(Chess News) International Chess Master and former national chess challenger champion, Vikramaditya Kulkarni justified his top billing by making a clean sweep of 7/7 to win the Accurate Springs Classical FIDE rating chess championship, which concluded at Russian Center, Peddar Road on Thursday.
The top seed IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni was awarded the glittering Accurate trophy & was richer by ₹ 30,000/-
In the final round Vikramaditya playing black, replied with the Modern Defense of the young talent, Ram Vishal Parab. The challenger youngster made a valiant attack on the Black King side sacrificing his knight on the 21st move. Vikramaditya wriggled out of that and mounted his own masterly counter-attack to score the full point on move 39.
The 3-way fight of the overnight joint leaders fizzled out quickly in favor of Vikramaditya as Amardeep Bartakke and Arnav Kherdekar decided to play safe by agreeing to a draw in just 17 moves to secure 2nd and 3rd position respectively. Arnav Kherdekar the 7th seed gained 61 Elo rated points and became the star among the rated players to impress.
In the remaining top 10 standings, the unrated Atharv Tikare stole the show scalping 5 rated players to secure the 6th position.
G Shivamshika with 5 points was declared the best female player of the tournament.
A total of ₹ 2,50,000 was awarded to the prize winners along with 16 trophies to the age category winners.
The prizes were awarded by Mr. Ramesh Shah and Utpal Shah the Directors from Accurate Springs Group.
FINAL STANDINGS:
(Points in brackets)
1. IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni, (7)
₹ 30,000
2. Amardeep Bartakke (6.5),
₹ 25,000
3. Arnav Kherdekar (6.5)
₹ 20,000
4. Piyush Narsikar (6)
₹ 10,000
5. Naga Sai Sarthak Karnam, Under 15 (6)
Rs ₹ 10,000
6 Atharv Tikare (6),
₹ 8,000
7 Atharv Soni U12 (6)
₹ 8,000
8 Pulak Haldiya Banerjee (5.5)
₹ 8,000
9 Ram Vishal Parab U15 (5.5)
₹ 8,000
10 Amey Dandekar (5.5)
₹ 8,000
11 Deepak Soni R (5.5)
₹ 6,000
12 Yuti Mayur Patel (5.5)
₹ 6,000
13.Saarth Bhosale U15 (5.5)
₹ 6,000
14 Saurabh Lokhande (5.5)
₹ 6,000
15 Chris Nazareth Isaiah U12 (5)
₹ 6,000
PRIZE WINNERS RATING 1601-1800:
1. Om Gada (5)
₹ 4,500
2. Yash Kapadi (4.5)
₹ 3,800
3. CK Kolambkar (4)
₹ 3,200
PRIZE WINNERS RATING 1451-1600:
1. Daksh Jagesia U15 (5)
₹ 4,500
2. Sudeep Pillai (5)
₹ 3,800
3. Prakash Guru U15 (5)
₹ 3,200
PRIZE WINNERS RATING 1301-1450:
1. Kavin Vijayakumar U15 (5) ₹ 4,500
2. Ishaan A Tendolkar U15 (5)
₹ 3,800
3. Kshaunish Jaiswal U15 (5) ₹ 3,200
PRIZE WINNERS RATING 1151-1300:
1. Pragadesh P (5)
₹ 4,500
2. Naksh Malik U10 (5)
₹ 3,800
3. Azim Jiwani (4.5)
₹ 3,200
PRIZE WINNERS RATING 1000-1150:
1. Aaradhya Kenjale U12 (5) ₹ 4,500
2. Pranay Patole (5)
₹ 3,800
3. Pradnyesh Nilesh Deshpande U15 (5)
₹ 3,200
BEST UNRATED:
1. Prahalad Guruprasad
₹ 4,500
2. Divyanshu Ranjan (4.5)
₹ 3,800
3. Boppa Ritik Sai U10 (4.5) ₹ 3,200
BEST FEMALE:
1. G Shivamshika U12 (5)
₹ 4,500
2. Shraddha Padvekar (4.5)
₹ 3,800
3. Tvesha Jain U08 (4)
₹ 3,200
BEST VETERAN 60+ (3.5):
Subedar Shirish S60 (3.5)
₹ 4,500
BEST ICS PLAYER (BOY):
Aum Bhat U10 (4)
BEST ICS PLAYER (GIRL):
Sarah Jacob U08 (2.5)
BEST U15 (BOY):
Elesh Tripathi (4.5)
BEST U15 (GIRL):
Mallick Bhaavini (4)
BEST U12 (BOY):
Shamik Mahesh Joshi (4.5)
BEST U12 (GIRL):
Mayanka Rakesh Rana (3.5)
BEST U11 (BOY):
Yash Anil Modani (3.5)
BEST U11 (GIRL):
Kartikee Mandar Thakur (2.5)
BEST U10 (BOY):
Aaradhay Parte (4.5)
BEST U9 (BOY):
Aadhya V (4.5)
BEST U9 (GIRL):
Myrah Reshamwala (2)
BEST U8 (BOY):
Arjun Singh (5)
BEST U8 (GIRL):
Amaya Roy (3)
BEST U7 (BOY):
Samrat Jindal (3)
BEST U7 (GIRL):
Shanvi Shirish Dwive
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