GM Sayantan Das wins SOA Grandmasters Chess Open 2024

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

GM Sayantan Das (India, 2514) emerged as the Winner of the main Open A, scoring 8/10 points. Sayantan had a slow start, losing his second-round game to WFM Ellen Fredericia Nilssen (Denmark, 2184), but bounced back and scored 7 points in the last eight rounds to be the sole winner of the event and pocket the money prize of $3,600. All games from the event can be replayed here.

Three players tied for second place scoring 7.5 points each: GM Diptayan Ghosh (India, 2568), IM Sambit Panda (India, 2404) and IM Saha Neelash (India, 2446). Diptayan Ghosh had the best tiebreaks to claim silver, Sambit Panda came third and Saha Neelash finished the event in the fourth place. The final standings can be seen below

SOA Grandmasters Chess Open 2024 – Final standings:

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	Pts.
1	GM	Das Sayantan	2514	IND	8
2	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	2568	IND	7.5
3	IM	Panda Sambit	2404	IND	7.5
4	IM	Neelash Saha	2446	IND	7.5
5	CM	Soham Kamotra	2348	IND	7
6	IM	Shahil Dey	2363	IND	7
7	AGM	Aquino Jethro Dino	2166	PHI	7
8	GM	Laxman R.R.	2338	IND	7
9	IM	Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan	2366	SRI	7
10		Vignesh Advaith Vemula	2028	IND	6.5
11	IM	Tahbaz Arash	2425	IRI	6.5
12	GM	Nguyen Van Huy	2364	VIE	6.5
13		Subhayan Kundu	2385	IND	6.5
14	CM	John Veny Akkarakaran	2112	IND	6.5
15	GM	Savchenko Boris	2489	RUS	6.5
16		Nithin Babu	2177	IND	6.5
17	IM	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2441	IND	6.5
18	IM	Tologon Tegin Semetei	2384	KGZ	6
19	GM	Fawzy Adham	2522	EGY	6
20	AIM	Abhay Bandewar	2025	IND	6
21	GM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi	2233	IND	6
22	FM	Dhananjay S	2151	IND	6
23	IM	Rajesh V A V	2331	IND	6
24	IM	Ritviz Parab	2391	IND	6
25		Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi	2180	IND	6
26	GM	Gonzales Jayson	2367	PHI	6
27	WGM	Frayna Janelle Mae	2197	PHI	6
28	FM	Jaiveer Mahendru	2294	IND	6
29		Kumar Gaurav	1953	IND	6
30	IM	Audi Ameya	2385	IND	5.5
31	FM	Ayush Sharma	2378	IND	5.5
32		Vrashank Chouhan	2046	IND	5.5
33		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	2039	IND	5.5
34		Daaevik Wadhawan	1997	IND	5.5
35	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2421	IND	5.5
36	GM	Fedorov Alexei	2457	BLR	5.5
37	IM	Ramnathan Balasubramaniam	1916	IND	5.5
38		Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy	2204	IND	5.5
39		Jai Sankar Subramanian	2025	IND	5.5
40	IM	Mohota Nisha	2147	IND	5.5
41	FM	Goutham Krishna H	2288	IND	5
42	CM	Barath Kalyan M	2040	IND	5
43	WFM	Nilssen Ellen Fredericia	2184	DEN	5
44		Priansh Das	1910	IND	5
45		Pattnayak Nilsu	1987	IND	5
46		Arpan Das	1947	IND	5
47		Chandar Raju	1950	IND	5
48		Dere Pushkar	2191	IND	5
49	IM	Elgabry Mohsen	2160	EGY	5
50		Tamhankar Siddhant	1943	IND	5
51	IM	Andyka Pitra	2105	INA	5
52	WFM	Singgih Diajeng Theresa	1867	INA	4.5
53		Jake Shanty	1903	IND	4.5
54		Patil Priyanshu	2022	IND	4.5
55		Roneet Das	2018	IND	4.5
56	CM	Vaibhav Jayant Raut	2052	IND	4.5
57		Sharnarthi Viresh	1945	IND	4.5
58		Dhrupad Kashyap	1998	IND	4.5
59		Jani Kushal R	1943	IND	4.5
60	FM	Adireddy Arjun	2415	IND	4.5
61		Bhosale Shriraj	1946	IND	4.5
62		Abel Sajan	1942	IND	4.5
63	AFM	Pawar Harshit	1945	IND	4.5
64	FM	Namitbir Singh Walia	2408	IND	4.5
65	WIM	Galas Bernadette	2012	PHI	4.5
66	FM	Jaiswal Rupesh	2009	NEP	4.5
67		Nikhil M	1900	IND	4
68		Setumadhav Yellumahanthi	1948	IND	4
69	CM	Vivaan Vijay Saraogi	1919	IND	4
70		Tiwari Shivansh	1902	IND	4
71	WIM	Fronda Jan Jodilyn	2151	PHI	4
72	IM	Sobh Amrou	2117	EGY	4
73		Majumder Shrayan	1916	IND	3.5
74		Sadbhav Rautela	1949	IND	3.5
75		Kolomwe Willian	1625	ZAM	3.5
76	CM	Nimay Agrawal	2067	IND	3.5
77	WCM	Charvi A	1915	IND	3.5
78	WFM	Shubhi Gupta	1913	IND	3.5
79	IM	Sarwat Walaa	2175	EGY	3.5
80		Aarav Sinha	1981	IND	3
81		Soboleva Anastasia	1595	RUS	3
82	WIM	Salonika Saina	2113	IND	2.5
83	AIM	Dabhade Arnav	1909	IND	2.5
84		Sathvik Adiga	2142	IND	2.5
85	WFM	Fredericia Louise	1990	DEN	2.5
86		Kaustuv Kundu	2423	IND	2
87	IM	Manish Anto Cristiano F	2349	IND	2
88		Binu Devdutt	1937	IND	1.5
89	WIM	Ranasinghe S D	1667	SRI	1.5
90	WIM	Priyanka K	2068	IND	1
91		Sambarta Banerjee	2064	IND	1
92	CM	Nayak Rajesh	2170	IND	0.5
93		Ankit Ray	1912	IND	0.5
94	IM	Utsab Chatterjee	2290	IND	0
95		Alekhya Mukhopadhyay	2184	IND	0
96	IM	Nitish Belurkar	2435	IND	0