The Event, Rose Valley Open International was held at Kolkata, India scheduled from 3rd December 2012 to 13th December 2012 with total prize money of approx 21500 USD.
Summary of the Participants
Title |
CM |
FM |
GM |
IM |
WFM |
WGM |
Other |
Total |
Total |
1 |
8 |
29 |
34 |
1 |
3 |
24 |
100 |
GM Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan won the title by defeating IM Vishnu of India in the final round while Indian GM Sethuram drew his last round and scored equal points with GM Marat but Marat won with better tiebreak score. While Top Seed Wostajzek of Poland finished fourth.
This tournament gave India 2 more GMs, Vidit Gujarathi who completed his formalities in 9th round who positioning himself 3rd with better tie break score in this event and Shyam Sunder who already obtained GM norms, after this event he crossed 2500 rating barrier to become Grandmaster.
Final Ranking list of top 10
No. |
Title |
Name |
FED |
Rating |
Pts. |
Rp |
1 |
GM |
Dzhumaev Marat |
UZB |
2530 |
8 |
2708 |
2 |
GM |
Sethuraman S.P. |
IND |
2520 |
8 |
2694 |
3 |
IM |
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi |
IND |
2527 |
7.5 |
2655 |
4 |
GM |
Wojtaszek Radoslaw |
POL |
2734 |
7.5 |
2641 |
5 |
GM |
Sengupta Deep |
IND |
2540 |
7.5 |
2596 |
6 |
GM |
Korobov Anton |
UKR |
2702 |
7.5 |
2598 |
7 |
IM |
Swapnil S. Dhopade |
IND |
2438 |
7.5 |
2676 |
8 |
GM |
Ni Hua |
CHN |
2660 |
7.5 |
2593 |
9 |
GM |
Ganguly Surya Shekhar |
IND |
2630 |
7.5 |
2587 |
10 |
GM |
Tiviakov Sergei |
NED |
2663 |
7.5 |
2546 |
Here is the champion game against Vishnu in the final round was having better position in the middle game but did not cope up with pace of the game.