7th Sharjah Masters R3: Sensational Salem flattens Fedoseev

by Shahid Ahmed - 17/05/2024

UAE no.1 GM Salem Saleh scored sensational win over GM Vladimir Fedoseev (SLO) in 7th Sharjah Masters 2024 Round 3. Salem played in his usual sharp style and scored a beautiful victory. This game should definitely make into the books. Computer may not understand what Salem and can refute it but only a human mind will appreciate his artistry. GM Hans Niemann (USA) defeated GM Nikolas Theodorou (GRE) to score his third win in-a-row. GM Aravindh Chithambaram almost had the opposite of what Salem did. As his opponent, GM Marcin Krzyzanowski's (POL) attack backfired. Salem and Hans will face each other in Round 4, while Aravindh will be up against GM M Amin Tabatabaei (IRI). Round 4 starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST. Photos: Aditya Sur Roy

Hans, Aravindh and Salem start with a hat-trick of wins

GM Abhimanyu Puranik thwarted GM Parham Maghsoodloo's (IRI) double exchange sacrifice. The Iran no.1 could not handle the complexities in the endgame. GM Sankalp Gupta persevered a tough position to beat the 44th Olympiad Gold medalist, GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (UZB). GM Arjun Erigaisi bounced back with a win over GM Nikolozi Kacharava (GEO). GM Pa Iniyan scored a fine victory over the legend - GM Vasyl Ivanchuk (UKR).

GM Salem Saleh (UAE) played a beautiful game

Fedoseev - Salem: 0-1

GM Vladimir Fedoseev (SLO, 2701) and GM Salem Saleh (UAE, 2629) have played only one Classical rated game before this back in 2016. The UAE no.1 had won that game. Salem's style is very sharp and bold play. This game was no different.

Position after 18...Ne5!?

18...Ne5!? is certainly an interesting move. There is nothing immediate for Black. However, the idea is to open things up so that it can attack the vulnerable white king in the near future. 19.fxe5 Bxe5 20.Qg2 Rb8 21.Nxh5 Qg6 22.Be3 d5 23.0-0-0 d4 24.Rdg1 dxc3 25.b3 Bd3 26.Qh3?? Instead 26.Nf6+ would have forced the exchange of queens and White would have won. Things are rarely that simple.

Position after 26.Qh3??

Salem found the brilliant 26...Rxb3!! 27.axb3 Ra8 28.Kd1 Qxh5+ 29.Qxh5 Ra1+ 30.Bc1 Rxc1+!! and it's over as there is a forced checkmate in the next five moves.

Final position after 30...Rxc1+!!

What a beautiful finish! A move like 30...Rxc1+!! does a complete justice to a fantastic game played by Salem.

GM Salem Saleh (UAE) analyzes his game with GM Vladimir Fedoseev (SLO) | Video: ChessBase India

A firm handshake before a brilliant game

GM Hans Niemann (USA) - GM Nikolas Theodorou (GRE): 1-0

Aravindh - Marcin

Position after 15...f5?

This game is like showing the other side of the coin of Salem's win over Fedoseev. Sometimes sacrificing pawns to expose your opponent's king can backfire. 16.exf5 e4 17.Bxe4 Ne5 18.Nf4 Nxc4 19.Qe2 Nxf4 20.Bxf4 b5 21.g4 Rb8 22.Qc2 Ne5 23.g5 White's attack on the kingside proved to be much stronger and Aravindh scored the full point.

Final moments: GM Aravindh Chithambaram - GM Marcin Krzyzanowski (POL) | Video: ChessBase India

GM Aravindh Chithambaram defeated GM Marcin Krzyzanowski (POL) to complete his hat-trick of wins

Aravindh Chithambaram is now World no.40 with a live rating of 2693 | Source: 2700chess.com

Abhimanyu - Parham

Position after 52.Kg1

GM Parham Maghsoodloo (IRI, 2732) made double exchange sacrifice. He could not handle the complexities of the position. 52...Qf3? started turning things in White's favor 53.Rb6+ Nf6 54.Qf1 Qe4 55.Qf4 Qb1+ 56.Kh2 Bd5 57.Qg5+ and black king fell into a mating net. 52...Be6 would have prolonged the battle.

Final moments: GM Abhimanyu Puranik - GM Parham Maghsoodloo (IRI) | Video: ChessBase India

GM Abhimanyu Puranik waited for the right moment and struck correctly against GM Parham Maghsoodloo (IRI)

GM Sankalp Gupta persevered a difficult position and eventually defeated GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (UZB)

Top seed GM Arjun Erigaisi bounced back with a win over GM Nikolozi Kacharava (GEO)

GM Vladislav Artemiev - GM Pranav V: 0.5-0.5

Iniyan - Ivanchuk

Position after 37.axb5

37...Rb8 is what Black needed to play to keep things in balance. 37...Ra8? 38.Rexc4 Nxc4+ 39.Rxc4 Ra2+ 40.Kxb3 Rf2 41.Kc3 Rxf3 42.Kd4 and White went on to win the endgame.

GM Pa Iniyan scored a big win over the legend - GM Vasyl Ivanchuk (UKR)

GM Harika Dronavalli - GM Fernando Peralta (ARG): 0.5-0.5

Top three boards

Challengers: Viani and Sammed make the perfect start

IM Viani Antonio Dcunha (2386) and IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete (2383) won all three of their games to emerge early coleaders 3/3. They will inevitably clash against each other in Round 4. 14-year-old Dhruva Thota (2349) held the reigning Asian Continental Women's champion, IM Divya Deshmukh (2440) to a draw comfortably.

IM Viani Antonio Dcunha and...

...IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete are at 3/3

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Round 3 Masters results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	5	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	2707	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Murzin, Volodar	2631	28	PGN
2	9	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir	2701	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	2629	30	PGN
3	14	GM	Niemann, Hans Moke	2688	2	1 - 0	2	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	2616	37	PGN
4	19	GM	Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr.	2670	2	1 - 0	2	GM	Krzyzanowski, Marcin	2526	69	PGN
5	29	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	2629	1½	1 - 0	1½	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	2732	2	PGN
6	3	GM	Yu, Yangyi	2728	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Maurizzi, Marc`andria	2617	34	PGN
7	35	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	2617	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Sarana, Alexey	2706	6	PGN
8	15	GM	Sindarov, Javokhir	2684	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Petrosyan, Manuel	2616	36	PGN
9	39	GM	Aditya, Mittal	2607	1½	0 - 1	1½	GM	Shankland, Sam	2671	18	PGN
10	66	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	2531	1½	1 - 0	1½	GM	Yakubboev, Nodirbek	2665	20	PGN
11	50	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	2581	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel	2650	22	PGN
12	23	GM	Nguyen, Thai Dai Van	2649	1½	½ - ½	1½	IM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	2508	77	PGN
13	1	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	2761	1	1 - 0	1½	GM	Kacharava, Nikolozi	2527	68	PGN
14	45	GM	Safarli, Eltaj	2594	1	½ - ½	1	GM	Radjabov, Teimour	2723	4	PGN
15	7	GM	Artemiev, Vladislav	2705	1	½ - ½	1	GM	Pranav, V	2587	49	PGN

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB2	TB3
1	30	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	UAE	2629	3	4	2
2	14	GM	Niemann, Hans Moke	USA	2688	3	4	2
3	19	GM	Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2670	3	4	2
4	28	GM	Murzin, Volodar	FID	2631	2,5	4,5	2,5
5	5	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	IRI	2707	2,5	4	2,5
6	66	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	IND	2531	2,5	3,5	2
7	29	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	IND	2629	2,5	3	1,5
8	18	GM	Shankland, Sam	USA	2671	2,5	2,5	1,5
9	37	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	GRE	2616	2	5	3
10	56	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	AZE	2560	2	4,5	3
11	69	GM	Krzyzanowski, Marcin	POL	2526	2	4,5	3
12	22	GM	Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel	ARM	2650	2	4,5	2,5
13	9	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir	SLO	2701	2	4	3
14	88	IM	Royal, Shreyas	ENG	2463	2	4	3
15	43	GM	Vakhidov, Jakhongir	UZB	2599	2	4	3

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Round 4 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	30	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	2629	3	3	GM	Niemann, Hans Moke	2688	14
2	5	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	2707	2½	3	GM	Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr.	2670	19
3	18	GM	Shankland, Sam	2671	2½	2½	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	2629	29
4	28	GM	Murzin, Volodar	2631	2½	2½	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	2531	66
5	36	GM	Petrosyan, Manuel	2616	2	2	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	2761	1
6	37	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	2616	2	2	GM	Yu, Yangyi	2728	3
7	6	GM	Sarana, Alexey	2706	2	2	GM	Vakhidov, Jakhongir	2599	43
8	47	GM	Nesterov, Arseniy	2589	2	2	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir	2701	9
9	69	GM	Krzyzanowski, Marcin	2526	2	2	GM	Sindarov, Javokhir	2684	15
10	22	GM	Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel	2650	2	2	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	2560	56
11	75	FM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	2516	2	2	GM	Nguyen, Thai Dai Van	2649	23
12	32	GM	Suleymanli, Aydin	2621	2	2	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	2581	50
13	34	GM	Maurizzi, Marc`andria	2617	2	2	GM	Iniyan, Pa	2493	84
14	77	IM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	2508	2	2	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	2617	35
15	2	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	2732	1½	2	IM	Royal, Shreyas	2463	88

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Round 3 Challengers results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	21	FM	Piliposyan, Robert	2364	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Delgado Ramirez, Neuris	2483	2	PGN
2	7	FM	Lashkin, Jegor	2449	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Anwesh, Upadhyaya	2345	24	PGN
3	23		Dhruva, Thota	2349	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	2440	8	PGN
4	30	IM	Farahat, Ali	2327	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Garifullina, Leya	2430	10	PGN
5	40	WIM	Kanyamarala, Trisha	2263	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Viani, Antonio Dcunha	2386	16	PGN
6	42		Devnani, Kush	2249	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete	2383	18	PGN
7	33	FM	Mendes, Aaron Reeve	2306	1½	0 - 1	1½	IM	Pang, Tao	2496	1	PGN
8	3	GM	Burmakin, Vladimir	2480	1½	1 - 0	1½	FM	Lopez Rayo, Santiago	2299	36	PGN
9	27	FM	Hakobyan, Erik	2335	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Rios Gomez, Cristhian Camilo	2466	4	PGN
10	38	FM	Peycheva, Gergana	2295	1½	½ - ½	1½	IM	Nitish, Belurkar	2449	6	PGN
11	9	IM	Mohammad Fahad, Rahman	2431	1½	½ - ½	1½	FM	Mulenga, Prince Daniel	2220	45	PGN
12	5	IM	Movahed, Sina	2463	1	1 - 0	1	FM	Kazarian, Anna-Maja *)	2181	51	PGN
13	35	IM	Kanyamarala, Tarun	2301	1½	1 - 0	1½	GM	Grivas, Efstratios	2396	14
14	17	IM	Aradhya, Garg	2385	1½	1 - 0	1½		Ankit, Ray	2102	59
15	22	IM	Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan	2352	1½	1 - 0	1½		Mukund, Hemant Agarwal	2096	62

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB2	TB3
1	16	IM	Viani, Antonio Dcunha	IND	2386	3	4	2
2	18	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete	IND	2383	3	4	2
3	30	IM	Farahat, Ali	USA	2327	2,5	4,5	2,5
4	2	GM	Delgado Ramirez, Neuris	PAR	2483	2,5	4,5	2,5
5	10	IM	Garifullina, Leya	FID	2430	2,5	4,5	2,5
6	21	FM	Piliposyan, Robert	ARM	2364	2,5	4,5	2,5
7	23		Dhruva, Thota	IND	2349	2,5	4,5	2,5
8	24	IM	Anwesh, Upadhyaya	IND	2345	2,5	4,5	2,5
9	7	FM	Lashkin, Jegor	MDA	2449	2,5	4	2,5
10	8	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	IND	2440	2,5	4	2,5
11	1	IM	Pang, Tao	CHN	2496	2,5	3,5	2
12	3	GM	Burmakin, Vladimir	RUS	2480	2,5	3,5	2
13	35	IM	Kanyamarala, Tarun	IRL	2301	2,5	3,5	2
14	17	IM	Aradhya, Garg	IND	2385	2,5	3,5	2
15	22	IM	Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan	SRI	2352	2,5	3	1,5

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Round 4 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	16	IM	Viani, Antonio Dcunha	2386	3	3	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete	2383	18
2	1	IM	Pang, Tao	2496	2½	2½	IM	Aradhya, Garg	2385	17
3	2	GM	Delgado Ramirez, Neuris	2483	2½	2½	IM	Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan	2352	22
4	24	IM	Anwesh, Upadhyaya	2345	2½	2½	GM	Burmakin, Vladimir	2480	3
5	21	FM	Piliposyan, Robert	2364	2½	2½	FM	Lashkin, Jegor	2449	7
6	8	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	2440	2½	2½	IM	Farahat, Ali	2327	30
7	10	IM	Garifullina, Leya	2430	2½	2½		Dhruva, Thota	2349	23
8	5	IM	Movahed, Sina	2463	2	2½	IM	Kanyamarala, Tarun	2301	35
9	4	GM	Rios Gomez, Cristhian Camilo	2466	2	2	IM	George Micheal, Kevin	2258	41
10	6	IM	Nitish, Belurkar	2449	2	2		Devnani, Kush	2249	42
11	43	FM	Jaiveer, Mahendru	2244	2	2	IM	Mohammad Fahad, Rahman	2431	9
12	51	FM	Kazarian, Anna-Maja *)	2181	1	1		Nofal, Mohamed	1962	82
13	45	FM	Mulenga, Prince Daniel	2220	2	2	IM	Suyarov, Mukhammadzokhid	2429	11
14	13	IM	Harsh, Suresh	2414	2	2	WFM	Kaliakhmet, Elnaz	2202	46
15	47	WIM	Aydin, Gulenay	2195	2	2	GM	Hesham, Abdelrahman	2391	15

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