New Delhi: Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship after settling for a quick draw with Arghyadip Das in the ninth and final round that concluded here.

Gupta a winner of this event in 2015, regained the crown with a very impressive eight points out of a possible nine, winning the first seven games in the championship and drawing the last two with utmost ease.

"I guess I was doing well right from the start, I got off with some victories and it was nice to win seven games in a row, I could not remember the last time I did that in any International event. That was it I gess my seventh round victory was the most important and it came rather quickly as Deep Sengupta was not so well prepared which I found a bit unusual but obviously took it!" said Gupta on his excellent victory.

Arghyadip Das came second winning the silver ahead of M R Lalith Babu who won his game to win the Bronze medal.

In the Women's section, Padmini Rout, S Vijayalakshmi and S Meenakshi all won their games to win the medals.

As the tie was resolved Rout won the gold, Vijayalakshmi won silver while Meenakshi wont he bronze. Both Vijayalakshmi and Meenakshi wont he last six games in the championship.


Important results:

Arghyadip Das (7.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (8); S. Ravi Teja (6.5)
lost to M. R. Lalith Babu (7.5); G. Akash (6.5) lost to Deepan
Chakkravarthy (7.5); Siva Mahadevan (6.5) lost to M. Karthikeyan (7);
N. R. Vignesh (6) lost to Deep Sengupta (7); Aravindh Chithambaram (7)
bt Nicholas van der Nat (RSA, 6); Ziaur Rahman (6.5) drew with N.
Sanjay (6.5); Abhijit Kunte (6.5) drew with Sriram Jha (6.5); Ramnath
Bhuvanesh (7) bt S. L. Narayanan (6); Ankit Rajpara (6.5) drew with S.
Nitin (6.5); S. Vijayalakshmi (7) bt Niaz Murshed (Ban, 6); N. Lokesh
(6) lost to Padmini Rout (7); Mohammad Minhazuddin (Ban, 7) bt S.
Jayakumaar (6); Himanshu Sharma (5.5) lost to S. Meenakshi (7).