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Indian Premier Chess Championship 2009 |
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Monday, 14 December 2009 13:29 |
Indian Premier Chess Championship 2009
R. Anantharam IA – Chief arbiter
World Under 16 champion for the year 2008, B. Adhiban won the Indian Premier Championship held at Mumbai, the financial capital of India from 1st to 14th December. The tenth seeded seventeen year old International master made mockery of the seeding by winning ahead of ten grandmasters in the field. The trio of Adhiban, current world under 16 champion S.P. Sethuraman and world under 14 champion (2008), fifteen year old Vidt Santosh Gujrathi promise a bright future for Indian chess. All these three international masters have finished 1-2-4, leaving the grandmasters way behind.
Even in the absence of elite players, world champion Viswanathan Anand, super grandmasters Sasikiran, Harikirishna and Surya Shekhar Ganguly and women world number two Koneru Humpy, the tournament was very strong, attracting ten grandmasters and twenty international masters.
Adhiban had a fine run in the middle of the tournament extending his winning streak to five consecutive games, amongst whom, three were grandmaster victims. In the twelfth and penultimate round, he accounted for former world junior champion GM Abhijeet Gupta in a tense game of swinging fortunes to increase his tally to 9.5 points, 1.5 points ahead of the nearest three other players. The victory assured him of the title and the privilege to represent the country in the next Olympiad. Sethuraman settled for a draw with Adhiban in the final round to secure the second position. Grandmaster Sundarrajan Kidambi had a good run in the latter half of the tournament to finish third.
 Final Ranking
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Rank
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SNo.
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Name
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Rtg
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Club
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Pts
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BH.
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1
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10
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IM
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Adhiban B
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2486
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PSPB
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10
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85½
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2
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16
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IM
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Sethuraman S P
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2447
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TN
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8½
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90½
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3
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6
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GM
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Sundararajan Kidambi
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2516
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PSPB
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8½
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89
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4
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14
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IM
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Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
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2459
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PSPB
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8½
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87½
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5
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4
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GM
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Kunte Abhijit
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2522
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PSPB
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8½
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81½
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6
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8
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IM
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Sriram Jha
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2497
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DEL
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8
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96
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7
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3
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GM
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Arun Prasad S
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2570
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PSPB
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8
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95½
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8
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1
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GM
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Geetha Narayanan Gopal
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2593
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PSPB
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8
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92½
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9
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22
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Swapnil S Dhopade
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2406
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MAH
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7½
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89
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10
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2
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GM
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Gupta Abhijeet
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2578
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PSPB
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7½
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87½
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11
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32
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IM
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Priyadharshan K
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2343
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TN
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7½
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83
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12
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26
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IM
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Prathamesh Sunil Mokal
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2382
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MAH
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7½
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79
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13
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13
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GM
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Thipsay Praveen M
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2466
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MAH
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7½
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78
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14
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17
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GM
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Neelotpal Das
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2440
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PSPB
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7
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93½
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15
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7
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GM
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Laxman R R
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2511
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Rlys
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7
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89½
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16
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29
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IM
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Narayanan Srinath
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2370
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TN
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7
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82
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17
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30
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Sangma Rahul
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2368
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DEL
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6½
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83
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18
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12
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IM
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Himanshu Sharma
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2469
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HAR
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6½
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80½
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19
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20
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IM
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Murali Krishnan B T
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2407
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Rlys
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6½
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76½
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20
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18
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IM
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Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi
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2427
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Rlys
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6½
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73½
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