Gurgaon Open Chess: Five players share lead

chessGurgaon: International Master Himanshu Sharma of Haryana, Kantilal Dave of Rajasthan Akshat Chandra of Delhi, Prince Bajaj of Delhi and K Srikanth of SSCB are leading with 4 ponts each at the end of 4th round .in the 1st Gurgaon All India Open Fide Rating Chess Championship 2012, being held at Rishi Public School Sector 31 Gurgaon.

They are closely followed by International Master Arghayadeep Das of West Bangal and Puneet Jaiswal of Delhi with 3½ points each. In the 3rd round top seed Arghyadeep Das of West Bangal was held to draw by 15th seed Sahil Tickoo of Haryana. All other seeded players won their games comfortably.
 
A total of 103 players are participating in this championship. It is being organised by  District Chess Association Gurgaon. Satbir Tanwar Advocate, President, Distt. Bar Association Gurgaon inaugurated the tournament on Saturday. He was accompanied by Devinder Rawat-Adv, Satbir Janghu-Adv & Pawan Tyagi Advocate. Naresh Sharma-general Secretary of the Haryana Chess Association, Rajpal Chauhan, Desh Ratan Gulati, Umed Sharma were also present on the occasion.


Points position at the end of 4th round is as under :
 
Rank
Name
Club
Points
1
Chandra Akshat
Delhi
4
2
Dave Kantilal
Raj
4
3
Himanshu Sharma
Railways
4
4
Prince Bajaj
Delhi
4
5
Srikanth K
SSCB
4
6
Das Arghyadip
WB
7
Jaiswal Puneet
Delhi
8
R K Mishra
SSCB
3
9
Manish Uniyal
Delhi
3
10
Kaur Palkin
Delhi
3
11
Gusain Himal
CHD
3
12
Anshul Kaushik
Har
3
13
Aman Chahal
Har
3
14
Varma Vikrant
Har
3
15
Sarthak Bansal
Delhi
3
16
D K  Chopra
Delhi
3
17
Sharma Vibhav
Har
3
18
Chetan Chauhan
Har
3
19
Kaushik Shubham
Har
3
20
Tarini Goyal
CHD
3
21
Harmeet Thukran
Har
3
22
Yogesh Gautam
Har
3
23
Manan Rai
Delhi
3
24
Sumit Grover
J&K
3
25
Devesh Mukherjee
Raj
3
26
Raghav Bagri
Raj
3
27
Rajesh Kumar Nath
HP
3
28
Parmod Kharbash
Har
3
29
Sahil Tickoo
Har
30
Shishir Kumar
Delhi
31
Divyanshu Hasija
Har
32
Bharat Bhushan
Har
33
Vikram Ranolia
Har
34
Naveen Kumar
Har
35
Anurag
Delhi
36
Vaibhavi Thakur
Har
37
Amit Dalal
Har
2
38
Jaskeerat Singh
CHD
2
39
Manjeet Poonia
Har
2
40
Yadav Manjeet Singh
Har
2
41
Nilesh Jindal
Har
2
42
Kumar Rajeev
UP
2
43
Siddharth Suri
Har
2
44
Pawan Kumar
Har
2
45
Goyal Arunima
CHD
2
46
Vaishnavi Thakur
Har
2
47
Aniket Jain
Raj
2
48
Saxena Mausam
Har
2
49
Aashna Agarwal
Har
2
50
Ishan Rastogi
Raj
2
51
Puneet Manchanda
Har
2
52
Rajagopalan
Del
2
53
Jatin Bhardwaj
Har
2
54
Sachet Garg
Har
2
55
Jagdeep Singh Sudan
Delhi
2
56
Lokesh Hans
Har
2
57
Kunal Verma
Har
2
58
Jayant Chauhan
Har
2
59
Surender Kumar
Har
2
60
Ravi Kumar
Har
2
61
Himank Bansal
Delhi
2
62
Parikshit Singh
Har
2
63
Siddhant Nath Jha
Har
2
64
Jain Arnavv
Raj
2
65
Kaamya Negi
Delhi
2
66
Rohit Sunil Adsule
Har
2
67
Umang Gupta
Har
68
Projnabrata Seth
Har
69
Bhavya Gupta
Har
70
Gauri Suri
Har
71
Chirag Tayal
Har
72
Girotra Shiv
Har
73
Pratinav Pandey
Delhi
74
Shreyas Rajesh
Delhi
75
Shashank Shekhar Jha
Har
76
Piyush Sharma
Har
77
D S Senger
Har
78
Bhanot Stuti
Har
79
Varun Inamdar
Har
1
80
Dharmender
Har
1
81
Navya Tayal
Har
1
82
Parth Arora
Har
1
83
Ayush Pandey
Delhi
1
84
Tushar Jangra
Har
1
85
Sumit Anand
Har
1
86
Chanderahash  Gandass
Har
1
87
Chirag Agrawal
Har
1
88
Nakul Hans
Har
1
89
Tamanna Panwar
Har
1
90
Namann D Jain
Raj

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