Sa Kannan of Sivagangai –Rapid Champion
21st Tamilnadu State Rapid Chess Championship-2017 Organized by Golden Knights Chess Academy , Madurai at Senthamarai College on June 10th and June 11th -2017. Total Number of Participants is 209 Players in Rapid from Ariyalur, Chennai , Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Dindigul, Erode, Kanchipuram, Krishnagiri, Karur, Madurai, Nilgiris, Namakkal, Salem, Sivagangai, Tanjore, Tirunelveli, Thiruvanmalai, Trichy, Thrivallur , Thiruvarur, Vellore, Virudhunagar, VIllupuram, Dharmapuri, Kanyakumari, Karaikudi, Theni, Tirupur and Neyveli Lignite Corporation.
The tournament was played under Swiss System,Top Seed of the Ram S Krishnan from Chennai and event attracted 145 Fide Rated Players.
Initially it was smooth sail for the Seeded players and slowly after Round 5 it was a tough fight between players and in the end of the battle, 3 players with 8 points shared the top spot , after being the tie break introduction Sa Kannan from Sivagangai with better tiebreak Score won the Championship, Second Spot been bagged by Hrithickkesh Pr from Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Third Spot by Lokesh N from Krishnagiri.
The Prize Distribution held in Hall, Senthamarai College, Madurai on 11th June 2017 Sunday 06:00 PM, Chief Guest of the occasion Mr.Hariharan V-Hony Secretary , All India Chess Federation, Vice President of TNSCA, Presided by Dr.Senthurapandyan –Principal of Senthamarai College, Madurai in the Presence of Mr.Sabapathy,President, Golden Knights Chess Academy, Mr.Sethuraman BT-Secretary , Madurai District Chess Association and Mr.Shanmugam C-Secretary , Karur District Chess Association.
Rapid – Final Standings
| Rank | Name | Club | Pts |
| 1 | Sa Kannan | SVG | 8 |
| 2 | Hirthickkesh Pr | NLC | 8 |
| 3 | Lokesh N. | KGI | 8 |
| 4 | Ram S. Krishnan | CHE | 7½ |
| 5 | Pranesh M | SVG | 7 |
| 6 | Arunachalam Shivaa T V | CBE | 7 |
| 7 | Ramalingam Karthik | SLM | 7 |
| 8 | Aswin Kumar B S | MDU | 7 |
| 9 | Selvamurugan B | MDU | 7 |
| 10 | Venkat Sundaram | KAN | 7 |
| 11 | Rishi Hariharan.S.N | VNR | 7 |
| 12 | Dinesh Rajan M | SVG | 6½ |
| 13 | Yuvan Bharathi K S | KAR | 6½ |
| 14 | Kumaresh A | VNR | 6½ |
| 15 | Gowtham K K | ERO | 6½ |
| 16 | Suganthan S | TNV | 6½ |
| 17 | Alaguraja M.A. | MDU | 6½ |
| 18 | Gokulraj K | TVLR | 6½ |
| 19 | Ram Kailash PL | TRY | 6½ |
| 20 | Abhinessh S | TRY | 6½ |
| 21 | Arjun C Krishnamachari | CHE | 6½ |
| 22 | Abirami S | MDU | 6½ |
| 23 | Shreyas M | CBE | 6 |
| 24 | Singaram P.L. | SLM | 6 |
| 25 | Gokul S | VNR | 6 |
| 26 | Vigneshwaran S | NAM | 6 |
| 27 | Abirama Srinithi G | ERO | 6 |
| 28 | Raja Chokkarvel Y | VNR | 6 |
| 29 | Ram Kumar G M | KKI | 6 |
| 30 | Shyam Sundar M | MDU | 6 |
| 31 | Ayushh Ravikumar | CHE | 6 |
| 32 | Rutherford S | KKI | 6 |
| 33 | Nithin A V | MDU | 6 |
| 34 | Antony Jesumarian Leslie | KKI | 6 |
| 35 | Marimuthu K | VNR | 6 |
| 36 | Sangeetha P | TRY | 6 |
| 37 | Manikanda Prabhu B V | TNV | 6 |
| 38 | Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy | SLM | 6 |
| 39 | Preejesh S B | KKI | 6 |
| 40 | Jack Samuel | DGL | 6 |
| 41 | Sriram K | MDU | 6 |
| 42 | Indira Priyadharshini S | SVG | 6 |
| 43 | Shaktivel Selvaraj | TRY | 6 |
| 44 | Ayyappan P Santhana Prabu | CHE | 5½ |
| 45 | Rajadharshini M. | MDU | 5½ |
| 46 | Gopinath P | TRY | 5½ |
| 47 | Prawin K | MDU | 5½ |
| 48 | Vigneshwaran K | VNR | 5½ |
| 49 | Muralidharan M | MDU | 5½ |
| 50 | Akila Mahendran | CBE | 5½ |
| 51 | Mohana R | KAN | 5½ |
| 52 | Aswin Babu J | TRY | 5½ |
| 53 | Jagendran Kamak N | VNR | 5½ |
| 54 | Rebecca Jesumarian | KKI | 5½ |
| 55 | M Padma Pratibha | MDU | 5½ |
| 56 | Sajan J | VNR | 5½ |
| 57 | Kanish Vikraman Adithan B | TRY | 5½ |
| 58 | Nandish V S | CBE | 5½ |
| 59 | Subash Aravind B | MDU | 5½ |
| 60 | Ahalya A | MDU | 5½ |
| 61 | Subramanian R P | SLM | 5 |
| 62 | Vijayaraj R. | KKI | 5 |
| 63 | Meenatchi Rajam V | MDU | 5 |
| 64 | Arul Anandh S P K | CBE | 5 |
| 65 | Saahil Ahmed M | TVLR | 5 |
| 66 | Aravinth Shanmugam S | MDU | 5 |
| 67 | Vel Murugan B | MDU | 5 |
| 68 | Hiridik Rajendran | NIL | 5 |
| 69 | Silambarasan P | DPI | 5 |
| 70 | Gobi Krishnan N | DGL | 5 |
| 71 | Porkalaivani N | VNR | 5 |
| 72 | Kaviarasan K | MDU | 5 |
| 73 | Dhanush Prakaash B A | MDU | 5 |
| 74 | Ethan V Johnson | CBE | 5 |
| 75 | Vicksho M S | MDU | 5 |
| 76 | Sivanandha V | VNR | 5 |
| 77 | Rajkumar S | MDU | 5 |
| 78 | Kathiravan S | MDU | 5 |
| 79 | Aishwarya S | TRY | 5 |
| 80 | Daniel Prasanna Kumar S | MDU | 5 |
| 81 | Veerakumar M | MDU | 5 |
| 82 | Swaminathan A | TNV | 5 |
| 83 | Tharan Adithya M | MDU | 5 |
| 84 | Harish R | MDU | 5 |
| 85 | Balaji Shanmugavel | TRR | 5 |
| 86 | Kuralarasan K | MDU | 5 |
| 87 | Niranjana P R | NLC | 5 |
| 88 | Sanjay S M | KKI | 5 |
| 89 | Saraswathi P L | TRY | 4½ |
| 90 | Kishore Kumar T | MDU | 4½ |
| 91 | Murugappan N | SVG | 4½ |
| 92 | Rohit M | MDU | 4½ |
| 93 | Subbiah Vignesh Rm | MDU | 4½ |
| 94 | Gokul Vairamuthu | THE | 4½ |
| 95 | Barath Kumar K Sankar | KKI | 4½ |
| 96 | Goutham Krishnaraja | NIL | 4½ |
| 97 | Vignesh G | DPI | 4½ |
| 98 | Noorjahan S | THE | 4½ |
| 99 | Harinarayanan Saravanan | DGL | 4½ |
| 100 | Karuppasamy C | TUT | 4½ |
| 101 | Surya Sathiaguru | VNR | 4½ |
| 102 | Nirmal N | 4½ | |
| 103 | Kavin B | CHE | 4½ |
| 104 | Hari Krishna Narendran S | MDU | 4½ |
| 105 | Srinivasaraj S | MDU | 4½ |
| 106 | Nishan M | CBE | 4½ |
| 107 | Surej Lal T J S | MDU | 4½ |
| 108 | Prateek B | CBE | 4½ |
| 109 | Thanveer S | NIL | 4½ |
| 110 | Jai Vignesh U | DPI | 4½ |
| 111 | Reno Noel | NIL | 4½ |
| 112 | Wajith I | DPI | 4½ |
| 113 | Aadhith C R | DPI | 4½ |
| 114 | Saineha R M | TRY | 4½ |
| 115 | Gunaselvaram T | DGL | 4½ |
| 116 | Sriharan K | MDU | 4½ |
| 117 | Subramanian T.V. | TRY | 4½ |
| 118 | Vijaya Siva B | MDU | 4½ |
| 119 | Sreejith V S | KKI | 4 |
| 120 | Rohan Anand | KKI | 4 |
| 121 | Eswar Raj G | VPM | 4 |
| 122 | Arumugam V | MDU | 4 |
| 123 | Jaivanth M K | KKI | 4 |
| 124 | Aadhava Sundar | SVG | 4 |
| 125 | Sajjith Ahmed M | TVLR | 4 |
| 126 | Nanthabalan V B | MDU | 4 |
| 127 | Logesh Krishnan M | THE | 4 |
| 128 | Meryl Cruz | MDU | 4 |
| 129 | Hemakesh V | MDU | 4 |
| 130 | Yashwant B | MDU | 4 |
| 131 | Aswin A | MDU | 4 |
| 132 | Punit Sudhakar | KGI | 4 |
| 133 | Raguprasath C S | DPI | 4 |
| 134 | Sahana M | MDU | 4 |
| 135 | Nithish M | MDU | 4 |
| 136 | Krithik Pranauv Aditya V | MDU | 4 |
| 137 | Jayarathi Kamak N | VNR | 4 |
| 138 | Rithik V S | ARLR | 4 |
| 139 | Nitesh Ragav K C | SVG | 4 |
| 140 | Arunachalesh V | MDU | 4 |
| 141 | Anushka Pattnayak | TRY | 4 |
| 142 | John Peter A | MDU | 4 |
| 143 | Deepthi S M | KKI | 4 |
| 144 | Kalkath R | MDU | 4 |
| 145 | Suryanarayan B | KAR | 3½ |
| 146 | Jai Krishnan S K | TRY | 3½ |
| 147 | Surhenthar J | TRY | 3½ |
| 148 | Guruvignesh V | VNR | 3½ |
| 149 | Raghavendran R | DPI | 3½ |
| 150 | Arshad A A | MDU | 3½ |
| 151 | Akshaya Vaibhavi M | CBE | 3½ |
| 152 | Ezhil Nilavan N G | DPI | 3½ |
| 153 | Aravind A | MDU | 3½ |
| 154 | Harris M K | MDU | 3½ |
| 155 | Mirthun Raj R | MDU | 3½ |
| 156 | Dinesh Kumar M | VEL | 3½ |
| 157 | Kaviarasi Kannan | DPI | 3½ |
| 158 | Narenraj R S | MDU | 3½ |
| 159 | Roshan Prakaash E | KKI | 3½ |
| 160 | Kirpesh I | VNR | 3½ |
| 161 | Nedunchezhian C | VPM | 3 |
| 162 | Rithika S | VNR | 3 |
| 163 | Aditya V S | MDU | 3 |
| 164 | Shanmuga Priyan L | MDU | 3 |
| 165 | Abishek T | MDU | 3 |
| 166 | Nithya Padmashree K | VNR | 3 |
| 167 | Meenaloshini M | MDU | 3 |
| 168 | Harish Vimalaanandh | MDU | 3 |
| 169 | Lakshana R | MDU | 3 |
| 170 | Wafiya I | DPI | 3 |
| 171 | Sri Vishandhi | MDU | 3 |
| 172 | Subash N | MDU | 3 |
| 173 | Shreenivas K G | MDU | 3 |
| 174 | Vishal M Soundarapandi | MDU | 3 |
| 175 | Aslam K A | MDU | 3 |
| 176 | Santhakumar S | MDU | 3 |
| 177 | Lakshana S | SVG | 3 |
| 178 | Aadhiran A | MDU | 3 |
| 179 | Joseph Prince A | MDU | 3 |
| 180 | Premakumari Subramanian | MDU | 3 |
| 181 | Sandhiya T | DGL | 3 |
| 182 | Deepthi T | MDU | 3 |
| 183 | Hariharan Iyappan | KKI | 2½ |
| 184 | Murugan C | DPI | 2½ |
| 185 | Yoga Bharath S | MDU | 2½ |
| 186 | Keshav N | MDU | 2 |
| 187 | Dani Joshua A | MDU | 2 |
| 188 | Ragoothaman R M | DPI | 2 |
| 189 | Nithish S | MDU | 2 |
| 190 | Shriya S | KAN | 2 |
| 191 | Rijith Sakthi S | VNR | 2 |
| 192 | Sreenath S | KAN | 2 |
| 193 | Vishal | THE | 2 |
| 194 | Praising Harris Ratnam | MDU | 2 |
| 195 | Anushga S | MDU | 2 |
| 196 | Charles Finny A | MDU | 2 |
| 197 | Akhil A C | MDU | 1 |
| 198 | Sona Sudhakar | KGI | 1 |
| 199 | Sreeram B | CBE | 1 |
| 200 | Kannan V M | VNR | 0 |
| 201 | Sabarish R K | TRY | 0 |
| 202 | Vigneshwar D P | VNR | 0 |
| 203 | Moses Nishanth D | TRY | 0 |
| 204 | Chandrasoodan Chinnaiah | SVG | 0 |
| 205 | Luxshana B K | CBE | 0 |
| 206 | Aadhav C R | DPI | 0 |
| 207 | Mohit Prames | MDU | 0 |
| 208 | Rishikanth R | VNR | 0 |
| 209 | Sanjay Karna | TUT | 0 |
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