Delhi All India Open Chess Tournament

CHESS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
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“Delhi All India Open Chess Tournament – 23-29 Dec. 2009”
Organising Secretary – D. K. Gupta – (M) 9811343119 email – darshanji@gmail.com
Local Office : C/o. Chess India, WZ-20, Asalatpur ( A-3 Block, Janakpuri) New Delhi-110058.

Press Release – 9th Round
Rupes Sole Leader after 9th round – Delhi Open Chess
All India $30,000 prize money Chess Tournament 2009 at New Delhi

RUPESH KANT WINS RSL 3 LAKL FIRST PRIZE DELHI CHESS

Rupesh Kant (9.5) of Madhya Pradesh won the first “Delhi All India Open Chess Tournament” and walked away with the biggest prize money of Rs. 3 lakhs First Prize and the winners Trohy. In the final round he defeted Veeresh Chaturvedi (8.0 pts.) of UP. In 69 moves.

On the Second Board Vignesh Waven (9.0 pts.) of Delhi shocked the Former Delhi Champion Surrender Kumar (8.0 pts.) to win the second prize of Rs. 1.50 lakhs.

MR Khan, (8.5 pts.) the former National Champion defeated V. Subhashi of Bihar to win the third prize of Rs. 1 lakh. Top 3 winners were also presented the Trophies. Mr. MR Khan is also known for getting the first-ever prize in chess for the country from outside India.

The “Delhi All India Open Chess Tournament” held from 23rd to 29th December, at Sadhu Vaswani Schol for Girls, Shanti Niketan, New Delhi is the first of its kind in the series of tournaments declared and organized by the newly formed Chess Association of India.

The Cash Prizes and Winners’ Trophies were awarded by the Chief Guest J.P.Agarawal, Member of Parliament and Chairman Lok Sabha Housing Committee in an impressive glittering closing ceremony. Also present, on the occasion were Shri Lalit Jain, former Minsiter of States, M.P. and Shri Sajjan Singh Verma, Member of Parliamant another fomer Minsiter of Sports.

Out of the 46 women participants, as Utter Pradesh’s Priya Rtnam was leading, but due to her prize in the open category, Best Women’s prize was awarded to Samita (5.5 pts.) of Bihar . IN the under 16 category, Abhishek Bharti was best declared best with 6 pts. and under 14 category, Haryana’s Vishal Saini got first prize.

At the occasion CIA also declared a New Year Bonanza for the Indian Chess Players by announcing Rs. 1 Crore Prize money chess tournaments in the year 2010.

Final Standings are as under:

1 (9.5pts..) Rs. 3 Lakhs Roopesh Kant, 2 (9.0 Pts.)Rs. 1.5 Lakhs N Vignesh Wavan, 3 8.5 Pts.) Rs. 1 Lakh Mr Khan, (4-14) 8 Pts. Each Rs. 30,000 K Saveson, Surinder Kumar, Avinash Sethi, Veeresh Chaturvedi, Deric Pinto, Ishmeet Singh, Rahul Ved, Akashdeep, Vivek Shukla, Kbl Shrivastav, Subhra Saha, 15-19) Rs. 20000 Each Harish Sharma, Chanderpal, Anchal Rastogi, Priya Ratnam, Abhishek Jaiswal, 20-45 (7.0 Pts. Each) Avinash Sharma, V Subhashi, Anupam Nema, Pawan Batham, Mohan Dewat, Sanjay Sinha, Prem Chugh, Bhagwat Sharma, Heenal Ramaiya, Priyanka Ved, Girish Chandra Gupta, Hs Verma, Munir Ahmad, Ravi Gautam, Bishnu Yadav, Raghuveer Singh, Virender Girsa, Pankaj Saraf, Mohd Laique, Alok Mishra, Avinash Chandra, Mohhamad Hanif, Ketan Patil, Suneet Jain, Suraj Prakash, Aman Arora, 46- 86 (6.5 Pts.) Amit Ranjan, Rishabh Jain, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Hamed Hasan, Devansh Gandhi, Gauri Shankar, Mohammad Furqan Khan, Tushar Saraswat, Himanshu Sharma, Prasanna Rao, Thejaswi Sharma, Ravi Kumar, Krishna Gopal Sharma, Sanjay Chhabra, Minhajul Haque, Abhimanyu, Qmar Naeem, Sushil Srivastava, Nandkishor, Hemant Sharma, Arun Kumar Biswas, K Ravindranath, Vikrant Varma, Vikee Vishal, B. Narendra Kumar, Shibhu Raj, Jainam Shah, Shikhar Pandey, Anil Bajpai, Dheeraj Dubey, Bajrang Lal Prajapat, Aakash Gandhi, Sanket Doshi, Shan Karan Babu, Os Shankar, Virender, Pranay Ashar, Abhay Mohan, Vijay Kumar Sharma, Kaushal Udeshi, Surya Kant Verma