National Amateur Championship Begins in Bhopal

The 8th National Amateur Chess championship-2019 was commenced on 20th August 2019, at Hotel Kanta Shrawan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. A total of 165 players from across the country are competing for the coveted title.

The championship was inaugurated on 20th August by Chief guest Shri Sreenivas Varma –IAS ( Inspector General of Police- CID Branch) & guest of honor Shri S N Rupla ( IPS- Retired) with Hon secretary of Madhya Pradesh Chess Association Shri Kapil Saxena on the dias.

The championship witnessed many upsets in the first round as thee major upset was on Board No-2 in which Umesh Konduru(1406) defeated second-seeded Wajih Nassir (2168).

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In the second round, top-seeded Puneet Jaiswal (2184) was held to draw by Narasimha Raveendra G ( 1584) of Tamil Nadu.

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By the end of the third round, local boy Aiswin Daniel emerged with 3 out of 3 points and in the race to the title along with Kartavya Anadkat of Gujarat, Mahindrakar Indrajeet of Maharastra and Sooraj M R of Kerala.

Results

Round 3 on 2019/08/21 at 16:00 PM

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	41		Sharma Varun	1636	2	0 – 1	2		Anadkat Kartavya	2079	3
2	4		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	2078	2	1 – 0	2	AGM	Sikka Sumit	1630	44
3	8		Aishwin Daniel	1969	2	1 – 0	2		Medhansh Saxena	1620	46
4	10		Sooraj M R	1934	2	1 – 0	2		Singh Vimlesh Kumar	1605	50
5	45		Subhabrata Roy	1629	2	½ – ½	2		Srikanth K.	1917	11
6	49		Poluri Kumaraswamy	1609	2	0 – 1	2		Banerjee Ashutosh	1821	15
7	51		Aarush Gupta	1590	2	½ – ½	2		Mraduhas Tripathi	1808	17
8	63		Aravind Matthews A C T	1547	2	0 – 1	2		Himanshu Moudgil	1791	19
9	73		Darsh Kansal	1490	2	0 – 1	2		Mayank Sharma Nandkishore	1721	28
10	29		Dony K V	1717	2	0 – 1	2		Aswin P G	1587	52
11	31	AIM	Kohli Pranav	1698	2	½ – ½	2		Shah Devansh	1544	64
12	35		Diwan Rajesh	1681	2	0 – 1	2		Saket Kumar	1473	76
13	39		Rathi Dhanashree	1642	2	1 – 0	2		Umesh Konduru	1406	85
14	77		Suryavanshi Brijesh Mohan	1470	2	0 – 1	2		Mangal Prasad	1636	40
15	83	AIM	Sheikh Jahan	1427	2	0 – 1	1½		Jaiswal Puneet	2184	1
16	53		Narasimha Raveendra G	1584	1½	0 – 1	1½		Tanmay Chopra	2023	5
17	6		Devesh Anand Naik	1996	1½	1 – 0	1½		Jatinder Kapoor	1677	36
18	71		Femil Chelladurai	1512	1½	½ – ½	1½		Devvrat Tiwari	1978	7
19	59		Aditya Rawat	1558	1½	0 – 1	1½		Pradeep Tiwari	1959	9
20	14		Sanchit Anand	1878	1½	1 – 0	1½		Umer S M	1574	56