Tarini maintains stranglehold by winning chess title

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 29

Tarini Goyal, a student of Sacred Heart School, Sector 26, won the 27th Chandigarh Chess Championship by scoring seven points on the concluding day at the St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44.

Naveen Bansal, who also scored seven points, finished second after a tie-break with Goyal. 

Jaskeerat Singh of Delhi Public School, Sector 40, claimed the third position (6 points).Nitin finished fourth with six points. 

As many as 60 players took part in the championship which had 25 FIDE-rated players. 

The top performers, Tarini Goyal, Naveen Bansal, Jaskeerat Singh and Nitin, have been selected to represent the city in the forthcoming National Challengers Chess Championship in Noida from July 8 to 19.

Points position

(7 Points): Tarini Goyal, Naveen Bansal, (6 Points): Jaskeerat Singh, Nitin, Prateek Wadhwa

(5½ Points): Shubham, Abhinav Bansal, Jashanjot Singh

(5 Points): Soumiljit Singh Gill, Rohit Roy Chaudhary, Varun Gupta, Arnav Kushwaha, Goyal Arunima, Tarundeep Singh, Vipan Negi, Sunil Bansal, Rohan Gupta, Udai Singh Gill, Shishir Lamba, Sanjiv Kumar, (4½ Points): Rahul Arora, Arjit Saraswat

(4 Points): Hitesh Issar, Manav Gupta, Anmol Rattan, Aryandeep Singh Gill, Agaaz Bansal, Sarthak Gupta, Juneja Ritesh, Bhavya Batra, Hriday Malik, Akshun Punchhi, Gurfateh Singh, Ishaan Jain, Rishit Gupta, Parus Banota, Aditya Malhotra, (3½ Points): Anhat Singh, Hritik Gupta, Shaurya Kumaria 

(3 Points): Krish Gupta, Rishabh Jain, Shaunak Chaudhary, Surinder Singh, Anand Punchhi, Aditya Sharma, Abhinav Sharma, Ishaan Narang, (2½ Points): Goel Pratyaksh, Precious Bansal

(2 Points): Mitali Saini, Akshay Dhody, Gurjai Singh, Shaurya Chopra, Riya 

(1 Point): Snehlata Aarya, Munish Narang, (0 Point): Aryaman Gupta, Anahat Preet, Dhananjay.