1st Chola Chess Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2026 · 1st Chola Chess Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2026

1st Chola Chess Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2026 — 1st Chola Chess Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2026 Round 2

Best game of the round

GM Murali Karthikeyan (2647) vs IM Apoorv Kamble (2454), 1-0, Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, Bastrikov Variation — replay the game

GM Chithambaram VR. Aravindh (2677) – GM Sandipan Chanda (2470) 1-0 game
GM Boris Savchenko (2492) – GM Pranesh M (2674) 1/2-1/2 game
GM Murali Karthikeyan (2647) – IM Apoorv Kamble (2454) 1-0 game
IM Sriram Adarsh Uppala (2446) – GM Leon Luke Mendonca (2629) 0-1 game
GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (2613) – GM Mihail Nikitenko (2416) 1-0 game
FM John Veny Akkarakaran (2391) – GM Pa Iniyan (2581) 0-1 game
FM Madhesh Kumar S (2327) – GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2562) 0-1 game
GM Narayanan S L (2557) – GM Raahul V S (2393) 1/2-1/2 game
FM Sarbartho Mani (2311) – GM Dimitris Alexakis (2536) 1-0 game
FM Samyak Dharewa (2301) – IM Ethan Vaz (2525) 1-0 game
GM Ilamparthi A R (2523) – FM Adhiraj Mitra (2318) 1-0 game
GM B. Adhiban (2574) – IM Tirta Chandra Purnama (2286) 1-0 game
FM Aadik Theophane Lenin (2354) – GM Karthik Venkataraman (2556) 1/2-1/2 game
GM Aronyak Ghosh (2546) – IM Panda Sambit (2365) 1-0 game
IM Manish Anto Cristiano F (2360) – GM Nikita Afanasiev (2543) 1/2-1/2 game
GM S Aswath (2540) – FM Avirat Chauhan (2359) 1-0 game
GM Harshavardhan G B (2529) – FM Advik Amit Agrawal (2351) 1-0 game
FM Aarit Kapil (2335) – GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (2517) 1/2-1/2 game
GM Vignesh N R (2513) – IM Mendes Aaron Reeve (2340) 1/2-1/2 game
FM Vandan Alankar Sawai (2337) – GM Mayank Chakraborty (2511) 0-1 game