Mayor's Chess Cup: Belarus GM Aleksej Aleksandrov defends title successfully

Aleksej Aleksandrov

Belarus Grandmaster, Aleksej Aleksandrov successfully defended his title by winning the Mumbai Mayor’s Cup on Friday. LIC of India co-sponsored the event and it was organised by the Venus Chess Academy. Aleksandrov beat Mark Paragua of Philippines in the last round to finish the tournament with 9.5 points and retain his title along with a prize money of about $6000.

The prize money for the second place, about $3000, was shared by Russia’s Andrei Deviatkin, Bangladesh’s Ziaur Rahman and Hungary’s Attila Czebe. All three had scored 9 points each. The fifth to ninth places went to Russia’s Nikolai Chadaev, Philippines’ John Paul Gomez, India’s B Adhiban, Belarus’ Kirill Stupak and India’s Debashis Das. All of them scored 8.5 points. India’s Abhijit Kunte was tenth with 8 points.

Final standings:

1 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2606 – 9.52 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 2577 – 93 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2520 – 94 GM Czebe Attila HUN 2475 – 95 GM Chadaev Nikolai RUS 2563 – 8.56 GM Gomez John Paul PHI 2507 – 8.57 GM Adhiban B IND 2555 – 8.58 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 2513 – 8.59 IM Debashis Das IND 2425 – 8.510 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2538 – 811 IM Vaibhav Suri IND 2485 – 812 GM Paragua Mark PHI 2521 – 813 GM Sriram Jha IND 2436 – 814 IM Udeshi Aditya IND 2352 – 815 Gusain Himal IND 2271 – 816 WGM Gara Ticia HUN 2365 – 817 Harihara Sudan M IND 2039 – 818 IM Grover Sahaj IND 2506 – 7.519 GM Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2449 – 7.520 IM Praveen Kumar C IND 2342 – 7.521 IM Ravi Lanka IND 2324 – 7.522 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J IND 2461 – 7.523 CM Prince Bajaj IND 2255 – 7.524 FM Rajesh V A V IND 2364 – 7.525 Nimmy A G IND 2199 – 7.526 Ram S Krishnan IND 2303 – 7.527 GM Podolchenko Evgeniy BLR 2464 – 7.528 G Akash IND 2275 – 7.529 Sagar Shah IND 2301 – 7.530 Abhishek Kelkar IND 2134 – 7.531 Saravana Krishnan P IND 2326 – 7.532 Kunal M IND 2250 – 7.533 WGM Padmini Rout IND 2345 – 7.534 Sanjay N IND 2343 – 7.535 IM Murali Krishnan B T IND 2337 – 7.536 Lokesh P IND 2231 – 7.537 IM Tilak Sharad S IND 2287 – 7.538 GM Barbosa Oliver PHI 2550 – 7.539 IM Singh D P IND 2278 – 7.540 Phadke Sohan IND 2266 – 7.541 IM Shivananda B S IND 2363 – 7.542 Purushothaman T IND 2241 – 743 Mithil Ajgaonkar IND 2155 – 744 IM Vishnu Prasanna V IND 2431 – 745 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 2370 – 746 Akash Pc Iyer IND 2190 – 747 IM Situru Muhammad Ivan INA 2290 – 748 Karthikeyan Murali IND 2329 – 749 FM Chatterjee Debaraj BAN 2316 – 750 Bai Jinshi CHN 2262 – 751 FM Das Sayantan IND 2251 – 752 Krishna C R G IND 2326 – 753 Anurag Mhamal IND 2295 – 754 Rishi Sardana IND 2066 – 755 Bartakke Amardeep S IND 2187 – 756 Nishant Malhotra IND 2031 – 757 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2424 – 758 IM Gara Anita HUN 2329 – 759 Gajwa Ankit IND 1987 – 760 Deepthamsh Reddy M IND 2103 – 761 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 2361 – 762 Vignesh Nr IND 2103 – 763 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