Tirupathi: Third seed and World Under-18 Bronze medalist International Master Debashis Das of Odisha with ten points won the 50th National Challengers Chess Championship after settling for half point against Bitan Banerjee of West Bengal in the thirteenth and final round here at Ramatulasi Kalyana Mandapam on Monday.
Fide Master Diptayan Ghosh of West Bengal, G Akash of Tamilnadu and Sagar Shah of Maharahstra, who beat Akash in the final round tied for the runner up position with nine and half points but better tie break score helped Ghosh to secure runner-up trophy while Akash finished third and Sagar Shah satisfied with fourth spot finish.
Top thirty players from this event qualified for the forthcoming National Premier Chess Championship which is scheduled to be held at West Bengal in the month of October
In a colourful closing ceremony, Dr. P C Rayalu, Chairman, Food Processing Industries, South Zone-II, Govt. of India gave away the prizes along with Shri. Bharat Singh, Secretary All India Chess Federation, Shri. D V Sundar, Vice-President World Chess Federation and Shri. A Narasimha Reddy, President Andhra Pradesh Chess Association and Shri. Kanna Reddy, Secretary Andhra Pradesh Chess Association.
Important Results
Round-13 :- IM Debashis Das of Odisha (10) drew with Bitan Banerjee of West Bengal (9); Sagar Shah of Maharashtra (9.5) beat G Akash of Tamilnadu (9.5); FM Ghosh Diptayan of West Bengal (9.5) drew with Abilash Reddy M L of Andhra Pradesh (9); Ram S Krishnan of Tamilnadu (8.5) drew with IM S Satyapragyan of Air India (8.5); Anurag Mhamal of Goa (8.5) drew with IM Karthikeyan P of PSPB (8.5); IM Swayams Mishra of Orissa (8.5) drew with Syed Anwar Shazuli of Railways (8.5); IM Singh D P of Railways (8.5) drew with IM Saptarshi Roy of Railways (8.5); IM Suvrajit Saha of Railways (8.5) drew with Arindam Mukherjee of Railways (8.5); Arun Karthik R of Tamilnadu (8.5) drew with FM Rajesh VAV of Tamilnadu (8.5); Narayanan S L of Kerala (9) beat IM Sudhakar Babu of Indian Bank (8); IM Girinath PDS of Railways (9) beat IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam of Railways (8); Shashikant Kutwal of Railways (8.5) drew with Sanjay N of Karnataka (8.5); IM Praveen Kumar C of Railways (8.5) drew with Ravi Teja S of Andhra Pradesh (8.5); IM Murali Krishnan B T of Railways (9) beat Prince Bajaj of Delhi (8); Pratik Patil of Maharashtra (8.5) drew with IM Atanu Lahiri of LIC (8.5); FM Sayantan Das of West Bengal (8.5) drew with CRG Krishna of Andhra Pradesh (8.5); Sohan Phadke of Maharashtra (8.5) drew with Arvind Shastry of Karnatka (8.5); Sidhant Mohapatra of Odisha (8) lost to IM Dinesh Sharma of LIC (8.5); Joshi G B of Air India (7.5) lost to IM P Konguvel of PSPB (8.5); IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh of Tamilnadu (7.5) lost to IM Rahul Shetty of Air India (8.5); Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (8.5) beat Praveen Prasad of Andhra Pradesh (7.5); Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra (7.5) lost to IM Rahul Sangma of Railways (8.5); K Praneeth Surya of Andhra Pradesh (8.5) beat IM Prakash G B of Indian Bank (7.5); Akash Thakur of Railways (8) drew with IM Chandrashekhar Gokhale of Air India (8); IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury of Railways (8) beat Negi V S of Air India (7).
