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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.<\/p>\nNew 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Arghyadip Das came second winning the silver ahead of M R Lalith Babu who won his game to win the Bronze medal.<\/p>\n
In the Women’s section, Padmini Rout, S Vijayalakshmi and S Meenakshi all won their games to win the medals.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Important results: 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.<\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess"],"yoast_head":"\n
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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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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.<\/p>\n