National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2016,Visakhapatnam…
Neelotpal Das and Prantik Roy win titles
by N.K.Nandakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2016 organised by Visakha
District Chess Association in association
with the Andhra Pradesh Chess Association
under the aegis of All India Chess Federation
was held at Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium,
Visakhapatnam, from 11 to 14 June, 2016.
A total number of 122 players in Rapid event
and 98 players in blitz event from 14 states
(Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh,
Haryana Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala,
Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Telengana,
Tamilnadu and West Bengal)and 4 special
units ( AirIndia, LIC, PSPB and Railways) took
part in this prestigious event.
In a grand opening ceremony Chief Guest
Shri. Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Hon'ble Minister
for Education & Human Resources Development Government of Andhra Pradesh lit the
traditional lamp and inaugurated the event.
Special Invitee Mr.DV.Sundar, Vice President
of FIDE along with other Guests of honour
graced the occasion.
All the rounds witnessed fighting games and
the championship in both formats, rapid and
blitz, saw exciting battles over 64 squares.
At the end of championship, Grandmaster
Neelotpal Das of PSPB emerged as National
Rapid Champion with a score of 9 /11 and
International Master Prantik Roy of WB was
crowned the Blitz Champion scoring 10
points out of eleven rounds..The championship was conducted in the best possible
manner and the event concluded without any
protest or incidents or appeal.
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JUly 2016
Final ranking
Rk
1 GM
2 GM
3 IM
4
5
6 IM
7 GM
8 IM
9 IM
10 GM
11 IM
12 IM
13
14 CM
15
16
17
18
19
20 IM
21
22
23
24
25 FM
26 FM
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
Name
Club
Neelotpal Das
PSPB
Bakre Tejas
AI
Rathnakaran K.
S Rly
Gusain Himal
Chd
D Bala Chandra Prasad AP
Sharma Dinesh K.
LIC
Sriram Jha
LIC
Satyapragyan Swayangsu AI
Thejkumar M. S.
KAR
Venkatesh M.R.
PSPB
Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN
Hegde Ravi Gopal
KAR
Goswami Vedant
KAR
Gopal K.N.
AP
Lokesh N.
TN
Sameer Kumar Y
TEL
Nayak Sanjeeban
ODI
Debarshi Mukherjee
WB
Sa Kannan
TN
Roy Prantik
WB
Prasannaa.S
TN
Aishwin Daniel
MP
Joshi Govind Ballabh
AI
Shubham Shukla
PUN
Ramakrishna J.
TEL
Nihal Sarin
KER
Mari Arul S.
S Rly
Ahirwal Dinesh
MP
Toshali V
AP
Negi Virender Singh
AI
Sumit Kumar
WB
Batham Avinash
MP
Sinha Sudhir Kumar
BIH
Chakravarthy Y V K
AP
Swaraj Palit
JHA
Pts
9
8½
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
7½
7½
7½
7½
7½
7½
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½