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KOLKATA: City boy Aronyak Ghosh claimed bronze in the 60th National Chess Championship that concluded in Pune on Saturday. The International Master had a smooth run finishing unbeaten in the 11-round tournament with six wins and five draws. The 22-year-old, however, was level with seven other players on 8.5 points each but ended up making the podium on the basis of Buchholz rule (the number of points earned by the players opponents).GM SP Sethuraman became the new national champion with 9.5 points while Vishnu Prasanna came second with nine. A total of 352 players including 18 GMs, 17 IMs and a WGM took part in this Swiss League Rating tournament.It was a satisfying experience and my first finish on the podium at senior nationals, Ghosh, who had previously won bronze in U-9 and silver in U-11 nationals, told TOI from Pune.Ghosh finished ahead of city GMs Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Mitrabha Guha and Diptayan Ghosh, who all ended with 8.5 points each as well as GMs Deep Sengupta (8) and Sayantan Das (8).It was, however, not a good start for Ghosh, who has one GM norm, drawing with much lower-rated Ashvin K Makwana.I messed up the first match, the Eastern Railway player confessed. But he made a quick comeback winning his next five matches in a row. He played his toughest match against eventual champion Sethuraman in the ninth round.Sethu maintained a lead almost from the word go and I was under pressure at one stage against him. But somehow I managed to hold on to sharing honours with him, Ghosh said, gaining seven Elo rating points from this meet.

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IM Aronyak Ghosh claims bronze in national chess - IndiaTimes