Chandigarh: Himal Gusain won the 23rd Chandigarh Chess Championship 2012 being organized at the St Xavier’s School, Sector 44.

Himal scored 5½ points to win the Chandigarh Chess Championship title for the fifth time in a row.
Points position:

5½ Points-Gusain Himal and Pardeep Singh Negi; 4½ Points-Tarini Goyal and Goyal Arunima,

4 Points-Naveen Bansal, Vohra Abhinandan, Nitin, Piyush Manuja, Chander Mohan Sharma, Rahul Arora,Shweta and Jaskeerat Singh; 3½ Points-Vipan Negi, Manmohan Singh and Sunil Bansal

3 Points-Kritika Kapila, Hitesh Issar, Levanshu, Manveer Singh, Mauraya Mahajan and Rishabh Jain

2½ Points-Lakshay Bhatia, Aryan Oswal, Navneet Kaur Ahuja, Kashish Jain, Jashan Singh, Harpreet Singh and Shishir Lamba; 2 Points-Anhat and AS Chopra

1½ points-Devesh Bibra, Abhinav, Mohit Chaudhary and Mohit Thakur

1 Point-Mayank Verma, Hitesh and Puneet Kumar

By Indian Sports News Network