Mayors Chess: Top seeds advance to the 2nd round

Pic Caption: Nagpur MLA Parinay Fuke played an exhibition game with WIM Divya Deskhmukh as others look on at the opening ceremony of the 12th Mumbai Mayor's Cup International Chess Tournament 2019 sponsored by Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and Co-Sponsored by LIC of India and Aditya Birla Group played at Mount Litera School International, Bandra on Sunday. 

Top seeds advance to the 2nd round 

Mumbai June 9th: Top seeds GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo and GM Amonatov Farrukh had an easy outing as they breezed past Indians Rishab Chandrasekhar and Tushar Anand in a first-round match of the  12th Mumbai Mayor's Cup International Chess Tournament 2019 sponsored by Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and Co-Sponsored by LIC of India and Aditya Birla Group played at Mount Litera School International, Bandra on Sunday. 

GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo chose a traditional approach and started the game with Anglo Indian English opening. Rishabh Gokhale playing with black made a mistake in a 22nd move by playing Rxd4, Eduardo took full advantage of that move and in 36 moves Rishabh Gokhale was forced to resign from the game. In another match, defending champion GM Amonatov Farrukh stared the game with a defensive Sicilian opening. Tushar made a mistake in the 18th move by playing RC2 and Farrukh forced him out of the game in less than 30 moves.

The players in the open international section would be vying for the first prize of Rs 3 Lakhs from a total prize fund of 14 lakhs while the runners up will get 2.3 and 1.25 Lakhs respectively. Mayor's Chess is a 10-round tournament with a classical time-control of 60 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move 1. In addition, the players also stand a chance to earn the GM/IM norm

Results Round 1: 

GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo (2637, VEN) bt Gokhale Rishabh Chandrashekhar (1967, IND) 1-0; AGM Tushar Anand (1958, IND) lost to GM Amonatov Farrukh (2624, TJK) 0-1;Shrestha Suman (1801, NEP) drew with GM Manik Mikul as (2399, SVK) 1/2-1/2; GM Fier Alexandr (2543, BRA) drew with Pattnayak Nilsu (1891, ORI) 1/2-1/2;  Marcos Herrero Francisco (1895, ESP) lost to GM Paichadze Luka (2557, GEO)  0-1; GM Turov Maxim (2579, RUS) bt  Vaibhav Jayant Raut (1922, IND) 1-0