SPS Guwahati India Open International Rating Chess tournament 2024

 


The South Point School Guwahati India Open International Rating Chess tournament was held from 25th to 30th December 2024 at South Point School Barsapara Guwahati.

A total of ten lakhs rupees were distributed as cash prize in the tournament.

Altogether 397  players which is the highest ever participants in any chess event in the entire north east India participated in this Swiss league ten rounds tournament which was recognized by the World Chess Federation, All India Chess Federation and All Assam Chess Association.

The tournanent was inaugurated by making a symbolic move on the chess board by Dr S Lakshmanan,IAS, Secretary Govt of Assam, presence of Kavyashree Mahanta, IAS, Secretary Govt of Assam, Dr B Kalyan Chakravarthy, Additional Chief Secretary Govt of Assam, Krishnanjan Chanda, Principal South Point School, Jyotirmoy Purkayastha, Vice President, South Point School Management, Pulin Saha, Senior Sports correpondent among others.


The tournament is held every year coinciding with the birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Late Atal Bihari Vajpayjee, the 10th Prime Minister of India. 


The tournament was conducted by Assam’s first International Arbiter, Biswajit Bharadwaj, with support from a team of esteemed arbiters, including International Arbiter (IA) Monimala Sinha, FIDE Arbiter (FA) Lakhya Jyoti Saikia, FA Acharya Leela Prasad, FA Suraj Gupta, Senior National Arbiter (SNA) Homen Chandra Rabha, SNA Rishita Sinha, SNA Apurba Sonowal, SNA Oly Baruah Rajkumar, SNA Rajnish Verma, SNA Puja Dhar, and SNA Mrinal Kakati.



The top 4 boards of the tournament were played in a separate hall with DGT board used for the top 10 boards. FIDE Arbiter Ravi Kant Tiwari was in

charge of the live broadcast.

International Master Mayank Chakraborty, a student of South Point School clinched the champion’s title. Mayank was the top seed of the tournament which feautured a strong field of players including International Master Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Maharastra and Neelash Saha of Railways.

Mayank remained undefeated in all the ten rounds of this swiss league classical event. In the final round he defeated Parambata Sarkar of west Bengal in just 35 moves to emerge champion. Samyak Dharewe of West Bengal finished on second position while Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Maharastra was placed third.

The champion of the tournament was awarded one lakh as prize money while the runners up and second runners up went home with eighty thousand and seventy thousand respectively.

The Prize distribution ceremony was attended by renowned Chess coach, Motivational speaker and Former commonwealth chess champion Atanu Lahiri, senior literary scholar & social worker Mrinalini Devi, Senior IAS officer Kavyashree Mahanta, Principal South Point School Krishnanjan Chanda, Deputy Commisioner of Police Amitabh Basumatary, Project Head of Snehabandhan Vijaya Sarma and Dr Siben Dutta of Down Town Hospital.

A souvenir was also published on the closing day of the event. 

Click here to download Souvenir

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Assam Players & official to World Chess Championship 2024 at Singapore

Image
IM Shahil Dey IM Mayank Chakraborty Laishram Imocha IA Biswajit Bharadwaj Rishideep Bordoloi Assam's International Master Mayank Chakraborty and Shahil Dey  has been selected to represent India in an advance level coaching camp at Singapore from 25th to 28th November 2024. Both the players along with Laishram Imocha  and Rishideep Bordoloi of Duliajan will also take part in the Singapore Open International Chess Tournament that is being held on the sidelines of the world Chess Championship from 29th November to 5th December 2024. International chess Arbiter Biswajit Bharadwaj of Assam Chess Club will also be visiting the World Chess Championship 2024 that is being held at Singapore from 25th November to 15 december 2024 in which young Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh will by fighting for the title against  defending champion Ding Liren of people's Republic of China. Assam Chess Club conveys its best wishes to all of them. Nandan Buragohain Secretary Assam Chess Club असम के अंत...
Read more

Assam Engineering College hosts Shatranj 2025

Image
Mayank Chakraborty champion in Assam Engineering College Chess Meet International Master Mayank Chakraborty of South Point School Clinched the championship in the 9th edition of Shatranj, the Chess tournament organized by Assam Engineering College Chess club as part of its annual students festival Pyrokinesis. Mayank was the top seed of the tournament and scored 8.5 points out of possible 9 to clinch the championship. Soram Rahul Singh of Cachar was placed second while Tanmay Rajbongshi of Guwahati was placed third in the final ranking list. Altogether 65 players from across the state participated in this day long event.  Snehabandhan Chess Academy was the title sponsor while Assam Chess Club was the technical partner of the tournament. Prizes worth seventh thousand rupees were distributed to the prize winners.  The tournament was held with a total of 9 rounds under blitz time control in swiss league format under the supervision of International Arbiter Biswajit Bharadwaj...
Read more