3rd Orissa International GM Open Chess Tournament

Thursday, 02 June 2011 01:45

The 3rd Orissa International GM Open Chess Tournament - KiiT CUP 2011 is taking place from 27th May to 6th June, at the Banquet Hall, KiiT University Campus, Bhubaneswar - 24, Orissa, India. The tournament is organised by the All Orissa Chess Association and KiiT University, Bhubaneswar, under the guidance of All India Chess Federation. The total prize fund is $31,000 approx. Last year winner was Ukrainian Grandmaster Martyn Kravtsiv. GM Panchanathan Magesh Chandran (IND 2539) is leading with 5.5 points from six games. Twelve players follow half a point behind. Official website Top rated players: 1 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2634 ARM 2 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2629 GEO 3 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2628 BLR 4 GM Gupta Abhijeet 2604 IND 5 GM Fier Alexandr 2560 BRA 6 GM Panchanathan Magesh Chandran 2539 IND 7 GM Rahman Ziaur 2534 BAN 8 GM Bakre Tejas 2518 IND 9 GM Arun Prasad S 2495 IND 10 GM Kasparov Sergey 2493 BLR 11 IM Lalith Babu R 2491 IND 12 IM Grover Sahaj 2485 IND 13 GM Hossain Enamul 2478 BAN 14 IM Venkatesh R 2463 IND 15 GM Murshed Niaz 2455 BAN 16 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 2451 IND 17 IM Thejkumar S 2451 IND 18 GM Laxman R R 2446 IND 19 GM Sriram Jha 2446 IND 20 IM Ashwin Jayaram 2439 IND 21 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh R 2425 IND 22 IM Swapnil S Dhopade 2425 IND 23 IM Ravichandran Siddharth 2423 IND 24 IM Tania Sachdev 2416 IND 25 IM Himanshu Sharma 2414 IND 26 IM Rathnakaran K 2414 IND 27 IM Shyam Nikil P 2412 IND 28 Stany G A 2407 IND 29 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya 2406 IND 30 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy 2402 IND