State Open U-17 & Girls Chess Tournament : Ojas Kulkarni, Manasa clinch titles

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The winners in the U-17 open and girls Karnataka State Chess Championships conducted by the Mysuru Chess Centre at the Hotel Dasprakash premises seen with the trophies. Standing from left: Khushi M. Hombal, H.R. Manasa, Ojas Kulkarni and P. Shet Prajwal
The winners in the U-17 open and girls Karnataka State Chess Championships conducted by the Mysuru Chess Centre at the Hotel Dasprakash premises seen with the trophies. Standing from left: Khushi M. Hombal, H.R. Manasa, Ojas Kulkarni and P. Shet Prajwal

Mysuru :

Ojas Kul-karni of Bengaluru and H.R. Manasa of Mysuru won the Karnataka State Open U-17 and Girls Chess titles respectively on the concluding day of the Karnataka State U-17 Open & Girls Chess Championships held at Mysuru yesterday.

Ojas Kulkarni (7.5 pts) drew his final and ninth round tie against Ithal H.L. Rajath of Bengaluru (7 pts) to clinch the U-17 Open title.Four players – P. Shet Prajwal (Tumakuru), Likhit Chilukuri (Davanagere), Ithal Rajath (Bengaluru) and Jagadish (Bengaluru) tied with 7 points each and secured places from second to fifth in the final placings.

Mysuru girl Manasa (ELO-1698) won the U-17 Girls title with 6 points. She was tied with Kushi M. Hombal (Shivamogga) with 6 points from seven rounds, but the better progressive tie-break score of 29.5 to the latter’s 26.5 helped her clinch the title.

Final Placings: U-17 Open: Ojas Kulkarni (B’luru-7.5 pts); Shet Prajwal (Tumakuru- 7pts); Likhit Chilukuri (D’gere-7 pts); Ithal Rajath (B’luru-7pts); Jagadish (B’luru-7pts); Varma Shabdhik (DK-6.5 pts); Arjun Adappa (DK-6.5 pts); Sudharshan Bhat (B’luru-6.5 pts); Ajay (Shivamogga-6.5 pts); Jatin (Mys-6pts).

U-17 Girls: Manasa (Mys-6 pts); Khushi Hombal (Shivamogga-6 pts); Spandana (Shivamogga-5.5pts); Shalmika Jain (DK-5 pts); Isha Sharma (B’luru-5); Dhanyatha Corry (B’luru- 5 pts); Akshatha Raju (Mys-5 pts); Supraja (Mys-5pts); Siri Sharma (DK- 5 pts); Sanjana Raghunath (B’luru-5 pts).

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / August 31st, 2015

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