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

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