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 9
Best game of the round
GM Mayank Chakraborty (2521) vs IM Nayaka Budhidharma (2397), 1-0, King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Classical Fianchetto — replay the game
Critical game
GM Pranesh M (2673) vs GM Pa Iniyan (2581), 1-0, Sicilian Defense: Closed — replay the game
Biggest upset
GM Leon Luke Mendonca (2617) vs FM Sharnarthi Viresh (2326), 0-1, Nimzowitsch Defense: Scandinavian Variation, Advance Variation — replay the game
Games
- GM Pranesh M (2673) – GM Pa Iniyan (2581) 1-0 game
- GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (2553) – GM Narayanan S L (2561) 1/2-1/2 game
- IM Ethan Vaz (2511) – GM Chithambaram VR. Aravindh (2673) 0-1 game
- GM Leon Luke Mendonca (2617) – FM Sharnarthi Viresh (2326) 0-1 game
- GM Ilamparthi A R (2513) – GM Aronyak Ghosh (2546) 1-0 game
- GM Levan Pantsulaia (2498) – GM Murali Karthikeyan (2658) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2562) – GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (2414) 1-0 game
- GM Mamikon Gharibyan (2493) – GM Nikita Afanasiev (2527) 0-1 game
- GM Boris Savchenko (2492) – GM S Aswath (2537) 0-1 game
- GM Harshavardhan G B (2542) – GM Mihail Nikitenko (2427) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Mayank Chakraborty (2521) – IM Nayaka Budhidharma (2397) 1-0 game
- FM Madhvendra Pratap Sharma (2373) – GM Alisher Suleymenov (2508) 0-1 game
- IM Vignesh Advaith Vemula (2395) – GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (2609) 0-1 game
- GM Raahul V S (2409) – GM Luka Paichadze (2471) 0-1 game
- FM Fabian Glen Mariano (2311) – IM Sriram Adarsh Uppala (2426) 1/2-1/2 game
- IM Ayush Sharma (2440) – FM Aadik Theophane Lenin (2267) 1-0 game
- GM Sandipan Chanda (2472) – IM Daaevik Wadhawan (2375) 1-0 game
- IM Sahib Singh (2402) – GM B. Adhiban (2573) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Vignesh N R (2513) – IM Manish Anto Cristiano F (2362) 1/2-1/2 game
Standings after round 9
- Pranesh M
- Aravindh, Chithambaram VR.
- Narayanan S L
- Bernadskiy, Vitaliy
- Ilamparthi A R
- Iniyan, Pa
- Ganguly, Surya Shekhar
- Aswath, S
- Afanasiev, Nikita
- Mayank Chakraborty