Nitish Belurkar and Karthik Venkataraman win Chess at Dreamhack Rapid and Blitz Open 2023

by Shahid Ahmed - 22/11/2023

The biggest open gaming convention in India, Dreamhack Hyderabad 2023 hosted a Rapid and a Blitz Open chess tournament. IM Nitish Belurkar and GM Karthik Venkataraman won the Rapid and Blitz event. Nitish and IM Viani Antonio Dcunha scored 8/9 each. Nitish won the event due to better tie-breaks, Viani secured second place. Both remained undefeated. IM FT Harikrishnan A Ra secured third place scoring 7.5/9. In the Blitz event, Karthik scored sole 8.5/9 to become the champion. IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete, IM Nitish Belurkar and Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi scored 8/9 each. Only Aakash remained undefeated among them. They were placed second to fourth respectively. The total prize fund was ₹500000, ₹300000 for Rapid and ₹200000 for Blitz. Photos: Aditya Sur Roy

Nitish and Karthik's fourth tournament triumph of the year

IM Nitish Belurkar registered his fourth tournament victory of the year. After this event, he secured a second place finish at TTCA Blitz Rating Open 2023 in Goa. GM Karthik Venkataraman also won his fourth event of 2023. He went on to win another tournament within two weeks from the conclusion of this - 7th Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Rating Open 2023. Both of those events will have separate reports published soon.

Chess at Dreamhack Rapid and Blitz Open 2023 (L to R): IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete (4th in Rapid 7.5/9 and 2nd in Blitz 8/9), IM Viani Antonio Dcunha (2nd in Rapid 8/9 and 10th in Blitz 7/9), IM Nitish Belurkar (1st in Rapid 8/9 and 3rd in Blitz 8/9), GM Karthik Venkataraman (5th in Rapid 7.5/9 and 1st in Blitz 8.5/9) and IM FT Harikrishnan A Ra (3rd in Rapid 7.5/9

Interview with Chess at Dreamhack 2023 Rapid and Blitz Open champions - IM Nitish Belukar and GM Karthik Venkataraman | Video: ChessBase India

IM Nitish Belurkar scored 8/9 to win the Rapid Open event and faced the next four finishers

GM Karthik Venkataraman won eight games in-a-row, scored 8.5/9 and finished a half point ahead of the field

Chess at Dreamhack 2023 Rapid titled participants

Standing (L to R): IM Viani Antonio Dcunha, IM Raahul V S, IM Anup Deshmukh, IM Nitish Belurkar, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy, IM FT Harikrishnan A Ra, WIM Harshita Guddanti, IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete, IM Ravt Teja S, GM Arjun Kalyan, GM Karthik Venkataraman and IM Ajay Karthikeyan

Sitting: IM Padmini Rout and WGM Priyanka Nutakki

Chess at Dreamhack Rapid and Blitz 2023 overview | Video: ChessBase India

Players in action at HITEX Exhibition Center in Hyderabad, Telangana

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A total of 288 in Rapid including 4 GMs, 11 IMs, a WGM and a WIM took part from various parts of the country and one from USA in this two-day Rapid Open. The tournament were organized by Nodwin Gaming, Samay Raina and ChessBase India at Dreamhack Hyderabad 2023, Hitex Exhibition Center in Hyderabad, Telangana on 3rd and 4th November 2023. The time control for the Rapid was 15 minutes + 10 seconds increment.

Final Standings in Rapid

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	5	IM	Nitish Belurkar			IND	2321	8	54	58	50,25	7
2	7	IM	Viani Antonio Dcunha			IND	2277	8	51,5	54	46,25	7
3	8	IM	Harikrishnan.A.Ra			IND	2274	7,5	52,5	56,5	45,00	7
4	6	IM	Sammed Jaykumar Shete			IND	2280	7,5	52	56,5	45,00	7
5	2	GM	Karthik Venkataraman			IND	2426	7,5	52	56,5	44,50	7
6	11	IM	Ravi Teja S.			IND	2252	7,5	49,5	53	41,50	7
7	10	IM	Raahul V S			IND	2252	7,5	48,5	52	42,50	6
8	13	IM	Ajay Karthikeyan			IND	2211	7,5	48	51,5	41,25	7
9	3	GM	Arjun Kalyan			IND	2389	7	53	57,5	42,50	6
	12	IM	Kushagra Mohan			IND	2228	7	53	57,5	42,50	6
11	23	FM	Thakur Akash			IND	2101	7	47,5	51	37,50	7
12	18		Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri			IND	2170	7	47,5	49,5	36,25	6
13	19	FM	Sharan Rao			IND	2154	7	46,5	51	38,00	7
14	65		Dhruva Thota	U15		IND	1563	7	44,5	46,5	33,50	7
15	32		Mehta Jwalin			IND	1971	7	44	48	34,00	7
16	57		Kolla Bhaavan	U13		IND	1614	7	42,5	46,5	34,00	7
17	4	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.			IND	2338	6,5	51	55	37,50	6
18	14	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki		w	IND	2205	6,5	49,5	54	36,50	6
19	17	FM	Md Imran	U15		IND	2171	6,5	48,5	53	35,25	6
20	24	FM	Singh Rishpal S			IND	2098	6,5	48	52	35,00	6
21	1	GM	Sankalp Gupta			IND	2430	6,5	47,5	51	34,50	5
22	20		Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi			IND	2131	6,5	47	51	34,00	6
23	44		Sri Sai Baswanth P			IND	1792	6,5	46,5	49,5	31,25	6
24	50		Pranay Akula	U15		IND	1712	6,5	45,5	49,5	32,75	6
25	59		Narayan Iyengar			IND	1588	6,5	44,5	48,5	32,00	6

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A total of 255 in Blitz including 4 GMs, 9 IMs and a WGM took part from various parts of the country and two from USA in this one-day Blitz Open. The tournament were organized by Nodwin Gaming, Samay Raina and ChessBase India at Dreamhack Hyderabad 2023, Hitex Exhibition Center in Hyderabad, Telangana on 4th November 2023. The time control for the Blitz was 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment.

Final standings in Blitz

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	2	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman			IND	2440	8,5	55	58,5	54,75
2	11	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete			IND	2296	8	50	55	46,50
3	7	IM	Nitish, Belurkar			IND	2374	8	48,5	53	46,00
4	15		Aakash Sharadchandra, Dalvi			IND	2267	8	47	50	43,75
5	1	GM	Sankalp, Gupta			IND	2455	7,5	53	58	46,75
6	5	GM	Arjun, Kalyan			IND	2415	7	54,5	58,5	42,00
7	8	IM	Kushagra, Mohan			IND	2358	7	54	58	41,50
8	14	IM	Raahul, V S			IND	2286	7	52,5	56,5	41,50
9	17	FM	Sharan, Rao			IND	2236	7	52	57	42,00
10	6	IM	Viani, Antonio Dcunha			IND	2391	7	52	56	41,00
11	13	IM	Ajay, Karthikeyan			IND	2286	7	51,5	56,5	40,50
12	4	IM	Ravi, Teja S.			IND	2428	7	49,5	53,5	39,75
13	19	FM	Md, Imran	U15		IND	2217	7	49,5	53,5	39,50
14	3	IM	Harikrishnan.A.Ra,			IND	2439	7	48,5	52,5	39,75
15	20		Dhruva, Thota	U15		IND	2192	7	48	52	36,50
16	21		Bharat, Kumar Reddy Poluri			IND	2186	7	46,5	50,5	37,25
17	10	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.			IND	2306	7	45,5	48	34,00
18	9	FM	Aditya, Varun Gampa			IND	2326	7	44	47,5	36,50
19	16		Praveen, Prasad P.			IND	2264	7	43,5	46	34,00
20	18	WGM	Priyanka, Nutakki		w	IND	2224	6,5	47,5	51,5	34,75
21	23		Chidvilash, Sai Surapaneni	U15		IND	2166	6,5	47	51	34,25
22	25	FM	Singh, Rishpal S			IND	2117	6,5	46,5	51	35,25
23	174		Mokshith, Pasupulety	U15		IND	1070	6,5	46	50,5	34,25
24	30	FM	Ramakrishna, J.			IND	2041	6,5	45,5	49	33,00
25	29	IM	Ramnathan, Balasubramaniam			IND	2044	6,5	43	47	32,25

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