MARGAO
Mandar Pradip Lad, Sairaj Dilip Vernekar and Devesh Anand Naik finished in Top Ten in 4th Kudremukh All India Fide Rated Rapid Chess tournament, held in Mangalore on January 1 & 2. The tournament was organised by KIOCL under the aegis of All India Chess Federation and Karnataka Chess Association. A total of 291 players from all over India participated in the tournament, which had participation of 3 international Masters, 1 AGM and 2 CM. Mandar lad defeated 2nd seeded Sharma Preetham of Karnataka having Fide rating of 2245 & finished at 5th place, Sairaj Vernekar drew with International Master Ramnathan Balsubramaniam of Tamil Nadu and defeated AGM Prashant Naik of Karnataka in 8th round and finished at 7th place while Devesh Naik defeated higher seeded Sailesh R of Tamil Nadu and bagged 1st place in below 1600 category. Other winners included Parab Rishikesh 1st under 1400, Nagvenkar Sairudra 2nd under 1400, Asmita Ray 22nd prize in main category.
Atharv Sawal bagged 1st prize, Vedant Angle 2nd and, Arth Karapurkar 3rd in U-13; Saksham Natekar in U-15 and Avni Hegde in U-15; Sarvang Pagi and Sayyad Maiza in U-11; Shree Ghonsekar in U-13; Shubh Borkar & Samriti Malkar in U-9; and Gawas Rishit and Shresht Ghonsekar in U-7.
