Swapnil Dhopade emerges as the Straight champion

AICF Office 10 years ago

Swapnil Dhopade emerges as the Straight champion
By S.PAUL AROKIA RAJ,Chief Arbiter

After war of nerves for 11 days in the orange city of Nagpur the 53rd National Challengers Championship came to an end today with the GM elect and IM Swapnil Dhopade of Railways emerging as straight champion with 10 points.The find of the championship was FIDE Master K.Praneeth Surya of Telengana who stood second with 9.5 points in a eleven way tie.The third place was secured by GM Karthikeyan Muarali of Tamil Nadu. Top 9 players have qualified from this championship for the national premier championship slated for November this year at Tiruvarur, TamilNadu.

Final Standings :

Standings	Title	Name of the player	Unit
1	IM	Swapnil S. Dhopade	RLYS
2	FM	K. Praneeth Surya	TEL
3	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	TN
4	GM	Neelotpal Das	PSPB
5	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	PSPB
6	GM	Shyam Sundar M.	AAI
7	IM	Rathnakaran K.	RLYS
8	IM	Karthikeyan P.	RLYS
9	GM	Kunte Abhijit	PSPB
10	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	TN
11	IM	Das Arghyadip	RLYS
12	GM	Sengupta Deep	PSPB
13	IM	Thejkumar M. S.	RLYS
14		Harsha Bharathakoti	TEL
15	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	PSPB
16		Gusain Himal	CHAN
17		Shailesh Dravid	MAH
18	GM	Laxman R.R.	RLYS
19		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	ODI
20	GM	Lalith Babu M.R.	PSPB
21	IM	Satyapragyan Swayangsu	AI
22	IM	Rajesh V A V	TN
23	IM	Nitin S.	RLYS
24	IM	Das Sayantan	WB
	IM	Stany G.A.	KAR
26		Karthik V. Ap	AP
27	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	LIC
28	GM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi	RLYS
29	IM	Kulkarni Vikramaditya	RLYS
30	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	WB