Athens of the East 5th International Grandmaster Open Chess tournament – Category A LIVE

The Athens of the East 5th International Grandmaster Open Chess tournament will take place from December 23 to December 29 in India. This tournament has 2 categories -A and B. The A section is a 10-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 90 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from India, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The top-seeded players are GM Krishna S Rohith (2489), GM L R Srihari (2472), GM Vladimir Burmakin (2428), GM Chakkravarthy J Deepan (2426), GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (2409), GM Alexei Fedorov (2377), FM Veny Akkarakaran John (2367), IM L Srihari (2358), Arpan Das (2350), IM Alexander Slizhevsky (2338), Nithin Babu (2326), FM Kumar S Madhesh (2324), IM Semetei Tologon Tegin (2322), IM David Gochelashvili (2320), IM Diasmany Otero Acosta (2317), Siddhanth Poonja (2315), FM S Dhananjay (2299), FM Kannan Vaidyanathan (2295), FM Sairam Ashwin (2284), FM Sankar Subramanian Jai (2283). Scroll down for the full participants list.

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Athens of the East 5th International Grandmaster Open Chess tournament – Category A Participants

No.		Name	FED	RtgI
1	GM	Rohith, Krishna S	IND	2489
2	GM	Srihari, L R	IND	2472
3	GM	Burmakin, Vladimir	RUS	2428
4	GM	Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.	IND	2426
5	GM	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	BLR	2409
6	GM	Fedorov, Alexei	BLR	2377
7	FM	John, Veny Akkarakaran	IND	2367
8	IM	Srihari, L	IND	2358
9		Arpan, Das (Jr)	IND	2350
10	IM	Slizhevsky, Alexander	RUS	2338
11		Nithin, Babu	IND	2326
12	FM	Madhesh, Kumar S	IND	2324
13	IM	Tologon Tegin, Semetei	KGZ	2322
14	IM	Gochelashvili, David	RUS	2320
15	IM	Otero Acosta, Diasmany	CUB	2317
16		Siddhanth, Poonja	IND	2315
17	FM	Dhananjay, S	IND	2299
18	FM	Vaidyanathan, Kannan	USA	2295
19	FM	Ashwin, Sairam	IND	2284
20	FM	Jai, Sankar Subramanian	IND	2283
21	IM	Gomez Sanchez, Jorge Marcos	CUB	2282
22	IM	Saravana, Krishnan P.	IND	2278
23	GM	Laxman, R.R.	IND	2273
24	IM	Oblitas, Carlomagno	PER	2272
25		Bhoir, Paras Dilip	IND	2272
26		Sri, Sai Baswanth P	IND	2268
27	CM	Sherla, Prathamesh	IND	2264
28	GM	Manik, Mikulas	SVK	2251
29	FM	Sekar, B	IND	2218
30	IM	Ratnakaran, K.	IND	2209
31		Vignesh, B	IND	2203
32		Ahaz, E U	IND	2194
33	IM	Palencia Morales, Wilson Guillermo	COL	2185
34	WFM	Kalyani, Sirin	IND	2182
35		Nishant, Abhijeet Jawalkar	IND	2181
36	IM	Elgabry, Mohsen	EGY	2177
37	WGM	Hoang, Thi Bao Tram	VIE	2175
38	CM	Gowrishankar, Jayaraj	IND	2173
39	FM	Prasannaa.S,	IND	2167
40	IM	Claverie, Raul	ARG	2164
41		Challa, Saharsha	IND	2164
42	WIM	Bach, Ngoc Thuy Duong	VIE	2160
43	CM	Karthik, Sai Ch	IND	2159
44		Arpith, S Bijoy	IND	2143
45		Manigandan, S S	IND	2142
46		Jihan, Tejas Shah	IND	2135
47		Balkishan, A.	IND	2134
48	CM	Aarit, Kapil	IND	2133
49		Vismay, Sachar	IND	2133
50	FM	Ayaan, Garg	IND	2131
51	CM	Aadik, Theophane Lenin	IND	2123
52	IM	Deshmukh, Anup	IND	2119
53	CM	Advik, Amit Agrawal	IND	2118
54	CM	Yohan, Yadav Tarala	IND	2115
55		Shaurya, Chaudhary	IND	2107
56		Abhishek, T M	IND	2101
57	CM	Mani, Sarbartho	IND	2099
58		Bhosale, Shriraj	IND	2092
59		Nithik, Reddy Bhavanam	IND	2092
60		Syed, Abdul Khader	IND	2092
61		Swain, Ashirwad	IND	2091
62	IM	Murugan, Krishnamoorthy	IND	2090
63		Borkhetariya, Devarsh M	IND	2088
64		Samuel, Stephen Noble S	IND	2088
65		Vijay, Shreeram P	IND	2086
66		Mridav, M	IND	2082
67	FM	Matta, Vinay Kumar	IND	2081
68		Shubh, Atha	IND	2081
69		Mahindrakar, Indrajeet	IND	2080
70		Andalamala, Hemal Varshan	IND	2077
71		Sharnarthi, Shlok	IND	2073
72		Malvin, Joshua	IND	2072
73		Sanjay, S Pillai	IND	2072
74	FM	Ayushh, Ravikumar	IND	2071
75		Arush, A	IND	2071
76	FM	Ramakrishna, J.	IND	2070
77		Naga, Sai Sarthak Karanam	IND	2062
78	FM	Jaiswal, Rupesh	NEP	2060
79		Advaith, Asokumar	IND	2057
80		Haridev, S	IND	2057
81	CM	Aarav, A	IND	2055
82		Daksh, Goyal	IND	2055
83		Samarth, Sreeni Warrier	IND	2055
84		Paarshva, Parmar	IND	2054
85		Kolla, Bhaavan	IND	2050
86		Gokul, G	IND	2049
87	IM	Sarwat, Walaa	EGY	2048
88	CM	Prakhar, Tripathi	IND	2047
89		Vedant, Yogesh Kale	IND	2047
90		Saisarvesh, S	IND	2045
91		Siddharth, Sai	SGP	2045
92	CM	Bajaj, Prakhar	IND	2038
93		Dinesh, Kumar Jaganathan	IND	2038
94		Sharsha, Backer	IND	2037
95		Jagajit, Sinha	IND	2036
96		Premshankar, B U	IND	2036
97		Chanda, Ujan	IND	2035
98		Praneeshwar, Madhavan	IND	2035
99	CM	Kadam, Arnav	IND	2033
100		Karan, J P	IND	2032
101		Aakash, K P	IND	2031
102		Kishore, Prajith	IND	2031
103	CM	Sattwik, Swain	IND	2029
104		Chaudhari, Ashish	IND	2026
105		Mayukh, Majumder	IND	2025
106		Pranav, Sai Ram R S	IND	2024
107		Prashanth, J Naik	IND	2024
108		Goutham, Ramesh	IND	2021
109		Kumbhar, Kartik	IND	2020
110		Sagnik, Halder	IND	2019
111		Vignesh, Kannan P	IND	2019
112	WIM	Nguyen, My Hanh An	VIE	2018
113		Sree, Shaunak Chanda	IND	2016
114		Arushi, Severin Helen D Silva	IND	2015
115		Jayanth, Venkatesh	IND	2015
116		Badamundi, Tapan	IND	2011
117		Naveen, K S	IND	2011
118		Parambrata, Sarkar	IND	2011
119	FM	Singh, Arvinder Preet	IND	2008
120	WFM	Bristy, Mukherjee	IND	2008
121		Ayaan, Phutane	IND	2008
122		Kavin, Vijayakumar	IND	2008
123		Umashankar, A	IND	2006
124		Ananya, Raman	IND	2005
125		Nijesh, R	IND	2004
126		Sri, Charan Sandipagu	IND	2004
127		Sundar, Divij P	IND	2004
128		Tarun, V	IND	2004
129		Abheek, Bhatt	IND	2003
130	IM	Sobh, Amrou	EGY	2001
131		Rana, Oliver	USA	2001
132		Rejath, Renjith	IND	2000
133		Nidhish, Shyamal	IND	1982
134		Boggarapu, Kritan	SCO	1980
135	IM	Rahman, Yehya	EGY	1974
136		Pranav, Ganesh Prabhu	IND	1973
137	CM	Vivaan, Vijay Saraogi	IND	1951
138		Parv, H Hakani	IND	1951
139		Arhan, Jain	IND	1941
140		Mutyalapati, Modith Aaroh	CAN	1941
141		Sambhav, Setiya	IND	1933
142		Ragavan, Samarth Rajesh	USA	1930
143		Aadhya, V	IND	1906
144	IM	Hegde, Ravi Gopal	IND	1905
145		Padmaesh, M K	IND	1898
146	CM	Dolas, Aarush	IND	1886
147		Avyaya, Kumara Bhat	IND	1877
148	WCM	Manouvel, Maelys	FRA	1873
149		Om, Dayanand Ramgude	IND	1836
150		Kolomwe, Willian	ZAM	1747
151		Vishnu, Nandan	IND	1710
152	IM	Mamombe, Kudzanai	ZIM	1689