Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta won the 2015 Commonwealth Chess Championship after settling for a quick draw with Arghyadip Das in the ninth and final round of the event.
The 2015 Commonwealth Chess Championship was held from 22-30th June at Hotel Park Plaza, Shahdara, New Delhi, India.
The event has attracted 298 participants from 11 federations, including 23 Grandmasters and 30 International Masters. Full standings below.
Abhijeet Gupta lifting the trophy
Gupta, a winner of this event in 2013 in Port Elizabeth, regained the crown with a very impressive eight points out of a possible nine, winning the first seven games in the championship and drawing the last two with utmost ease.
“I guess I was doing well right from the start, I got off with some victories and it was nice to win seven games in a row, I could not remember the last time I did that in any International event. I guess my seventh round victory was the most important and it came rather quickly as Deep Sengupta was not so well prepared which I found a bit unusual but obviously took it!” said Gupta on his excellent victory.
Arghyadip Das came second winning the silver ahead of M R Lalith Babu who won his game to claim the Bronze medal.
In the Women’s section, Padmini Rout, S Vijayalakshmi and S Meenakshi all won their games to take the medals.
As the tie was resolved Rout won the gold, Vijayalakshmi won silver while Meenakshi won the bronze.
Final standings:
1 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2605 – 8
2 IM Das Arghyadip IND 2459 – 7.5
3 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2563 – 7.5
4 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2497 – 7.5
5 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2571 – 7
6 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 2420 – 7
7 GM Karthikeyan Murali IND 2502 – 7
8 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. IND 2504 – 7
9 IM Padmini Rout IND 2441 – 7
10 IM Mohammad Minhaz Uddin BAN 2439 – 7
11 IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman IND 2342 – 7
12 WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman IND 2153 – 7
13 Visakh Nr IND 2375 – 6.5
14 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2483 – 6.5
15 IM Akash G IND 2354 – 6.5
16 GM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 2461 – 6.5
17 Sanjay N. IND 2310 – 6.5
18 IM Nitin S. IND 2357 – 6.5
19 GM Sriram Jha IND 2396 – 6.5
20 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2500 – 6.5
21 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 2403 – 6.5
22 IM Krishna C.R.G. IND 2393 – 6.5
23 Siva Mahadevan IND 2125 – 6.5
24 Yashas D. IND 2098 – 6.5
25 FM Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H. IND 2341 – 6.5
26 Lakshmi Narayanan M V IND 2193 – 6.5
27 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 2424 – 6.5
28 Singh Y. Dhanabir IND 2125 – 6.5
29 GM Neelotpal Das IND 2462 – 6.5
30 Kumar Gaurav IND 2197 – 6.5
31 Vignesh Nr IND 2399 – 6
32 GM Grover Sahaj IND 2509 – 6
33 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 2457 – 6
34 FM Van Der Nat Nicholas RSA 2348 – 6
35 FM K. Praneeth Surya IND 2305 – 6
36 IM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan IND 2462 – 6
37 Michelle Catherina P IND 2220 – 6
38 Saurabh Anand IND 2049 – 6
39 Dhananjay IND 2222 – 6
40 Jayakumaar S IND 2072 – 6
41 Lokesh N. IND 2163 – 6
42 FM Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari IND 2293 – 6
43 GM Laxman R.R. IND 2417 – 6
44 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 2308 – 6
45 Sai Vishwesh.C IND 2274 – 6
46 Rajdeep Sarkar IND 2263 – 6
47 Iniyan P IND 2171 – 6
48 Prasannaa.S IND 2193 – 6
49 Sammed Jaykumar Shete IND 2071 – 6
50 Bhatt Jalpan IND 2025 – 6
51 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2420 – 5.5
52 Shailesh Dravid IND 2086 – 5.5
53 Athul Krishna S IND 1992 – 5.5
54 Krishna Teja N IND 2263 – 5.5
55 IM Phiri Richmond ZAM 2305 – 5.5
56 Arpan Das IND 2293 – 5.5
57 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 2357 – 5.5
58 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 2332 – 5.5
59 Hemant Sharma (del) IND 2266 – 5.5
60 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 2383 – 5.5
61 Srinath Rao S.V. IND 2204 – 5.5
62 Gusain Himal IND 2308 – 5.5
63 CM Nihal Sarin IND 2096 – 5.5
64 Gajwa Ankit IND 2107 – 5.5
65 Thanki Hemal Karsanji IND 2117 – 5.5
66 FM Ram Aravind L N IND 2179 – 5.5
67 IM Mohota Nisha IND 2277 – 5.5
68 Navalgund Niranjan IND 2258 – 5.5
69 Srijit Paul IND 1881 – 5.5
70 WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 2353 – 5.5
71 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado IND 2212 – 5.5
72 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti IND 2256 – 5.5
73 WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 2363 – 5.5
74 WFM Vaishali R IND 2256 – 5.5
75 IM Tania Sachdev IND 2413 – 5.5
76 Gandhi Anish IND 1946 – 5.5
77 Arjun Kalyan IND 1925 – 5.5
78 Pardeep Arora IND 2032 – 5.5
79 Arvind Shastry IND 2244 – 5.5
80 IM Van Den Heever Donovan RSA 2254 – 5.5
81 Gurung Rakesh IND 2168 – 5.5
82 Sumit Grover IND 2000 – 5.5
83 CM Nitish Belurkar IND 2282 – 5.5
84 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv IND 2176 – 5.5
85 WFM Srija Seshadri IND 2219 – 5.5
86 FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 2103 – 5.5
87 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 2391 – 5
88 Sekar B IND 2194 – 5
89 Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad IND 2178 – 5
90 WIM Pratyusha Bodda IND 2126 – 5
91 IM Akshat Khamparia IND 2401 – 5
92 Aurangabadkar Prasad IND 2015 – 5
93 Abhilash Reddy M.L. IND 2225 – 5
94 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 2279 – 5
95 WFM Saranya J IND 2128 – 5
96 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J IND 2238 – 5
97 Erigaisi Arjun IND 2120 – 5
98 Ajay Krishna S IND 2220 – 5
99 Mota Pankit IND 1850 – 5
100 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 2320 – 5
101 Rakesh Kumar Nayak IND 2132 – 5
102 Sharma Vibhav IND 1738 – 5
103 Ganesh R IND 2139 – 5
104 Shelke Sankarsha IND 1984 – 5
105 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe IND 2092 – 5
106 Harsh Mangesh Ghag IND 1823 – 5
107 Selvabharathy T IND 1971 – 5
108 Shweta Gole IND 1992 – 5
109 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 2101 – 5
110 Subhayan Kundu IND 1801 – 5
111 Vipul Subhashi IND 2152 – 5
112 Anand Nadar IND 1982 – 5
113 Muthaiah Al IND 2159 – 5
114 Patil Pratik IND 2164 – 5
115 Madhurima Shekhar IND 2046 – 5
116 Jyothilal N. IND 2001 – 5
117 Ganguly Ritabroto IND 1924 – 5
118 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 2158 – 5
119 Nandan Buragohain IND 1871 – 5
120 Dhanush Bharadwaj IND 1971 – 5
121 Abhinav Gola IND 1946 – 5
122 Ojas Kulkarni IND 1952 – 5
123 Hemanth Raam IND 2103 – 5
124 WIM Hamid Rani BAN 2023 – 5
125 Kadav Omkar IND 1820 – 5
126 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 2160 – 4.5
127 Ashutosh Kumar IND 1926 – 4.5
128 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 2452 – 4.5
129 Majumdar Chandrasish IND 2165 – 4.5
130 Arjun K IND 2034 – 4.5
131 Abhishek Das IND 2233 – 4.5
132 Aaditya Jagadeesh IND 1892 – 4.5
133 Soham Datar IND 1956 – 4.5
134 Arjun Satheesh IND 1991 – 4.5
135 Alahakoon Isuru SRI 2040 – 4.5
136 Senthil Maran K IND 2063 – 4.5
137 IM Lodhi Mahmood PAK 2339 – 4.5
138 Choudhary Jitendra Kumar IND 2076 – 4.5
139 FM Matta Vinay Kumar IND 2227 – 4.5
140 FM Oberholzer Francois RSA 1930 – 4.5
141 Anustoop Biswas IND 1876 – 4.5
142 Sharma Pankaj IND 1819 – 4.5
143 Soham Das IND 1894 – 4.5
144 Darpan Inani IND 1999 – 4.5
145 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 2117 – 4.5
146 Didwania Vishal IND 1952 – 4.5
147 WFM Tarini Goyal IND 1856 – 4.5
148 WIM Parnali S Dharia IND 2077 – 4.5
149 Chakravarthy Y V K IND 2047 – 4.5
150 Toshali V IND 1853 – 4.5
151 Arka Sengupta IND 1901 – 4.5
152 IM Weerawardane Romesh SRI 2110 – 4.5
153 Kaushik Shubham IND 1888 – 4.5
154 Kishan Gangolli IND 2022 – 4.5
155 Ishaan Bansal IND 1710 – 4.5
156 Nair Sanjeev IND 1827 – 4.5
157 Kumthekar Shubham IND 1922 – 4.5
158 Panesar Vedant IND 1835 – 4.5
159 Satkar Chirag IND 1977 – 4.5
160 Divya Lakshmi R IND 1807 – 4.5
161 Raunak Mondal IND 1767 – 4.5
162 Barath M IND 1943 – 4.5
163 Debashish Dutta IND 2111 – 4.5
Gukesh D IND 1801 – 4.5
165 Santanu Borpatra Gohain IND 2061 – 4.5
166 Ashar Grishma IND 1599 – 4.5
167 Pranav V IND 1496 – 4.5
168 Arjun Adappa IND 2021 – 4.5
169 Sanjeet Manohar IND 1948 – 4.5
170 Prithu Gupta IND 1638 – 4.5
171 FM Tiwari Ashwani IND 2044 – 4.5
172 Deepak Katiyar IND 2144 – 4
173 WCM Ananya Suresh IND 1905 – 4
174 Saksham Rautela IND 1805 – 4
175 Aansh Gupta IND 1915 – 4
176 Aditya Basu IND 1900 – 4
177 Isha Sharma IND 1812 – 4
178 Manush Shah IND 2020 – 4
179 Ritam Nag IND 1864 – 4
180 Saptorshi Gupta IND 1861 – 4
181 Harikrishnan A (kottayam) IND 1694 – 4
182 Rohit Vassan S IND 1847 – 4
183 Likhit Chilukuri IND 1872 – 4
184 Gowtham K K IND 1789 – 4
185 Joshi Abhijeet IND 1871 – 4
186 WCM Tejaswini Sagar IND 2019 – 4
187 Shenvi Pratik IND 1863 – 4
188 Vakil Akhtara IND 1927 – 4
189 Sudarshan Malga IND 2047 – 4
190 Sadhu S Adithya IND 1915 – 4
191 Das Susobhit IND 1788 – 4
192 Krithigga K IND 1686 – 4
193 Rajesh Kumar Nayak IND 1727 – 4
194 Nehete Akshay S IND 1775 – 4
195 Shivam Verma IND 1699 – 4
196 WIM Solomons Anzel RSA 1890 – 4
197 Nishant Malhotra IND 2207 – 4
198 Akil A S J IND 1903 – 4
199 Shreyas S Nikam IND 1716 – 4
200 Vardan Nagpal IND 1706 – 4
201 Sanjay S Pillai IND 1778 – 4
202 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 2094 – 4
203 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman IND 1736 – 4
204 Weerasinghe C C SRI 1700 – 4
205 Ajish A IND 1410 – 4
206 Shubham Shukla IND 1768 – 3.5
207 Adhithya S IND 2115 – 3.5
208 Kamdar Udit IND 1793 – 3.5
209 Manu David Suthandram R IND 1665 – 3.5
210 Jaspreet Singh IND 1635 – 3.5
211 Godbole Atharva IND 2016 – 3.5
212 Manu M IND 1801 – 3.5
213 Shah Rutvi IND 1530 – 3.5
214 Jagdeep Singh Sudan IND 1786 – 3.5
215 Shegaonkar Akshay IND 1751 – 3.5
216 Arijith M IND 1714 – 3.5
217 Ankitha Goud Palle IND 1585 – 3.5
218 Swarup Dey Sarkar IND 1749 – 3.5
219 WFM February Jesse Nikki RSA 1749 – 3.5
220 Priyamvada Karamcheti IND 1741 – 3.5
221 Harshini A IND 1698 – 3.5
222 Anshul Mehta IND 1571 – 3.5
223 Rajarshi Dutta IND 1809 – 3.5
224 CM Modi Sachin RSA 1739 – 3.5
225 Arpan Das (jr) IND 1644 – 3.5
226 Kumar Naveen IND 1636 – 3.5
227 Jatinder Kapoor IND 1777 – 3.5
228 Kolver Chris RSA 1958 – 3.5
229 Dave Sneh IND 1791 – 3.5
230 Dushyant Sharma IND 1652 – 3.5
231 Dave Shiv Shankar IND 1659 – 3.5
232 Beling Ricardo RSA 1699 – 3.5
233 Lim Kian Hwa MAS 1832 – 3.5
234 Devanshi Rathi IND 1594 – 3.5
235 Bathula Abhinav Reddy IND 1811 – 3.5
236 Hanif Mollah BAN 1847 – 3.5
237 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. IND 1587 – 3.5
238 Gopikrishna N. IND 1633 – 3.5
239 Kavisha S Shah IND 1616 – 3.5
240 Dutta Debarghya IND 1404 – 3.5
241 Waqas Ahmad Chaudhary PAK 0 – 3.5
242 GM Koneru Humpy IND 2589 – 3
243 CM Milligan Helen NZL 1982 – 3
244 Sahil Tickoo IND 1894 – 3
245 Thawalampola Banuka Neranjan SRI 1738 – 3
246 Vikash Nishad IND 1631 – 3
247 Panda Raj Santosh IND 1540 – 3
248 Rana Sufyan PAK 0 – 3
249 Kumar Prabhat IND 1650 – 3
250 Samuel Caleb RSA 1707 – 3
251 Van Niekerk Megan RSA 1568 – 3
252 Hardik Joshi IND 1734 – 3
253 WFM Reid Vaness AUS 1859 – 3
254 Shrutarshi Ray IND 1993 – 3
255 Kavya Srishti K IND 1512 – 3
256 Nirmal Kakra IND 1721 – 3
Dinesh Kumar Gupta IND 1571 – 3
258 WIM Chevannes Sabrina L ENG 2228 – 3
259 Joy Pankaj Shah IND 1656 – 3
260 Parvathy S.L IND 1557 – 3
261 Avhra Biswas IND 1497 – 3
262 Wasif Zenobia PAK 1627 – 3
263 Gokulakrishnan.M IND 1626 – 3
264 Kolver Michelle RSA 1540 – 3
265 De Beer Rene RSA 1457 – 3
266 Apeksha Khyati Tigga IND 1271 – 3
267 Aryagopal IND 1372 – 3
268 Shah Anila Kishorekumar IND 1372 – 3
269 CM Ahmed Fuad MDV 1797 – 2.5
270 Potluri Saye Srreezza IND 1762 – 2.5
271 Anil Verma IND 1701 – 2.5
272 Maruthi Mohan IND 1458 – 2.5
273 Raghav Bansal IND 1297 – 2.5
274 Subendu Chakraborty IND 1534 – 2.5
275 Raj Singh IND 1494 – 2.5
276 Pranav Sharma IND 1530 – 2.5
277 Akhilesh K. Srivastava IND 1476 – 2.5
278 Jain Saurabh IND 1217 – 2.5
279 Mehul Pasari IND 1207 – 2.5
280 Akshitha Goud Pally IND 1156 – 2.5
281 Ashwani Kumar Grover IND 1663 – 2
282 Muhammad Haider Ullah Khan PAK 0 – 2
283 Dafal Aishwaryaditya IND 1302 – 2
284 Shah Mihir IND 1360 – 2
285 Sambhav Jain IND 1237 – 2
286 Essop Rashied RSA 0 – 2
287 Shankar Murthy IND 1340 – 2
288 Ismail Zain Mohamed MDV 0 – 2
289 Aditya Mahajan IND 0 – 2
290 Anshul Mahajan IND 0 – 1.5
291 Lourenco Eva NZL 0 – 1.5
292 Ghanira PAK 0 – 1.5
293 GM Vaibhav Suri IND 2551 – 1
294 Vinayak Seth IND 1721 – 1
295 Komal Gupta IND 1045 – 1
296 Aryan Singh IND 0 – 1
297 Mehul Pasari IND 0 – 0
298 Senthil D Y IND 0 – 0