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PANJIM: M Nitish Belurkar remained undefeated to score 10.5 points to emerge champions in the late Smt Sunandabai Dayanand Bandodkar Memorial Blitz Fide Rating chess tournament.
Mandar Lad, Mahindrakar Indrajeet, Kiran Panditrao Harish Sharma scored 9 points each but due to better tie break Mandar Lad stood second. Mahindrakar Indrajeet finished third, Kiran Panditrao finished fourth and Harish Sharma fourth.
Other prize winners from 5th to 25th are Shriraj Bhosale, IM Abhishek Kelkar, Edrick Vaz, Nitin Babu, GM Saptarshi Roy Chodhury, Datta Kambli, Anubhab Gupta, Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Farhan M, Shejal Sahil Sanjay, Rupam Mukharjee, Vishwesh Kochrekar, Vihaan Tari, Kirpesh I, Karan J P, Pankaj Bhat, Bezstrakhaov Dmitry, Kabnurakar Rushikesh, WCM Gunjal Chopdekar, Nikam Ravindra.
Category prize winners: Evan Telle, Prayank Gaonkar, Shresth Ghonsekar, Ahaan Kataruka, Joshua Telles, Atharv Ghatwal, Soham Deshmukh, Satyam Phal, Aiden Grao, Mayuresh Desai, Dacunha Sidonia, Shivanya Rao, Shinel Rodrigues, Kirti Sinha, Skyla Rodrigues, Kaya Coutinho, Riddhi Gaude, Vaishnavi Parab, Arya Dublay, Aditi Kamat, Aditi Kamat, Joy Kakodkar, Love Kakodkar, Desai Dhruv, Pritam Wani, Aditya Dublay, Joash Cardozo, Schaffer Viegas, Aryan Naik, Sarthak Naik, Ivan Dias, Arthav Shirodker, Avnish Borker, Sai Prabhakaran, Vedant Angle, Saaurvi Kankonkar, Trisha Patekar, Vania Dukle, Parina Mauzo, Diya Naik, Muriel Fernandes, Saeeja Dessai, Israa Rikarty, Avni Kamat, Sanika Shymrao Naik. Best Veteran was bagged by Phulwani Harish and Hariramani R N, best women by Arya Dabholkar and Alana Menezes Andrade.
Goa Chess Association President Mahesh Candolkar, IMB Member Secretary Ashok Parab, GCA Treasurer GCA, Arvind Mhamal (chief arbiter), TTCA Secretary Dattaram Pinge and others.