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MAHARASHTRAS Kartik Kumar Singh emerged champion garnering 10 points from 11 rounds as it was curtains on the 16th GH Raisoni Memorial International Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at GH Raisoni Institute of Information and Technology, Wadi Hingna Road, MIDC. The all India ranking tournament was organised by GH Raisoni Sports and Cultural Foundation and Kalpana Prakash Welfare Foundation and was recognised by the Chess Association Nagpur, Maharashtra Chess Association, All India Chess Federation and FIDE.

Indrajeet Mahindrakar scored nine points to finish second while Daksh Goyal scored 8.5 to take third spot. Singh got richer by Rs 51000 whereas Indrajeet and Daksh won Rs 31000 and Rs 26000 respectively. In addition to main prizes, best unrated, best Nagpur player, best veteran above-55 player, best woman player, best below-1601 rated player and best below 1300 player were also rewarded.

Prizes were distributed by Jai Prakash Gupta, Senior BJP leader, Milind Marathe, Ex MCA member and Bhushan Shriwas, Secretary, Kalpana Prakash Welfare Foundation and Chess Association. A team of GH Raisoni Sports and Cultural Foundation and Kalpana Prakash Welfare Foundation, International Arbiter Ajinkya Pingle along with FA Amit Tembhurne, FA Swati Kumbhalkar, FA Shubham Soni, SNA Shyam Agrawal, SNA Prayas Ambade, SNA Sagar Sakhare, Prathamesh Machave and Shishir Indurkar worked Hard for the smooth conduct of the event.

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