Mayor's Chess Cup: Belarus GM Aleksej Aleksandrov Defends Title Successfully

Aleksej Aleksandrov

Belarus Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov successfully defended his title by winning the Mumbai Mayor's Cup on Friday. LIC of India co-sponsored the event organised by the Venus Chess Academy. Aleksandrov beat Mark Paragua of Philippines in the last round to finish the tournament with 9.5 points and retain his title along with a prize money of about $6000.

The prize money for the second place, about $3000, was shared by Russia's Andrei Deviatkin, Bangladesh's Ziaur Rahman and Hungary's Attila Czebe. All three had scored 9 points each. The fifth to ninth places went to Russia's Nikolai Chadaev, Philippines' John Paul Gomez, India's B Adhiban, Belarus' Kirill Stupak and India's Debashis Das. All of them scored 8.5 points. India's Abhijit Kunte was tenth with 8 points. 

Final standings:

1 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2606 – 9.5
2 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 2577 – 9
3 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2520 – 9
4 GM Czebe Attila HUN 2475 – 9
5 GM Chadaev Nikolai RUS 2563 – 8.5
6 GM Gomez John Paul PHI 2507 – 8.5
7 GM Adhiban B IND 2555 – 8.5
8 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 2513 – 8.5
9 IM Debashis Das IND 2425 – 8.5
10 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2538 – 8
11 IM Vaibhav Suri IND 2485 – 8
12 GM Paragua Mark PHI 2521 – 8
13 GM Sriram Jha IND 2436 – 8
14 IM Udeshi Aditya IND 2352 – 8
15 Gusain Himal IND 2271 – 8
16 WGM Gara Ticia HUN 2365 – 8
17 Harihara Sudan M IND 2039 – 8
18 IM Grover Sahaj IND 2506 – 7.5
19 GM Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2449 – 7.5
20 IM Praveen Kumar C IND 2342 – 7.5
21 IM Ravi Lanka IND 2324 – 7.5
22 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J IND 2461 – 7.5
23 CM Prince Bajaj IND 2255 – 7.5
24 FM Rajesh V A V IND 2364 – 7.5
25 Nimmy A G IND 2199 – 7.5
26 Ram S Krishnan IND 2303 – 7.5
27 GM Podolchenko Evgeniy BLR 2464 – 7.5
28 G Akash IND 2275 – 7.5
29 Sagar Shah IND 2301 – 7.5
30 Abhishek Kelkar IND 2134 – 7.5
31 Saravana Krishnan P IND 2326 – 7.5
32 Kunal M IND 2250 – 7.5
33 WGM Padmini Rout IND 2345 – 7.5
34 Sanjay N IND 2343 – 7.5
35 IM Murali Krishnan B T IND 2337 – 7.5
36 Lokesh P IND 2231 – 7.5
37 IM Tilak Sharad S IND 2287 – 7.5
38 GM Barbosa Oliver PHI 2550 – 7.5
39 IM Singh D P IND 2278 – 7.5
40 Phadke Sohan IND 2266 – 7.5
41 IM Shivananda B S IND 2363 – 7.5
42 Purushothaman T IND 2241 – 7
43 Mithil Ajgaonkar IND 2155 – 7
44 IM Vishnu Prasanna V IND 2431 – 7
45 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 2370 – 7
46 Akash Pc Iyer IND 2190 – 7
47 IM Situru Muhammad Ivan INA 2290 – 7
48 Karthikeyan Murali IND 2329 – 7
49 FM Chatterjee Debaraj BAN 2316 – 7
50 Bai Jinshi CHN 2262 – 7
51 FM Das Sayantan IND 2251 – 7
52 Krishna C R G IND 2326 – 7
53 Anurag Mhamal IND 2295 – 7
54 Rishi Sardana IND 2066 – 7
55 Bartakke Amardeep S IND 2187 – 7
56 Nishant Malhotra IND 2031 – 7
57 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2424 – 7
58 IM Gara Anita HUN 2329 – 7
59 Gajwa Ankit IND 1987 – 7
60 Deepthamsh Reddy M IND 2103 – 7
61 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 2361 – 7
62 Vignesh Nr IND 2103 – 7
63 Jyothilal N IND 2077 – 7
64 Kathmale Sameer IND 2241 – 7
65 Vasantha Ruba Varman IND 2045 – 7
66 Tiwari Arjun IND 2244 – 7
67 Sahu Vikramaditya IND 2148 – 7
68 Chaithanyaa K G IND 2124 – 7
69 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv IND 2102 – 7
70 Aradhya Garg IND 1793 – 7
71 FM Awate Avinash S IND 2158 – 7
72 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 2234 – 6.5
73 Ashwath R IND 2265 – 6.5
74 Abhishek Das IND 2264 – 6.5
75 Padhya Saumil IND 2236 – 6.5
76 Natarajan C IND 2229 – 6.5
77 FM Vinoth Kumar M IND 2140 – 6.5
78 Swaraj Palit IND 2111 – 6.5
79 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya IND 2413 – 6.5
80 Visakh Nr IND 2110 – 6.5
81 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 2209 – 6.5
WFM Raghavi N IND 2042 – 6.5
83 Godam INA 2073 – 6.5
84 Shoumi Mukerjee IND 1800 – 6.5
85 FM Kasmiran INA 2350 – 6.5
86 Patil Pratik IND 2205 – 6.5
87 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J IND 1894 – 6.5
88 Kumaran B IND 2002 – 6.5
89 Banerjee Sushant IND 2171 – 6.5
90 FM Sauravh Khherdekar IND 2290 – 6.5
91 Bhatt Jalpan IND 1989 – 6.5
92 Joy Antony IND 1926 – 6.5
93 Niklesh Kumar Jain IND 1964 – 6.5
94 Arjun Satheesh IND 1942 – 6.5
95 Parnali S Dharia IND 1874 – 6.5
96 Shah Jay IND 1679 – 6.5
97 Acosta Mariano USA 2086 – 6.5
98 WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 2347 – 6.5
99 Jayesh M IND 1880 – 6.5
100 Singh Soram Rahul IND 1884 – 6.5
101 Madhurima Shekhar IND 1979 – 6.5
102 FM Harshal Shahi IND 1927 – 6.5
103 Vaidya Atharv IND 1727 – 6.5
104 Vinay Vijaykumar IND 1698 – 6.5
105 Snehal Bhosale IND 2101 – 6.5
106 Sanjeev Pitale IND 1786 – 6.5
107 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe IND 2164 – 6
108 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 2455 – 6
109 Shiva Ravi Pillai IND 1861 – 6
110 Thanki Hemal Karsanji IND 2071 – 6
111 Karthik V Ap IND 2015 – 6
112 Raghunandan K S IND 1993 – 6
113 Pradeep Kumar R A IND 2269 – 6
114 Rajkumar S Singha IND 1875 – 6
115 Chakravarthi Y V K IND 2057 – 6
116 Pradip Tiwari IND 2012 – 6
117 Meteleno Yevgeniy KAZ 2110 – 6
118 Akshay V Halagannavar IND 1686 – 6
119 Mota Pankit IND 0 – 6
120 Gandhi Anish IND 1924 – 6
121 Harsh Mangesh Ghag IND 1749 – 6
122 Avadhanulu A S M S S IND 1800 – 6
123 Shweta Gole IND 2028 – 6
124 Ponkshe Sarang IND 1952 – 6
125 Rajasurya J IND 1927 – 6
126 Iniyan P IND 1779 – 6
127 Satkar Chirag IND 1919 – 6
128 Muralidharan R IND 0 – 6
129 Godbole Atharva IND 1890 – 6
130 Shenvi Mohit IND 1906 – 6
131 Neelakantan Narayanan IND 2069 – 6
132 Govind Prabhu IND 0 – 6
133 Siddharth S IND 1863 – 6
134 Bharambe Bhavik C IND 1670 – 6
135 Dave Shiv Shankar IND 1856 – 6
136 Joglekar Abhijit IND 1788 – 6
137 Mohite Ranveer IND 1868 – 6
138 Sumit Grover IND 2028 – 6
139 Anand Nadar IND 1786 – 6
140 Dhanashree Pandit IND 1673 – 6
141 Paranje P M IND 2003 – 6
142 Soneji Janhavi IND 1759 – 6
143 Bramhecha Divya IND 0 – 6
144 Dixit Nikhil IND 1901 – 6
145 Dalvi Ayush IND 1570 – 6
146 Dandekar Amey IND 1606 – 6
147 Audi Ameya IND 1745 – 6
148 Anuj Gandhi IND 1870 – 6
149 Joshi Tejas IND 1600 – 6
150 Vantika Agrawal IND 1412 – 6
151 Kochrekar Vishwesh IND 1874 – 5.5
152 Ayush Jugele IND 1964 – 5.5
153 Tamhankar Viraj IND 2007 – 5.5
154 Rahul Kadge IND 1643 – 5.5
155 Hrishikesh Chavan IND 1884 – 5.5
156 Chincholimath Halsagar IND 1954 – 5.5
157 Chandan Mahajan IND 1838 – 5.5
158 Aurangabadkar Prasad IND 1742 – 5.5
159 Atharvaa P IND 1730 – 5.5
Raja Harshit IND 1684 – 5.5
161 Sunil Vaidya IND 1840 – 5.5
162 Bhogal Rupesh IND 1705 – 5.5
163 Solkar G D IND 1831 – 5.5
Erigaisi Arjun IND 1528 – 5.5
165 Supriya Joshi IND 1822 – 5.5
166 Tawari Anuj IND 1701 – 5.5
167 Kshitij Singla IND 1784 – 5.5
168 Darshil K Desai IND 1456 – 5.5
169 Gaikwad Siddhant IND 1833 – 5.5
170 Gadre Chinmay IND 1523 – 5.5
171 Ishwar Ramteke IND 1636 – 5.5
172 Aaniq Kamani IND 1604 – 5.5
173 Deodhar vrushali Umesh IND 1647 – 5.5
174 Salunke Mihir IND 1831 – 5.5
175 Shukla Rahul IND 1770 – 5.5
176 Kumthekar Shubham IND 1787 – 5.5
177 Dhamankar Satyen IND 1648 – 5.5
178 Kamble Nitin IND 1693 – 5.5
179 Sawant Shubhada IND 1627 – 5.5
180 Pruthu Deshpande IND 1607 – 5.5
181 Thorwe Pratik IND 1626 – 5.5
182 Thomre Abhishek IND 1525 – 5.5
183 Anand Hile IND 0 – 5.5
184 Rajeev V M IND 1740 – 5
185 Kothari Swapnil IND 2088 – 5
186 Rokade Sudhakar IND 1732 – 5
187 Pendase Atul IND 1744 – 5
188 Manan Rai IND 1800 – 5
189 Unni C S IND 2002 – 5
190 Madkar Atharva IND 1642 – 5
191 Gupta Rajesh R S IND 1798 – 5
192 Shah Vishwa IND 1616 – 5
193 Tushar Anand IND 1756 – 5
194 Shah Dhimant IND 1784 – 5
195 Divya Garg IND 1701 – 5
196 Thapa I B IND 1783 – 5
197 Desai Jay Viral IND 1715 – 5
198 Chaudhary Sushil NEP 0 – 5
199 Gange Tanmayee IND 1591 – 5
200 Oak Aniruddha IND 1666 – 5
201 Samant Parikshit IND 1296 – 5
202 Pratik S Risbud IND 1443 – 5
203 Naresh Kantode IND 1671 – 5
204 Chorge Mangesh IND 1557 – 5
205 Kandalgaonkar D N IND 1753 – 5
Ankur Mahesh Gokhale IND 0 – 5
207 Krishnater Kushager IND 1443 – 5
208 Chaturvedi Atharva IND 1420 – 5
209 Kambli Pushkaraj IND 1710 – 5
210 Mulye Nikhil IND 1471 – 5
211 Munemane Ameya IND 1604 – 5
212 Kuber Chinmayee IND 1254 – 5
213 Avdhoot Lendhe IND 0 – 5
214 Amol Pratap IND 0 – 5
215 Morvekar Kedar IND 1371 – 5
216 Makhija Aashna IND 1463 – 5
217 Pranav Patil IND 0 – 5
218 Iyer A N IND 1646 – 5
219 Amatya Bipin NEP 1813 – 5
220 Gaurav Kumar IND 0 – 5
221 Pradeep Sawant IND 0 – 5
222 Kushal Kaushik Karelia IND 1369 – 5
223 Shrish Sanjay Patel IND 0 – 5
224 Sandesh Mhatre IND 0 – 5
225 Vinay Kamath IND 1274 – 5
226 Dahale Atul IND 2124 – 4.5
227 Iyer Madhusudan IND 1891 – 4.5
228 Nehete Akshay S IND 1525 – 4.5
229 Rutvik Moharil IND 1617 – 4.5
230 Vedant Agarwal IND 0 – 4.5
231 Dhimal Bharat NEP 1515 – 4.5
232 Filisha A Shah IND 1746 – 4.5
233 Saahil Ashutosh Ghorpade IND 1238 – 4.5
234 Shweta Priyadarshini IND 1590 – 4.5
235 Dhande Girish IND 1455 – 4.5
236 Anshuman Singh IND 1543 – 4.5
237 Patil Aditya IND 0 – 4.5
238 Breasha Gupta IND 1487 – 4.5
239 Aditya Guhagarkar IND 1534 – 4.5
240 Balachandar Eshan IND 0 – 4.5
Shreyam Mishra IND 0 – 4.5
242 Bheri Chinna Rao IND 1292 – 4.5
243 Shanbhag Rahul IND 1432 – 4.5
244 Jethwa Yasser IND 0 – 4.5
245 Audi Saiesh IND 0 – 4.5
246 Sahani Gaurav IND 0 – 4.5
247 Raheja Rohan IND 0 – 4.5
248 Mandnikar Atreya IND 1398 – 4.5
249 Dabholkar Anish Ajit IND 0 – 4.5
250 Prakash Gupte IND 0 – 4.5
251 Vishesh Agrawal IND 1307 – 4.5
252 Ekisha Basu IND 1317 – 4.5
253 Vidit Dhawan IND 0 – 4.5
254 Gajengi Rajababu IND 1976 – 4
255 Rathod Gopal Ashok IND 1997 – 4
256 Jadhav Vaibhavi IND 1418 – 4
257 Aman Swapan Shah IND 1511 – 4
258 Tanuj Dayal IND 1753 – 4
259 Aryan Haribhau Kawade IND 1584 – 4
260 Ayush Gandhi IND 1361 – 4
261 Kajaria Abhinav IND 1429 – 4
262 Wagle Aakash Abhay IND 1443 – 4
263 Siddharth Joshi IND 1471 – 4
264 Pandey Shourya IND 0 – 4
265 Yella Manikanta IND 1374 – 4
266 Nadar Vinesh IND 1544 – 4
267 Balachandar G IND 0 – 4
268 Dabhie Pravin IND 0 – 4
269 Aman Jain IND 0 – 4
270 Bandekar Aditya IND 0 – 4
271 Himank Bansal IND 1353 – 4
272 Shah Shilpa IND 0 – 4
273 Faiz Khan IND 0 – 4
274 Aarohi Dabholkar IND 0 – 4
275 Gawand Nihar IND 1457 – 4
276 Warang Atharwa IND 0 – 4
277 Tarkar Omkar IND 0 – 4
Walimbe Varun IND 0 – 4
279 Devesh Anand Kale IND 1407 – 4
280 Shardul Santosh Wakade IND 1487 – 4
281 Gala Neer IND 0 – 4
282 Sunand S IND 0 – 4
283 Mane Paridnya IND 0 – 4
284 Lalan Bhavisha IND 1308 – 4
285 Chachad Himanshu IND 0 – 4
286 Raiker Shaunak IND 0 – 4
287 Gala Ritu IND 0 – 4
288 Pranav Vijay IND 2174 – 3.5
289 Amrute Ketan IND 0 – 3.5
290 Sen Aritra IND 1450 – 3.5
291 Chitre Ameya IND 0 – 3.5
292 Daga Aayush IND 0 – 3.5
293 Dafale Vaibhav IND 0 – 3.5
294 Begum Ashiya IND 0 – 3.5
295 Damani Vidhi IND 0 – 3.5
296 Sunay Jhaveri IND 0 – 3.5
297 Rahul Chaphekar IND 1289 – 3.5
298 Sivalingam R IND 1299 – 3.5
299 Kedar Dabhade IND 0 – 3.5
300 Gulhane Nayan IND 0 – 3.5
301 Siddhant Rao IND 0 – 3.5
302 Gupta Niti IND 1388 – 3
303 Shah Rishab IND 0 – 3
304 Savarkar Narendra IND 1282 – 3
305 Aryan Avlani IND 0 – 3
306 Ananya Rishi Gupta IND 0 – 3
307 Anil Cortez IND 0 – 3
308 Piya Saxena IND 0 – 3
309 Vora Diya IND 0 – 3
310 Param Sheth IND 0 – 3
311 Kahaan Harsh Shah IND 0 – 3
312 Rujuta Alve IND 0 – 3
313 Bagwe Dhanashree IND 0 – 3
314 Daga Vyomesh IND 0 – 2.5
315 Eeshan K Ganla IND 0 – 2.5
316 Arrun S IND 1615 – 2
317 Wadhwani Advait IND 1469 – 2
318 Waikar Varun IND 1630 – 2
319 Arshia Dolwani IND 0 – 2
320 Ranjit Cortez IND 0 – 2
321 Jagan Mohan Prakash K IND 0 – 1.5
322 Aditya Gupta IND 0 – 1
323 Aum Wadhwani IND 0 – 1
324 Salunkhe Nilesh IND 0 – 1
325 Shah Jahnvi IND 0 – 1
326 Mahindra Ruhaan IND 0 – 1
327 Mahesh Chavan IND 0 – 0.5

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