3rd India Cements Ltd Chennai Open

Just saw this Round 5 report at Chessdom.com.  One of my favorite players, Vijay Subbaraman, is playing.  And, a young lady with a rating below 2000 spanked a Grandmaster.  Hmmm....

Michelle stuns Grandmaster Arun Prasad

Chennai girl Michelle Catherina (1959) stunned favorite and higher rated Grandmaster Arun Prasad (2513) (photo from Chessdom, right) in the fifth round of the India Cements Ltd 3rd Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament at SDAT Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai:

GM Arun Prasad S (2513) - P Michelle Catherina (1959)


1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 O-O 7.O-O c6 8.Qc2 Nbd7 9.Rd1 b6 10.b3 Bb7 11.a4 Rc8 12.a5 c5 13.axb6 axb6 14.Ra7 Ba8 15.Bg5 h6 16.Bxf6 Nxf6 17.Na3 cxd4 18.Nxd4 Bc5 19.Nab5 e5 20.Nf5 Bc6 21.Qd2 Bxb5 22.cxb5 Ng4 23.e3 Qg5 24.h3 Nf6 25.Ne7 Bxe7 26.Rxe7 Ne4 27.Qb4 Nxf2 28.Rd2 Qxg3 29.Rxf2 Rc1 0-1

There are 150 players in this event and the players' list doesn't indicate male/female, so I may miss some chess femmes because I'm not familiar with the names, my apologies.  Top players and the ladies' standings after R7:

Rk. Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 GM Postny Evgeny ISR 2592 6.5 31.0 26.5 25.5
2 GM Zherebukh Yaroslav UKR 2565 6.0 31.0 27.0 25.0
3 IM Nabaty Tamir ISR 2565 6.0 31.0 26.5 25.0
4 GM Areshchenko Alexander UKR 2671 6.0 30.5 26.5 24.5
5 GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2624 6.0 30.5 26.5 24.5
6 GM Ni Hua CHN 2645 6.0 30.0 25.5 24.5
7 GM Greenfeld Alon ISR 2557 6.0 27.0 23.0 22.0
8 IM Thejkumar M S IND 2457 Rlys 6.0 27.0 23.0 22.0

49 IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman IND 2454 IA 5.0 24.5 21.0 20.0
57 Michelle Catherina P IND 1959 TN 4.5 29.5 25.5 23.0
76 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 2230 ORI 4.5 24.0 21.0 19.5
78 WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 2306 WB 4.5 24.0 21.0 18.5
95 WGM Nebolsina Vera RUS 2388 4.0 27.0 23.5 21.5
102 WIM Meera Sai IND 2162 IB 4.0 25.5 22.5 19.5
139 WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama IND 1900 AP 4.0 20.5 18.0 16.0