MPCA All India Chess Championship concludes

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Winners of various category of Ist Mysore Professional Chess Academy’s All India FIDE Rated below 1800 Rating Tournament 2014 held in city are seen with the prizes and the guests.
Winners of various category of Ist Mysore Professional Chess Academy’s All India FIDE Rated below 1800 Rating Tournament 2014 held in city are seen with the prizes and the guests.

Mysore :

L. Vivekananda, a student of Vidya Vardhaka FGC, drew his final and tenth round match against Dhanush Bharadwaj of Karnataka and clinched the title in the open category with 9 points from ten rounds on the final day of the 1st MPCA All India Rating below 1800 Chess Championship which concluded at Chamundi Vihar Stadium here on Friday.

The winner took home a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 and a trophy. Dhanush Bhjaradwaj with 8.5 points secured the second place and won a cash prize of Rs.12,000 and a trophy.

K. Ravi Kumar (Kar), R. Parthasarathy (Kar), T.G. Rohit Ramanan (TN) and P. Venkataramana (AP) tied with 8 points each and secured placings from third to sixth in the rankings.

The third, fourth and fifth place winners secured Rs. 8,000, Rs. 6,000 and Rs.5,000 with a trophy. Cash prizes were given to the players upto the 25th place in the rankings. The first five placed winners were given watches sponsored by M/s. Srinivas, Director, V2 Soft, Bangalore. The winners of category prizes were given special prizes sponsored by M/s. Cycle Pure Agarbathis, Mysore. The trophies were sponsored by M/s. Urs Kars, Mysore.

The prizes to the winners were given away by Mysore University DPE Director Dr. C. Krishna. MDCA President Prof. S.K. Ananda Thirtha, MPCA Jt. Secretary K.R. Shivarame Gowda, MPCA Director A. Sudharshana, MDCA Secretary M. Nagendra, Bangalore’s V2Soft Director Srinivas, National-level Chess player, MPCA Treasurer M.P. Ajith and Secretary C.K. Muralidharan were present on the occasion.

Results

Dhanysh Bharadwaj (8.5) drew L. Vivekananda; R. Parthasarathy drew T.G. Rohit Ramanan (8); S. Ramkumar drew Sonkalan Bharati (7.5); Vivekraj drew S. Subba Raju (7.5); Yashaskara Jois drew Kadav Omkar (7.5); R. Muralidharan (7) lost to P. Venkataramana (8); K. Ravi Kumar (8) bt Potluri Supreetha (7).

Special Prizes

Best below 1600: Prasanta Mondal (WB-7pts); Below 1400: Suhas P. Nidoni (Kar-7pts); Below 1200: Prajwal M. Joshi (Kar-6pts); Unrated: Krishna Kumar (Kar-6 pts); Best Veteran (55 Plus): K. Prabhakaran (Kar-6.5pts); Best Female Player: Potluri Supreetha (AP-7 pts); Best Karnataka Player: Sharan Rao (Kar-7.5 pts); Best Mysore player; V.P.S. Darshan (Mys-7.5); Best Physically Challenged: Samarth J. Rao (5 pts); Best U-16 Boys: C. Vignesh (TN-6.5 pts); Best U-16 girls: Siri Sharma (Kar); Best U-14 Boys: V.G. Nishanth (TN); Best U-14 girls: J. Dhivyashree (TN); Best U-12 Boys: P. Vibhu Reddy (Kar); Best U-12 Girls: Priyanka Narayan (Kar); Best U-10 boys: Sriram Udhaykumar (Kar); Best U-10 Girls: Khushi M. Hombal (Kar); Best U-18 Boys: Karthikay C (Kar); Best U-8 girls; Bhagyashree G. Patil (Kar).

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News  / April 27th, 2014

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