FIDE rating chess: Anurag of Bengal emerges champ, Adhiraj of Jharkhand runner-up

SUBHASH MISHRA

Dhanbad, Aug 10: Anurag Jaiswal of West Bengal won the FIDE rating chess championship with the highest 8 points in nine rounds which concluded at St Xavier Welfare Centre, Chaibasa on Wednesday evening.

In the final round, Anurag defeated Adhiraj Mitra (7 points) of Jamshedpur to ensure the first prize of Rs 15,000.

In the championship, though eight players got equal 7 points each but on the basis of progressive points Adhiraj Mitra got the second position followed by Akshat Negi, Rohan Vijay Shandilya, Bishwajit Chatterjee, Manish Sharma, Abhiraj Dey, Shreyan Gupta Burman from third to ninth position.

Eight players also got equal 6.5 points but Kishan Kumar got the 10 position followed by Ranit Maity, Bhudeo Tripathi, Rajesh Kumar, Debanjan Sinha, Narendra Agrawal and Raja Bose from 11^th to 16^th position.

Akshat Negi beat SG Burman, Rohan Shandilya Vijay beat Rishan Debnath, Bishwajit Chatterjee beat Saurav Kumar, Manish Sharma beat Ajit Kumar Saw, Ranit Maity shared point with Kishan Kumar, Kamal Kishore Deonath beat VP Singh and Bhudeo Tripathi beat Suyash Patel.

In the closing function, West Singhbhum Deputy Commissioner Ananya Mittal was the chief guest and along with the guest of honour Shruti Rajlaxmi gave away prizes to the winners.

Winners of the championship with the Chief Guest

On the occasion, All Jharkhand Chess Association vice-president Vijay Kumar Singh, West Singhbum Chess Association president Dr Vijay Mudra, famous industrialist cum tournament sponsor Mukund Rungta, East Singhbhum Chess Association secretary NK Singh and Seraikela Chess Association secretary Ajay Kumar were also present.

Organizing secretary Basant Kumar Khandelwal informed about the successful national level championship.

Khandelwal said Narendra Nath Pandey was declared in veteran event champion followed by Saurav Kumar (handicapped category), Aniket Verma (best district player), Rudranil Rai and Sanskriti Yadav ( under-7), Vidushi Munshi, Spandan Devnath (under-9), Navika Jaiswal and Syen Badwa ( under-11), Kathakali Dey and Nikunj Agrawal (under-13), Awani Kumari and Projit Dutt ( under-15) category.