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The 1st SOA Grandmasters Chess Open with $42,000 in prizes

by L'immortale

The 1st SOA International Grandmasters Open Chess Tournament will be held from January 28 to February 4 at the SOA University campus in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

The event has three rating categories: Open A (for players rated 1900+), Open B (for players rated U2000) and Open C (for players rated U1600) with a total prize fund of 32,00,000 Indian rupees (~40,000 USD). The Open A tournament will be played in 10 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment, and features a prize pool of 20,00,000 Indian rupees (~24,000 USD).

Nearly 100 players from 13 countries registered for the Open A, and the top-seeds are GM Diptayan Ghosh (India, 2568), GM Adham Fawzy (Egypt, 2522) and GM Sayantan Das (India, 2514). The complete starting list of players can be found below. Live games can be followed here.

Tournament schedule:

The event is organized by All Odisha Chess Association (AOCA), under the aegis of All India Chess Federation, FIDE, and it’s supported by Slksha o Anusandhan (SOA University), Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Odisha and Sports Authority of India. Detailed information about the event can be found here.

The 1st SOA International Grandmasters Open A – Starting list of players:

No. NameFEDRtg
1GMGhosh, DiptayanIND2568
2GMFawzy, AdhamEGY2522
3GMDas, SayantanIND2514
4GMSavchenko, BorisRUS2489
5GMFedorov, AlexeiBLR2457
6IMNeelash, SahaIND2446
7IMSammed Jaykumar, SheteIND2441
8IMNitish, BelurkarIND2435
9IMTahbaz, ArashIRI2425
10 Kaustuv, KunduIND2423
11IMSidhant, MohapatraIND2421
12FMAdireddy, ArjunIND2415
13FMNamitbir, Singh WaliaIND2408
14IMPanda, SambitIND2404
15IMRitviz, ParabIND2391
16IMAudi, AmeyaIND2385
17 Subhayan, KunduIND2385
18IMTologon Tegin, SemeteiKGZ2384
19FMAyush, SharmaIND2378
20GMGonzales, JaysonPHI2367
21IMLiyanage, Ranindu DilshanSRI2366
22GMNguyen, Van HuyVIE2364
23IMShahil, DeyIND2363
24IMManish, Anto Cristiano FIND2349
25CMSoham, KamotraIND2348
26GMLaxman, R.R.IND2338
27IMRajesh, V A VIND2331
28FMJaiveer, MahendruIND2294
29IMUtsab, ChatterjeeIND2290
30FMGoutham, Krishna HIND2288
31GMRoy Chowdhury, SaptarshiIND2233
32 Ajay, Santhosh ParvathareddyIND2204
33WGMFrayna, Janelle MaePHI2197
34 Dere, PushkarIND2191
35WFMNilssen, Ellen FredericiaDEN2184
36 Alekhya, MukhopadhyayIND2184
37 Aakash Sharadchandra, DalviIND2180
38 Nithin, BabuIND2177
39IMSarwat, WalaaEGY2175
40CMNayak, RajeshIND2170
41AGMAquino, Jethro DinoPHI2166
42IMElgabry, MohsenEGY2160
43FMDhananjay, SIND2151
44WIMFronda, Jan JodilynPHI2151
45IMMohota, NishaIND2147
46 Sathvik, AdigaIND2142
47IMSobh, AmrouEGY2117
48WIMSalonika, SainaIND2113
49CMJohn, Veny AkkarakaranIND2112
50IMAndyka, PitraINA2105
51WIMPriyanka, KIND2068
52CMNimay, AgrawalIND2067
53 Sambarta, BanerjeeIND2064
54CMVaibhav, Jayant RautIND2052
55 Vrashank, ChouhanIND2046
56CMBarath, Kalyan MIND2040
57 Mahindrakar, IndrajeetIND2039
58 Vignesh, Advaith VemulaIND2028
59AIMAbhay, BandewarIND2025
60 Jai, Sankar SubramanianIND2025
61 Patil, PriyanshuIND2022
62 Roneet, DasIND2018
63WIMGalas, BernadettePHI2012
64FMJaiswal, RupeshNEP2009
65 Dhrupad, KashyapIND1998
66 Daaevik, WadhawanIND1997
67WFMFredericia, LouiseDEN1990
68 Pattnayak, NilsuIND1987
69 Aarav, SinhaIND1981
70 Kumar, GauravIND1953
71 Chandar, RajuIND1950
72 Sadbhav, RautelaIND1949
73 Setumadhav, YellumahanthiIND1948
74 Arpan, DasIND1947
75 Bhosale, ShrirajIND1946
76AFMPawar, HarshitIND1945
77 Sharnarthi, VireshIND1945
78 Jani, Kushal RIND1943
79 Tamhankar, SiddhantIND1943
80 Abel, SajanIND1942
81 Binu, DevduttIND1937
82CMVivaan, Vijay SaraogiIND1919
83IMRamnathan, BalasubramaniamIND1916
84 Majumder, ShrayanIND1916
85WCMCharvi, AIND1915
86WFMShubhi, GuptaIND1913
87 Ankit, RayIND1912
88 Priansh, DasIND1910
89AIMDabhade, ArnavIND1909
90 Jake, ShantyIND1903
91 Tiwari, ShivanshIND1902
92 Nikhil, MIND1900
93WFMSinggih, Diajeng TheresaINA1867
94WIMRanasinghe, S DSRI1667
95 Kolomwe, WillianZAM1625
96 Soboleva, AnastasiaRUS1595

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