Karur District Chess association has added one more FIDE rated chess tournament in its activities, by organizing with Kongu College of Arts & Science, Karur. The tournament was held at the college campus Atlas Kalaiarangam, Karur from 26th to 28th February 2016, offering a prize money of Rs,2,00,000/-. A total of 527 players participated in the event, with 323 players are Fide rated. Shanmukha Teja of Telungana was the top seeded.
S Kabilan and G Kesavan both from Tamil Nadu took the lead with 6 points at the end of the sixth round. Both the leaders drew their game on the seventh round and continued the lead. But Swarnamala and Nivekithan joined the leader with 6.5 points by beating Gopinath Parthasarathy and Shivaiah respectively. Kabilan and Kesavan once again took the lead with 7.5 points by beating Swarnamala and Nivekithan in the penultimate round.
In the final round, Kabilan drew comfortably with Kesav Kothari of Karnataka to reach 8 points. Whereas Ankit Payal of Karnataka defeated Kesavan G and tie with Kabilan. Tiebreak was in favour of Kabilan to win the title, a cash award of Rs.30000/- along with a beautiful trophy. Ankit has to be content with the runner up spot and Rs.20000/-. The tournament was conducted in a spacious hall.
Honourable. P Thangamani Minister for Industries & Transport was the chief guest and the function was presided by Sri.Nallusamy, president Karur District Chess Association.
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Rank | Name | IRtg | Club | Type | Pts | Res. | Vict | BH. | BH. | SB | |
1 | Kabhilan S | 1474 | TN | U15 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 52½ | 56 | 48.50 | |
2 | Ankit Payal | 1572 | KAR | 8 | 0 | 7 | 52 | 56½ | 49.50 | ||
3 | Kesavan G | 1505 | TN | 7½ | 0 | 7 | 54 | 58 | 46.00 | ||
4 | Swarnamala B | F | 1553 | TN | 7½ | 0 | 7 | 50 | 54 | 43.25 | |
5 | Srihari L | 1499 | PON | U12 | 7½ | 0 | 6 | 49½ | 54½ | 43.75 | |
6 | Gnanasabesan G | 1518 | TN | U12 | 7½ | 0 | 6 | 47 | 51 | 42.00 | |
7 | Gowtham Subramani | 1454 | TN | 7 | 0 | 7 | 45½ | 50 | 36.50 | ||
8 | Vangala Prashanth | 1482 | AP | 7 | 0 | 7 | 45 | 47 | 32.50 | ||
9 | Sanjay Sreekandan | 1479 | TN | U15 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 43½ | 47 | 35.50 | |
10 | Kalyanaraghavan.V.S | 1552 | TN | 7 | 0 | 6 | 49 | 54 | 40.75 | ||
11 | Bargava Narasimhan S | 1500 | TN | U15 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 49 | 53 | 39.50 | |
12 | Amitesh Kumar Sinha | 1414 | KAR | 7 | 0 | 6 | 47 | 50 | 36.75 | ||
13 | Sai Shravan R | 1523 | MAH | U15 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 46 | 50½ | 38.00 | |
14 | Komal Srivatsav Sajja | 1438 | KAR | U12 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 45 | 49 | 36.75 | |
15 | Rahul Krishna Viswanathan | 1471 | TN | U12 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 43½ | 46½ | 34.75 | |
16 | Gokul S | 1482 | TN | U15 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 42 | 45½ | 35.25 | |
17 | Vamsi Krishna B | 1479 | AP | 7 | 0 | 5 | 48½ | 53½ | 40.75 | ||
18 | Kishan Chand | 1413 | HIM | 7 | 0 | 5 | 46½ | 50 | 37.25 | ||
19 | Satish Kumar D | 1568 | TN | 7 | 0 | 5 | 42 | 46 | 35.75 | ||
20 | Ravindra P | 1557 | TEL | 6½ | 0 | 6 | 52 | 55½ | 36.50 |
Rating between 0 and 1400
Rank | Name | IRtg | Club | Type | Pts | Res. | Vict | BH. | BH. | SB | |
1 | Senthil Kumar Kaliyaperumal | 1378 | TN | 7½ | 0 | 7 | 50½ | 54 | 42.50 | ||
2 | Keshav Kothari | 1222 | KAR | U12 | 7½ | 0 | 6 | 52 | 55 | 44.75 | |
3 | Benasir M | F | 1270 | TN | F15 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 49½ | 53½ | 38.25 |
4 | Nithish Muthukumaran | 1240 | TN | U12 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 48 | 50 | 37.75 | |
5 | Satvik V | 1394 | TN | U12 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 47½ | 51½ | 36.75 | |
6 | Gopinath Parthasarathy | 1394 | TN | 6½ | 0 | 6 | 50 | 54 | 35.75 | ||
7 | Nivekithan S | 1382 | TN | U15 | 6½ | 0 | 6 | 49 | 52 | 34.75 |
Rating between 0 and 1200 |
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Rank | Name | IRtg | Club | Type | Pts | Res. | Vict | BH. | BH. | SB | |||||||||||
1 | Ilamparthi A R | 1199 | TN | U08 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 47½ | 52 | 39.25 | |||||||||||
2 | Yogeshwaran S A | 1167 | TN | U12 | 6½ | 0 | 5 | 49½ | 52½ | 36.50 | |||||||||||
3 | Jayadev R Balan | 1172 | TN | U12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 44 | 47 | 28.00 | |||||||||||
4 | Shravan R | 1159 | TN | U12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 41½ | 45 | 28.50 | |||||||||||
5 | Jaya Suriyah Ayyappan | F | 1193 | TN | F15 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 50½ | 51½ | 31.50 | ||||||||||
6 | Dhanu Keerthana G | F | 1037 | TN | F15 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 42½ | 46 | 27.25 | ||||||||||
7 | Rohith S | 1060 | TN | U08 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 42 | 44 | 28.50 | |||||||||||
8 | Vijayasubhasri S | F | 1137 | TN | F12 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 39½ | 42½ | 25.75 | ||||||||||
9 | Akash P | 1152 | TN | U15 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 37½ | 40½ | 23.75 | |||||||||||
10 | Dinesh Chand | 1155 | UP | S60 | 5½ | 0 | 5 | 46 | 50½ | 29.00 | |||||||||||
UNRATED |
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Rank | Name | IRtg | Club | Type | Pts | Res. | Vict | BH. | BH. | SB | |||||||||||
1 | Sridhar Jayaraman | 0 | TN | 6 | 0 | 6 | 37½ | 40½ | 26.00 | ||||||||||||
2 | Ajjay R | 0 | TN | U10 | 5½ | 0 | 5 | 43 | 44½ | 24.25 | |||||||||||
3 | Sugumar G | 0 | TN | 5½ | 0 | 4 | 36½ | 39½ | 22.75 | ||||||||||||
4 | Scibi S Venkatakrishnan | 0 | TN | 5 | 0 | 5 | 44 | 48 | 25.00 | ||||||||||||
5 | Raj Kumar G | 0 | TN | 5 | 0 | 5 | 34½ | 36 | 17.00 | ||||||||||||
6 | Adharsh R | 0 | TN | U15 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 32 | 34½ | 16.00 | |||||||||||
7 | Thirunavukarasu T | 0 | TNK | 5 | 0 | 5 | 31½ | 33½ | 16.00 | ||||||||||||
8 | Arul Prakash N | 0 | TN | U08 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 38 | 41 | 20.00 | |||||||||||
9 | Nandish V S | 0 | TN | U08 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 43½ | 46½ | 24.00 | |||||||||||
10 | Sanjeev E U | 0 | TN | U12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 39½ | 43½ | 23.50 |