10th Anand Chess Academy Calicut
All India Open FiIDE International Rating Chess Tournament,Calicut
Vinoth Kumar wins title
M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
A
nand Chess Academy Calicut organized its 10th ACA All India Open
Fide International Rating Chess Tournament at Hotel Sana Tower Calicut. The
tournament attracted 230 players from
Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhyapradesh and
Tamilnadu. Out of which 152 players are
FIDE rated chess players. Participation from
USA chess Federation made the tournament
colourful. The tournament was held from
20th May 2016 to 22nd May 2016, offering
a prize fund of Rs,2,00,000/- . FM Vinoth
Kumar from Tamilnadu was the top seeded.
In this tournament 118th seeded Rutherford of Tamilnadu held the 3rd seeded Athul
Krishna of Calicut on round one and 59th
seeded Achaya Vijayan of Tamilnadu hold
the 2nd seeded Alex Thomas of Kerala in
Round two.
M Vinoth Kumar from Tamilnadu and
three players O T Anilkumar, M A Joy Lazar
and Abhishek T M from Kerala scored 5
points at the end of round five. In the final
round Vinoth Kumar played a neat game
against Joy Lazar and convincingly won the
game where as O T Anilkumar took time to
beat young Abhishek T M. Both Vinoth Kumar
and
O T Anilkumar collected 6 points from
six rounds but better tie break score helped
Vinoth Kumar won the title.
Vinoth Kumar lifted the winner's trophy
and also received Rs.20000/- as cash prize.
O T Anilkumar finished second place and received Rs.15000/-.
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Mr. Kunhi Moideen the President, Chess
Association Kerala distributed the prizes to
the winners. Shri. P Venugopalan, Joint Secretary, All India Chess Federation and also
the Director of Anand Chess Academy welcomed the gathering , Shri Santhosh Henry
David, Treasurer, United Kozhikode District
Chess Association gave the vote of thanks.
Anand Chess academy has been doing
lot of services to chess in Kerala for the past
nine years. The director, Shri. P Venugopalan
is regularly organizing chess tournaments in
Calicut, Trivandrum and Palghat. Chess players from north and south Kerala are getting
the chance to play these tournaments. In
addition to this, players from neighbouring
states also get a chance to play in these
tournaments.
Final
Rk
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
standings:
Name Pts
Vinoth Kumar M FM
6
Anilkumar O.T.
6
Augustin A
5½
Athul Krishna S
5½
Abhishek T M
5
Joy Lazar M.A.
5
Rajith V.
5
Lakshimi Narayanan
5
Abdul Majeed N.
5
Sathya Giri V
5
Sharsha Backer
5
Gowrichander U
5
Kannan R.
5
Karan J P
5
Madhusoodanan K.R.
4½
Jagadeesh A.K.
4½