The Benasque Open tournament came to a thrilling end when Indian GM B. Adhiban (2627) beat the top-seed Israeli GM Maxim Rodshtein (2678) with the black pieces. This allowed Adhiban to waltz ahead the overnight co-leaders to win the tournament by a half point margin, scoring 8.5/10.
Among other Indians, IM Shardul Gagare (2425) drew while GM Shyam Sundar M. (2492) won to move to 7.0/10 and 7.5/10 respectively.
Check the final standings after Round 10 here.
The penultimate round of the Benasque Open 2015 saw a group of new leaders emerge as GM Maxim Rodshtein scored a very instructive victory over GM Jorge Cori, the sole leader prior to Round 9.
The Jorge Cori – Rodshtein game, which started off quite harmlessly with the London System, hung pretty much in the balance right up to the early endgame. Despite Rodshtein getting his Rook to the second rank, the assessment didn’t change much. However, that was when Jorge started to go astray with a flurry of small errors. Slowly but surely capitalizing on Jorge’s mistakes, Rodshtein registered a clinical victory on move 63.
Amongst Indians, GM Adhiban scored a flawless win over GM Antal whilst IM Gagare went down against GM Grigoriants.
Going into the final round, four players, including GM Adhiban, jointly lead the table with 7.5 points apiece. The leaders are being trailed by a pack of 7 more players with a tally of 7/9.
Round 9 Results: Click Here
With a victory over GM Gretarsson of Iceland, leading Peruvian GM Jorge Cori has taken up sole lead at the Benasque Open 2015 with a tally of 7 points. The Gretarsson-Jorge Cori game turned out to be a rather complicated affair out of a topical variation of the Grunfeld Defence. However, in the middlegame, Gretarsson quickly went astray, thus enabling Jorge to secure a relatively comfortable victory.
Jorge is being trailed by as many as 10 (!) players on 6.5 points each, which includes two Indians namely GM Adhiban and IM Shardul Gagare. Gagare notably overcame GM Ubilava in the 8th round of this 10-round event.
Round 8 Results: Click Here