Iniyan wins two consecutive Round Robins in Serbia

by Shahid Ahmed - 03/11/2021

GM Iniyan scored 8.5/11 to win GM Ask 1 at Arandjelovac in Serbia. He was unbeaten for the first ten rounds, he lost the final round against IM Nitin S. Immediately after the conclusion of this event, he played GM Rujna Zora 5, and he won that too. This time he made an unbeaten 7.0/9. He lost only one game against IM Nitin S, out of 18 games he played in two events. These two triumph makes it Iniyan's fifth over-the-board triumph of the year, sixth overall. Iniyan will now take a break for a few days and get back to action at elllobregat Open, a strong open tournament, starting at the end of this month in Barcelona, Spain.

Sankalp scores his maiden GM-norm

IM Sankalp Gupta scored his first GM-norm at GM Ask 1 with a blazing 2600 performance. He started with five consecutive wins before making a draw. He also went on to score his second GM-norm in consecutive tournament. We will have the details of those in a separate article.

Winner of GM Ask 1 and Rujna Zora 5 - GM Iniyan P

Iniyan scored 8.5/11, performed at 2592 and gained 9.4 Elo rating points

Iniyan defeated GMs Branko Damljanovic (SRB) and Emir Dizdarevic (BIH), drew with GM Dragan Kosic. He also beat IM Sankalp Gupta and drew with IM Rudik Makarian (RUS).

L to R - Raahul V S (Five IM-norms), Iniyan P, Hari Madhavan and Avinash Ramesh

Replay Iniyan's games from GM Ask 1

The tournament took place at Arandjelovac in Serbia from 15th to 22nd October 2021. Time control was 90 mins/40 moves + 15 mins/end + 30 seconds.

Final Standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	11	GM	Iniyan P	IND	2529	8,5	1,0	7	41,50	0,94	10	9,4
2	10	IM	Sankalp Gupta	IND	2446	8,5	0,0	7	40,00	2,18	10	21,8
3	7	IM	Makarian Rudik	RUS	2470	8,0	0,0	6	37,75	1,32	10	13,2
4	1	IM	Nitin S.	IND	2381	7,5	0,0	7	33,25	2,21	10	22,1
5	8	GM	Kosic Dragan	MNE	2434	7,0	0,0	3	35,25	0,55	10	5,5
6	6		Ritviz Parab	IND	2296	6,0	0,0	4	26,25	2,05	20	41,0
7	9		Raahul V S	IND	2344	5,5	0,0	4	20,25	0,33	20	6,6
8	4	GM	Damljanovic Branko	SRB	2504	5,0	0,0	3	18,00	-2,22	10	-22,2
9	12		Bhambure Shantanu	IND	2405	3,5	0,0	1	15,00	-2,14	10	-21,4
10	5	GM	Dizdarevic Emir	BIH	2423	2,5	0,0	1	11,00	-3,46	10	-34,6
11	3	FM	Acor Corey	USA	2309	2,0	1,0	1	8,00	-1,38	20	-27,6
12	2	WIM	Harshita Guddanti	IND	2180	2,0	0,0	1	8,25	-0,38	20	-7,6

Details

Iniyan wins Rujna Zora 5

Iniyan scored an unbeaten 7.0/9 to win GM Rujna Zora 5

Iniyan scored 7.0/9 and gained 0.9 Elo rating points

Iniyan drew with GM Emir Dizdarevic, won against IM Nenad Panic (SRB), drew with IMs Nitin S and Rudik Makarian (RUS).

Replay Iniyan's games from GM Rujna Zora 5

The tournament took place at Arandjelovac in Serbia from 23rd to 30th October 2021. Time control was 90 mins/40 moves + 15 mins/end + 30 seconds.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	K	rtg+/-
1	8	GM	Iniyan P	IND	2529	7,0	0,0	5	26,50	10	0,9
2	2	IM	Makarian Rudik	RUS	2470	6,5	0,0	4	24,50	10	10,2
3	5		Raahul V S	IND	2344	6,0	0,0	3	25,00	20	43,8
4	3	IM	Nitin S.	IND	2381	5,5	0,0	3	21,75	10	12,1
5	6	GM	Dizdarevic Emir	BIH	2423	5,0	0,0	2	20,50	10	-2,3
6	1	GM	Savic Miodrag R	SRB	2433	4,5	0,0	2	16,25	10	-1,2
7	9	IM	Ramoutar Alan-Safar	TTO	2400	3,5	0,0	2	11,75	20	-14,6
8	7		Avinash Ramesh	IND	2424	2,5	0,5	0	11,25	10	-23,7
9	4	FM	Mahitosh Dey	IND	2229	2,5	0,5	0	11,00	20	2,6
10	10	IM	Panic Nenad	SRB	2326	2,0	0,0	2	5,00	10	-11,9