Delhi State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championahip-2016,New Delhi
Santu Mondal is the Winner
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by Gopakumar Sudhakaran IA, Chief Arbiter
elhi State Open FIDE Rated Chess
Championahip-2016 was held at Amity International School Pushp Vihar,
New Delhi 10th Jun to 16th Jun 2016.
A total number of 150 players which included 92 International rated from across
Delhi participated in the championship and
served as selection event for Delhi team for
the forthcoming National Championship.
The event which were spread over seven
days and played under Swiss System with 9
rounds with the time control of 90 minutes
and 30 seconds increment from move 1. The
total prize fund of the championship was Rs.
1,50,000/-.
Santu Mondal started as top seed and the
event progressed on expected lines. At the
end of ninth round, top seed Santu Mondal
and Prachet Sharma tied for the top spot
with 7 ½ points but better Direct Encounter tie break score helped Mondal to finish
as champion while Sharma finished as first
runner-up. Six players tied for the third spot
with 7 points but better tie break score helped
Om Batra to finish as third.
Mehak Jain adjudged as best female player
while Shashi Raj Saxena become best veteran player. Rishabh Jain, Harshiel Sehgal
and Kanishka Tiwari finished best among
Under-15, Under-10 and unrated categories
respectively.In the closing ceremony, Shri. AK
Verma, Secretary of Delhi Chess Association
gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. MS
Gopakumar, Chief Arbiter.
Final ranking
Rk
Name
1 Santu Mondal
2 Prachet Sharma
3 Om Batra
4 Nishant Malhotra
5 Deepak Rai
6 Jaydeep Sharma
7 Alok Sinha
8 Sumay Mishra
9 Vantika Agrawal
10 Sachin Malik
11 Manish Uniyal
12 Shatrughan Kaushik
13 Aansh Gupta
14 Anil Shivpuri
15 Sandeep Kumar
16 Jagdeep Singh Sudan
17 Kanishka Tiwari
18 Deep Kapoor
19 Rishabh Jain
20 S K Srivastava
21 Aadit Bhatia
22 Mehak Jain
23 Rajagopalan
24 Shashi Raj Saxena
25 Bala K
26 Aaryan Varshney
27 Sarthak Kapoor
28 Kaur Palkin
29 Udit Sanghi
30 Esshan Wadhawan
31 Anirudh Jain
32 Raj Kumar
33 Arun Wahi
34 Varghese P D
35 Rijit Singh
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Pts
7½
7½
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7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
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6
6
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6
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6
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
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