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Anish Naik of Ponda taluka won the all-Goa open rapid chess tournament 2018 for unrated players. The event was organised by Champion’s Chess Academy & Swami Vivekanand Vidalaya.
Anish scored 7.5 points from 8 rounds, to emerge the champion and pocketed cash prize of Rs 3000, Edrick Vaz (Salcete) secured the runner-up place scoring 7 points and with it a cash prize of Rs 2000. Namesh Churi (Tiswadi) finished third with 7 points for a prize of Rs 1000.
Komarpant Saurav (Canacona), Siddhiraj Gaunekar (Ponda), Vaibhav Gaunekar (Ponda), Varada Raghuvir Dessai (Salcete) secured 4th-7th places respectively by scoring 7 points each. Suraj Kale (Salcete), Shlok Dhulapkar (Bardez), Ethan Vaz (Salcete), Bunty P Jat (Bicholim), Granthik Buyao
(Salcete), Desai Vihav Vihar (Canacona) finished among the 8th-13th positions, scoring 6.5 points each. Mohit Naik, Shivam Raikar (Canacona) occupied 14th and 15th place respectively scoring 6 points apiece.
Consolation prizes in different age-groups are as follows: Rishik Patnekar & Varad Raghuvir Dessai secured 1st & 2nd position in U-7 boys section, Sequeira Jennica & Vaishnavi Parab 1st & 2nd in U-7 girls, Prabhu Varad and Dhruv Desai 1st & 2nd in U-9 boys, Aahana Naik & Drishti Naik 1st & 2nd in U-9 girls, Shetty Ankit & Tejas R Shet Verekar 1st & 2nd in U-11boys, Keya Phadte & Nidhi Gaude 1st & 2nd in U-11 girls, Sequeira Alex & Saish Gawas 1st & 2nd place in U-13 boys, Nayak Pavitra & Vritika Gadekar 1st & 2nd in U-13 girls, Tanaya Gawas & Vernekar Shubham 1st & 2nd in U-15 boys, Tejal Sunil Lotlikar & Janavi Pawaskar 1st & 2nd place in U-15 girls.
Consolation prizes for Ponda taluka: Ajinkya Vaman Khorjuenkar U-7boys; Hande Vrujesh, Pushti Harshad Bonsle U-9 boys & girls; Paras Popkar, Anushka Arora U-11 boys & girls; Harsh Telang, Kurtikar Avira U-13 boys & girls; Naik Tejas in U-15 boys.
Consolation prizes were also given to Arnav Arora, Aryan Shirodkar, Sanjay Siddant, Athrav Shirodkar, Shaswat Upadhaye, Suhani Dekene, Medhajay Amshekar.
