GM B. Adhiban defeated Markus Ragger of Austria in the first round of the ‘A' group of Aeroflot International chess tournament here. Adhiban, playing white, went for his trusted variation in the Slav defence and cruised home in a tactical battle against Ragger who is around 100 points more in Elo rating.
The results: Round 1: Group ‘A' (Indians unless stated): Yaroslav Zherebukh (Ukr) drew with K. Sasikiran; Sergei Zhigalko (Blr) bt G.N. Gopal; B. Adhiban bt Markus Ragger (Aut); Abhijeet Gupta bt Aleksei Pridorozhni (Rus); Parimarjan Negi drew with Daniel Alsina Leal (Esp); S.P. Sethuraman drew with Ildar Khairullin (Rus); D. Harika drew with Gadir Guseinov (Aze); Vidit Gujrathi drew with Alexander Khalifman (Rus); Yu Yangyi (Chn) bt M.R. Venkatesh; Daniil Dubov (Rus) drew with Sandipan Chanda; M. Shyam Sundar lost to Ivan Salgado Lopez (Esp).
Group ‘B': S. Nitin bt Dorian Rogozenco (Rou); Alexey Kislinsky (Cze) drew with Debashis Das; Sahaj Grover drew with Huang Qian (Chn); Wang Jue drew with S. Arun Prasad; Artashes Minasian (Arm) lost to Akshayraj Kore; Swayams Mishra lost toAlexei Iljushin (Rus); Stanislav Bogdanovich (Ukr) bt Padmini Rout; Mary Ann Gomes bt Pogos Nakhapetiane (Rus); Bogdan Belyakov (Rus) lost to Tejas Bakre; Diptayan Ghosh drew with Vladimir Dobrov (Rus); Deepan Chakkravarthy bt Klementy Sychev (Rus); M.R. Lalith Babu bt Eesha Karavade; Alexander Filipenko (Rus) lost to P Shyam Nikil; Ekaterina Atalik (Tur) lost to Ankit Rajpara; Sundararajan Kidambi bt Wei Yi (Chn); Nisha Mohota lost to Aleksandr Karpatchev (Rus); S.L. Narayanan drew with Andrey Stukopin (Rus); Jouri Goriatchkin (Rus) lost to Vaibhav Suri; Soumya Swaminathan lost to Oleg Badmatsyrenov (Rus); Shardul Gagare lost to Nikita Matinian (Rus); B. Pratyusha bt Deysi Cori (Per);
Group ‘C': Gilsomar Silva Barbalho (Bra) lost to Bhakti Kulkarni; M. Mahalakshmi lost to Ralf Schnabel (Ger); Srija Seshadri lost to Aravindh Chithambaram; G. Lasyadrew with David Paravyan (Rus); Niklesh Jain bt Alexandra Nikolaeva (Rus); Madhurima Shekhar lost to Qu Yanqiao (Chn); Ashot Avetisyan (Arm) drew with Harshal Shahi; Javday Absoliamov (Rus) lost to Akash Iyer; Xu, Yi (Chn) bt Meenu Priya; Ravdanlkhum Amgalanbaatar (Mgl) bt U. Ashwini; P.V. Nandhidhaa bt Sergey Komov (Rus); Vasily Vasilyev (Rus) bt Anshuman Singh; Efim Altshuler (Isr) lost to K.G. Chaithanyaa; Gil Santos Barbalho (Bra) lost to R. Bharathi; Ramiro Cabrera Pando (Arg) drew with Michelle Catherina; R. Ganesh bt Alexandr Sevastijanov (Rus).
