Himanshu, Himal & Rahul win, keep the tempo going on Day 1

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, January 2 

Top seed Himanshu Sharma, Himal Gusain and  Rahul Sangma won their respective games to claim one point on the opening day of the 1st Chitkara International School FIDE Rating Chess Championship, held here today. 

A total of 302 players from 17 states registered on Day One. From amongst these players, 160 are international FIDE rated players, including two international masters in the tournament. Most seeded players have won their first round games comfortably.  The tournament is divided into two categories — A (Open) and B. There are also age-wise category prizes for under-15 and under-11 years apart from other prizes for various categories. 

Results

Winners of first round (Open Category )

One point: Sushant Manuja; Aryan; Himanshu Sharma; Gusain Himal; Sangma Rahul; Ram S. Krishnan; Harshal Shahi; Vikas Sharma; Vinay Raj Bhatt; Chetan Bansal; Tarini Goyal; Sandeep Chitkara; Atul Kumar ;Deepak Rai; Sunil Gupta; Suraj Dahiya; Mohan Singh Dewat; Anshul Kaushik; Shubham Shukla; Harjap Singh; Pankaj Sindhu; Meenal Gupta;  ½ points:Arvinder Preet; Laxmee Kanta Sahoo; Pardeep Arora; Tiwari Ashwani; Akshay Anand; Apoorv Anand; Pukhraj Singh; Puneet Manchanda; Sharma Vinod; Mayank Pal; 

Category below 1600- 1 point: Anubhav Kumar Jha; Hemanth Kumar Mandala; Ved Prakash; Aashman Gupta Del; Aayan Jagdev; Ashish Singh; Ekam Singh; Rohan Gupta; Sanjukta Sobani; Savri Pun; Jonny Verma; Deepak Poonia; Manjeet Poonia; Anubhav Tuknayat; Krishan Kumar; Mangal Prasad; Sankalp Arora; Ravinder Goyal; Gaurav Sharma; Nagargoje Dhananjay; Pranav Sharma; Gouravkumar Nanwani; Ankit Saxena; Kuljeet Singh Khurana; Manish Sehgal; Aryan; Satyam Prakash; Mumukshu Mittal; Garv Rai; Raj Prakhar; Rakesh Bhandari; Nivedan Bhardwaj; Bhat Siddharth; Soumiljit Singh Gill; Singh Sewa Pun; Namitbir Singh Walia; Rohit Roy Chaudhary; Jyotirmay Singh; Prabhsimran Singh; Mishra Ashish; Lakshay Nagpal; Sanjeev Choudhary; Singh Jagjiwan; Nilesh Wasnik; Mridul Shukla; Rajan Dhiman; Gaurav Sood; Yasar Abdullah; Pawan Kaushik; Anhat Singh; Tanzeel-ur-Rehman; Rajbeer Ahmed; Avi Bhardwaj; Kataria Deepak; Devang Singla; Archit Gupta; Saurabh Sharma; Bhardwaj Ashish; Kunal Tanwar; Deependra Kartiyan; Kritika Pal; Jyoti Rohila; Gunin Malik; Shishir Lamba; Arnav Kushwaha; Aman Sharma; Yogender; Yogik Khurana; Kumar Tulani; Lakshaya Arora; Lavanya Jain; Rahul Sharma; Vallari Narewadi;

Aarushi Mittal; Aryaman Gupta; Abhinav Bansal; Aditti Ramsisaria; Aditya Bedi; Hemba Meitei Khumujam; Kommabathula Prakash; Nabh Manchanda; Prateek Wadhwa; Rajesh Arora; Rakesh; Sahil; Sahil Thakur; Simranjeet Deol; Suryansh Verma; Tarundeep Singh; Utkarsh Routh; Vaibhav Sharma; Vishruti; Yash Verma.