Canadian Open Chowdhury Ties For First Place - By Arvind Aaron in Chennai

Indians who left Philadelphia with a big mark also impressed in the Canadian Open held from July 9-17 at Edmonton. While IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury impressed and shared first place with elite players like Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexei Shirov, Sundararajan Kidambi of Bharat Petroleum, Chennai made his maiden GM norm with 7/9. Indian rise in chess has just begun!


Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury


Sundararajan Kidambi
1 Ivanchuk Vassily 2792 gm
2 Shirov Alexei 2745 gm
3 Bluvshtein Mark 2529 gm
4 Bologan Viktor 2740 gm
5 Chowdhury SR 2421 im
6 Ganguly SS 2636 gm 7.5 
7 Quan  Zhe 2396 fm 7.5 
8 Kidambi S 2524 im 7.5 
9 Kunte Abhijit 2601 gm 7.5 
10 Krnan Tomas 2462 fm 7.5 
11 Roussel-Roozmon Thomas 2417 im 7.5 
12 Moiseenko Alexander 2704 gm
13 Nataf Igor-Alexandre 2623 gm
14 Tyomkin Dmitri 2549 gm
15 Venkatesh MR 2475 im
16 Gentes Kevin 2331 fm
17 Reeve Jeff 2364  
18 Chanda Sandipan 2600 gm
19 Haessel Dale 2230  
20 Pechisker Alfred 2190   7
21 Mohota Nisha 2343 wgm
22 Huber Greg 2310 fm
23 Sasata Robert 2323  
24 Pechenkin Vladimir 2263  
25 Grumic Sasha 2087  
26 Gardner Robert 2221  
27 Gokhale Anupama 2243 wim
28 Krush Irina 2492 im 6.5 
29 Lawson Eric 2373 im 6.5 
30 NguyenKim 2060    6.5 
31 Ghate Swathi 2281 wgm 6.5 
32 Henry Liam 2062   6.5 
33 Campbell Brett 2250   6.5 
34 Zaczek Jonathon 1991   6.5 
35 Klein Felix 2148   6.5 
36 Graves Charles 2000   6.5 
37 Yam Alex 2048   6.5 
38 Tegzes Laszlo 2109   6.5 
39 Schulz Waldemar 2029   6.5 
  222 players    

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