Three GMs, four IMs and one FM have made ahat-trick start of 3/3. They are - GM Sethuraman S P (PSPB), GM Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB), GM Iniyan P (TN), IM Aronyak Ghosh (RSPB), IM Koustav Chatterjee (WB), IM Harshavardhan G B (TN), IM Nitin S (RSPB) and FM Vedant Panesar (MAH). Who will be among the leadersafter the fourth round?

IM Nitin S scored a fantastic victory against GM Leon Luke Mendonca | Photo:Aditya Sur Roy

IM Nitin S (2372) traded the queenson the eleventh move in the Caro-Kann against GM Leon Luke Mendonca (2566). The former started fragmenting Black's pawn structure and kept on it.

Position after 27.e5!

Black has six pawns, four pawn islands, two isolated and two isolated doubled pawns - that is the like the pawn structure one should not have. White found the perfect 27.e5! even though 27.Rxf4 was alright too having the idea of e5 in the next move.What followed next is the attraction of the black king towards White's own side. 27...fxe5 28.Nxe5+ Ke6 29.Nxc6Rc8 30.Re1+ Kf6 31.Rxf4+ Kg5 32.Rf2 Kg4 33.Ne5+ Kg3 34.Rf3+ Kg2 35.Re2+ Kg1 36.Rd3 and Black resigned as Rd1# isunstoppable.

Final position after 36.Rd3

Position after 36...Rh8

White's king is much safer than Black's. Keeping that in mind, find out how White could have finished things off here. The position certainly screams like something's gotta give.

Position after 48...Qh6

Sometimes itbecomes difficult for a player to accept a draw even in drawn position because he has already conceded a draw against anotherrelatively lower rated player. The reason behind it is quite simple, the current Elo rating system does not favor adults. Thus, the desperation to score a win increases, resulting in human errors.48...Qh6 was uncalled for. Black has zero breakthroughs, his pieces act like a furniture, much like White's dark square bishop. Just keeping the black queen in the back rank is enough to draw the game. 48...Qh6 invited trouble. White did not notice it at first 49.Bf1 and then Kc8madeit that much obvious. Find out whyBlack's last two move were erroneous.

IM Nitin S (RSPB) - GM Leon Luke Mendonca (Goa): 1-0

IM Vardaan Nagpal(HAR) - GM Karthik Venkataraman (AP): 0.5-0.5

Subhayan Kundu (WB) - GM Mitrabha Guha (WB): 0.5-0.5

GM Deep Sengupta (PSPB) - Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (ODI): 0.5-0.5

IM Mehar Chinna Reddy C H (RSPB) - GM Karthikeyan P (RSPB): 0.5-0.5

GMNeelotpal Das (RSPB) - FM Ritvik Krishnan (MAH): 0.5-0.5

IM Avinash Ramesh (TN) - GM Shyam Sundar M (TN): 0.5-0.5

FMM Anees M (TN) - IM Vignesh N R (RSPB): 0.5-0.5

GM Venkatesh M R (PSPB) -CM AadityaDhingra (HAR): 0.5-0.5

Shreyansh Daklia (CHT) - IM Neelash Saha (WB): 1-0

IM Srihari L R (TN) - Kartavya Anadkat (GUJ): 0.5-0.5

CM Gaurang Bagwe (MAH) - IM Ameya Audi (Goa): 0.5-0.5

Kishan Gangolli (KAR) - GM Laxman R R (RSPB): 0.5-0.5

GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (RSPB) - Laishram Imocha (PSPB): 0-1

S Badrinath (PUD) - IM Arghyadip Das (RSPB): 0.5-0.5

Rupam Mukherjee (WB) - IM D K Sharma (LIC): 0.5-0.5

A total of 196 players including 18 GMs and27 IMs are taking part in this tournament organized by Delhi Chess Association. The event is taking place in New Delhi from 22nd December 2022 to 3rd January 20233. The 13-round Swiss league tournament has a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes with an increment of 30 seconds from move no.1

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