1st Chola Chess GM Open

Chennai INDOct 30 – Nov 2, 2026Classical

1st Chola Chess GM Open brought together 62 players in Chennai IND, including 32 grandmasters. M Pranesh has the best score, 3½ out of 4. Open a player to see their openings and games, or to prepare against them.

Players: 62
Games: 78
Average Elo: 2436
Top rating: 2677

Standings

#	Player	Fed	Elo	Pts	W / D / L
1	GMM Pranesh	IND	2674	3½/4	3 / 1 / 0
1	GMM2 Karthikeyan	IND	2647	3½/4	3 / 1 / 0
1	GMLeon Luke Mendonca	IND	2629	3½/4	3 / 1 / 0
1	GMS Ter Sahakyan	ARM	2613	3½/4	3 / 1 / 0
1	GMSL Narayanan	IND	2557	3½/4	3 / 1 / 0
6	GMChithambaram VR. Aravindh	IND	2677	3/4	2 / 2 / 0
6	GMPa Iniyan	IND	2581	3/4	2 / 2 / 0
6	GMG B Harshavardhan	IND	2529	3/4	2 / 2 / 0
6	GMA R Ilamparthi	IND	2523	3/4	3 / 0 / 1
6	GMChakraborty Mayank	IND	2511	3/4	2 / 2 / 0
11	GMNikita Afanasiev	RUS	2543	2½/4	1 / 3 / 0
11	GMS Aswath	IND	2540	2½/4	2 / 1 / 1
11	IMEthan Vaz	IND	2525	2½/4	2 / 1 / 1
11	GMV Bernadskiy	UKR	2517	2½/4	1 / 3 / 0
11	GMN R Vignesh	IND	2513	2½/4	1 / 3 / 0
16	GMBaskaran Adhiban	IND	2574	2/4	1 / 2 / 1
16	GMS Ganguly	IND	2562	2/4	2 / 0 / 2
16	GMV4 Karthik	IND	2556	2/4	0 / 4 / 0
16	GMGhosh Aronyak	IND	2546	2/4	0 / 4 / 0
16	GMDimitris Alexakis	GRE	2536	2/4	1 / 2 / 1
21	GMAlisher Suleymenov	KAZ	2502	1½/2	1 / 1 / 0
21	GMB Savchenko	RUS	2492	1½/3	0 / 3 / 0
21	IMSambit Panda	IND	2365	1½/4	0 / 3 / 1
21	IMMendes Aaron Reeve	CAN	2340	1½/3	0 / 3 / 0
21	FMAarit Kapil	IND	2335	1½/3	0 / 3 / 0
21	FMSamyak Dharewa	IND	2301	1½/3	1 / 1 / 1
27	GML Pantsulaia	GEO	2498	1/2	1 / 0 / 1
27	GMMamikon Gharibyan	ARM	2481	1/1	1 / 0 / 0
27	GML Paichadze	GEO	2471	1/1	1 / 0 / 0
27	GMC Sandipan	IND	2470	1/2	1 / 0 / 1
27	GMA Aleksandrov	BLR	2435	1/2	0 / 2 / 0
27	IMSingh Sahib	IND	2374	1/3	0 / 2 / 1
27	IMCristiano F Manish Anto	IND	2360	1/3	0 / 2 / 1
27	FMAadik Theophane Lenin	IND	2354	1/3	0 / 2 / 1
27	FMSarbartho Mani	IND	2311	1/3	1 / 0 / 2
36	IMApoorv Kamble	IND	2454	½/2	0 / 1 / 1
36	GMV S Raahul	IND	2393	½/2	0 / 1 / 1
36	IMDaaevik Wadhawan	IND	2375	½/2	0 / 1 / 1
36	IMDalvi Aakash Sharadchandra	IND	2364	½/3	0 / 1 / 2
36	WGMRavi Rakshitta	IND	2364	½/2	0 / 1 / 1
36	FMAvirat Chauhan	IND	2359	½/2	0 / 1 / 1
36	FMAdvik Amit Agrawal	IND	2351	½/2	0 / 1 / 1
36	FMVandan Alankar Sawai	IND	2337	½/2	0 / 1 / 1
36	GMM Venkatesh	IND	2335	½/1	0 / 1 / 0
36	WGMNutakki Priyanka	IND	2261	½/2	0 / 1 / 1
46	IMSriram Adarsh Uppala	IND	2446	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	GMM Nikitenko	BLR	2416	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	FMJohn Veny Akkarakaran	IND	2391	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	FMMadhvendra Pratap Sharma	IND	2389	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	FMBivor Adak	IND	2387	0/2	0 / 0 / 2
46	IMBenjamin Defromont	FRA	2379	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	IMSuyog Wagh	IND	2378	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	IMR Padmini	IND	2344	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	IMChakravarty Sanket	IND	2340	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	WGMSarayu Velpula	IND	2338	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	WFMShubhi Gupta	IND	2335	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	FMMadhesh Kumar S	IND	2327	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	FMSharnarthi Viresh	IND	2326	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	FMAdhiraj Mitra	IND	2318	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	WIMSachi Jain	IND	2288	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	IMT Purnama	INA	2286	0/1	0 / 0 / 1
46	FMM Kunal	IND	2278	0/1	0 / 0 / 1

Scores count the games recorded in the imported databases. Byes, forfeits and unrecorded games are not included, so they can differ from the official final standings.

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