By Praful Zaveri in Mumbai
Day Five
Sudarshan Lamture of Fatima High School, Badlapur and Akash Khalwadekar of St. Stanislaus, Bandra crowned themselves with glory by winning the Under 8 and Under 12 Boys category respectively in the Sixth Bournvita Inter School Chess tournament organised by the Kalina Recreation & Sports Club jointly with the Bombay Chess Association at the Prabodhankar Thackeray Sports Complex, Vile Parle, Mumbai.
In the under 8 Boys category, Sudarshan Lamture had won his first eight rounds but had lost his 9th round match to Ashit Pandya yesterday. Today, playing his 10th and final round match against Siddharth B. Raikar, Sudarshan put his yesterdays game behind him and scored a clear victory, inspite of playing with black pieces. This victory gave him nine points from 10 rounds, the same as top seed Karan Ajinkya of Yashodham High School, Goregaon. Karan had to settle for second position on the basis of progressive scores. Karan had accounted for Amit Soman in his final round match. Nadeem Abdullah of Fr. Agnel, Vashi finished in third position with 8.5 points after defeating yesterdays star Ashit Pandya. Aditya Udeshi, Ashit Pandya, Parag Manudhane and Saptashwa Ghosh finished in 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th position resp., all finishing with 8.0 points.
In the Under 12 Boys, Akash Khalwadekar of St. Stanislaus, Bandra established his superiority by emerging as the clear winner with 10/11 points. Akash needed only a draw in his final round match today against Vishal Shah of St.Joseph but he romped home in style, not letting the issue decided by the tie-breaks. On the second table Sachin Kamath who was just half a point behind Akash before the final round, also won his match against Sanju Malaikal to finish with 9.5 points. Sachin Kamath finished in second position ahead of Ninad Puranik, Aditya Vora, Rohil Bhat and Ishan Nadkarni, all of whom finished on 8.5 pts. but were ranked in that order on the basis of progressive scores.
Akash Khalwadekar has emerged as champion from among a total of 278 entries in the Under 12 Boys, and Sudarshan Lamture from a field of 171 entries in the Under 8 Boys.
The afternoon saw the beginning of the rounds for the Under 10 and Open Groups for Boys and Girls. The total number of entries were 70 for the Open Girls, 64 for the Under 10 Girls, 268 for Open Boys and 250 for Under 10 Boys. The field in the open group includes 3 rated players viz. Amar Kamat (2167), Vaibhav Saxena (2158) and Kartik Vishwanathan (2050) and not to speak of many players who are regulars at state/nationals.
The total number of entries for the tournament is 1223, making it the probably the largest chess tournament for school children in India and the whole world.
The record for the youngest participant of the tournament was re-written in the name of is Dayal, who is just 3 years and 11 months old. Dayal awaits his rounds with as much keen as that of the regulars!
Prize winners : (Progressive and cut progressive scores in brackets)
Under 8 Boys
Champion : Sudharshan Lamture 9 pts (53)
2nd Prize : Karan Ajinkya 9 pts. (50)
3rd Prize : Nadeem Abdullah 8.5 pts.
4th Prize : Aditya Udeshi 8.0 pts. (49)
5th Prize : Ashit Pandya 8.0 pts. (48)
6th Prize : Parag Manudhane 8.0 pts (44.5)
7th Prize : Sapatashwa Ghosh 8.0 pts (43)
8th Prize : Dhanvin Mehta 7.5 pts. (41.5)
9th Prize : Dhruvit Shah 7.5 pts. (41)
10th Prize : Vikrant Pawaskar 7.0 pts. (45/31)
11th Prize : Suraj Borate 7.0 pts. (45/30)
12th Prize : Siddharth Raikar 7.0 pts.
Under 12 Boys
Champion : Akash Khalwadekar 10 pts.
2nd Prize : Sachin Kamath 9.5 pts.
3rd Prize : Ninad Puranik 8.5 pts (55)
4th Prize : Aditya Vora 8.5 pts. (54.5/45)
5th Prize : Rohil Bhat 8.5 pts. (54.5/44.5)
6th Prize : Ishan Nadkarni 8.5 pts. (54)
7th Prize : Sanju Malaikal 8.0 pts. (55.5)
8th Prize : Ashwin Ganapathy 8.0 pts. (55)
9th Prize : Vishal Shah 8.0 pts (54.5) 10th Prize : Anirudh Unni 8.0
pts. (52.5)
11th Prize : Pratik Shenoy 8.0 pts. (52/43)
12th Prize : Sahil Mujumdar 8.0 pts (52/42.5)
Results of top five boards :
Boys Under 8 10th & Final Round
Ashit Pandya (8) lost to Nadeem Abdullah (8.5)
Amit Soman (7) lost to Karan Ajinkya (9)
Siddharth Raikar (7) lost to Sudarshan Lamture (9)
Aditya Udeshi (8) beat Haresh Chodnekar (7)
Vikrant Pawaskar (7) lost to Parag Manudhane (8)
Boys Under 12 11th & Final Round
Akash Khalwadekar (10) beat Vishal Shah (8)
Sanju Malaikal (8) lost to Sachin Kamath (9.5)
Ashwin Ganapathy (8) drew with Viviktesh Agwan (8)
Ninad Puranik (8.5) beat Rohan Nagre (7.5)
Akshay Deshmukh (8) drew with Aniruddh Unni
Schedule for 05/11/2K:
9:00 am to 6:00 pm Under 10 & Open Boys Round
Nos. 2,3,4
10:00 am to 5:30 pm Under 10 & Open Girls Round Nos. 2,3
Venue: Prabhodhankar Thackeray Sports Complex,
Shahaji Raje Road,
Vile-Parle (East),
Mumbai 400 057