Himanshu wins chess championship

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 6 

In a close contest, international master Himanshu Sharma of the Railways emerged the champion with 7½ points in the open category on the concluding day of the First Chitkara International School Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship  held at Chitkara International School  located in Sector 25 (West). 

Himal Gusain from SD College, Sector 32, Chandigarh, finished runners-up with 7½ points on the basis of a tie-breaker while Ram S Krishnan of Tamil Nadu, who also secured 7½ points, claimed the third spot on the basis of strategy on board. 

In the below 1600 FIDE ratings category, Sankalp Arora lead to bag the top honours with 8 points, while Aryan, who also scored 8 points, secured the second position vide a tie-breaker.  Mangal Prasad, with 7½ points, secured the third spot in the championship. 

A total of 302 players, including 160 with international ratings, participated in the event. The winners were awarded cash prizes along with certificates of merit.

Results 

7½ points- Himanshu Sharma; Himal Gusain; Ram S. Krishnan; 6 points- Harshal Shahi; Vikas Sharma; Rahul Sangma; Tarini Goyal; Ashwani Tiwari; Vinay Raj Bhatt; Pardeep Arora; 5½  points- Sumit Grover; Sandeep Chitkara; Anmol Bhagat; Aryan; 5 points- Dushyant Sharma; Atul Kumar; Suraj Dahiya; Sushant Manuja; Apoorv Anand; Akshay Anand; Deepak Rai; Jaskeerat Singh; Ashwani Kumar Grover; Meenal Gupta; 4½  points- Chetan Bansal; Puneet Manchanda; Vinod Sharma; Pukhraj Singh;  Harshit Arya; Anshul Kaushik; 4 points- Lokesh Hans; Harjap Singh; Shubham Shukla; Adarsh Tripathi; Sunil Bansal; Amanpreet Singh; Mohan Singh Dewat; Shamim Ahmad; Saypuri Srithan; 3½  point- Sunil Gupta; Pankaj Sindhu; 3 points- Arvinder Preet; Mayank Pal; Manav Gupta; RK Gupta; Akash Thakur; Below 1600 FIDE rating – 8 points-  Sankalp Arora; Aryan; 7½ points-Mangal Prasad; Nagargoje Dhananjay; Gaurav Sharma; 7 points- Satyam Prakash; Tanmay Jain; Ankit Saxena; Prabhujot Singh; Bhat Siddharth; Sanjeev Choudhary; Devang Singla; Suthar Manish; 6½ points- Utkarsh; Mridul Shukla; Nilesh Wasnik; Punit Indora; Priyadarshi Alok; Deepak Poonia; Narayan Joshi; Shweta; Namitbir Singh Walia; Hemanth Kumar Mandala; Ishaan Singh Mendiratta; Rajiv Singh; 6 points- Prateek Wadhwa; Jagdish Pachar; Sahil Thakur; Ravinder Goyat; Mumukshu Mittal; Anubhav Sharma; Kommabathula Prakash; Raghav Maheshwari; Jyotirmay Singh; Saurabh Sharma; Nivedan Bhardwaj; Soumiljit Singh Gill; Ved Prakash; Jonny Verma; Mishra Ashish; Tanzeel-Ur-Rehman; Rohit Roy Chaudhary; Yogender; Vaibhav Sharma; Krishan Kumar; Vijay Yadav; Raghav Bansal; Choubey Saurabh; Saurav Agarwal; 5½ points- Manjeet Poonia; Prabhsimran Singh; Kuljeet Singh Khurana; Lakshay Nagpal; Jeet Singh; Aman Sharma; Pawan Kaushik; Rakesh Bhandari; Gunin Malik; Anhat Singh; Krishnam Trikha; Archit Gupta; Raj Prakhar; Pranav Sharma; Vipan Negi; Shubham; Jagjiwan Singh; Kunal Tanwar; Brijesh Talwar; Aashish Payal; Somdatt; Manish Sehgal.