DATMO - ROUND 1

On the top boards, the rating favorites did exactly what rating favorites do—deliver clinical performances. 💪

Here’s how the action unfolded:

✅ Board 1
GM Iniyan Pa (2609) – the highest-rated player actually in action – made light work of FM Munkhbayar Gijir (2119).

✅ Board 2
GM Mitrabha Guha (2540) followed suit, comfortably dispatching WFM Saparya Ghosh.

✅ Down the list, the elite brigade kept the momentum going with full-point hauls against considerably lower-rated opposition:

• GM Ilamparthi A R
• GM Siddharth Jagadeesh
• GM Andrey Gorovets
• GM Novendra Priasmoro
• GM P. Karthikeyan
• GM Van Huy Nguyen
• GM Duc Hoa Nguyen