Aditya Mittal astounding at 125th anniversary of Werder Bremen with a 2713 performance

by Shahid Ahmed - 17/03/2024

GM Aditya Mittal scored an unbeaten 7/9 to win 125th anniversary of Werder Bremen Tournament. The teenager was the top seed of the event and he certainly delivered a top class performance in one of the strongest chess tournaments to take place at Bremen. He performed at 2713, finished a full point ahead of the competition and gained 13 Elo rating points. Aditya also crossed 2600 in the live ratings for the first time in his career. GM Pawel Teclaf (POL) scored sole 6/9 to finish second. Four players - GM Bobby Sky Cheng (AUS), GM Szymon Gumularz (POL), GM Zahar Efimenko (UKR) and GM Vojtech Plat (CZE) scored 5.5/9 each. They were placed third to sixth according to tie-breaks.

Top level performance by the top seed

GM Aditya Mittal headed into the final round with a full point lead at 6.5/8. He drew his final round game against GM Vojtech Plat (CZE) to become a clear champion. This was Aditya's first individual rating tournament he played in 2024, and he won it in a fantastic way.

Champion - GM Aditya Mittal 7/9

Top 3 (L to R): David Lobzhanidze, Anne-Kathrin Laufmann, 3rd GM Bobby Cheng (AUS) 5.5/9, 2nd GM Pawel Teclaf (POL) 6/9, GM Aditya Mittal 7/9 and Oliver Höpfner | Photo: SV Werder Bremen

Bobby - Aditya, Round 4

Position after 26...Nh6

The idea behind 26...Nh6 is simple. Black wants to access White's light square weakness on the kingside using his queen, Qg4-f3-g2 and then reroute the knight via f5-h4-f3. 27.Qb3 Qg4 28.Rc3 Nf5 29.Qc2 Rxc3 30.Nxc3 Nh4 31.Qe2 Nf3+ 32.Kh1 Rc8 Black won the game in the next few moves.

GM Aditya Mittal in action

GM Aditya Mittal scored an unbeaten 7/9 to win the tournament with a performance of 2713, finish a full point ahead of the rest and gained 13 Elo rating points

GM Aditya Mittal with his player card and board no.1, he was also the top seed and played like a champion

GM Velimir Ivic andGM Aditya Mittal along with their SV Werder Bremen team mates

A total of 24 players including 8 GMs, 8 IMs and 2 WGMs took part from ten countries across the world. The tournament was organized by SV Werder Bremen in Bremen, Germany from 2nd to 10th March 2024. The time control was 40 moves in 100 minutes + 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	Rp
1	1	GM	Mittal, Aditya	IND	2594	SAbt SV Werder Bremen	7	43,5	32,75	2713
2	5	GM	Teclaf, Pawel	POL	2556	SK Doppelbauer Kiel von 1910 e.V	6	44,5	28,75	2584
3	3	GM	Cheng, Bobby Sky	AUS	2584	SAbt SV Werder Bremen	5,5	46	25,00	2533
4	2	GM	Gumularz, Szymon	POL	2590	SK Doppelbauer Kiel von 1910 e.V	5,5	45,5	27,00	2560
5	4	GM	Efimenko, Zahar	UKR	2568	SAbt SV Werder Bremen	5,5	45,5	25,75	2536
6	7	GM	Plat, Vojtech	CZE	2528	SC Remagen-Sinzig e.V.	5,5	43	25,00	2517
7	15	FM	Colbow, Collin	GER	2373	SAbt SV Werder Bremen	5	39	20,50	2436
8	22	FM	Schneider, Jana	GER	2303	SC 1957 Bad Königshofen e.V.	5	39	19,25	2488
9	6	GM	Pruijssers, Roeland	NED	2537	SAbt SV Werder Bremen	5	34	19,75	2419
10	10	IM	Wachinger, Nikolas	GER	2442	SAbt SV Werder Bremen	4,5	45,5	21,25	2479