The Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022 got off to a rousing start at Leela Ambience Convention Hotel on Wednesday. 140 players from 13 Asian countries which include 31 Grandmasters, 46 International Masters, 14 Women Grandmasters and 17 Women International Masters (see all participants Open section / all participants Women section) are participating in this nine day long prestigious championship to decide the Asian champion. Apart from Asian supremacy, the event serves as qualification for the next year’s World Cup as the top four players in the Open and two players in the women’s category will secure their berth in the World cup.
Replay games day 1
On the opening day, top seeds and favourites Praggnandhaa and Tania Sachdev started their championship campaign with draws while ninth seed Abhijeet Gupta and women’s second seed Nomin Erdene Davaademberel of Mongolia suffered shock defeats to be the biggest casualties. Turkmenistan’s Saparmyrat Atabayev forced Pragganandhaa to sign the peace treaty after 47 moves while Tania settled for half point against Sakshi Chitlange after 26 moves that ended with three-fold repetition of moves. Gupta suffered a shock defeat by the hand of Amartuvshin Ganzorig of Mongolia and Liya Kurmangaliyeva got the better of Davaademberel.
In other upsets of the day, untitled Sanket Chakravarthy outwitted Grandmaster Arjun Kalyan while Sharan Rao outwitted Grandmaster Deep Sengupta. S Nitin and Moksh Amit Doshi held Kazakh Grandmaster Rinat Jumabayev and fifth seed Aryan Chopra respectively in the first round.
Asian Continental Chess 2022 Open section round 1
1
IM
Atabayev Saparmyrat
TKM
2433
½ – ½
GM
Praggnanandhaa R
IND
2687
2
GM
Narayanan.S.L
IND
2663
1 – 0
IM
Harshavardhan G B
IND
2433
3
IM
Nigmatov Ortik
UZB
2433
½ – ½
GM
Yakubboev Nodirbek
UZB
2663
4
GM
Sethuraman S.P.
IND
2645
1 – 0
Sattarov Bobir
UZB
2433
5
IM
Moksh Amit Doshi
IND
2430
½ – ½
GM
Aryan Chopra
IND
2629
6
GM
Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.
IND
2625
1 – 0
IM
Sammed Jaykumar Shete
IND
2408
7
IM
Anuj Shrivatri
IND
2407
0 – 1
GM
Karthikeyan Murali
IND
2623
8
GM
Jumabayev Rinat
KAZ
2620
½ – ½
IM
Nitin S.
IND
2407
9
IM
Amartuvshin Ganzorig
MGL
2406
1 – 0
GM
Gupta Abhijeet
IND
2607
10
GM
Adhiban B.
IND
2603
1 – 0
GM
Neelotpal Das
IND
2400
11
IM
Shahil Dey
IND
2395
½ – ½
GM
Puranik Abhimanyu
IND
2603
12
GM
Harsha Bharathakoti
IND
2582
½ – ½
GM
Hossain Enamul
BAN
2390
13
IM
Tologon Tegin Semetei
KGZ
2382
0 – 1
GM
Vokhidov Shamsiddin
UZB
2568
14
GM
Visakh N R
IND
2566
0 – 1
FM
Nurmamedov Azat
TKM
2382
15
FM
Singh Ojasva
IND
2382
0 – 1
GM
Mendonca Leon Luke
IND
2558
16
GM
Iniyan P
IND
2541
½ – ½
GM
Laxman R.R.
IND
2378
17
FM
Saydaliev Saidakbar
UZB
2376
1 – 0
IM
Pranav V
IND
2530
18
GM
Arjun Kalyan
IND
2526
0 – 1
Sanket Chakravarty
IND
2372
19
IM
Dushyant Sharma
IND
2370
0 – 1
GM
Shyam Sundar M.
IND
2518
20
IM
De Silva L M S T
SRI
2516
½ – ½
FM
Panda Sambit
IND
2362
21
IM
Krishna Teja N
IND
2359
1 – 0
GM
Sankalp Gupta
IND
2502
22
IM
Pranav Anand
IND
2502
1 – 0
FM
Wagh Suyog
IND
2351
23
FM
Sharan Rao
IND
2350
1 – 0
GM
Sengupta Deep
IND
2497
24
IM
Koustav Chatterjee
IND
2496
+ – –
Utsab Chatterjee
IND
2345
25
IM
Sidhant Mohapatra
IND
2343
½ – ½
IM
Suleymenov Alisher
KAZ
2491
26
IM
Atabayev Yusup
TKM
2490
0 – 1
IM
Viani Antonio Dcunha
IND
2342
27
IM
Avinash Ramesh
IND
2338
½ – ½
IM
Shyaamnikhil P
IND
2489
28
GM
Batchuluun Tsegmed
MGL
2487
1 – 0
FM
Ritviz Parab
IND
2337
29
IM
Raahul V S
IND
2333
½ – ½
GM
Karthik Venkataraman
IND
2486
30
IM
Aditya Mittal
IND
2486
1 – 0
IM
Manish Anto Cristiano F
IND
2332
31
IM
Ratnakaran K.
IND
2329
½ – ½
IM
Vignesh N R
IND
2486
32
GM
Atabayev Maksat
TKM
2475
1 – 0
FM
Aaryan Varshney
IND
2312
33
FM
Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan
SRI
2310
0 – 1
GM
Chanda Sandipan
IND
2474
34
GM
Mitrabha Guha
IND
2474
1 – 0
IM
Chakravarthi Reddy M
IND
2301
35
FM
Jain Kashish Manoj
IND
2300
0 – 1
GM
Raja Rithvik R
IND
2470
36
GM
Venkatesh M.R.
IND
2470
1 – 0
FM
Kakabayev Mergen
TKM
2285
37
FM
Aradhya Garg
IND
2284
0 – 1
GM
Bilguun Sumiya
MGL
2467
38
IM
Samant Aditya S
IND
2467
½ – ½
FM
Ayush Sharma
IND
2267
39
IM
Sharma Dinesh K.
IND
2242
0 – 1
IM
Urazayev Arystanbek
KAZ
2458
40
IM
Abdisalimov Abdimalik
UZB
2457
0 – 1
CM
Muradov Soltan
TKM
2233
41
FM
Winkelman Albert
AUS
2229
1 – 0
IM
Prraneeth Vuppala
IND
2451
42
IM
Vaishali R
IND
2451
0 – 1
IM
Saravana Krishnan P.
IND
2197
43
Schain Randolph
CAM
2165
0 – 1
IM
Pranesh M
IND
2442
44
IM
Ajay Karthikeyan
IND
2441
½ – ½
FM
Jaiswal Rupesh
NEP
2135
45
Dang Vu Dung
VIE
2017
0 – 1
IM
Srihari L R
IND
2436
46
IM
Nitish Belurkar
IND
2435
1 – 0
FM
Muhammed Shuaau
MDV
2010
Asian Continental Chess 2022 Women section round 1
1
WIM
Chitlange Sakshi
IND
2208
½ – ½
IM
Tania Sachdev
IND
2406
2
IM
Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel
MGL
2404
0 – 1
FM
Kurmangaliyeva Liya
KAZ
2199
3
WGM
Srija Seshadri
IND
2187
½ – ½
IM
Padmini Rout
IND
2390
4
IM
Kulkarni Bhakti
IND
2376
1 – 0
IM
Mohota Nisha
IND
2181
5
WIM
Mrudul Dehankar
IND
2168
½ – ½
WGM
Vantika Agrawal
IND
2362
6
WGM
Yakubbaeva Nilufar
UZB
2350
½ – ½
WIM
Aakanksha Hagawane
IND
2162
7
WIM
Bommini Mounika Akshaya
IND
2160
0 – 1
WGM
Divya Deshmukh
IND
2338
8
IM
Karavade Eesha
IND
2336
½ – ½
WFM
Harshini A
IND
2149
9
WGM
Varshini V
IND
2137
½ – ½
WGM
Vo Thi Kim Phung
VIE
2335
10
IM
Soumya Swaminathan
IND
2326
1 – 0
WIM
Parnali S Dharia
IND
2136
11
WIM
Tejaswini Sagar
IND
2112
0 – 1
WGM
Priyanka Nutakki
IND
2326
12
WGM
Gomes Mary Ann
IND
2324
1 – 0
WIM
Priyanka K
IND
2096
13
WIM
Makhija Aashna
IND
2090
½ – ½
WGM
Nandhidhaa P V
IND
2309
14
WGM
Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii
MGL
2295
0 – 1
WGM
Swati Ghate
IND
2086
15
WFM
Ovezdurdyyeva Jemal
TKM
2061
½ – ½
WGM
Dauletova Gulmira
KAZ
2260
16
WIM
Cholleti Sahajasri
IND
2246
0 – 1
WGM
Kiran Manisha Mohanty
IND
2030
17
Veliyeva Hurma
TKM
2003
½ – ½
WIM
Arpita Mukherjee
IND
2238
18
WIM
Sharma Isha
IND
2234
½ – ½
WFM
Lakshmi C
IND
1965
19
Ishvi Aggarwal
IND
1964
0 – 1
WIM
Kairbekova Amina
KAZ
2231
20
WIM
Balabayeva Xeniya
KAZ
2230
1 – 0
WFM
Zairbek Kyzy Begimai
KGZ
1930
21
WIM
Nguyen Thanh Thuy Tien
VIE
1910
0 – 1
WIM
Rakshitta Ravi
IND
2219
22
WFM
Munkhzul Davaakhuu
MGL
2218
0 – 1
WCM
Jannatul Ferdous
BAN
1861
23
WFM
Shohradova Lala
TKM
1856
0 – 1
WGM
Nguyen Thi Mai Hung
VIE
2217
24
WFM
Pandey Srishti
IND
2213
+ – –
WFM
Lohani Sujana
NEP
1716
25
WIM
Ranasinghe S D
SRI
1675
0 – 1
WIM
Salonika Saina
IND
2209
