The Asian Continental Chess Championship has started on Tornelo with a strong field of 20 Grandmasters, 20 International Masters and 12 FIDE Masters. Watch gmes live in chessbomb, chess.com, followchess and chess24 and chessbase. Visit chess-results.com to download games and for round by round results and standings.
The hybrid tournament has a total of 82 players from 15 countries, namely Australia, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Chinese Taipei and Uzbekistan.
Top seed is GM Parham Maghsoodloo of Iran with a FIDE rating of 2698 followed by GMs Lu Shanglei of China (2615), Amin Tabatabaei of Iran (2613) and Nodirbek Yakubboev of Uzbekistan (2605) among the favorites.
The other Grandmasters are Xu Yinglun and Lei Tingjie of China, Susanto Megaranto and Novendra Priasmoro of Indonesia, Temur Kuybokarov of Australia, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Aryan Gholami and Masoud Mosadeghpour of Iran, Javokhir Sindarov, Vakhidov Jakhongir and Vokhicov Shamsiddin of Uzbekistan, Batchuluun Tsegmed, Urtnasan Nasanjargal and Bilfun Sumiya of Mongolia, Niaz Murshed and Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh.
Sri Lanka players make good start
Round 1 went as expected with favorites easily winning their games. The only upset was scored by Sri Lankan National Champion Liyanage Ranindo Dilshan (2203) of Sri Lanka over GM Masoud Mosadeghpour (2486) of Iran. Liyanage used the Sicilian Defense to force resignation in 38 moves.
FM Minul Doluweera (above left) of University of Colombo managed to draw with IM Lou Yiping of China who has a higher ELO rating of 2472. FM LMST De Silva (above right) drew with Sattarov Bobir of Uzbekistan who has a rating of 2459 while Denuwan Theekshana drew with Gholami Mahdi of Iran with a rating of 2430 .
