Rebecca Jesumarian lost to Shelke Sanarsha, Aditya Mittal bt Aryan Khurana, Sharma Vinayak Adane lost to Alok Sinha, Shuban Saha bt Aarav Lakhani, Krishnan Ritvik lost to Mendonca Leon Luke, Om Kharola bt Krish Srivastava, Dev Shah bt Kush Bhagat.