Tripura Open 2019 Day 2+3: Major upsets on top boards

by Nongsha Angom - 29/03/2019

Tripura Open 2019 Day 2 and 3 saw some exciting games with a lot of ups and downs. While it started as calm as a millpond, slowly we witnessed some unexpected results on many of the top boards. Players of the 1500 rating club showed some strong nerves to create major upsets on the top boards. Top seed GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury was held by local player Kamal Kalai rated 1542, IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra went down against another local player Umashankar Dutta rated 1541 and IM Suvrajit Saha lost his game against Rahul Yadav rated 1526. This pictorial report covers the Day 2 and 3 of the Tripura Open with annotated games of the most decisive and major upsets.

Local players shine on day 2 and 3 of Tripura Open

Lots of sparks were seen on the 2nd day and 3rd day of the Tripura Open, especially on the top boards. It is always interesting when a lower rated produces a fine game to upset a titled player and that's what exactly happened here. It was not just one but three top boards that witnessed unpleasant results for the top seeds.

White just played 29.Bf5 and sealed the game.

This beautiful final position was reached in the 2nd board game of local player Umashankar Dutta vs IM Neeraj Mishra. Rated only 1541 Umashankar Dutta played the best game of his life till date. Playing on home soil and having his wife and son at the tournament hall seemed to have brought out Umashankar's best chess.

Umashankar Dutta vs IM N K Mishra annotated by Ravi Kant Tiwari:

The man who played the game of the day, Umashankar Dutta.

On the third board, everything was going good for the 3rd seed IM Suvrajit Saha. With some accurate play, he was completely crushing his opponent. Just when everything looked okay he blundered with 31.exd5 in the below position and went from +3 to -3 (stockfish evaluation). Rahul Yadav who is rated around 1526 realized that things were going his way and finished off his opponent.

Suvrajit Saha vs Rahul Yadav

White is an exchange up and has a decisive advantage but he made a blunder on his very next move with 31.exd5 and lost the game.

IM Suvrajit Saha vs Rahul Yadav annotated by Ravi Kant Tiwari:

Fortune favours the brave: Rahul Yadav.

Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury vs Ramesh Kalai

How do you assess this position? Who is better according to you?

The above position is from the top board where GM Saptarshi Roy Choudhury was paired against a local player Ramesh Kalai rated 1542. Ramesh was playing a competitive event after quite a long time. He played brilliantly and later accepted that it was one of his best games till date. He was happy to draw his game against a GM. The final position where he accepted a draw, was however winning for him.

GM Saptarshi Roy Choudhury vs Ramesh Kalai annotated by Ravi Kant Tiwari:

Tripura has really some great talents and organizing more rated events will unmasked them. Ramesh Kalai (above) the man who drew against the top seed Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury

Kids go where there is excitement and stay where there is love and chess is both love and excitement. | Photo: Prasenjit Dutta

"If it is important to you then you will find a way or else you will find an excuse" - Mark Anthony

5th seed IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam is unbeatable so far in the event.

WIM Chandreyee Hajra is looking for a podium finish. She has lost 1 game so far

Excitement is all over as we are just a day away from this event to conclude.

At the end of the 5th round, there were three players who were jointly leading the tourney and all of them hail from West Bengal.

Rank after Round 5

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	Rp
1	6		Anustoop Biswas				2161	5,0	0,0	14,5	16,5	16,50	5	1864
2	8		Nath Rupankar				2022	5,0	0,0	14,5	15,5	15,50	5	1949
3	7		Arpan Das				2147	5,0	0,0	14,0	16,0	16,00	5	2346
4	10		Suvradeepta Das				1997	4,5	0,0	15,0	17,0	14,75	4	1896
5	5	IM	Ramnathan Balasubramaniam				2176	4,5	0,0	14,5	16,0	13,75	4	1847
6	1	GM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi				2296	4,5	0,0	13,5	16,0	14,50	4	1736
7	16		Das Monaj				1768	4,0	0,0	15,5	16,5	11,50	4	1564
8	4		Singh S. Vikramjit				2210	4,0	0,0	15,0	18,0	14,00	3	1780
9	12		Nepal Prakash				1961	4,0	0,0	15,0	18,0	13,00	4	1675
10	24		Arijit Ghosh	U16			1559	4,0	0,0	15,0	17,0	12,00	4	1461
11	38		Bapu Debbarma				1431	4,0	0,0	14,5	16,5	12,00	4	1781
12	22		Sathyanarayanan S.				1604	4,0	0,0	14,0	16,0	11,50	4	1536
	27		Dutta Umashankar				1541	4,0	0,0	14,0	16,0	11,50	4	1782
14	17		Iftikar Alom Mazumdar	U20			1748	4,0	0,0	14,0	16,0	11,00	4	1611
	25		Sawyan Baran De				1556	4,0	0,0	14,0	16,0	11,00	4	1664
16	160		Kinkar Roy				0	4,0	0,0	13,5	16,5	12,50	4	1850
17	30		Rahul Yadav				1526	4,0	0,0	13,5	15,5	11,50	4	1716
	42		Tanisha A R Som	U14	w		1417	4,0	0,0	13,5	15,5	11,50	4	1639
19	19		Soumyajit Das (Jr)	U16			1628	4,0	0,0	13,5	15,0	11,25	3	1845
20	2	IM	Mishra Neeraj-Kumar				2264	4,0	0,0	13,5	14,5	10,50	4	1575

Complete Standings

Note: Although this report is until round 5, at the time of publication of this article seven rounds have been completed. These are the standings:

Ranking after round 7

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	Rp
1	8		Nath Rupankar				2022	6,5	0,0	29,0	31,0	28,00	6	2056
2	7		Arpan Das				2147	6,0	0,0	31,0	33,5	27,00	6	1923
3	10		Suvradeepta Das				1997	6,0	0,0	31,0	33,0	27,00	5	1894
4	6		Anustoop Biswas				2161	6,0	0,0	30,5	34,5	28,50	6	1896
5	5	IM	Ramnathan Balasubramaniam				2176	6,0	0,0	30,5	33,5	27,25	5	1890
6	4		Singh S. Vikramjit				2210	6,0	0,0	29,0	33,0	27,50	5	1850
7	9		Singh Bhogen R K				2010	6,0	0,0	28,5	31,0	25,75	5	1782
8	1	GM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi				2296	6,0	0,0	27,5	30,5	26,00	5	1832
9	13	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra		w		1927	6,0	0,0	27,0	30,0	25,00	6	1567
10	12		Nepal Prakash				1961	5,5	0,0	29,0	32,0	23,75	5	1703
11	21		Alekhya Mukhopadhyay	U12			1609	5,5	0,0	28,0	30,0	21,50	5	1627
12	2	IM	Mishra Neeraj-Kumar				2264	5,5	0,0	28,0	29,0	22,25	5	1633
13	3	IM	Suvrajit Saha				2221	5,5	0,0	27,5	31,5	24,00	5	1605
14	11		Singh Soram Rahul				1964	5,5	0,0	23,5	24,0	17,00	5	1397
15	19		Soumyajit Das (Jr)	U16			1628	5,0	0,0	31,0	32,5	20,75	4	1816
16	160		Kinkar Roy				0	5,0	0,0	30,5	34,5	23,50	5	1785
17	30		Rahul Yadav				1526	5,0	0,0	30,0	33,0	21,50	5	1707
18	17		Iftikar Alom Mazumdar				1748	5,0	0,0	30,0	33,0	20,50	5	1621
19	38		Bapu Debbarma				1431	5,0	0,0	29,0	32,0	21,00	5	1755
20	16		Das Monaj				1768	5,0	0,0	29,0	31,0	20,00	5	1584

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