The 13th KIIT International Chess Festival 2022 takes place from 22nd to 29th May 2022 at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The event is played in 3 categories: A, B (U1900) and C (U1600), with more than 700 participants and the total prize fund of ₹2500000 (~30.000 euros).
The A category attracted 175 entries who will battle it out in 10 rounds, swiss system. The top seeds are GM Farrukh Amonatov, GM Luka Paichadze, and GM Alexei Fedorov.
Starting rank list of players – 13th KIIT Chess Festival A category:
No.
Name
FED
Rtg
1
GM
Amonatov Farrukh
TJK
2622
2
GM
Paichadze Luka
GEO
2567
3
GM
Fedorov Alexei
BLR
2529
4
GM
Savchenko Boris
RUS
2524
5
GM
Aleksandrov Aleksej
BLR
2492
6
IM
Nikitenko Mihail
BLR
2479
7
GM
Mirzoev Azer
AZE
2476
8
GM
Stupak Kirill
BLR
2440
9
GM
Rahman Ziaur
BAN
2431
10
GM
Laxman R.R.
IND
2420
11
IM
Azaladze Shota
GEO
2420
12
IM
Nitin S.
IND
2399
13
IM
Gusain Himal
IND
2396
14
IM
Audi Ameya
IND
2389
15
GM
Karthikeyan P.
IND
2361
16
IM
Abdyjapar Asyl
KGZ
2346
17
FM
Rohith Krishna S
IND
2337
18
IM
Konguvel Ponnuswamy
IND
2331
19
IM
Sidhant Mohapatra
IND
2327
20
FM
Aaryan Varshney
IND
2308
21
WIM
Arpita Mukherjee
IND
2275
22
IM
Saravana Krishnan P.
IND
2269
23
IM
Sangma Rahul
IND
2232
24
GM
Ziatdinov Raset
USA
2224
25
Baivab Mishra
IND
2219
26
Dhananjay S
IND
2218
27
CM
Nayak Rajesh
IND
2179
28
Alekhya Mukhopadhyay
IND
2162
29
Rohit S
IND
2141
30
FM
Ram Aravind L N
IND
2116
31
WGM
Kiran Manisha Mohanty
IND
2098
32
Santu Mondal
IND
2097
33
Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi
IND
2074
34
IM
Manish Anto Cristiano F
IND
2071
35
Praloy Sahoo
IND
2065
36
Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U
IND
2064
37
Rakesh Kumar Nayak
IND
2053
38
IM
Sahu Sekhar Chandra
IND
2050
39
CM
Aaditya Dhingra
IND
2042
40
Garv Rai
IND
2033
41
IM
Weerawardane Romesh
SRI
2027
42
Krishnan Ritvik
IND
2023
43
Harini S.
IND
2021
44
CM
Mayank Chakraborty
IND
2015
45
Chakrabarty Debasis
IND
2008
46
IM
Hegde Ravi Gopal
IND
2001
47
Shaik Sumer Arsh
IND
1999
48
CM
Kavinda Akila
SRI
1996
49
Pattnayak Nilsu
IND
1992
50
AGM
Sahib Singh
IND
1991
51
AFM
Pawar Harshit
IND
1961
52
Atul Kumar
IND
1953
53
Koustav Chakraborty
IND
1945
54
Priyankara Chamil
SRI
1938
55
Ankit Ray
IND
1932
56
Soham Dey
IND
1928
57
Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni
IND
1912
58
Koustuv Dash
IND
1910
59
Soni Krishan
IND
1904
60
Tarun V
IND
1903
61
Ayush Jha
IND
1900
62
Adireddy Arjun
IND
1898
63
WCM
Bristy Mukherjee
IND
1887
64
Mahendra Teja Mekala
IND
1871
65
WFM
Baghirova Khatun
AZE
1866
66
Aditya P Melani
IND
1855
67
Jodunath Biswas
BAN
1852
68
Meenal Gupta
IND
1845
69
Velpula Sarayu
IND
1845
70
Ghosh Samriddhaa
IND
1844
71
Tiwari Shivansh
IND
1838
72
Jaiveer Mahendru
IND
1832
73
Swayham P Das
IND
1825
74
Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar
IND
1816
75
Sunyasakta Satpathy
IND
1811
76
Tamhankar Siddhant
IND
1802
77
Setumadhav Yellumahanthi
IND
1801
78
Daksh Goyal
IND
1795
79
Smaraki Mohanty
IND
1794
80
Md Bashiq Imrose
IND
1792
81
Bagwe Gaurang
IND
1789
82
Gavi Siddayya
IND
1789
83
Jain Adi
IND
1788
84
Singh Neha
IND
1780
85
Samal Ansuman
IND
1776
86
Rupam Mukherjee
IND
1768
87
Sachi Jain
IND
1768
88
Hriday Panchal
IND
1766
89
Nirnay Garg
IND
1755
90
Priansh Das
IND
1754
91
Jain Kushagra
IND
1749
92
Soboleva Anastasia
RUS
1744
93
Sriansh Das
IND
1731
94
Liyanage Pesandu Rashmitha
SRI
1730
95
Kanishka S
IND
1723
96
Rout Yashita
IND
1718
97
Boramanikar Tanisha S
IND
1716
98
Anish Rooj
IND
1711
99
Shounak Mazumder
IND
1709
100
Bajaj Prakhar
IND
1699
101
Arnab Debnath
IND
1691
102
Shadhursshaan R
IND
1690
103
Nayak Sajan Kumar
IND
1681
104
Badamundi Tapan
IND
1663
105
Anushka Gupta
IND
1658
106
WCM
Chinnam Vyshnavi
IND
1657
107
Mrinmoy Rajkhowa
IND
1652
108
Darsh Shetty
IND
1645
109
Harshit Ranjan Sahu
IND
1645
110
Ritabrata Chakraborty
IND
1639
111
Shaati Majumder
IND
1631
112
Sathvik Adiga
IND
1607
113
Daaevik Wadhawan
IND
1603
114
Aagam Aditya E
IND
1600
115
Reyan Md.
IND
1590
116
Rajanya Datta
IND
1589
117
Akshath Sinha
IND
1580
118
Sinthia Sarkar
IND
1569
119
Jena Suhana
IND
1567
120
Kotikalapudi Aditya Krishna
USA
1566
121
Sayandeep Roy
IND
1565
122
Mummana Venkata Ruthvik
IND
1543
123
Kalyani Sirin
IND
1542
124
Panda Priyabrata
IND
1538
125
Vakcheri Mohitha
IND
1534
126
Subhrajit Dey
IND
1528
127
AFM
Suriya S V
IND
1500
128
Mahith Giridhar
IND
1497
129
Aarav Sinha
IND
1488
130
Alluri Bhaskara Ratna Shanmukha Reddy
IND
1478
131
Ayushman Mohanty
IND
1476
132
Avigyan Ghosh
IND
1475
133
Swara Lakshmi S Nair
IND
1472
134
Arshiya Das
IND
1456
135
Uddipan Roy
IND
1453
136
Eshan Bhattacharjee
IND
1440
137
Vignesh Advaith Vemula
IND
1437
138
Ashvath Mittal
IND
1419
139
Srijak Sengupta
IND
1413
140
Mayukh Majumder
IND
1406
141
Keerthana B
IND
1403
142
Suryapranjal Indrajeet S P
IND
1401
143
Shubh Kapur
IND
1396
144
Saparya Ghosh
IND
1394
145
Apaar Saxena
IND
1391
146
Sani Deshpande
IND
1388
147
Ujaan Bhattacharya
IND
1380
148
Andalamala Hemal Varshan
IND
1376
149
Gairick Saha
IND
1368
150
Dissanayake D M Madushan Sameera
SRI
1351
151
Rangeet Majumdar
IND
1349
152
AIM
Banik Hrishikesh Kumar
IND
1342
153
Shashank K
IND
1339
154
Soyam Laxmidatt D Sabat
IND
1336
155
Prishita Gupta
IND
1326
156
Satyam Sarbajit Mishra
IND
1324
157
Sri Charan Sandipagu
IND
1324
158
Oishik Kundu
IND
1318
159
Sevitha Viju M
IND
1312
160
Arushi Srichandan
IND
1292
161
Nithik Reddy Bhavanam
IND
1285
162
Raina Das Gupta
IND
1266
163
Nargis Kaumudi
BAN
1255
164
AFM
Mithun Pranav
IND
1252
165
Lasani H Kothari
IND
1244
166
Abhishek Shankar
IND
1230
167
Vatsal Singla
IND
1223
168
Kaumina M Yashika
SRI
1175
169
AFM
Tanishq Saini
IND
1170
170
Jahaann Goel
IND
1168
171
Chatterjee Anantyoya
IND
1161
172
Anishka Pandey
IND
1138
173
Makam Rishi Manohar
IND
0
174
Omkar Sameer Talwalkar
IND
0
175
Saswat Subhajyoti
IND
0