Vikram Makhija Wins Chess Tournament

The four day Chess Tournament ‘1^st Nandlal Pandiyar Memorial State Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament’ hosted by Chess in Lakecity in association with Buddhibal Seva Sansthan, All Rajputana Chess Association and All India Chess Association concluded on 24^th June.

Vikram Mukhija of Jaipur won the tournament while Mahendra Singh Rathore became runner up.

Vikas Sahu, secretary of Chess in Lakecity informed that chief guests of the event were Pramod Samar (social worker, politican), Devkishan Mandavliya (president Tailik Sahu Samaj), Dr Mahesh Kapila (Joint Director of Veterinary Hospital)and William Dsouza (Principal St Anthony School).

In open category Ragav Bagri, Sonakshi Rathore, Ayush Jain, Kantilal Dave, Govind Kumar, Rajendra Teli, Neetul Khare, Kashyap Tiwari awarded with third to tenth positions.

Other winners under different age groups are

Under 19- Kapil Dadhich, Mudit Babel, Harshit Sharma and Manthan Chittora

Under 17- Saket Agarwal, Dhruv Dak, Harshit Babel and Ashish Choudhary

Under 15 – Naman Porwal, Divyanshu Babel, Bhavesh Pandiyar and Yash Mandavriya

Under1 13- Arun Kataria, Kunal Chabra, Kartik Bhandari, Gautam Kataria

Under-11 – Raj Kumawat, Udlakshya Raina, Chinmay Jain and Mehul Gupta

Under 9 – Kanish Pandey, Yashasvi Gupta, Ayush Choudhary and Shivam Garg

Under 7 – Danish, Arjav Kalani, Chahna Jain, Shorya Gupta,

Best Women Prize – Arpita Jain, Harini R, Monika Sahu, Dipika Sahu

Youngest Boy Mitansh Sahu and Youngest Girl Shivika