27th The Telegraph 2018 round 6: Rajdeep, Mitrabha, Koustav and Sanket are in the lead

by Shahid Ahmed - 17/12/2018

All top four seeds, Rajdeep Sarkar, Mitrabha Guha, Koustav Chatterjee and Sanket Chakravarty are in perfect sync with a score of 6.0/6. Koustav Chatterjee was the first one among all of them to score his victory. Swapnil Priyadarshi is the only player from Odisha who is half-point behind the leaders. There are 22 players who are at 5.0/6. Tomorrow's round 7 will be interesting as all four leaders will face first real challenge of the tournament as Rajdeep faces Sanket and Koustav faces Mitrabha respectively. This report contains photos, games and videos from round 6. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Top four seeds are in perfect sync with win

Koustav Chatterjee was the first to pick up the win and score 6.0/6 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Koustav Chatterjee made an exchange sacrifice in Alekhine's Defence and broke his opponent's kingside wide open. Soham Dey was unable to recover from it and he lost eventually.

Silver medalist in World Youth Olympiad 2018 Koustav Chatterjee talks about Telegraph Schools' 2018 | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Sanket Chakravarty capitalized on his opponent's mistake and won comfortably with a combination | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Find out why 22...Nc2 was a blunder

Mitrabha made an atomic error which could have gone but unfortunately his opponent Rupam was unable to capitalize it | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

There is an easy draw for White here, however Mitrabha made an error which gave a chance to his opponent

What was the better continuation for Black here instead of the game move 38...Kf6

Rajdeep cruised his way to victory against Ayan Pal | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Soumyajit Das floundered again despite getting a decisive advantage

White's last move 59.Ka4 definitely needs to be complemented by the next move. Find out the winning plan for white here

In the post match analysis, Soham was convinced that there is no win. White just needs to think thoroughly to find a way to win as it is white who is dominating the position.

Among other upsets in round 6:

Kumar Sankalp (1393) defeated Rounak Pathak (1719)

Ayantika Das (1261) defeated Arijit Ghosh (1509)

Mortuza Mahathir Islam (1614, BAN) drew with Ishika Mondal (1261)

CM Manon Raja Neer (1548, BAN) drew with Pratyush Mohapatra (1249)

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam (1458, BAN) drew with Arshiya Das (1242)

Photo Gallery:

Swapnil's vise grip focus | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

When was the last time you saw Grob's Attack being played in the classical format of a tournament? | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Rupam needed a lot more than Orange juice to cause an upset | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Diya held Samriddhaa to a draw | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Team Odisha is poised to leave a mark | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Winter is here | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Twinning in red | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Different characters of the tournament (clockwise L to R): Football fan, Spider-Kid, Grinch and Tough guy | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The camera-friendly kids | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Round 6 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	10		Ayan Pal	1827	5	0 - 1	5	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2370	1
2	2	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2351	5	1 - 0	5		Rupam Mukherjee	1875	7
3	12		Soham Dey	1770	5	0 - 1	5		Koustav Chatterjee	2345	3
4	4		Sanket Chakravarty	1974	5	1 - 0	5	AGM	Srihaan Poddar	1383	59
5	6		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1892	4½	½ - ½	4½		Diya Chowdhury	1652	20
6	25	AIM	Debarghya Samanta	1595	4½	½ - ½	4½		Praloy Sahoo	1795	11
7	30		Swapnil Priyadarshi	1559	4½	1 - 0	4½		Soumyajit Das (Jr)	1666	19
8	34		Dhritabrata Kundu	1527	4½	½ - ½	4		Aditya Bikram Paul	1873	9
9	8		Sambarta Banerjee	1874	4	1 - 0	4		Atreya Nandy	1431	50
10	13		Bhattacharyya Soham	1727	4	½ - ½	4		Debargha Basu	1428	51
11	14	WCM	Noshin Anjum	1722	4	1 - 0	4		Mouhurtik Ray	1350	63
12	56		Kumar Sankalp	1393	4	1 - 0	4		Rounak Pathak	1719	15
13	62		Sayandeep Roy	1354	4	0 - 1	4		Shuvam Roy	1681	17
14	18		Sudipa Haldar	1675	4	1 - 0	4		Soham Bhattacharyya	1290	81
15	70		Sayantan Das	1325	4	0 - 1	4		Pratyay Chowdhury	1645	21
16	26		Anish Rooj	1584	4	1 - 0	4		Yamijala Koulini	1237	97
17	28		Rajarshi Mandal	1569	4	1 - 0	4		Snehil Raj Singh	1188	109
18	72		Rowdrick Saha Talukdar	1321	4	½ - ½	4		Arijit Mukherjee	1566	29
19	73		Ujan Sarkar	1317	4	+ - -	4		Shounak Mazumder	1528	33
20	88		Ayantika Das	1261	4	1 - 0	4		Arijit Ghosh	1509	37
21	38		Akshath Sinha	1504	4	1 - 0	4		Ritam Kundu	1170	117
22	142		Gairick Saha	1127	4	0 - 1	4		Anubhab Gupta	1491	39
23	42		Debi Prasad Nayak	1470	4	1 - 0	4		Bratajit Mukherjee	1105	163
24	160		Soumick Bandopadhyay	1109	4	0 - 1	4		Eshan Bhattacharjee	1461	43
25	156		Ishir Narayan	1113	4	0 - 1	4		Anushka Gupta	1455	45
26	16		Mohanty Soyamsree	1706	3½	1 - 0	3½		Anukarssa Dutta	1261	87
27	92		Sayan Biswas	1252	3½	0 - 1	3½		Alekhya Mukhopadhyay	1617	23
28	24		Mortuza Mahathir Islam	1614	3½	½ - ½	3½		Ishika Mondal	1261	89
29	32	CM	Manon Reja Neer	1548	3½	½ - ½	3½		Mohapatra Pratyush	1249	93
30	104		Ritabrata Chakraborty	1208	3½	0 - 1	3½		Subhabrata Roy	1525	35

Round 7 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2370	6		6		Sanket Chakravarty	1974	4
2	3		Koustav Chatterjee	2345	6		6	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2351	2
3	6		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1892	5		5½		Swapnil Priyadarshi	1559	30
4	7		Rupam Mukherjee	1875	5		5		Rajarshi Mandal	1569	28
5	26		Anish Rooj	1584	5		5		Sambarta Banerjee	1874	8
6	39		Anubhab Gupta	1491	5		5		Ayan Pal	1827	10
7	11		Praloy Sahoo	1795	5		5		Dhritabrata Kundu	1527	34
8	43		Eshan Bhattacharjee	1461	5		5		Soham Dey	1770	12
9	59	AGM	Srihaan Poddar	1383	5		5	WCM	Noshin Anjum	1722	14
10	17		Shuvam Roy	1681	5		5		Akshath Sinha	1504	38
11	45		Anushka Gupta	1455	5		5		Sudipa Haldar	1675	18
12	20		Diya Chowdhury	1652	5		5		Debi Prasad Nayak	1470	42
13	21		Pratyay Chowdhury	1645	5		5		Kumar Sankalp	1393	56
14	73		Ujan Sarkar	1317	5		5	AIM	Debarghya Samanta	1595	25
15	19		Soumyajit Das (Jr)	1666	4½		5		Ayantika Das	1261	88
16	9		Aditya Bikram Paul	1873	4½		4½		Aahwan Paul	1398	53
17	75		Ishan Das	1315	4½		4½		Bhattacharyya Soham	1727	13
18	83		Rupankar Kundu	1275	4½		4½		Mohanty Soyamsree	1706	16
19	23		Alekhya Mukhopadhyay	1617	4½		4½		Jena Suhana	1337	68
20	29		Arijit Mukherjee	1566	4½		4½		Sankalan Shah	1314	76
21	35		Subhabrata Roy	1525	4½		4½		Rowdrick Saha Talukdar	1321	72
22	41		Sagnik Saha	1478	4½		4½		Samyak Dharewa	1289	82
23	85		Ankit Ray	1266	4½		4½		Anjishnu Mondal	1440	47
24	51		Debargha Basu	1428	4½		4½		Soumik Guchhait	1185	111
25	5		Sadnan Hasan Dihan	1944	4		4		Mohapatra Pratyush	1249	93
26	15		Rounak Pathak	1719	4		4		Dolisiyas Dash	1238	96
27	95		Arshiya Das	1242	4		4		Kazi Zarin Tasnim	1627	22
28	97		Yamijala Koulini	1237	4		4		Mortuza Mahathir Islam	1614	24
29	27		Basnet Parjwal	1579	4		4		Jyotisko Sengupta	1235	98
30	31		Soham Pal	1554	4		4		Debayan Biswas	1214	102