However, he is not a fan of knockout format. He also agreed that it is not exciting when the title can be won with draws in the last rounds. Amonatov accepted that he was somewhat lucky to win the tournament as his tiebreak score turned out to be better. Arjun played against seven higher-rated players in this tournament and logged 4.5 points against them (five draws and two wins). He also played closed (round-robin) tournaments in Serbia last year.
He had beaten Indian prodigy R Praggnanandhaa in Latvia last year. Twenty-year-old Arjun, probably knowing that he had a slim chance to win the title, showed great mental resolve and defeated Alexei Fedorov of Belarus in an entertaining game in the last round. The titles in FIDE World & Blitz championships, also in Swiss League format, are settled over the board in case of a tie for the first place. Sadly, there was no provision of settling the issue over the board. All three players tallied 8.5 points in 11 rounds of Swiss League.
13 seed and GM Arjun Kalyan, who was also unbeaten in the tournament like Amonatov and had a better rating performance than the winner, had to be satisfied with the third spot and a prize of Rs 1.50 lakh. Amonatov drew his 11th and last round game with joint leader Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus. He had also won the preceding Open tournament in Bhubaneswar.
Top seed Farrukh Amonatov of Tajikistan, 43, continued his winning run in India by pocketing the title and a top prize of Rs 3 lakh. Pune: The ghost of Buchholz numeric tiebreak, instead of settling the issue over the board, raised its head again as the Maharashtra Open chess tournament came to an anti-climatic end at Balewadi sports complex on Wednesday.
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