Mihir Shah victorious at 1st Phoenix Marketcity Rapid Rating Open 2024

by Shahid Ahmed - 06/08/2024

Mihir Shah, FM Anirudhha Potawad, CM Aansh Nandan Nerurkar and Arnav Kherdekar scored 8/9 each at 1st Phoenix Marketcity Rapid Rating Open 2024. Mihir won the tournament on tie-breaks. The remaining three were placed second to fourth respectively. Mihir and Aansh remained undefeated among the top four. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹1000000. The top three prizes were ₹20000 + trophy, ₹15000 and ₹10000 each respectively. The one-day nine round rating tournament was organized by us, ChessBase India at Dublin Square, Phoenix Marketcity in Mumbai, Maharashtra on International Chess Day, 20th July 2024. This is Mihir's first rating, fourth overall tournament triumph of the year. Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Top four score 8/9

Mihir Shah has won six out of 20 editions of our monthly rapid tournament at ChessBase India Club in Mumbai. So it is fitting that he also won the first-ever rapid rating tournament organized by us on International Chess Day, marking FIDE's 100-year anniversary. After this, Mihir went on to play fantastic chess and win Silver at the inaugural World Blitz Team Championship 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan. Despite heavy rainfall on the day of the tournament, a total of 331 players turned up to play and celebrate chess.

Champion - Mihir Shah 8/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Runner-up - FM Anirudhha Potawad 8/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Second Runner-up - CM Aansh Nandan Nerurkar 8/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Top 3 (L to R): 2nd FM Anirudhha Potawad 8/9, 1st Mihir Shah 8/9 and 3rd CM Aansh Nandan Nerurkar 8/9 with GM Pravin Thipsay and IM Sagar Shah | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Mihir Shah during one of his games | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Mihir Shah scored an unbeaten 8/9, won the tournament on tie-breaks and gained 51.4 Elo rating points

4th Arnav Kherdekar 8/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

5th FM Vedant Panesar 7.5/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

7th Pushkar Dere 7.5/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

8th Vedant Nagarkatte 7.5/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

9th Rachit H Gurnani 7/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

10th Veer Kunjan Shah 7/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Best Female 1st - Mysha Perwez 6.5/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Best Female 2nd - WCM Kriti Mayur Patel 6/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

The Asian Youth Under-8 Girls double Gold medalist - Narayani Umesh Marathe receives a gift award worth ₹25000 for her performance | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Narayani Umesh Marathe selected Judit Polgar's from GM to Top 10 when she was asked which book she wanted to have | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Sneha Waykar received ₹25000 from the HelpChess Foundation for her unwavering dedication and accomplishments in Chessboxing | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Best Veteran 1st - Gurudatta Madhukar Sabnis 3/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Best Veteran 2nd - Milind Shripad Mahajan 2/9 | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Arjun awardees - WIM Bhagyashree Thipsay and GM Pravin Thipsay with our Cofounder and CEO - IM Sagar Shah | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

Sowmya Anand, one of the parents, who was sitting there made this painting during the tournament and presented it to GM Pravin Thipsay and WIM Bhagyashree Thipsay | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

A total of 331 players who braved a heavy rain, in action | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

The tournament hall at Dublin Square, Phoenix Marketcity in Mumbai, Maharashtra | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

The organizing team of ChessBase India with the legends - GM Pravin Thipsay and WIM Bhagyashree Thipsay | Photo: Tanmesh Mokal

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A total of 331 players including an IM took part from various parts of India and one Netherlands each in this one-day nine round Rapid Rating Open tournament. It was organized by us, ChessBase India at Dublin Square, Phoenix Marketcity in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 20th July 2024. The time control of the event was 10 minutes + 5 seconds increment per move.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	11		Shah, Mihir		IND	1903	PO626_MUMC_2023	8	57	61	53,25	7
2	6	FM	Potawad, Anirudhha		IND	2000	Po7056_than_2024	8	56,5	61	53,00	8
3	9	CM	Aansh, Nandan Nerurkar	U12	IND	1956	PO7800_MUMS_2024	8	55	56,5	48,75	7
4	14		Kherdekar, Arnav		IND	1897	Po57_mums_2024	8	51	54	46,00	8
5	1	FM	Panesar, Vedant		IND	2218	PO8156_MUMS_2024	7,5	57,5	62,5	50,50	7
6	16		Nirgun, Keval		IND	1868	PO8140_PUNE_2024	7,5	52,5	56,5	45,00	7
7	3		Dere, Pushkar		IND	2036	Po6980_mums_2024	7,5	52,5	55,5	44,25	7
8	13	FM	Nagarkatte, Vedant		IND	1898	PO3552_MUMS_2023	7,5	46,5	50	39,50	7
9	20		Rachit, H Gurnani		IND	1816	PO3897_MUMC_2023	7	49,5	53	37,50	7
10	29		Shah, Veer Kunjan		IND	1758	Po151_mums_2023	7	49,5	52,5	37,50	7
11	8		Sherla, Prathamesh	U14	IND	1962	Po184_pune_2023	7	49	52	37,00	7
12	2	IM	Kulkarni, Vikramaditya		IND	2152	PO465_THAN_2023	7	48,5	51,5	37,50	7
13	23		Advik, Amit Agrawal	U10	IND	1784	Po6344_pune_2024	7	48,5	51	37,50	7
14	25		Aayush, Kabra	U16	IND	1769	Po2811_than_2023	7	47,5	52	40,00	7
15	24		Kochrekar, Vishwesh		IND	1778	Po6685_mums_2024	7	47,5	51,5	37,50	6
16	26		Somaiya, Shreyansh	U16	IND	1769	Po426_mums_2023	7	47,5	51,5	36,00	7
17	50		Kush, Ajay Agarwal	U16	IND	1652	PO6375_MUMS_2024	7	46,5	49,5	35,00	7
18	27		Gupta, Rajesh R.S.		IND	1764	PO7948_MUMS_2024	7	46	50	36,50	7
19	19		Mishra, Sanjeev		IND	1824	PO445_mums2023	7	46	49,5	35,50	7
20	15		Om, Nagnath Lamkane		IND	1873	Po889_pune_2023	7	40,5	44	32,50	7
21	10		Chandar, Raju		IND	1925	Kerala	6,5	51,5	55,5	38,25	5
22	4	FM	Mithil, Ajgaonkar		IND	2024	PO1196_MUMC_2023	6,5	50,5	54,5	36,25	6
23	22		Gada, Om		IND	1791	Po599_mums_2023	6,5	50	54	35,25	6
24	17		Soni, Atharv	U14	IND	1837	PO27_than_2023	6,5	48,5	50,5	33,50	5
25	36		Vispute, Mayur		IND	1719	PO2347_THAN_2023	6,5	47	51,5	34,25	6

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