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PANJIM: GM Saptarshi Roy Chodhury of Railways Sports Promotion Board won the 2nd Late Shri Vasudeva V Dempo Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2024 organised by Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association at Institute Menezes Braganza Hall Panjim, recently.
He scored 7.5 points and was tied for 1st position with Rupam Mukharjee of West Bengal but due to better tie-break GM Saptarshi was declared winner. Rupam Mukharjee stood 2nd with 7.5 points. IM Abhishek Kelkar of Maharashtra finished 3rd with 7 points.
Players from 4th to 9th were tied with 7 points each, they are Prashanth Naik, Bezstrakhov Dmitry, Shriraj Bhosale, Sher Singh, Kiran Panditrao, Aditya Savalkar, Nitin Babu, Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Rupankar Nath, Abhishek T M, Kabnurakar Rushikesh, Shejal Sahil, Santu Mondal, Edrick Vaz, Karan J P, Pankaj Bhat, Soni Krishan, Amal Roozi, Dhruv Muthe, WCM Gunjal Chopdekar, Milind Gawade, Mahindrakar Indrajeet, Kirpesh I, Kapil Rana, Anubhab Gupta, Govind Prabhu, Shankar Kuldip.
Rating Below 1999: Farhan M, Harish Sharma, Hrishikesh Chavan. Rating Below 1799: Sumeetkumar M S, Kartik Kumbhar. Rating Below 1599:Kanishk Sawant, Mayank Kurtikar, Atharva Borkar. Best Veteran: Hariramani R N, Mukhaerjee D S. Best Women: Skyla Rodrigues, Krutika Pustake.
Other prize winners in U-7,U-9,U-11,U-13,U-15 boys and girls, unrated, taluka players are: Evan Telles, Juwan Jinto, Rishit Gawas, Ahaan Kataruka, Joshua Telles, Vipul Kadam, Rajveer Patil, Erwin Albuquerque, Mayuresh Dessai, Aarth Karapurkar, Sidonia Dacunha, Shaurvi Kankonkar, Kirti Sinha, Asmi Terse, Aaradhya Sawant, Saeeja Dessai, Vaishnavi Parab, Avni Kamat, Aditi Kamat, Raposo Maxwell, Ved Naik, Samrat Jindal, Sai Prabhakaran, Sidh Rane, Trivikram Narvekar, Shrama Morudkar, Zacharias Gonsalves, Anvay Boekar, Shresth Ghonsekar, Aloysius Dias, Varad Shirodkar, Coleridge Fernandes, Shivam Maharana, Jerome Rego, Narayan Prabhu Dessai, Prayank Gaonkar, Schaffer Viegas, Sarthak Naik, Vihaan Tari, Akshar Kumbhar, Shaurya Agrasani, Aaryavrat Naik Desai, Ivan Dias, Avnish Borker, Hriday Morajkar, Sanjay Siddharth, Chaitanya Patil, Shivam Maharana, Vrishin Khumaran, Vania Dukle, Shinel Rodrigues, Shreeya Bandodkar, Aaradhya Rane, Diya Naik, Navya Narvekar, Tanisha Naik Dessai, Sayuri Prabhu Nasnodkar, Sanika Naik.
Union Minister of State for Ministry of Power and New and Renewable Energy Shripad Naik distributed the prizes to the winners in the presence of Dempo Group of Companies Director Pallavi Dempo, Indian Red Cross Society Goa Chairman Gaurish Dhond President GCA Mahesh Candolkar), Member Secretary IMB Ashok Parab, Secreatary TTCA Dattaram Pinge, Chief Arbiter & Vice President GCA Arvind Mhamal, Shirish Divkar, Dnyaneshwar Naik and others.