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Vinay S Bhat
Number of games in database: 110
Years covered: 1994 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2475
Highest rating achieved in database: 2498
Overall record: +37 -33 =40 (51.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (20) 
    B52 B23 B51 B27 B24
 Queen's Pawn Game (8) 
    A45 A41 A40
 Ruy Lopez (4) 
    C69 C64
With the Black pieces:
 French Defense (18) 
    C05 C12 C11 C00 C04
 Semi-Slav (10) 
    D45 D43 D48
 French Tarrasch (8) 
    C05 C04 C03 C06
 French (7) 
    C12 C11 C00
 Queen's Gambit Declined (6) 
    D30 D31
 Slav (5) 
    D17 D18 D11 D19
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VINAY S BHAT
(born Jun-04-1984) India (citizen of United States of America)

[what is this?]
This Grand Master from California, at the age of 10, set a new record for becoming the youngest national master of USA, breaking Robert James Fischer 's record by 2 years. That record has since been broken once, by Hikaru Nakamura. Vinay is a graduate from University of California, Berkeley.

 page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 110  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. V Bhat vs Navara  1-034 1994 Wch U10C02 French, Advance
2. Nur Nawrose vs V Bhat  1-046 1995 Ch USA (cadets)C50 Giuoco Piano
3. V Bhat vs L A Shipman  1-028 1996 Hawaii opB23 Sicilian, Closed
4. V Bhat vs K Miton  1-039 1996 Ch World (cadets) (under 12)C55 Two Knights Defense
5. V Bhat vs Blatny  0-160 1996 HawaiiB15 Caro-Kann
6. Wojtkiewicz vs V Bhat  1-045 1997 2nd Mechanics, San Francisco USAD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
7. V Bhat vs Ashley  ½-½17 1998 It (open), Hawaii (USA)B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
8. V Bhat vs E Schiller  1-040 1998 International TournamentB18 Caro-Kann, Classical
9. V Bhat vs H Akopyan  1-041 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)A08 King's Indian Attack
10. Dzindzichashvili vs V Bhat  1-044 1999 Koltanowski Team MatchD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
11. V Bhat vs D Schneider  1-040 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)B01 Scandinavian
12. D Zilberstein vs V Bhat  0-142 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)E09 Catalan, Closed
13. E Perelshteyn vs V Bhat  1-066 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)C42 Petrov Defense
14. V Bhat vs J Shahade  0-140 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)B24 Sicilian, Closed
15. V Bhat vs I Krush  1-051 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)B23 Sicilian, Closed
16. Browne vs V Bhat  ½-½32 1999 Koltanowski Team MatchD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
17. G Braylovsky vs V Bhat  ½-½40 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)C42 Petrov Defense
18. M Martinez vs V Bhat  1-077 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)A07 King's Indian Attack
19. V Bhat vs DeFirmian  0-143 1999 Koltanowski Team MatchB27 Sicilian
20. Zaremba vs V Bhat  0-155 1999 Ch USA (juniors), San Francisco (USA)D02 Queen's Pawn Game
21. V Bhat vs Browne 0-116 2000 Frisco MastersB52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
22. Ehlvest vs V Bhat 0-127 2000 Koltanowski MemorialC02 French, Advance
23. Ehlvest vs V Bhat  ½-½46 2000 Frisco MastersC12 French, McCutcheon
24. V Bhat vs V McCambridge  ½-½28 2000 Koltanowski MemorialC64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
25. V Bhat vs J Donaldson  ½-½31 2000 Game in 25B27 Sicilian
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Jul-25-07   Ragh: The title win at Balaguer Open in Spain also brought Vinay Bhat his 3rd and final GM-norm along with the required 2500+ rating to be crowned as the new chess Grand Master.
Jul-25-07   arunjangity: congratulations, it is quite rare to have another gm in the usa!
Jul-27-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Eric Schiller: Congratulations Vinay! He finally got his 3rd GM norm. He could have been a GM much earlier but like most Bay Area chess talent, he decided to have a real life.
Jul-27-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  dx9293: He reached 2500? He's only 2450 on the July FRL. I'm not disupting it, just curious.
Jul-27-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  dx9293: Hmm...on the website they give his TPR as 2587.
Jul-28-07   Ragh: <dx9293> His TPR was over 2600 after nine games, until that draw in last round brought it down to 2587. So, he must have gotten a nine game GM-norm.
Jul-31-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  dx9293: I see. Thank you for clearing this up.
Jul-31-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Timothy Glenn Forney: [Event "Balaguer Open,Spain 2007"]
[Site "D3GK5091"]
[Date "2007.07.21"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Vinay S Bhat"]
[Black "Jose Ramon Perez"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo ""]
[ECO "E41"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Time "13:43:39"]
[Variation "4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Ne2"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[TimeControl ""]
[Termination "unterminated"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Nge2 d5 7.O-O O-O 8.a3 cxd4 9.exd4 dxc4 10.Bxc4 Bd6 11.h3 b6 12.Bg5 Bb7 13.Qd3 Re8 14.Rad1 h6 15.Bh4 Be7 16.Bg3 Bd6 17.Bh4 Be7 18.Bg3 Bd6 19.Nf4 e5 20.Bxf7+ Kxf7 21.Qc4+ Nd5 22.Qxd5+ Kf6 23.Ne4+ *

Jul-31-07
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  Timothy Glenn Forney: Here's the ending to the above game-22.Qxd5+ Kf6 23.Ne4+ Kf5 24.Qf7+ Qf6 25.Nxd6+ Kg5 26.Qh5# Mate 1-0
Jul-31-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Timothy Glenn Forney: forgot this one-22.Qxd5+ Kf6 23.Ne4+
Ke7 24.Qe6+ Kf8 25.Ng6# Mate 1-0
Aug-03-07   arunjangity: unfortunately, we are wrong. uschess says bot does not have the 2500 rating at any point, and has 50 points to go. no gm title.
Sep-22-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  An Englishman: Good Evening: The United States Chess League still lists Bhat as an IM. While I'm on the subject, I wish the USCL would post more games to this website. Bhat has been quite an impressive GM killer and plays with considerable elan, cheerfully sacrificing pawns against players rated almost 300 points higher, no matter how nebulous the compensation seems.
Sep-22-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  dx9293: <An Englishman> He is still an IM. He needs some Elo points to make GM.

USCL games are not rated by USCF or FIDE, so they would not be listed here.

Jan-24-08   DarthStapler: Wait so is he an IM or a GM?
Aug-03-08   myschkin: . . .
http://www.chesscity.com/PDF/Whiz%2...

see p. 22-27
(with User: Eric Schiller )

Aug-10-08   myschkin: . . .

Interivew with IM <Vinay Bhat>, Samford Fellow, in Mainz, Germany, August 3, 2008

http://blip.tv/file/1144415
(Video)

Apr-01-09   Dredge Rivers: BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBhat's all folks! :)
Apr-05-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: http://vbhat.wordpress.com/tag/samf...

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving isn’t for you.

The economy is a key factor in the Ukrainian chess boom. Playing chess is a prestigious occupation and you can earn money with it. Additionally, you travel around the world. So, a professional chess player has respect, unlike in Europe or the USA. By our standards, chess is a good career.’ (Grandmaster Alexander Moiseenko in a ChessCafe.com interview).”

Although I find the average chessplayer’s income assumed here ($90,000 per year, in constant 2005 dollars)

<really?! what average he mean those 2650 elo rated player ?>

to be a bit overly optimistic, the compiled metrics still paint a clear picture of the usual distribution of top players in the world. The following table is taken directly from the paper (Table 3): R/Y is the relative income ratio (R = $90,000 for chessplayers, Y = avg annual income); WEB is the number of internet users per 1000 people (higher the WEB metric, the lower the training cost); TR is the number of FIDE-recognized tournaments (higher the TR, the lower the training cost).

Jun-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: Ill do my best to get a picture of GM Bhat in the ongoing Quebec chess championship.

Hes a real nice guy.

Jun-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  fm avari viraf: My hearty Congrats for your achievements & keep going. I belong to Gujarat, Valsad.
Jun-21-09   WhiteRook48: so he's an IM
Jun-23-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: I already sent mr freeman the picture of GM Bhat.I hope it would be posted here soon.

He is a very nice and approachable guy.

BTW I took the pic at Quebec invitational chess championship 2009 .

Jun-24-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: mr freeman, thanks for posting the pic:)
Jun-24-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinay_...
Jun-26-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: Montreal 2009 Open Chess Championship

<reposted from GM Bhinay Vhat blog>

http://vbhat.wordpress.com/2009/06/...

The Midway Update in Montreal

We’re a little past the midway mark of the Quebec Invitational now, so I figured it was high time to say a few words about how the tournament is going.

I arrived in Montreal about a week ago, to get in some sightseeing and adjust to the time difference. The tournament began on Friday the 19th, and it continues with one game a day every day until the 27th. The games begin at 5:30 PM – rather late in the day, I’m not totally sure why that is, as even the “working” players are not working during the event. Maybe it’s for the spectators? The last round on the 27th, though, begins at 1 PM.

The tournament site is at: http://fqechecs.qc.ca/index.php?typ...

After some trouble with the DGT boards the first few days, it looks like most of them are up and running now, so the games can be tracked live.

The tournament is a 10-player round-robin with an average FIDE rating of 2411 (category 7). It was originally supposed to be a stronger event, but a couple late withdrawals meant the category went down a little bit. As it is, for most of the players, it’s stiff competition.

After 5 rounds, GM Mark Bluvshtein is leading with a perfect 5-for-5. GM Anton Kovalyov, the top seed, was held to a draw in the 5th round, so he “only” has 4.5/5. In 3rd place you can find me with 3 points.

My tournament has been a little up and down – in the first couple games, I struggled to get any real winning chances against FM Lefong Hua and IM Renier Castellanos. In the 3rd round, I was out-prepared by IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon and emerged from the opening with a worse position. However, the position remained complicated, and when he lost his way, I managed to take advantage and win the game. But then, the following day, as white against GM Bator Sambuev, I managed to lose a long endgame that I really shouldn’t have lost. Yesterday, I bounced back with a win as black against FM Sylvain Barbeau.

There are money prizes in this event for the top 3 finishers, but one of the real special things about this event is that the top 4 finishers qualify for the Tournoi International de Montreal beginning at the end of August. The lineup for that event is filled with very strong players – the average rating of the 7 confirmed players so far is 2670 FIDE or category 17!

So with four rounds to go, I’m in decent position to qualify. I still have to play the two highest and two lowest rated players though – black against GMs Kovalyov and Bluvshtein and white against FM Francois Leveille and NM Ling Feng Ye (who qualified by winning an open tournament the weekend before the round-robin began). After the tournament is over, I’ll try and post some games or fragments.

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