{"id":2009,"date":"2012-01-15T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2012-01-15T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T14:49:23","slug":"chanda-gets-to-winning-start-at-parsvnath-international-open-grandmasters-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"Chanda gets to winning start at Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/gm%20aleksandrov%20aleksej%20of%20belarus.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belaurs \" width=\"258\" height=\"208\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi: <\/strong>The  10th edition of prestigious Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters  Chess Tournament got off to a rousing start at the Ludlow Castle Sports  Complex, Civil Lines on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>As expected almost all the top  seeded players of the tournament, which include 19 Grandmasters, posted  easy victories to advance to the second round with full points in their  kitty. Top seed Indian Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda defeat Rajesh Kumar  Nath while second seed Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belaurs had an easy outing  against local lad Pavit Singh and third seed Ukrainian Grandmaster  Kravtsiv Martyn made short work of Shyam Shetye. Among the Indian  players, former national champions Grandmasters Abhijit Kunte and  Praveen Thipsay started their tournament campaign on winning note as  they defeated R Salini and Ravindra Dange respectively in the first  round.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The surprises of the round came in the form of draws as International  Masters Swapnil Dhopade and P Karthikeyan were denied victories by  their lower rated opponents SBV Nair and local youngster Sarthak Mahajan  respectively in the opening round. <\/p>\n<p>The second round of this  tournament, in which 302 players of 14 different countries are  participating, was still in progress at the time of latest report.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier  in a colourful opening ceremony, Smt. Rashmi Singh, Director Government  of Delhi inaugurated the event by making the customary first move in  presence of Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary All India Chess  Federation.<br \/> <strong><br \/>Important Results\u00a0 : Round- 1<\/strong> (Indians otherwise  stated) :-\u00a0 Rajesh Kumar Nath (0) lost to GM Sandipan Chanda (1); GM  Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus (1) beat Pavit Singh (0); Shetye Shyam  (0) lost to GM Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine (1); GM Mikhail Ulibin of  Russia (1) beat Rajkumar S Singha (0); Kuldeep Kashyap (0) lost to GM  Andrei Deviatkin of Russia (1); GM Barbosa Oliver of Philippines (1)  beat Rajarishi Karthi (0); Anil Verma (0) lost to GM Evgeny Gleizerov of  Russia (1); GM Mikhailo Olekseienko of Ukraine (1) beat Pallavi Dutta  (0); Salini R (0) lost to GM Abhijit Kunte (1); GM Henrik Danielsen of  Iceland (1) beat D K Chopra (0); Manan Rai (0) lost to GM Mark Paraguaof  Philippines (1); GM Richard Bitoon of Philippines (1) beat Aradhya Garg  (0); Hussain S R (0) lost to IM Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (1); GM Gomez  John Paul of Philippines (1) beat Kumar Gaurav (0); Amrendra Kumar (0)  lost to IM Kirill Kuderinov of Kazakhstan (1); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy  (1) beat Mukesh Chandra Joshi (0); Saksham Dewan (0) lost to IM Lalith  Babu M R (1); IM Shyam Nikil P (1) beat Dinesh Kumar Gupta (0); Rakesh  Gurung (0) lost to GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan (1); Ma Qun of China  (1) beat Saurabh Anand (0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/gm%20aleksandrov%20aleksej%20of%20belarus.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belaurs \" width=\"258\" height=\"208\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi: <\/strong>The  10th edition of prestigious Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters  Chess Tournament got off to a rousing start at the Ludlow Castle Sports  Complex, Civil Lines on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>As expected almost all the top  seeded players of the tournament, which include 19 Grandmasters, posted  easy victories to advance to the second round with full points in their  kitty. Top seed Indian Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda defeat Rajesh Kumar  Nath while second seed Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belaurs had an easy outing  against local lad Pavit Singh and third seed Ukrainian Grandmaster  Kravtsiv Martyn made short work of Shyam Shetye. Among the Indian  players, former national champions Grandmasters Abhijit Kunte and  Praveen Thipsay started their tournament campaign on winning note as  they defeated R Salini and Ravindra Dange respectively in the first  round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chess-chess"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chanda gets to winning start at Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chanda gets to winning start at Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: The 10th edition of prestigious Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament got off to a rousing start at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, Civil Lines on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 As expected almost all the top seeded players of the tournament, which include 19 Grandmasters, posted easy victories to advance to the second round with full points in their kitty. 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